how long did you resist myspace?

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i think its only normal most rational and logical humans to resist myspace, like rejecting an organ transplant... but you can only resist for so long, and you eventually end up feeling like general custer.

whats the general consensus on when myspace became a supposed requisite for human life? sometime in 2004? if that's the case, then i was able to resist for about a year and a half before irrepairably corrupting my soul.

and you?

― the sir weeze, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have a myspace but I don't remember how to access it anymore and I don't care.

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

still resisting, I guess

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

i had a myspace when it first came out and then canceled it because I thought it was creeeeepy. I hack into my friend's account now to look around and it just hurts to look at all the bad design. Plus, I am really not into having kids and I kind of really don't like seeing people I went to school with just having a myspace full of pics of their kids. I actually find it oddly disturbing.

― Yerac, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

I just got a Facebook. So I guess that's uncool now too.

― Casuistry, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

myspace now is just kind of a social rolodex for saying hi to friends of friends met when drunk. there's nothing else useful

― JW, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Not even tempted. My ILX addiction is bad enough, I don't need more Internet in my life.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

I still don't know exactly what Myspace is, because everytime I've tried get inside some Myspace page, it says I have to become a member to see more, and I'm not interested in that.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. Myspace is great for looking up friends of friends and realizing you don't want to sleep with them after all.

― Casuistry, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

I've "had" an account for some time, which I occasionally check to see if anyone I know messaged me, but I never did understand where the "addiction" lay. However, facebook is a different story, and if I ever get an invitation to "iminlikewithyou" i may be even MORE addicted to that.

― Will M., Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

Last fucking year. What was I thinking? I keep it on in the off chance that it'll actually become useful in some way. Shows what kind of idiot I am.

― DavidM, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

do not want

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Myspace is great for being discovered by old peers from high school who you disliked at the time and forgot since.

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I like Myspace tho, it is like a caricature of people's personalities, but with more ugly HTML.

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Part of the joy. I use it for a lot of random messages with friends, plus also I've discovered a few good bands along the way (amid all the crap bands that try and invite me as a friend).

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

It lets your inner vainglory blossom.

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I didn't need Myspace for that, trust me.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

still resisting, I guess

-- milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:16 (1 hour ago)

― bernard snowy, Sunday, 15 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I have one that i haven't accessed since 2004. I don't know if it's still there, I didn't bother deleting it. I had three friends plus Tom.

― Roz, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. Myspace is great for looking up friends of friends and realizing you don't want to sleep with them after all.

-- Casuistry, Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:04 PM (1 hour ago)

otm, it's a great mystique leveler/destroyer

― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

"that cute girl actually has totally crap taste in everything after all! glad that's cleared up"

― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

I staked out the name "Oilyrags" on myspace, but that's 100% of all I've done with it.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i've never felt so good as i did after deleting mine.

― ryan, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

don't take up heroin, in that case

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I had one for a month or two due to a specific friend but I couldnt work out wtf its point was, and it looked hideous, so I deleted it.

And Ive had an LJ since 2001 so it isnt that.

― Trayce, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

I love myspace

― Maria :D, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

Especially for listening to music. It's so handy when you want to book a show or throw a party or communicate something to a bunch of people. Useful tool.

― Maria :D, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/mariad

― Maria :D, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think I actually registered in May or June 2004 after Gareth kept going on about it, but didn't actually do anything with my profile until early 2006.

I find myself using Facebook far more these days. Myspace = shitty indie bands and people who are already all over the bludy internet. Facebook = actual people you haven't been in touch with for years.

I still use LJ reluctantly, the whole interface is shit but hey everyone else is on there.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

from when it started 'til now...
and still going strong.

― not--goodwin, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

myspace is fine if you have a use for it. it's good for networking and staying in touch with old friends or acquaintances and shit. and it can be fun to look at people's stupid shit. or it can be annoying. just like any other stupid thing.

i really think the level which these new things are supposedly completely changing people lives for the better or worse is overstated. i mean it makes some things easier, like any other "invention". but it's not really an inherently bad or good thing.

