MySpace ??????

I don`t have any of these MySpace or my this or my that  social networking accounts just an email address and PA account but occasionally go to these things once and a while. For example, right now  I`m listening to some tracks from Where`s The Nine`s MySpace  which was linked here on PA. The thing about these sites is the bloody friends section.  How can these people who have these accounts have a dead friend ? Such as Frank Zappa. Frank is dead ( at least the last time I checked ). 

Friends reference myspace pages.  There is an official Frank Zappa myspace page, and by clicking on Frank Zappa in friends, it takes you to the page set up for his music/ about him.

Frank Zappa's page has friends too.  "Frank Zappa has 89739 friends." Dweezil Zappa is listed as a friend of Frank Zappa. Think of it as friends of the music rather than particularly friends of the man.  The friends space can be a very good way to find musically related acts (though I like to search by "sounds like" and "influenced by" in the music search page).

Edited by Logan - December 18 2008 at 12:12

I agree that it is strange. One can be friendly with the music (not hostile to it) and the music can be friendly to you ina sense (does not harm you, but is beneficial) -- rather like ozone-friendly products do not harm the ozone layer, but the ozone and ozone-friendly underarm deodorants are not friends in terms of "knowing each-other").  I feel friendly to Frank, but Frank never had the chance to feel friendly towards me.  The word friend can refer to a helpful thing or quality, and Zappa's music is a friend of mine, but it doesn't consider me a friend even if it is aurally-friendly to me.

I think it rather likely that my drink was spiked (it may have been the Porcupine Tea).

Sorry, I don't have  myspace page, so I will hardly be the most knowledgeable person on it (I use myspace a huge amount, though), but it seems mostly self-explanatory to me.  I described it as "Friends reference myspace pages" (each friend has a link to his/ her/ a band's myspace page, and so it is in large part promotional).

Regarding the music section (and there's more to myspace than that), i'll sart by using Magma's myspace page as an example:

MAGMA's Friend Space (Top 20)

MAGMA has 12729 friends.

KRAMUS   Yoann SERRA   JANNICK TOP   ZAB   Jean-Marc Jafet   SIMON GOUBERT   Elull Noomi   Guapo   FabFive   JEAN LOUIS   Pierre-Michel Sivadier   Magma Bootlegs   Rammstein Haus   le triton   Orlando Allen   Marco Tchamp Photographies   Benoît Alziary   philippe berecq group   Le Gré Des Vents officiel   Zoll

View All of MAGMA's Friends

These are people, artists and bands that have associations with Magma, want to be associated with Magma, and it can be for fans.  By becoming a friend, one is also promoting one's own page since each friend's name, and image, is a hyperlink to the friend's myspace page (I often use those links to discover more, and related music).  Often this is done as a tit-for-tat.  If I become your friend, you'll become mine -- thus greater exposure and more hits.  Notice comments such as "Thanks for the add" -- one must request to become another's friend. 

Becoming and adding someone as a friend is used to support others and promote one's own interests.


Edited by Logan - December 18 2008 at 17:20

mySpace is the devil.

fandango wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: Can someone just answer the question. What are these friends?   I ask myself the same question... they're probably social misfits who have very few friends in real life, and who cling onto your page for dear life... leaving rude messages occasionally... people like Colt2112 in fact.  I never asked him to be my friend; he just appeared from no-where, and I've not been able to shake him off since.....

Edited by progmetalhead - December 19 2008 at 15:37

Logan wrote: I agree that it is strange. One can be friendly with the music (not hostile to it) and the music can be friendly to you ina sense (does not harm you, but is beneficial) -- rather like ozone-friendly products do not harm the ozone layer, but the ozone and ozone-friendly underarm deodorants are not friends in terms of "knowing each-other").  I feel friendly to Frank, but Frank never had the chance to feel friendly towards me.  The word friend can refer to a helpful thing or quality, and Zappa's music is a friend of mine, but it doesn't consider me a friend even if it is aurally-friendly to me.

Lot of desperate people out there.