myspace is out of control

dayday 9,611 Posts
edited June 2006 in Strut Central
This is what happens when you don't read your mail for a week or 2:It's just ridiculous at this point. How many people even check this shit anymore?
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  • BigSpliffBigSpliff 3,266 Posts
    Personally I feel I've got more out of wasting a year on Soulstrut than that online community shit.

    Also, the thing that annoys me most is the volume settings on there are higher than my other players so everytime I go to someone's page I suddenly get blasted in the ears with some unsolicited beats.

    The whole thing needs to go pronto.

    Who's with me?!!!!

  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts
    Remember, the more friends you have, the more records you sell....

  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    Remember, the more friends you have, the more records you sell....

    Haha, see, that's what trips me out. Maybe you're right to some degree, but it just seems silly at this point. I see people with 5000 friends and 300 views too, so go figure. I think the novelty of the whole thing will wear off soon.

  • gloomgloom 2,765 Posts
    Remember, the more friends you have, the more records you sell....

    Haha, see, that's what trips me out. Maybe you're right to some degree, but it just seems silly at this point. I see people with 5000 friends and 300 views too, so go figure. I think the novelty of the whole thing will wear off soon.

    its finally becoming a thing where even my mom knows what MySpace is. Once it reaches this peak, it will begin to die a slow death.

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,471 Posts
    Remember, the more friends you have, the more records you sell....

    Haha, see, that's what trips me out. Maybe you're right to some degree, but it just seems silly at this point. I see people with 5000 friends and 300 views too, so go figure. I think the novelty of the whole thing will wear off soon.

    I think so, too. Apparently it still works for folks as far as promo and whatnot go, but it seems to have reached critical mass and is verging on collapsing on itself. I stopped reading bulletins a while ago--not that it mattered, anyway, as they update every two minutes with a new bulletin, so you're still gonna miss a lot of them.

    I guess the big attraction now is that it's an easy, popular, free place to have your music hosted. That is a fairly attractive thing, to be sure.

  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts
    Remember, the more friends you have, the more records you sell....

    Haha, see, that's what trips me out. Maybe you're right to some degree, but it just seems silly at this point. I see people with 5000 friends and 300 views too, so go figure. I think the novelty of the whole thing will wear off soon.

    its finally becoming a thing where even my mom knows what MySpace is. Once it reaches this peak, it will begin to die a slow death.

    I think you're both right, but still it is one of the most easy systems to get in touch with people you wanna meet and say something to without really knowing their full website and all that...but yeah, it's just a thing with "no style" at all...just don't take it too serious... I can't really say where this will go...

  • BigSpliffBigSpliff 3,266 Posts
    I can't really say where this will go...

    pr0n, just like everything else.

  • drewnicedrewnice 5,465 Posts
    I have a page, but never-ever fuck with MySpace anymore. And now I have this bot named "NadiaChicka" who keeps sending me friend requests even after I deny her over and over and over and over and over again. She will not win this battle.

  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    I have a page, but never-ever fuck with MySpace anymore. And now I have this bot named "NadiaChicka" who keeps sending me friend requests even after I deny her over and over and over and over and over again. She will not win this battle.

    that fuckin nadiachick!!!

  • ZachDZachD 318 Posts
    its finally becoming a thing where even my mom knows what MySpace is. Once it reaches this peak, it will begin to die a slow death.
    It's beyond that, my GRANDMOTHER IS on myspace:

    http://www.myspace.com/unawhite

    Check out my grandpa playing guitar

  • montymonty 420 Posts

  • drewnicedrewnice 5,465 Posts
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  • gloomgloom 2,765 Posts
    its finally becoming a thing where even my mom knows what MySpace is. Once it reaches this peak, it will begin to die a slow death.

    It's beyond that, my GRANDMOTHER IS on myspace:

    http://www.myspace.com/unawhite

    Check out my grandpa playing guitar

  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    I just see it as a free adspace. I have gotten lots of business from there. I send messages to friends on there but I just delete the bulletin and event alerts without looking at them, so I don't know where everyone is coming from when they say stuff like "I don't need to print flyers, I can just send out a myspace alert" I guess someone is reading them though uhhhhhhhhhh

  • ArtifactorArtifactor 887 Posts
    It is kinda out of control but so many of my friends have got some fine ass women on there that I can't really say much. I personally would feel weird talking to a girl I met on there but you can't mess with results.

  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,779 Posts
    The novelty wore off REAL quick for me. When I first started .. I was checking that shit 1000 times / day. Now I'm lucky if I go on once a week. I have it so all MySpace related e-mail goes in my junk mail folder. Plus approving friends is a chore. Imma stick to my own SS bubble.

  • ariel_calmerariel_calmer 3,762 Posts
    The novelty wore off REAL quick for me. When I first started .. I was checking that shit 1000 times / day. Now I'm lucky if I go on once a week. I have it so all MySpace related e-mail goes in my junk mail folder. Plus approving friends is a chore. Imma stick to my own SS bubble.

    Translation: "I am married"

  • G_BalliandoG_Balliando 3,916 Posts
    I can't really say where this will go...

    pr0n, just like everything else.

    it's already there. they make accounts with chicks names and spam the fuck out of people trying to lure them in. it will say shit like "i'm new to your area" or some dumb shit, then it will say "but email me here because i don't use myspace a lot" and then it's a link to some Bananagangbang site or some crazy shit. kinda funny. i wonder if people actually fall for that? then there's the one where theres some 15 year old naked chick holding up a white piece of paper that appears to have "your" screen name on it, like she wrote it and wants to bone you, but it is obviously just some photoshoppery trying to lure more unsuspecting idiots into purchasing digitaltitties. i love the internet.