― latebloomer, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Facebook is fun, actually, though I don't think I'll do more with my profile there than the basics I've set up. A nice parallel universe.

myspace is fine if you have a use for it.

That's really the key, isn't it? Every site has its own stereotype and I'm hardly innocent of slinging a few around re: LJ and the like. < / mood - depressed ; listening to - Bright Eyes because they're so deep >

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

don't have one and won't

some things are always gonna be lame no matter how universal their acceptance gets

― Hans Rott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I've never even seen livejournal or friendster or flickster or any of those, i just know them as names. I've been to myspace via mp3 links and the like, looks like a version of some old crap geocities websites but with mp3s? I don't get it. I'm not very social anyway. Maintaining relationships, however perfunctorily, with over a dozen "friends" would be my personal vision of hell I think.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I think of it this way for me -- just today I found someone on myspace who was a good friend and colleague in grad school all those years back and who I hadn't seen or talked to in seven years, and we've already exchanged mails catching up. Whatever you could say about any of those sites, like latebloomer says, if you have a use for it and good things like that can happen, then hey.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i forgot to say that haha. i'm sour today. to each his own and all that rot.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

I am sentimental for crap geocities. All the myspace bands should be forced to post those little graphics of NEW! and the little red sunglasses that men COOL!

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

What's this Facebook thing then?

― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

oh no...

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

shut the fuck up

haha xp

― strgn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Try http://www.finnbook.com/ instead.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't work.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

yr shit's not even worth posting to excelsior or noize or whatever, you're just tedious and dry, stop! bleh.

not a myspace user myself. i do use facebook, just because i'm in school and lots of other peopl in that demographic are on it + i can spy on classmates.

― strgn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

In Sweden and Finland: [Removed Illegal Link] is the fastest growing new web2.0 social tool.

― djmartian, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Jaiku

― djmartian, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get why it's such a shocker that I don't know or care about some websites... I'm not a big fan of electronic communication or "networking" in the first place, so why should I be interested in such things? I think 80-90% of my time in the Internet is spent here on ILX, other than that I mostly just read record and movie reviews.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

...not everyone reads TechCrunch

― djmartian, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still resisting too. My understanding is that Myspace is all about bands putting M3P things up for people to download... not something in which I am interested.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

i have a myspace acct that i have not told a single soul the address of. that was last year i guess -- don't really understand what it's for, though. finding out who internet friends of friends are? ech. facebook sort of makes more sense, and i'm on it, but i still don't get what you "do" there.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

It lets your inner vainglory blossom.

-- Abbott, Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:41 PM (2 hours ago)

On first sight, I read this as "It lets your inner vagina blossom", which would make a much better slogan than "A place for friends".

I resisted MySpace till about a year ago. Nothing much seems to happen on it any more, except for bad bands and random strangers trying to add me as a friend. Everything's moved to Bebo and Virb.

― Alba, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas, the thing is, no one gives a fuck that you're not interested in websites, so stop obnoxiously letting everyone know how not interested you are every chance you get and use fucking google to look something up if you don't know what it is for god's sake.

― strgn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

What's this google thing then?

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Myspace is great for being discovered by old peers from high school who you disliked at the time and forgot since.

facebook is much better for this!

i use myspace and facebook in exactly the same way, it's just that some people are on one (hipster/arty/meeja/egotist circles, the people i actually see and hang out with regularly) and some are on the other (old school/university people, who tend to be more privacy-conscious/less show-offy). and facebook is more work-friendly if only cos colleagues are all bloody on it too.

with facebook you get a lot more moments along the lines of "oh! this person, wow, haven't thought about them or seen them in years, how very exciting!" and then you think, hang on, i actually CANNOT REMEMBER if i liked them or not.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

both are best for turning "cool people i met this one time when we were trashed at a party" into actual kind of friends.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not interested in joining these sites, but I'm interested in knowing what they do, since they're mentioned here often. Is it wrong to ask about them? I tried to look at the Facebook site, but it's kinda hard to find out how it functions without registering there.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Old peers coming outta the woodwork kinda freaks me out. It was making me really nervous for while. And I don't remember most about any of them altho they remember shit-tons abt yrs truly. I think the only good convo I had w/an old schoolmate was telling him: "The only thing I remember about you is you were good-looking and you told me to dive in swimming pools face-first or you could get a vaginal or anal embolism." He appreciated that.

