Myspace

[jaybird2001wi]

I may be the last person ever to join myspace, but for some reason I got roped into it by a long-lost friend of mine who I was friends with my freshman year at UW-W and I just finally signed up for it yesterday and now I can't get off the internet. I have found yet another way to waste time. Who here has myspace? Can I add you?

[bball123h2]

The golden rule of MySpace:

 

If you have less than 1000 friends your an e-loser.

[zingsheim]

No Myspace - I must be a big e loser

[pitchleague]

I don't have a myspace page. Of course, I'm also 34 years old and married. Why on earth would I need one? Should I be that insecure that I need "friends" that badly?

 

edit: Hope this doesn't come off as condescending. Not what I meant at all. Those that have myspace pages, have at it and have fun. I can see the benefit. I just don't need it.

[bacon06]

I use Myspace to keep me informed about my favorite bands, I've got Facebook to destroy my life looking at information about all my friends and strangers.

[1992casey]

Just to enlighten someone who's out of the loop, what exactly do people do on MySpace?

 

I know my neighbors forbid their high school daughter from going there. I understand that rationale, of course; they feel she'll be too trusting and give out personal information.

 

I guess I've looked at about 10 pages, including my neighbors' college age son's and maybe a few I've seen in message board posts. Usually, pages on that site are so loaded with images I don't want to bother to load that I 'click out' before I see everything.

[burniebrewer]

I'm not cool. I don't Myspace, cell phone, ipod or video game.

 

Myspace is just another internet black hole used to waste time. Why would I want to add people as "friends" that I don't care about, you know? It's like an e-popularity contest.

 

But hey, go have fun if it's your kind of thing.

[Jarjohm]

Right Field Bleachers is always looking for MySpace friends: Right Field Bleachers MySpace Page.

 

That said... I didn't really go into MySpace on that first wave either. I saw it as kind of a tool for bands to promote themselves (circa-early 2000s) and didn't see a need for it (though I was in a bad band in the early 2000s). Now, people act like if you're not on MySpace, you're a grandparent. I can go either way on it I guess... I find out a lot of useful information on MySpace like when my favorite local bands or playing at the local pub, but I haven't signed into my personal account in weeks either. It is what it is I guess... Take it or leave it.

[bacon06]

Pretty sure I found out about Right Field Bleachers and subsequently bought a t-shirt from them because of Myspace. So it's not just for pedophiles and spam.

[Jarjohm]

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Pretty sure I found out about Right Field Bleachers and subsequently bought a t-shirt from them because of Myspace. So it's not just for pedophiles and spam.

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Ha, yeah, we had a pretty aggressive MySpace promotion campaign early on and I think our MySpace page is pretty cool still. We put updated Brewers news on their every day (as well as on our site) and send out breaking Brewer news and things like that in bulletins. Stuff like Right Field Bleachers and MySpace pages of groups like the Brew Crew, Hardy's Hotties, the Brewers Bandwagon, etc. and band's that are out promoting themselves (without being annoying) are what's great about MySpace.

 

The porn and spam is definitely the downside...

[homer]

All I know is if I had teenagers, I'd steer them to mydeathspace so they could see how many kids die from car accidents and drug OD's.

[RayKingsForemanGrill]

I don't have a personal page, but I do have a page for my fledgling production company:

 

www.myspace.com/gaslightfilms

 

I wouldn't get a personal page, but this works as a marketing tool and a way to keep in touch with people I meet in "the industry"...

 

MySpace is a blackhole when it comes to time though... it disappears...

[Crazyk1294]

I had a myspace page briefly. It ended up being used to stalk my ex-girlfriend. I decided Brewerfan.net and porn were much healthier.

[Diskono]

I made one about 4 years ago, before every myspace page made your browser crash, because all of my livejournal friends told me to. I haven't logged in in about a year. My wife found me via that Brew Crew dude's page, so its not all bad, but I can't think of any other positive aspects of the site. What happened to people/bands/movies having normal web sites? Myspace is geocities*10000000.

[patrickgpe]

myspace is great for checking out bands, but other than that its annoying. I get atleast 5 friend request from girls who wants me to pay to see their nude pics.

[GAME05]

funny you posted that because i just signed up for a myspace page last night, just because a few other people i know have one.

 

sorta feel like deleting it now.

[BrewCrewForever]

Yeah I have one. Had it for almost 2 years now. I use it to keep in touch with friends that live elsewhere and for the bands. The biggest thing is the bands, you get news faster there then on there actual website most of the time. Plus a lot of bands will stream there entire album before it hits stores, which is nice. Ive never used it to meet people or anything like that, because I wouldnt and Im engaged.