SpamSpace
Written on December 21, 2007
In the past year it feels that MySpace has quickly become everything but my space. I change my password about once every two days, I have used firefox settings to block unwanted code and my time is eaten up by deleting porn friend-requests and “This Profile No Longer Exists” messages. I don’t even want to know who uses our account to post spam comments on other friends boards.
I totally appreciate that MySpace levels the playing field as far as creating a “website” containing your music and info, but it gets frustrating waiting for the 11,000mb image that you usefor your background or figuring out which of the 100 videos you have embedded is autoplaying over your music. over it.
I think the fad of MySpace is slowly fading for the peeps that have been using for a while. Don’t get me wrong, there will always be butt-siced pre-teens waiting anxiously to create a profile and hoard friends but as far as maintaining our Bandbo MySpace I am honestly considering not even allowing folks to contact us through it. It’s way to unreliable, and everyone has email. I am able to blog, check out new bands, get show info and the such on bandbo.com, and it’s not like there is a strong tie between folks visiting our MySpace and then visiting Bandbo.com.
Anyway, the point being we may be directing people to our site more rather than utilizing third party sites. YouTube/Bandbo, MySpace/ Bandbo, Facebook/Bandbo, Digg/bandbo, it’s ridiculous, I’m addicted.
If your in a band reading this, I strongly recommend creating a Bandbo Profile, it already has been effective for music industry professionals seeking new bands. We seek out labels and managers to check out site for bands, so if your not on there, bummer. Your mom just called and she thinks your missing out.
I’m listening to EpicidemiK, and their good.
Feel free to comment below. Ben out.
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MySpace is one of those necessary evils for small bands out there. We hate all the spam, BS, and excess, but it harbors a hungry audience right within our target demographic. We make better connections sending targetted friend requests and messages (i.e. not using bots) to people on MySpace than we do playing gigs. Is it because we suck live? Based on the feedback we’ve gotten on our live show I don’t think so (thanks mom!). Seriously, the few strangers we do meet at our live shows often buy our CD and talk to us.
But this isn’t the 80s or 90s anymore, there are so many activities for people to do besides listen to live music. And there are so many mediocre acts out there, why would most people who aren’t scenesters waste their time going to check out unknown live bands? The answer is they don’t. We have to sell them first on MySpace with personal connections and then they listen to our music and decide for themselves.
The point being as long as there are hundreds of millions of people age 18 - 28 on MySpace, it will continue to be a cost effective way to reach people. We’ve tried flyers, free live shows, free demo CDs, but none of it has gotten as good a response as simply talking to people on MySpace - which costs us nothing but our time.
I totally agree, it is the most efficient way to connect with people. I was more pissed off this morning because the spam has tripled in the past week and I have to sift through tons of crap to get to valid messages/friend requests from bands and artists.
Thanks for commenting though, especially when the blog today has no useful resources in it.