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

old peers is 90% tedious and unwanted but 10% pretty amazing.

what is ridiculous = getting annoyed that certain people from the past aren't on these things, because it would be nice to be back in contact with them. even though i could just send them a fucking email if i really had anything to say to them!

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

and yeah creepy the way people remember things.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

it just hurts to look at all the bad design

This is really it, for me--I prefer the fascism of Facebook (no customization, heavy censorship, great design and efficiency) over the radical democracy of MySpace. I don't have a problem with the fact that Facebook lets non-students join (and I think people who do have a problem with that are assholes), so long as they submit to the demands of the Vatersite.

― max, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have a MySpace, btw, because the site is so gross it makes me want to throw up. I can't believe people are so willing to spend time looking at it.

― max, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

and yeah creepy the way people remember things.

Haha dude I am brilliant/awful when it comes to remembering obscure shit from people's past. Consider yourself warned.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I put shows on w/ a friend and the only web presence we have is a blogspot site. At the top it says "proudly functioning without a fucking Myspace account since 2004". This feels more and more like "proudly functioning without a colour TV since 1982" or something, we should probably change that really. Myspace itself I find really user-unfriendly and clunky, and if I found myself using it for messages etc any more than the bare minimum it would irritate the piss out of me

― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah one thing i love about myspace is that you get to put a song on your page!

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

I used my real name for MySpace, and have ended up with five people I would not have heard from, well, finding me...all good. Tuomas, you can create a profile that basically says nothing and keep in contact with people who think it's the only way to keep in touch.
Plus you can waste ridiculous amounts of time looking at your friends friends...I waste enough time in general, and also here at ILX, and then reading one blog from a friend who really doesn't know that MySpace is not the entire internet and is defensive about it. (But her MySpace blog is very fun).
I have been happy to hear from the people who have "found" me, and am happy to keep my profile to the most basic form.
Two ex-boyfriends came out of the woodwork! (Of MySpace). That's always weird, but I was flattered that our relationship(s) meant enough for them to want to be in contact.
Nice to know those months/years of emotional involvement mattered enough for some contact to be established later!
it's also funny/weird because the picture I have is quite....well, anyone who knows my name can check it out. it's not very beguiling.
I think maria:D got me started, or maybe that was Friendster - or both? it's not hard to have latent accounts.
Tuomas - register and get on all of them!

― aimurchie, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

is is it possible to see (who's watching)?

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

I would be your friend Tuo-mas.

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

My latest friend is "The State of Israel". Now I want to collect countries as my friends, like RISK!
I asked to add "The State of Israel" as my friend - really, they want to be friends with everyone on MySpace!
I only have 11 friends, and one of them is Tom.
I think it's cool to keep Tom - it's post-modern.
My friend who doesn't really know about the rest of the internet defined HTML as - Hate Tom More Lately. (after she got an HTML error message).

― aimurchie, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

myspace.com/abbitheanera

That's ME!

― Abbott, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

i am totally adding you and maria d!

i am fine with myspace. i like the ability to listen to band's songs and stumble upon people you sort of know. and being able to design the page and post images and things, and that everyone's pages can be different.

it's facebook that i resisted, mainly b/c it's more panopticon. but then on friday night i got convinced, by people my own age even. there are people on there who i know would never have myspace pages. i find it slightly lame in design and not v noise in general but reconnecting with people is good, plus am already mildly addicted.

― rrrobyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

haha and myspace also doesn't work sometimes, like now

― rrrobyn, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

I don't care what max says, if you are on Facebook and not a student of some sort, you = lose.

― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Especially for listening to music. It's so handy when you want to book a show or throw a party or communicate something to a bunch of people. Useful tool.

its pretty shitty for this actually compared to facebook

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

YOU CAN BRING THE NOIZE, BRING THE NOIZE

TO YOUR SPY MACE

WHICH IS WHAT I LIKE TO CALL IT

AND ALSO IS WHAT I CALL IT

POPE IS A DOPE

WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH ALL THESE CRAAAAZY ANIMALS?

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

now that I'm having regular sex (w/another person) I have little to no use for it. In fact, it's kind of an annoyance.

But trust that if or when I'm single again, I'll be back to making snarky/ flirty msgs & comments with gusto

― will, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://myspace.com/puzzle_mouse

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

btw Abbott you are v v pretty

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

WOTTA MEME!

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

wfmu blog linked up to yr deli.cio.us! mind wart bloned

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

It's like going to a weird library.
Where you get to delete.

― aimurchie, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

I delete books anyway and shove them into my neck's lithium-ion battery bcz knowledge=power.

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

ive gotten the impression that a big reason myspace is so frowned upon among most is because of the wretched culture its spawned among much younger people... kids as young as 12, going nuts with their own self-indulgence, playing dress-up for each other.

that said, ive also noticed a very different kind of social trend. i am 25, and most people my age/my generation seem pretty disillusioned with myspace and most of the internet in general, as with me for example, ive been on the internet every day of my freaking life the past 10 years or so, probably/obviously way way WAY more than i should be.

but there's a pocket of people i know that are in their mid-late 30s, and they absolutely love myspace and can't get enough of it. maybe its because the novelty of the internet in general has yet to wear off for them? because they had more options to live a REAL LIFE before the mid 90s when the internet really took off? has anyone else noticed anything like this by any chance?

anyway, i use myspace to keep up the dumb comedy songs i've created to make some friends of mine laugh: http://www.myspace.com/sirweezejunk

― the sir weeze, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

whoa, thanx abbott for letting me know. weird

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

but there's a pocket of people i know that are in their mid-late 30s, and they absolutely love myspace and can't get enough of it. maybe its because the novelty of the internet in general has yet to wear off for them? because they had more options to live a REAL LIFE before the mid 90s when the internet really took off? has anyone else noticed anything like this by any chance?

Not really, no.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone I know my age/older is on LJ, fawning all over each other in polyamory and goth comms. Ugh.

― Trayce, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

but you're a fat goth

― JW, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://griswald.net/images/oh_lawd.jpg

― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

My Dad is 60 this year, and just signed up to Facebook to keep up with his students now he's retired. He asked me if I was on it so he could add me. I wasn't. This seemed profound at the time.

I've spent the last couple of years banging on about how shitty Facebook and MySpace are, and I kinda feel like I've painted myself into a corner with them now. I can't possibly join without looking like a hypocritical asshole. Such is life.

― caek, Monday, 16 April 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

Saying you hate myspace is the new "I don't have a TV"

― Maria :D, Monday, 16 April 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

Facebook is for students. I art not a student.

― Maria :D, Monday, 16 April 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

For you cat lovers: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=7200679

― Maria :D, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

Now I have 12 friends. A cat is a friend, right?

Also, Adam Ant contacts me through MySpace. AntFest 2007!

― aimurchie, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:06 (eighteen years ago)

Har har Jon ;P

― Trayce, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

Saying you hate myspace is the new "I don't have a TV"

I don't have a TV as it happens, but I love myspace and made no effort to resist it. In fact, I may have made a profile the very day I became aware of the site's existence.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

i had a myspace account for a few months. found it a bit of a timesuck and it didn't really perform any functions that email or sms couldn't do as well or better for me. i quite liked getting band/tour updates but i found all the ridiculous bulletins and whatnot from friends and acquaintances really annoying. so i deleted it. haven't missed it even once.

