Who else has MySpace pages? - Page 2 - Writers Forum

Drzava · 05-05-2006, 01:34 AM

I don't worry about it because I don't use it at all. I have a few friends, I know them pretty well, I don't need anymore. Knowing that friend #3 likes 1980's Yugoslavian cinema and friend #54764035 enjoys a cigarette in a holder on a rainy Sunday morning doesn't really bring you any closer to them. The userbase may be in the millions, but every profile page I've seen from different ages and backgrounds seems to combine faux sophistication, sexual innuendo, blasphemous design, and browser crashing video and audio (both playing simultaneously for some reason?).

And it's absurd to think that it will be around forever. Do you remember what myspace.com was before it was a social networking site? When I first used Napster I never imagined I'd have to scour eMule, torrents, and DC++ for a track, I thought it would be around forever too. I thought I could cancel my landline phone and only use MSN Messenger, and never thought people would pay for Vonage or Skype. I never imagined people paying $100/mo for a game server when a home cable connection would suffice and I thought my stas.net website would last forever The point is, the internet world hasn't changed in 2006, things are just as fast moving and have the potential to dissapear. Although there is a bigger business aspect, it doesn't mean that things will be around forever. Myspace and this social networking craze will fade away just like any other internet fad.

Perhaps the problem with MySpace is accessibility. A bunch of people who otherwise wouldn't invest the time or effort into learning to create their own website now don't have to, and so they conveniently just go to MySpace, register, and plaster a bunch of crap on a site, kind of like Homer's Mr. X page.

stephanie · 05-05-2006, 01:37 AM

http://www.myspace.com/silverbullet85

bob rulz · 05-05-2006, 05:14 PM

You know, you can pause music and videos. It's not like your forced to listen to them. But pretty much I can see MySpace just isn't your thing and you just don't understand the craze. It was worth a shot trying to convince you at least partially, though...

Either way, you can learn a lot more about somebody than what you mentioned, especially if they write thoughtful and deep blogs, the kinds of things they wouldn't actually tell anybody, so that you can actually know struggles and problems that are going on with them. Not that everybody does (I can rarely ever write my emotions down in words) but I like knowing subtle or otherwise interesting things about people. But maybe that's just me. Sometimes the smallest characteristic about somebody actually shows a very big part of their personality, or perhaps you'll find something in common that you didn't know you had.

Mike C · 05-09-2006, 12:53 AM

I know a few Myspacers who aren't teenaged or goth. Primarily Terri Molina, she's a friend of mine and I follow her blog which she's writing as her agent markets her novel. http://myspace.com/terri_molina

K-P · 05-09-2006, 01:16 AM

The problem most people have with Myspace is that every page lacks originality. It doesn't matter that someone might right deep and thoughtful passages, because their page looks very similar to Marty McVampire's page o' Linkin' Park and faux-depression. And Marty's page looks just like 14 year old Tulip Johanson's page, where she goes on about how hot Nick Carter is (is he still the thing?), all while LOLing every three words.

I know not everyone has the ability to design an original page by using rudimentary HTML. However, Myspace feels like a big cop-out. I mean, unless you enjoy annoying backgrounds, cluttered text, advertising banners flashing everywhere, and a complete lack of inovation. If you like that stuff, then Myspace is just the place for you.

KyleColorado · 05-09-2006, 03:34 AM

The two creators of Myspace sold its rights for 580$ MILLION.

Just food for thought.

Drzava · 05-09-2006, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by K-P

I know not everyone has the ability to design an original page by using rudimentary HTML.

Then go learn, come back and make a decent page.

Ilan Bouchard · 05-09-2006, 03:46 PM

I have never even uttered the word (words? WTF is it?) "myspace" unless it was to express my disgust for it. If there's any reason to remain relatively social-less, myspace is that reason.

Drzava · 05-09-2006, 04:32 PM

This one just cracks me up:

http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?...89EEC436048745

"Faux News (private group)
This is an open forum for Progressives, Conservatives and Moderates to have active intelligent discourse and debate about Fox News journalistic integrity or lack there of."

workingauthor · 11-24-2007, 10:56 AM

MySpace.com - RENÃ‰ GARCIA - 99 - Male - Chino Hills, California - www.myspace.com/workingauthor

Add me. I'd love to network with other writers.

lisajane · 11-25-2007, 02:28 AM

I have one. I used it only to keep in touch with friends. I then moved to Facebook, which is more interesting but haven't been back in awhile.

sarahsreading · 12-12-2007, 02:59 AM

I recently set up a myspace page for my editing firm (www.myspace.com/ampersandediting). I decided to give it a try because I know several photographers who use it with success.

I know myspace gets its share of flack because of the terrible design, so I tried to overcome that. I've gotten some great feedback so far. We'll see if it's a good networking tool in the long run.

Mike C · 12-12-2007, 05:46 AM

Nice page, Sarah. I'll have to tweak mine some to make it as clean and elegant as yours.

The fastest growing group of users on myspace is now the 25-45 year olds. Many, if not most, authors now use it as a networking/promotional tool.

sarahsreading · 12-12-2007, 06:00 AM

Thanks, Mike. Here's a good resource for you:
15 MySpace Layout Resources That Don't Suck Like The Rest Of Them > Design Vitality

Headstuff · 01-16-2008, 07:33 AM

I can't say it's somewhere I'd want to frequent every day of my life

, but yes, I've got two MS accounts for different pen names. Minimal hits on each 1,000+ on one 3,000+ on another, but I've got a link in each back to my publisher and a shopping basket. From the stats I can see how effective it is at driving traffic there, and the answer is 'not very', which is probably down to my design more than anything. Sales as a direct result of MS are 124 copies for both books combined. As secondary advertising (bulletins, etc), it's free and doesn't require too much commitment, and 3,000 people have seen my books who might not have without the page. I figure it's better to have a MS site than not.

edit: forgot to mention my page

- MySpace.com - Simon Jackson - 43 - Male - - www.myspace.com/marijuanameditation

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