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)

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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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