― gem, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

I set one up for the Poptimism night but I don't have one myself.

― Groke, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

if the rest of the internet didn't exist, then myspace *could* perform all the social networking and 'fun' stuff by itself as it is a complete 'universe'; you can mail, post pics, blog, start groups ect ect. I keep meaning to start a blog on myspace; I think once I got going I would be far more likely to keep posting to it than if I made the decision to resume posting to my Blogger one (pretty active 2002-5) or my livejournal (which I posted once and only got going so I could post comments to other ppl officially rather than anonymously).

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah one thing i love about myspace is that you get to put a song on your page!

This is THE WORST THING about Myspace. It annoys me that I can't listen to music or even have my speakers on while browsing in case I get ambushed by some shitty sub-Libertines bollocks. I'm sure there's an option to turn this all off but I can't be bothered to look for it.

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think there is, matt. Myspace is one of the worst designed websites in existence.

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

had a page for a few months last year but the novelty wore off after i got ~~stalked~~ befriended by weirdos and targeted by virusbot. not to mention all the ludicrous pornspam. thanks to the handful of ilxors who added me, though.

― m coleman, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

there's an option to stop the player playing automatically on band websites, but not for individuals i don't think. it can be annoying but i'm just aware of it and press pause automatically whenever looking at someone else's page...but most of my friends have good music on their pages anyway.

you should listen to the song on my page right now it is AMAZING.

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, myspace is murdoch evil and thus i shall never be tempted by its statnic talons.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

or even the satanic ones

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

it seems quite static to me, maybe you meant that too

― gem, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah one thing i love about myspace is that you get to put a song on your page!

That's probably the worst thing about it. Then again maybe the way the comments work: you have to go their fucking page to reply.

I have a myspace page but I'm not that big of a MS fan. Horribly designed website.

― nathalie, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

don't you read the times, marcello?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure there's an option to turn this all off but I can't be bothered to look for it.

There's such an option, plus plenty of other ad blocking and design improving plug-ins, that you can use via Greasemonkey for Firefox. And very handy it all is too.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

If the Guardian weren't so crap I wouldn't have to read the Times!

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

i had a myspace page for 2 years or so just to keep up with a handful of people. then i spent an hour looking at profiles and comments and deleted it.

now i have one for my radio show as a sort of pre-failed experiment in something or other.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

There's such an option, plus plenty of other ad blocking and design improving plug-ins, that you can use via Greasemonkey for Firefox. And very handy it all is too.

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, April 16, 2007 8:47 AM (53 minutes ago)

Yea, but the thing is that any mature website like last.fm, facebook, etc has implemented useful progressive enhancements like 2 years ago while myspace is pretty much the same site as it was in 2004.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

None. I was on Friendster when myspace started and when I moved over that place was all tumbleweeds. I think for months my only friends were Ed, a meatspace friend and some random bimbo.

I do think now I have once and all broken the myspace habit. . .

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

i'm in a band and it's been extremely beneficial and important for us. but that's the only account I ever check; my personal one I log into about once a week to delete the spam whore messages.

― akm, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Facebook strikes me as a lot more sustainable and I really don't see that it's a student-only thing anymore -- it definitely provides more utility for networking through schools since it started that way, but businesses, cities and organizations can make their own 'networks' as well, so it's just a matter of momentum.

I think the trick is to make sure site notifications are turned on for these things, put up only information you have no motivation to regularly modify, and then make as much content as you can friends-only based on the network. I don't get the "oh, it's sucking all my free time" argument when you can reduce your involvement to the point where the site tells you when you have to visit, and be in and out in a couple minutes.

― mh, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yea, but the thing is that any mature website like last.fm, facebook, etc has implemented useful progressive enhancements like 2 years ago while myspace is pretty much the same site as it was in 2004.

Hooray! To all those points.

(Last.fm is one of those sites I simultaneously understand perfectly and could never imagine wanting to get involved with.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

i love last.fm!

