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Post by goldfishinabowl on Apr 24, 2006 0:55:45 GMT -5
I just don't understand - the MySpace pages I've been to always seem to take ages to load, be full of crap all over the place with no decent web design and are hodge podge and difficult to read....
Why are they the thing to do all of a sudden in the pop world?
Should I give up on a Blogger?
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Post by Jem on Apr 24, 2006 4:44:54 GMT -5
Boredom at work!
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Post by Jon on Apr 24, 2006 4:57:38 GMT -5
Free promo!
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Post by gazbo on Apr 24, 2006 6:10:57 GMT -5
...take ages to load, be full of crap all over the place with no decent web design and are hodge podge and difficult to read.... You forgot the inexplicable obsession with making scrollbars invisible to ensure you can't navigate round the page. Why use it? Because it's Web2.0! And everyone knows Web2.0 is important, because...I dunno, something about Arctic Monkeys? But man! Web2.0! Oh, except for all the people (such as web developers) who think that Web2.0 is something completely and utterly different. If you just say "Web2.0" to yourself enough, I'm sure it will all start to make sense and stop seeming like yet more pointless trendy bandwagon-jumping. |
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Post by Maureen on Apr 24, 2006 7:51:22 GMT -5
It's a good way of getting a reaction to new material without costly spend. It's cheaper than setting up a dedicated website.
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Post by bishbosh on Apr 24, 2006 8:16:06 GMT -5
It also makes the "popstars" look like they actually care about the fans. They are all a bit crap looking, making it look like the celeb themsleves have set it up and are updating it. In some cases they are, but mostly not. It attempts to bring them closer to the fan.
It's a great form of viral marketing, you can browse for hours from list of friends and come across someone who makes music, and then become their "bestest buddy" and hopefully spread the word for the record company.
I am working on a online/digital marketing event and the big guns are taking it very seriously as other forms of tradtional marketing are working less and less.
What people without anything to promote see in it? I have abso-fcuking-lutely no idea!
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Post by Kirkland on Apr 24, 2006 10:24:44 GMT -5
I can only speak from personal experience but MySpace has done wonders for me and my career as a performance poet. In fact it was thanks in part to MySpace that on Saturday night I performed a small recital before some of Glasgow's best up and coming new poetic talent and I got (no honestly) a great response. And poetry legend Liz Lochhead was there too. Thank you MySpace. It helps you organise and direct your forces better than any official website ever could AND it doubles as an email service! www.myspace.com/talesofordinarysadnessJoin my gang! |
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Post by goldfishinabowl on Apr 24, 2006 19:59:19 GMT -5
Well congratulations Kirkland and others using it successfully. I still think they are rather ugly and fairly unusable on my dodgy old computer.
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Post by splitchick59 on Apr 24, 2006 21:02:46 GMT -5
I think it's basically for promotion purposes. Some artists might use it to connect with their fans, but mostly it exposes acts to a huge audience of viewers on MySpace. These days it seems almost like a requirement that any new/coming up artist has one, and sometimes fans will even make unofficial ones if there aren't any.
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Post by georgie on Apr 25, 2006 6:17:25 GMT -5
I can make out I'm 'friends' with celebs, as they are on my friend's list. Har.
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Post by goldfishinabowl on Apr 26, 2006 7:45:57 GMT -5
So you don't actually have to be "Friends" in real life to be "Friends" on Myspace. So a guy I know who has Tina Cousins, Marie Serneholdt and Lisa Scott Lee as "Friends" on myspace isn't actually best buds with them?
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Post by Jon on Apr 26, 2006 19:49:19 GMT -5
^ Not at all! Even random people I don't even know and who aren't famous add me because they somewhat inexplicably like the photos of me(!).
I think the psychology behind MySpace for non promo purposes is just to have a bit of the interweb to call your own, a place to give your spiel on life and big up your views on everything from Dannii Minogue to politics to cornflakes (so as to feel justified as a human being, or something...)
Also, you can decorate it in pretty colours and put pictures up and everything!
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Post by georgie on Apr 27, 2006 6:04:20 GMT -5
So you don't actually have to be "Friends" in real life to be "Friends" on Myspace. So a guy I know who has Tina Cousins, Marie Serneholdt and Lisa Scott Lee as "Friends" on myspace isn't actually best buds with them? I know. It's all a big charade! I have 300 odd 'friends' on my profile and I honestly know or have met well over half of them. I might not be friends with them, more acquaintences but it IS a good way to keep up with people. I cant be bothered emailing people anymore so its much easier to exchange myspace addresses with new people and catch up over comments or whatever. |
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Post by Fax Mactor on Apr 27, 2006 7:08:48 GMT -5
I have 19 people on my list.
I dont accept friend requests i only have my real friends on my list.
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Post by Poptastic! on Apr 29, 2006 9:33:45 GMT -5
It's very good for music and has made a big impact on the way it's promoted to and discovered by potential fans, but I don't think it's particularly revolutionary as a social networking site. However, it's popularity means you're more likely to find your friends on it than any other site, so in that sense it's the best one to use if you are going to join one at all.
The good thing about the music side of it is that it's an easy way for the consumer to keep up with the music and of course for the act to keep their fans updated. It also means, as people have said, you can easily contact acts and especially those who are not so famous you are likely to be able to speak directly to them through the messaging system, which is good. Although I agree that most of the personal sites are very messy-looking, the music ones are usually OK and it's an advantage to be able to navigate between all your favourite artists' pages all on one site. It seems to encourage acts to post new songs more often, which is a good thing, as on official sites you often only get a clip or no song samples at all, so MySpace at least seems to bring out the generosity (and common sense regarding marketing) in people.
I still hate the whole "MySpace culture" thing, though, I can't help linking it with all the wannabe emo-types who are everywhere you look on the social networking side of the site. It also seems ridiculous to brag about how many people you have on your friends list, since surely all it means is that you've spent ages looking for people to "friend" - surely if they're so popular they should be out having fun with all these friends they have!
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