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05 December 2005
More myspace magic So my friend told me to sign up for myspace, because 'thats where the babes are' And I stumble upon this 'lovely' thing. Myspace is a weird fucking place.
School: Goldenwest College
Hometown: Huntington Beach
That makes all kinds of sense. I'm so glad I moved out of that No Fear stickered, giant lifted truck-drivin' jocktacular town fulla no-neck, long-neck drinkin' jerkoffs.
MySpace does serve some purposes. Finding babes definitely isn't one of them. I'm on there for the purpose of adding bands. So many of them these days put their music there instead of paying for hosting and whatnot. Whatever the case, I added you because I'm a secret admirer. But no more! Also, I'm not a babe.
No offense to anyone here, but why do adults join myspace? It's a festering den of children and shit-for-brains college kids. The few adult friends I know who have joined are the same type of people who send idiotic e-mail forwards. Ugh. I can't imagine wanting to be associated with that website.
I can understand the desire for free band promotion and music streaming, but a friend's band's myspace page looks like a crappy geocities page crossed with livejournal. (This from a band that has a domain registered and a real record deal. Double-ugh.)
Adults use myspace for the same reasons that adults use AIM: Critical mass + networking. I also use it as a back-up location for my art, for when my webserver hosted on a friend's box goes down, which is often, it seems.
If you browse through my "friends" you'll see that a large proportion of them are either bands, artists or artist groups. Most of rest of them are actually real-world, long term friends - some whome I've known since as early as grade school.
There may be one or two unknown "shit-for-brains" users on there that I haven't gotten around to eliminating yet - back from when I first started and just added whoever in a misguided attempt to be promotionally minded. But the vast majority of the people in my list are people I know in real life or interact with regularly.
I don't use the blog function. Comments on my profile page are turned off by default. It's mainly just an easy and semi-reliable point of contact.
I'm not a myspace fan, and I've totally forgotten my password, so I ignore it. But - I've been watching as myspace slowly absorbs a lot of my previously cyber-phobic friends and, as loq says elegantly, it seems to be a really good way to keep in touch with people you know in r/l. That's pretty much what my friends/acquaintances are using it for. I'm interested in the way it's reached a completely new market, much more than friendster ever did or, afaik, any other social networking site. But still, it skews way younger than me, and so I stay clear.
Oh and cmonkey? your site is awesome it is soooooo cool. ;-)
As for brain-deadness, it's like any other space on the web -- some really interesting users (artists, musicians, people with odd hobbies and interests, etc.) and some, not so much. Some pages are horrendous, some are quite readable and and nicely customized. It's a free social space, so you'll run the gamut.
I don't know that we'll ever make leap from hosting our own page to total myspaceness, but like panoptican said, it's a great resource for independents who've got to pinch pennies. (Speaking of pinches, I'd like to give you a hard defiant one, farty kitty, for making that your one and only contribution to mecha. If you're a puppet because you don't want to combat under your own handle, well, that's rather craptastic.)
Here I am, sort of.
I am not the regular administrator of the account, but I'm sure the other guys would love to add people. We may even put music up there in the next few months.
Hmm. Now that I've looked at that more (don't ask me why) I realize that the page has pictures of both her (the normal looking one) and her "hero" which is the dehydrated, exposed-muscle one.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