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

and could never imagine wanting to get involved with

huh? how do you mean?

― blueski, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

x-post: Doubtless! But my time-sinks are rapidly multiplying the more time goes on; I don't need something to kick it up exponentially. (In fact honestly if I think even *more* about music I might as well give up on the rest of life, which I suppose answers Blueski's question as well.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

last.fm is useful for remembering what you did last night

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Also, if XM or sirius could stream my last.fm radio I would pay for that

Municipal WiMax NOW!!!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Plug your brain into computer and make beats with mind.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

last night i listened to awesome funk soul jams.

― blueski, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think the trick is to make sure site notifications are turned on for these things, put up only information you have no motivation to regularly modify

What I might do with the facebook site is just copy over all the likes stuff from my myspace page. Trust me, zilch motivation on modifying any of THAT.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Facebook is for students. I art not a student.

i don't understand why people keep saying this - it may have been originally designed with (American) students in mind, but it's plenty useful for a Brit working fellow.

Why people get wound up by myspazz i'm not sure. it serves its purpose, especially for music stuff.

Can someone please explain last.fm to me as if i'm a toddler?

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dog latin is that you?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

For not music stuff, it's become pretty boring. You can still visit band's MySpace pages without having an account.

To me Facebook servesmost of the same purposes as MySpace and if I'm no longer interested in MySpace I can't see why I'd be interested in Facebook (even if it is nicer). I don't want to be all "I don't watch television" but I'm just really over social networks. I imagine that will happen more and more as people just get burnt out and start diverting that time and energy to other more traditional social networking.

Also: When will the backlash start where young kids start rejecting all this stuff and it becomes cooler not to blog or youtube or myspace or any of that crap. As I heard someone say it will be like the subculture of kids who stood by vinyl 7"s with pride while the rest of the world turned to CDs.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

myspace.com/thebunnybrains
its good for lettin people know about live shows and stuff
alot of people use it as email client
and th others juss troll for babypuddy

― danbunny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Dog latin is that you?

nope. t'other charlie. dunno where DL is these days actually.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Hitchin.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

is doglatin now next grozart? or is that nick?

― blueski, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

I have completely lost track of who's who. 600 and Nasty, Brutish and Short, for example.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Gareth and teh Hobb.

― aldo, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

600 is Doompatrol and Nasty, Brutish and Short is Pete B.

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

CURSE YOU ALDO.

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

who is I know, right?

― lex pretend, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Better to light a candle than to curse an Aldo

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

CONSIDER MYSELF CURSED.

― aldo, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

i could've sworn that when i signed up for facebook -- which was only a couple of months ago -- it required a university email addy.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

It used to.

― kv_nol, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Still resisting, man. I now have bebo for work, though. For work!

― Madchen, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

last.fm has become an awesome timesuck for me, and I am not even sure why. At first it seemed a bit useless - oh yeah, it keeps charts of songs I listen to - but once youve played enough and can start building radio streams out of tags, and listen to what other people like and compare charts and whatnot, it becomes immense fun. I have been able to hear/re-hear so many good things through it.

― Trayce, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

I love to tenth power its radio, and it lets the whole world I just listen to synthpoo and musical soundtracks. Woot woot 1776.

― Abbott, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

I have myspace (which I use all the time for networking, organising parties/events, promotion and general staying in touch with people) and a facebook (which I don't get the appeal of at all. What do you do with this thing? It seems pointless!).

― the next grozart, Monday, 16 April 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

See I think that about myspace. I'm not knocking it, I just couldn't find a use for it. I do most of my social networking and blogging thru eitehr livejournal or last.fm and my photos etc I host myself.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

TWICE now I've created an excellent MySpace page to promote some film & theatre music I've done, and twice it's been deleted after a week or so, with no explanation whatsoever. Does anyone know why this happens, 'cos Murdoch's minions are no help whatsoever.

― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

i could've sworn that when i signed up for facebook -- which was only a couple of months ago -- it required a university email addy.

