Myspace

I find the myspace visual design troubling…the pages give me a headache. I think it's because I am old. If I was to have a myspace page, it would just serve as a gateway to a my own website…

i got mine when i was 13 in order to keep up with musician friends who were, yes, traveling and playing gigs. that's not creepy. that's the point.

Originally posted by D.:
i find it more creepy that 12 year olds have myspaces, it makes a lot more sense for people who are older i think because its an easy way to keep in contact with people from high school/college/traveling/gigs and all that who you dont see everyday like kids who are able to see there friends in school. with that said apparently its all about facebook these days

killsaly
A link to my music myspace, my personal one is private.

I don't think it's creepy if there's just people you know and music stuff…

Mine is private as well, but I'm not opposed to adding.

my myspace

oops page

Originally posted by The Vessel:
I find the myspace visual design troubling…the pages give me a headache. I think it's because I am old. If I was to have a myspace page, it would just serve as a gateway to a my own website…

i'm not a web designer or a coder or anything like that, but their design is just so unbelievably tacky and shitty, it really boggles my mind that they haven't undergone a serious style update in a long long time … i'm guessing it's because when Murdoch bought the site he didn't want to make any noticeable changes that would make people start to freak out about corporate ownership and jump ship

facebook's design is so much cleaner, and that alone makes me use it a lot more than myspace

heh. I have a myspace, it's yesiamanartist if anyone wants to add me, feel free. I find it's the easiest way to keep track of people, because everyone's on it.

however it's banned at work, so at work I do the facebook thing, which I can't figure out. I don't know what it is about facebook, but there's like a mental block in my brain that I can't figure out how to do things on it.

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
facebook's design is so much cleaner, and that alone makes me use it a lot more than myspace

One problem I find with facebook is the way it turns every phrase in lists into links, e.g. "Zappa's Yellow Shark" instead of simply "Yellow Shark". While it's nice that lists can be loosely formed, the automatic hyperlinking needs to be more intelligently programmed, i.e. more like Wikipedia.

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:

facebook's design is so much cleaner, and that alone makes me use it a lot more than myspace

i am far too lazy to have both a myspace AND a facebook page!

i'm sure someone's written about this somewhere, but i'm really fascinated by myspace's ability to completely cut across cultural divides and appeal to an enormous range of people

everyone from middle school kids to college kids to working class rural people to music-obsessed folks to educated urbanites to minority communities to middle-aged spinsters find a way to tweak the site to serve their particular needs

it seems like similar social networking sites serve particular niches (to a greater and smaller degree, of course), while myspace somehow appeals to pretty much anyone using the internet

of course, in a few years (at most) everyone will have moved on to another site and Murdoch will be left with a $600 million paperweight

My pages:

Personal/music: http://www.myspace.com/varietyisthespice

Music-only: http://www.myspace.com/christinemoritz

not since the last few weeks when they added movies and music and all that other crap to the profiles…it's getting a little meh

but yeah, it is somewhat user-friendlier than the space

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:

Originally posted by The Vessel:
I find the myspace visual design troubling…the pages give me a headache. I think it's because I am old. If I was to have a myspace page, it would just serve as a gateway to a my own website…

i'm not a web designer or a coder or anything like that, but their design is just so unbelievably tacky and shitty, it really boggles my mind that they haven't undergone a serious style update in a long long time … i'm guessing it's because when Murdoch bought the site he didn't want to make any noticeable changes that would make people start to freak out about corporate ownership and jump ship

facebook's design is so much cleaner, and that alone makes me use it a lot more than myspace

Originally posted by you be betty:
not since the last few weeks when they added movies and music and all that other crap to the profiles…it's getting a little meh

but yeah, it is somewhat user-friendlier than the space

but it still looks well-coded and, dare i say it, classy … myspace looks like a cheap whore in comparison

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:

Originally posted by you be betty:
not since the last few weeks when they added movies and music and all that other crap to the profiles…it's getting a little meh

but yeah, it is somewhat user-friendlier than the space

but it still looks well-coded and, dare i say it, classy … myspace looks like a cheap whore in comparison

you make that sound like its a bad thing.

The default MySpace design doesn't bother me that much.

What bothers me are the ones where people used profile editors and as a result, the profiles don't display properly on the screen and require horizontal scrolling. Not to mention the ones where people have all kinds of crazy background patterns that make the text difficult to read, etc. It's like Bad Website Design of 1999 all over again.

Originally posted by econo:
I'm late on this and I know there's been other threads but who's on myspace? Here's me.

How does this thread drum up business for the club?

Rather it's seemingly a cheap attempt to get people to compare boring, narcissitic myspace pages. The only myspace page that matters is the club's.

You're right Surly. Shame on me for trying to get laid.

the best thing about myspace is that every band has a page and you can hear their music. this was impossible 2 yrs ago.

absolutely - most of my decisions about catching or skipping an opener are based on a few minutes with their myspace page.