Who else has MySpace pages? - Writers Forum

Jason_Tanamor · 04-08-2006, 09:50 AM

I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses MySpace to network. Just wanted to see who else does to add for my networking purposes.

http://www.myspace.com/zoiks_online

Jason

K-P · 04-08-2006, 10:11 AM

I dunno, I equate Myspace with fourteen year old emo kids and old goths who ain't got nowhere to hang since the Dennys by their house closed.

enigmaticuser · 04-08-2006, 10:14 AM

I don't know about the K-P. In my experience there are actually a lot of 21-30 yr olds on there. And blogs I think are a very useful way to spread dialogue on things you think are important that you want others to hear. It's like a less specific writing forum =)

So I do have a page =)

Mark Raven · 04-08-2006, 10:39 AM

Hmm... a lot of my friends have a MySpace account, but I've never really seen the point of it. I mean... you can post stuff on it... and... other people can read it... but I've never seen any good reason why.

There's not anything wrong with other people having them though.

K-P · 04-08-2006, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by enigmaticuser

In my experience there are actually a lot of 21-30 yr olds on there. And blogs I think are a very useful way to spread dialogue on things you think are important that you want others to hear.

Well, see, I don't consider "spreading dialogue" as some sort of narcissistic banter. It's full of people who say things like: "Oh! My fav bands are Yellowcard and old Blink 182! My fav books are (a bunch of books that sound good, but that they've never read), etc etc." Myspace isn't so much a blog as it is a personal bio page.

The Space Cowboy · 04-08-2006, 11:00 AM

I've got one. mostly to keep in touch w/ old high school friends since we all moved off to college. Oh yea and for the ladies...

www.myspace.com/herzwerk

enigmaticuser · 04-08-2006, 11:56 AM

touche KP, I guess I don't stay long enough on stupid pages to pay attention to their banter.

all good reasons, cowboy =)

Drzava · 04-08-2006, 01:55 PM

Everyone says 'to stay in touch'

How is MySpace more efficient than instant messenger or email? You post comments to someone else's profile? Is there a sitewide messaging system? What if MySpace tanks tomorrow, you instantly lose contact with all your friends? I think it's just an excuse because everyone is vain and loves to brag to others what they like (or dislike) and it's just one circle jerk of middle schoolers (and unfortunately 21-30 year olds) and other morons who get off seeing asinine quiz results or pictures of their friends wasted.

Hodge · 04-08-2006, 02:54 PM

Myspace is a reincarnation of all the things that made geocities websites unbearable, like backgrounds that make text unreadable, annoying music playing in the background, and long, sprawling pages that take a year to load even with broadband and keep readjusting themselves so all attempts to scroll down are fruitless.

Drzava · 04-08-2006, 02:57 PM

At least Geocities required minimal knowledge of creating a website. MySpace is actually worse

enigmaticuser · 04-08-2006, 03:24 PM

well, I guess like most things it depends on the people using them. I find it is useful. Why is it people who don't like a thing feel the need to convince everyone else that they should not like it? I could understand if it affected them, but serious what does it cost you for people to make use of myspace? Or geocities or anything else?

The Space Cowboy · 04-08-2006, 03:29 PM

It's fun receiving messages and comments from people. It's like unwrapping a christmas present. Sure it would be more practical to just give or receive the present, but the formalities of putting it under the tree and waiting until midnight are what makes christmas christmas! and its the same concept with myspace.

Jason_Tanamor · 04-08-2006, 05:54 PM

I may be the only one who uses it for work reasons because I've gotten a bunch of interviews out of it as well as recruited a few comedians to come to my hometown. It's a win/win situation for me and I've managed to become pretty good friends with a lot of them. And damnit, it's MY space so I might as well use it.

Jason

britluver40 · 05-04-2006, 06:48 PM

To practically everyone who posted negatively--How true, how true! I do have a myspace, but probably for the dumbest reason of all--HTML. I love making pages and websites. By the way, of the fourteen people I've added, one of them is over the age of thirty. The rest are my kids and their friends, most of which are emo teens! The one adult is the mother of my daughter's friend.

bob rulz · 05-05-2006, 01:18 AM

I love MySpace, and I find Drzava's comment borderline insulting (and that's hard to do), mainly because of how incredibly close-minded it is. Now to comment on your post:

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Originally Posted by Drzava

How is MySpace more efficient than instant messenger or email? You post comments to someone else's profile? Is there a sitewide messaging system?

Anybody can see almost anybody elses comments (unless they set their profile to "friends only".) People can post blogs, comments, pictures, a ton of personal information (but yes there are the stupid people who post their phone numbers and addresses on MySpace, and those are the people who are just so stupid that they deserve to have their accounts stripped). Yes, there's lots of randomness that goes on. But since when was that necessarily a bad thing?

To answer your third question, no, there isn't. But there are specific forums for companies and schools (and possibly other things) and groups that you can join so that you can chat with people who share similar interests. You can learn a lot about even your closest friends from their blogs or even their profile. It's an easy way to keep in touch, express yourself in any way you want (as long as you or someone you know knows HTML). It brings many traits of other networking websites and combine them all into one. And yes, it has its rather large share of stupid people and emos, but don't even begin to go around generalizing that that's what every MySpace profile is.

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Originally Posted by Drzava

What if MySpace tanks tomorrow, you instantly lose contact with all your friends?

That's completely irrelevant, because, well, you know, that won't happen. But even if it somehow, by some miracle of God, it did, then anybody you wold have ever wanted to have an instant coversation with, hopefully you would have gotten their MSN screen name, or AIM, or whatever, so that you can chat to them anyway. And yes, I prefer instant messaging to MySpace any day.

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Originally Posted by Drzava

I think it's just an excuse because everyone is vain and loves to brag to others what they like (or dislike) and it's just one circle jerk of middle schoolers (and unfortunately 21-30 year olds) and other morons who get off seeing asinine quiz results or pictures of their friends wasted.

Yes, MySpace, unfortunately, has its rather too large share of incredibly stupid people that do exactly what you say. Well, first off, what's wrong with quizzes? If you don't want to take them, you don't have to. But honestly, you don't have to look all that hard to find a fair share of intelligent and nice people on MySpace. To say that the entire group of several million MySpace users is a bunch of jerks who all post pictures of their friends getting wasted is asinine, completely innacurate, and an unfair sweeping generalization. You don't have to go around adding every single person's profile that you find to your friends lists; you can add people you know and nobody else.

In short, it combines blogs, comments, groups, ideas, thoughts, and a whole hell of a lot of personal information where you can find a whole shitload of stuff out about your friends that you didn't know before, talk about common interests with a large variety of people (and believe it or not, there are plenty of non-emo, non-gothic people on MySpace; not that Goth is a bad thing and not like emos are bad people), pretty much do anything you want. It's a hell of a lot harder to find people over instant messenger or hotmail, and you can't just look at an MSN profile or ask somebody about themselves over hotmail and expect to learn a lot about somebody. It's harder to find friends over either, because you can't search other people's friends lists over e-mail or instant messaging. MySpace is convenient, fun, and a good way to get to know people, and if you can just avoid the stupid people, then why should you even worry about all of the problems you mentioned?