You have to have a university address to join that university's network. Otherwise, you can join any local network.

― max, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

It still remains great as a band resource. It's still the easiest way for promoters to get in touch with bands, listen to them, invite them to play shows - and then for bands to keep in touch with their fans. It's like all the different tools that bands used to use, all wrapped up in one.

I resisted getting a personal one for quite some time, but one of my bandmates complained that I was using the band one as a personal one, filling out surveys and that kind of thing. So I got mine own last year. But now I don't really use the personal one as much for that sort of crap now the novelty has worn off.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

YEah, also you can pretty much design a Myspace page how you want. I'm not interested in the boring Facebook stuff. "Jeremy and Laura are now friends" "Alan has left the group "I had ketchup with my chips yesterday". Am I missing something or is it just lists of pointless shit? At least MySpace can be used to post bulletins, promote music and events, ask for information, etc...?

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Am I missing the point? How would you organise a party or a gig through Facebook for instance?

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

My conclusion is that Myspace feels a bit more communal whereas Facebook feels like being trapped in a little grey box with a few small eyelets letting you see into the world outside.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

facebook = enclosed social circles of people who already know each other being able to communicate without entire world being able to watch
myspace = intermingling social circles of people who know each other, don't know each other, music and other pursuits which need promotion, talking in public

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

enclosed social circles of people who already know each other being able to communicate without entire world being able to watch

But surely there is the pub for this kind of thing? Plus everyone is kind of forced to watch what's going on on Facebook wherea sMyspace is a bit more of a browsy thing.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

But surely there is the pub for this kind of thing?

If we could all sit in the pub all day every day, there would be no need for any of this.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

true true.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

facebook has actually done something great and got me back in touch with someone i'd lost touch with half a decade ago, who i couldn't have contacted any other way! and it turns out that now we both love dominik eulberg and ricardo villalobos :D

― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

whats the general consensus on when myspace became a supposed requisite for human life? sometime in 2004?

What? I only heard about for the first time last year, I think!

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

i maed a bulletang

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

I deleted my Myspace, ad my Facebook, a few weeks ago.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

I only use Myspace to look at friends' band pages. The best-designed ones still look cluttered and shit. Also, it's annoying how the music starts automatically whether you want it to or not. Usually I've already got something playing in itunes & so there's this horrible mush. THEN, if I do want to listen to myspace music, it STOPS as soon as you click on anything, like viewing that band's photos or adding a message. It should be able to keep playing the music while you remain in that band's page for fuck's sake.

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen a Myspace page

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

You ain't missing much.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

you can switch of songs coming on on myspace now thank god!

― the next grozart, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

It's only recently, like the last couple of months, that my friends have started hassling me to get Myspace/Facebook accounts. I have yet to succumb.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but it's not like it rly works (the switching off songs thing, obviously the site as a whole continues not to work in the usual manner).

i mainly got one out of VANITY to put up my old band's songs like the wh0re i am.

is anyone here twittering yet? that looks completely pointless "hey you can blog but only 140 characters! w00+!"

― CarsmileSteve, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

twitter was cool at sxsw b/c they had it up on big screens around the conf. center. You could see people bitching about boring sessions and planning where they going for lunch. useful.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

I had one and then took it down only to create a new account when people started bugging me again. It can be fun at times and since I put mine back up three people I'd lost touch with have contacted me which is pretty cool. http://www.myspace.com/ericanbb

― ENBB, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Steve, Twitter looked completely pointless to me until I started using it.

― Madchen, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

The only thing is, you might get charged for posting twitters from your mobile (it's always free to receive them).

― Madchen, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

The only thing is, you might get charged for posting twitters from your mobile (it's always free to receive them).

Neither of these are necess true for americans

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Stopped resisting. Also stopped being coy about it.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 3 May 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

I did grab the "Mark Grout" myspace account, as I've seen a number of people on t'web with my name and wanted to get it first, decide if I need it later.

― Mark G, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

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