Well, I succumbed as well, I guess. I love my Myspace, it feels like some kind of home on the internet - a punky mishmash of words, music and images thrown together on a slapdash page so basic that a lot of people gloss over what it's about. Facebook, hey, it's handy, but so sterile... well, aside from all the stalking.
Hey, don't pull a face! Yeah, stalking. Let's face it, aside from creating events, it's all about teh stalk - old friends, colleagues, keeping in touch with that cute friend of a friend, seeing how cute their friends are. It's not about music, nor even the rather pathetic add-on applications you get spammed on by well-meaning but slightly misguided friends (I've got a few myself, but mainly in the spirit of community). It's about checking up on people, and for some reason it fosters a really unguarded manner about it.
Myspace is far more raw. I keep in touch with not just good friends I gig with here, but it stamps a bit of myself on the internet without the hassle of owning a webpage (which I do, for professional reasons) and allows you to not only network (to a clunkier extent than its rival) but also sample more CULTURE. And through that it becomes far more personal than Facebook, for all it's white, crystal-clear brilliance... because it has personality.
I used to be one of those internet snobs that stared down at Myspace all those years back. So self-conciously trendy. Heh, and yeah, maybe I still think it is. But it fosters the feeling of being a part of something other than a trend. I'm still wary of the bands that make it big through this, not so keen on the 'Monkeys but then again, would quite happily put a smile on Lilly Allen's face - and no, that's not an Urban Dictionary euphanism! I don't know, maybe it's my inert mistrust of popular culture, but fuck it - Myspace at least lets me discover new stuff without trying particularly hard. Can Facebook offer that? Nay.
Then there's the blogging. Man, all sorts of incoherent nonsense. This included. Faves being the two "urban" (blech, horrid label alongside "nu rave") artists MIA and Ty, both very passionate and well worth following up on. Heh, I'd love to be as inspired as them. Maybe I've just not found "it" - writing movie reviews is fun, but it'd be nice to feel like I give a shit about something outside of fantasy!
Then again maybe that's the curse of a hyper/over active creative mind.
...
Yeah, I've been watching Barton Fink.
GOODNIGHT!
Hey, don't pull a face! Yeah, stalking. Let's face it, aside from creating events, it's all about teh stalk - old friends, colleagues, keeping in touch with that cute friend of a friend, seeing how cute their friends are. It's not about music, nor even the rather pathetic add-on applications you get spammed on by well-meaning but slightly misguided friends (I've got a few myself, but mainly in the spirit of community). It's about checking up on people, and for some reason it fosters a really unguarded manner about it.
Myspace is far more raw. I keep in touch with not just good friends I gig with here, but it stamps a bit of myself on the internet without the hassle of owning a webpage (which I do, for professional reasons) and allows you to not only network (to a clunkier extent than its rival) but also sample more CULTURE. And through that it becomes far more personal than Facebook, for all it's white, crystal-clear brilliance... because it has personality.
I used to be one of those internet snobs that stared down at Myspace all those years back. So self-conciously trendy. Heh, and yeah, maybe I still think it is. But it fosters the feeling of being a part of something other than a trend. I'm still wary of the bands that make it big through this, not so keen on the 'Monkeys but then again, would quite happily put a smile on Lilly Allen's face - and no, that's not an Urban Dictionary euphanism! I don't know, maybe it's my inert mistrust of popular culture, but fuck it - Myspace at least lets me discover new stuff without trying particularly hard. Can Facebook offer that? Nay.
Then there's the blogging. Man, all sorts of incoherent nonsense. This included. Faves being the two "urban" (blech, horrid label alongside "nu rave") artists MIA and Ty, both very passionate and well worth following up on. Heh, I'd love to be as inspired as them. Maybe I've just not found "it" - writing movie reviews is fun, but it'd be nice to feel like I give a shit about something outside of fantasy!
Then again maybe that's the curse of a hyper/over active creative mind.
...
Yeah, I've been watching Barton Fink.
GOODNIGHT!