MySpace ??????
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Topic: MySpace ??????
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Subject: MySpace ??????
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 11:27
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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 ).
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Posted By: progmetalhead
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 11:50
 Am I right in thinking you are not a fan of networking sites?
A lot of people on MS are represented by fans, family, fellow musicians etc.
As you point out it would be pretty difficult for Frank to represent himself.
Are you saying that deceased artists should not have any exposure on the net, just because they are dead??
What about their websites? Most have member sections and forums these days.
Personally, I think its a great idea. I have discovered numerous bands through this method.
Each to their own I guess.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112" rel="nofollow - http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112 Colt - Admin Team MMA 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 12:10
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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). |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 13:50
But isn't it strange that someone can have Frank Zappa as a friend? Or Zappa's music, as you said. I can be a "friend" of Zappa's music, but how on earth can Zappa's music be a friend of me? What are these "friends" anyway?   
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 14:54
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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. |
Posted By: progmetalhead
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 15:27
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WTF! has someone spiked my drink with LSD? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112" rel="nofollow - http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112 Colt - Admin Team MMA
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 15:50
| I think it rather likely that my drink was spiked (it may have been the Porcupine Tea). |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 16:50
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I wish someone would lace my drinks with LSD 25. Can someone just answer the question. What are these friends? My friends sort of live in houses across town. Some in other towns, cities other countries.I don`t get this. Whenever I go to a MySpace site to listen to such & such`s band and then there`s all these "friends". I was using Zappa as an example just because he happened to be on this particular site. ------------- |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 18 2008 at 17:16
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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)
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. |
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 01:52
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i just have to say i'm confused. i shouldn't go to these things. My wife says stay away from them. Bad news. That's it for me. just email & PA. If I want to hear a band I'll just go to the music store. Thanks guys. ------------- |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:27
 mySpace is the devil.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 14:43
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.....
  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Vibrationbaby wrote:Posted By: progmetalhead
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 15:36
Git!
It was the comment "I'm a proghead from Hereford and I like sheep" intrigued me enough to find out more!
....and at least I could make my own page without help!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112" rel="nofollow - http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112 Colt - Admin Team MMA
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Posted By: DatM
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 19:34
It's just a word dude.  The idea is that you go into these things to meet people, and if you find a person or band you find interesting, you send them a request to be your friend. If they accept, you appear as their "friends" and they as yours, and you have access to certain aspects of each others profile that you otherwise wouldn't. Of course we're using the word "friends" in very general and broad terms.------------- Death and the Maiden - A Metal Tribute To String Quartets http://www.deathandthemaiden.net - Website http://www.myspace.com/deathmaiden - Myspace |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 19 2008 at 22:51
 It's necessary to create a "2008's Top Posts of the year" and this has to be nominated for sure!!!Masterful confussion Logan, a master of deceit you are. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 05:45
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Your space My space Your space My space Your space My space Well get out there's the door Well get out there's the door Well get out there's the door Well get out there's the door It is not your space It is not your space It is not your space It is not your space It is not your space... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 06:28
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Lot of desperate people out there. ------------- |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: December 29 2008 at 22:24
| Is it just me, or did some of Magma's 'friends' seem a bit 'pretentious'. ZAB seemed cool. |