  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    I just see it as a free adspace. I have gotten lots of business from there. I send messages to friends

    sayin'

    I've always thought it's an excellent tool for networking & promoting, but I don't understand why people who are on there who don't have anything to push join.

    I don't even except ads anymore, unless it's someone I know/know of.

    What's up with people trying/becoming "myspace" famous? I still don't understand that phenomenon or "interent going nuts" fame.

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Now I'm lucky if I go on once a week.

  • BeatChemistBeatChemist 1,465 Posts
    I just see it as a free adspace. I have gotten lots of business from there. I send messages to friends

    sayin'

    I've always thought it's an excellent tool for networking & promoting, but I don't understand why people who are on there who don't have anything to push join.

    I don't even except ads anymore, unless it's someone I know/know of.

    What's up with people trying/becoming "myspace" famous? I still don't understand that phenomenon or "interent going nuts" fame.

    See... to me, I think it's funny that MySpace has become this huge medium/venue for music because I just still think of it as some sort of e-friends network site. I guess maybe I heard about it early on, because I knew a lot of friends who were on it blogging much like livejournal.com. And I'm pretty sure I was like "eh, another damn icq/friendster/livejournal/e-scene" until they added the music hosting feature. So I signed up and put up a few songs but never checked for it. Then all of sudden it was like BAM! MySpace all over the fucking place. Bought up by a huge conglomerate media giant!! Sponsoring music tours and shows!! Releasing compilation CDs!!!!

    I still think it's a nice way to keep in touch with friends. But I just delete all the spam I get before reading it, so I probably underestimate the promo advantages some people are reaping.

    I don't understand "famous". Everyone wants to be a celebrity? I want to be respected for something that I do, sure. But 'fame' is so empty nowadays... it is the ultimate goal, rather than the result or side effect of being outstanding or original in some way. Probably one of my least favourite things about current pop culture -> celebrity obsession.

    [trying to step up my epromo game]
    Check out some music and drop me a message at www.myspace.com/beatchemist
    [/trying to step up my epromo game]

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    I can't really say where this will go...

    pr0n, just like everything else.

    it's already there. they make accounts with chicks names and spam the fuck out of people trying to lure them in. it will say shit like "i'm new to your area" or some dumb shit, then it will say "but email me here because i don't use myspace a lot" and then it's a link to some Bananagangbang site or some crazy shit. kinda funny. i wonder if people actually fall for that?

    sounds like you fell for it, mate.

  • G_BalliandoG_Balliando 3,916 Posts
    I can't really say where this will go...

    pr0n, just like everything else.

    it's already there. they make accounts with chicks names and spam the fuck out of people trying to lure them in. it will say shit like "i'm new to your area" or some dumb shit, then it will say "but email me here because i don't use myspace a lot" and then it's a link to some Bananagangbang site or some crazy shit. kinda funny. i wonder if people actually fall for that?

    sounds like you fell for it, mate.

    hardly. ever hover over a link?

    who actually pays for porn? that's dumb.

  • the3rdstreamthe3rdstream 1,980 Posts
    How many people even check this shit anymore?

    unfortunatly it seems there is no slowing down here in the library, folks are coming in and sitting on this shit all day, it used to be chat rooms and shit now its myspace, mad shadowy dudes looking at girls pages all day and teens are out of control on this shit, there will be something new but it may take awhile, my fav was about a year ago there was these girls on some website where it let them contact dudes in prison

  • BrianBrian 7,618 Posts
    How many people even check this shit anymore?

    unfortunatly it seems there is no slowing down here in the library, folks are coming in and sitting on this shit all day
    I work at an internet cafe and I would estimate at least 50% of computer usage is myspace shit and it could be higher actually.

  • wyzewayzwyzewayz 303 Posts


    I don't understand "famous". Everyone wants to be a celebrity? I want to be respected for something that I do, sure. But 'fame' is so empty nowadays... it is the ultimate goal, rather than the result or side effect of being outstanding or original in some way. Probably one of my least favourite things about current pop culture -> celebrity obsession.


    Yowzahz-----------Can I quote this on my myspace page as a blog?












    for real though, maybe I'm serious.

  • phono13phono13 842 Posts
    I can't really say where this will go...

    pr0n, just like everything else.

    it's already there. they make accounts with chicks names and spam the fuck out of people trying to lure them in. it will say shit like "i'm new to your area" or some dumb shit, then it will say "but email me here because i don't use myspace a lot" and then it's a link to some Bananagangbang site or some crazy shit. kinda funny. i wonder if people actually fall for that?

    sounds like you fell for it, mate.

    hardly. ever hover over a link?

    who actually pays for porn? that's dumb.

    GB... I dig your avatar.

  • ayresayres 1,452 Posts
    everybody selling. nobody buying.

  • BeatChemistBeatChemist 1,465 Posts
    everybody selling. nobody buying.



  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    At the risk of sounding like a MySpace ho, I think it's a great way to keep up with out of town friends and to discover new bands.

    As a promotional tool, however, it's been kind of a bust for me personally. I probably do better with emails, flyers and newsgroups than with Myspace in promoting gigs.
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