(My)Space: The Final Frontier
(My)Space: The Final Frontier
Mar 15So who here MySpaces?
I know — you are now wondering if a time machine has suddenly transported you to the magical year 2003(ish). But look, I’ve been quite firmly on the anti-MySpace bandwagon for a good bit now. Not that I think the thing is bad, it just riddles an awkward person like myself with all sorts of anxieties. For example:
1. That having a MySpace page will allow people that I have left firmly in the past to find me and try and talk to me and shit. Blah! With the talking!
2. That the whole “top friends” thing will make me throw up a little. First of all, how do I CHOOSE AMONGST MY FRIENDS? I guess I could be cool about it…like my pal Mary, who “doesn’t do top 8” and still has that diabolical genius Tom as #1. But I have a feeling this would fill me with anxiety as well. And what if nobody deigns to deem me a “top friend”? Won’t this send me back to the cold, cold halls of junior high, when nobody wanted to be my locker partner and someone scribbled a monkey face on the Danny Wood portion of my New Kids poster?! (I didn’t care that much because Danny was my least favorite.) What if I am everybody’s NINTH FAVORITE FRIEND?!
3. That my MySpace page will simply sit, unloved, like my long-forgotten Friendster page, and will just give me another thing to not update on the internet.
HOWEVER. I have been advised by others that MySpace can be used for happy things! Such as…
1. Re-connecting with people I actually DO want to talk to! And keeping in better touch with other friends.
2. Putting up a little link to this here blog, in order to direct curious users to our nerd corner of the web!
3. Being able to view all sorts of funny/cute pix of friends and their offspring and shit like that.
Also, perhaps it would be a good tool for me to attempt to LET GO of some of my neuroses (see Part 1, #2), which I am trying to do now that I’m schmirty. OK? MySpace as therapy!
So who here MySpaces and what do you use it for and how has it improved (or detracted from) your glorious life?
I have a MySpace page, and so does Ginna, so we will definitely be your friends.
Awww!
So is it mostly for fun, or do y’all use it for other purposes, like keeping in touch, promoting Alert Nerd, etc?
my main goal for it is to promote, although I’m not sure how well it works. I’m still fairly mystified by the whole thing. but it is neat to have easy access to the latest from a whole bunch of wacky comic book writers. warren ellis writes a ton of weird shit over there.
I still have my welcome message from Tom, so according to that, I’ve been one of the oldest people on myspace for a year and a couple months.
I’m signed on Friendster, etc., but I wasn’t simply looking for a way to organize friends – I can do that myself. I wanted to tap into the music, I wanted bands, actors and particularly comedians that I liked to send me bullitens (so I’d know what they were up to without going to several different sites)
Somewhere along the way, I found out I’m addicted to the music part of it, and have stumbled upon a ton of really, really good bands, and I’m even now using it to help friend promote their bands (and it works! I got my pals on the CBC!)
And as a bonus, I found a couple of old friends!
My one regret is that they have no tool that will allow me to cross post from my various blogs into my myspace blog. I really wish I could post on AN and castewar.com and have it all collect at the myspace blog.
Maybe soon.
Be my friend, Sarah! Matt! Youse know the name to search for.