I'm sorry, I could go on for days about this, but it seems pretty self-evident (I'm not being snide, I'm just saying...). Are you in a band? If so, you probably understand why it's "necessary."
It's probably important for bands to be in conversation with their listeners these days, and something like myspace would centralize that for the listeners.
Or perhaps I'm way off. It's likely there are "useful" features on myspace that my webbrowser simply blocks because I find them super fucking annoying.
I didn't know if that was an inquiry or an inquisition.
There are a lot of sites that will host mp3's, but (as far as I know), MySpace is the only one that has a million (give or take a million or two) personal profiles. It's a lot easier to direct someone to a MySpace site than something at purevolume.com.
And it's just easy... I could leave a comment on a single random individual's page right now and by the end of the day, whatever I have posted on there will be listened to 20 or 30 times.
I haven't found anything really useful about the site (in terms of having a personal profile), but if it's your thing, I'm sure it can be a lot of fun.
Re: It was inquiryi_heartdynamicsJanuary 3 2006, 17:09:38 UTC
I actually deleted my bit about someone making a lot of money by buying a bunch of servers and dedicating them all to the angst and/or narcissism of anyone willing to take 5 minutes out of their day and make a profile. ... ...
Okay... I was in Orange County for awhile, and these kids ("kids"... I mean, a lot of them were 24+ years old) would get a "friend request" from a band and - whether any communication went on or not, they'd go nuts w/excitement.
Personally, I think (as an adequate musician w/a weak stomach for "business") it's humiliating (I just let my actual domains slide). Like I said, I could go on for hours, but I don't think anyone is going to say, "Yeah, that guy is right... I'm selling myself short in the self-esteem department w/a myspace social life while someone else makes millions a day off of my emotional well-being." I think people would read my thoughts on it and feel bad, which doesn't accomplish anything
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Amen to that. And one can't fight it - it's become a necessary evil.
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It's probably important for bands to be in conversation with their listeners these days, and something like myspace would centralize that for the listeners.
Or perhaps I'm way off. It's likely there are "useful" features on myspace that my webbrowser simply blocks because I find them super fucking annoying.
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There are a lot of sites that will host mp3's, but (as far as I know), MySpace is the only one that has a million (give or take a million or two) personal profiles. It's a lot easier to direct someone to a MySpace site than something at purevolume.com.
And it's just easy... I could leave a comment on a single random individual's page right now and by the end of the day, whatever I have posted on there will be listened to 20 or 30 times.
I haven't found anything really useful about the site (in terms of having a personal profile), but if it's your thing, I'm sure it can be a lot of fun.
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Thanks for the info though. I'm interested generally in things having to do with "making money by building a large user-base and locking them in."
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Okay... I was in Orange County for awhile, and these kids ("kids"... I mean, a lot of them were 24+ years old) would get a "friend request" from a band and - whether any communication went on or not, they'd go nuts w/excitement.
Personally, I think (as an adequate musician w/a weak stomach for "business") it's humiliating (I just let my actual domains slide). Like I said, I could go on for hours, but I don't think anyone is going to say, "Yeah, that guy is right... I'm selling myself short in the self-esteem department w/a myspace social life while someone else makes millions a day off of my emotional well-being." I think people would read my thoughts on it and feel bad, which doesn't accomplish anything ( ... )
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