so, do I bite the bullet and join myspace?

[avi]

is it worth it? will scary people from my high school past track me down (not that it's difficult to google me)? will it occupy way too much of my time?

tell me the pros and cons here people.

 

[minxnim]

just do it. you can read the profile of who sends you a message without opening the message. so if you dont like the person, just never open the message.

 

[Baliset]

you can easily distract yourself at work looking at fake accounts of hot girls like i do.

whether or not that is a pro or con is up to you to decide.

 

[mindspell]

I am interested in the responses too. Although I have next to no chance to get bothered by former high school buddies

 

[xfer]

if you don't update your profile frequently, i've found, it drops lower on the search list and the creepy emails from people you don't know tend to dry up. so set it the first time, then don't ever update again.

 

[Baliset]

yeah be prepared to possibly get flooded with messages and friend requests during the first week.

 

[avi]

I think if I do it I might just do it as itsatrap and only be friends with entities like bands and other websites and not real people

 

[minxnim]

what's the point of that?

 

[avi]

what's the point of it PERIOD?

(I don't say that to be snarky necessarily, but I really just don't get it)

 

[minxnim]

well i mean if you dont add PEOPLE, no one is going to ever look at your site / learn about itsatrap or whatever. no one goes through an entire friendslist of a band, because it's too long. but they DO look at their friends' friendslists.
so i mean god forbid it get your ass some business.

SAYIN'

 

[TheNewChupe]

it's a PR MACHINE dood. even i'm on it, and i'm behind the times.
i must say the whole xml/streaming audio on your main page thing is pretty hip.

 

[minxnim]

p.s. once a person is on your friendslist you can post bulletins and each person gets it about record releases, tour dates, etc. IT WORKS.

 

[avi]

ah, that kinda/sorta makes sense then I guess. I do have my own mailing list, but I suppose anything helps.

I hate the automatic streaming audio thing, but that's mostly because I get random fucks pirating my bandwidth every so often.

 

[TheNewChupe]

i still think it's a cool way for bands to share special/unreleased stuff without totally giving it away.

 

[avi]

I can stream stuff myself just as easily

 

[TheNewChupe]

i'm just sayin it's readily there when people surf into your myspace page. going to separate sites takes more work- i go through peoples' friends pages a lot and have found some decent bands that way.

 

[goatschool]

hey guys should i take the plunge and ditch my rotary phone??

 

[minxnim]

no totally hold onto that relic

 

[goatschool]

ggg...gggggg...ggguyyys sh...should i... ppp...pppp...pay for this chatchka on...online w/ mm...mmmmm...mmmmmy cccc.....ccc....ccrrr....crrrredit ca...ca..caarrrddd?

 

[The Dope]

I don't like myspace, mainly because it creeps me out. I joined because Nils did and I was curious what the deal with it was, but I'm kind of regretting that I did. It's not so much that I get contacted by people I don't want to hear from as it is that I get random messages and friend requests from people I don't know who are like "hey, we should hang out or talk on IM sometime" and all I can think is "I hardly hang out or talk on IM with people I actually know, let alone strangers from the internet who decided I'd be cool to talk to based on a picture a few lines of description." Plus too many people on there seem hopelessly trendy and lame, which bothers me. I probably just don't have the right mindset to enjoy something like that. My enjoyment of internet communities comes more from things like this board, where it's a relatively small number of people whose identities I can fairly easily understand and keep track of.

If I were you, avi, I'd go for registering as itsatrap for the promotion values, rather than as an individual, because that's when it gets a little annoying in my book.