Rachel Nabors ([info]crowhen) wrote,
@ 2006-04-14 17:51:00
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I am a MySpace cop out.
I make comics.

Okay, so I signed up for a MySpace account for all the wrong reasons:
Because everybody else has one.

No, seriously, I keep getting fanmails with, "Do you have a MySpace account?" in them. "Erm, no?"

All the MySpace profiles I've seen take forever to load, are hard on my eyes, blast crappy pop music over whatever I'm already playing on my computer, and overall tell me nothing new or interesting about the world. But, I got one because I wanted to see what the fuss is all about.

Soooo, do you have a mySpace account?

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[info]napoleana
2006-04-14 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Ew, no. I've always been put off by Myspace accounts. They seem like pages full of people either lying about themselves or overestimating themselves, whining about things you don't care about, pretending they have more friends than they do, and putting a bunch of video & music links up that take longer to turn off than they do to download. I have yet to be introduced to it in a way that makes me happy about it.

You should see my friend Kage's entry on it:
http://kage-yasha.livejournal.com/1668.html

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[info]crowhen
2006-04-14 04:19 pm UTC (link)
To be honest, I've always considered there to be three Smarmy Water Coolers on the Ineternet:
1. MySpace
2. DeviantArt
3. Livejournal

I already did Deviantart and now I feel justified that, yes, it is the Smarmiest Artiste Community online. It's like a hip, pseudo-intellectual, bohemian New York coffee house online. It has the people who put on airs, their sycophants, the wannabes, and the honestly talented individuals all in one place, trying to see and be seen.

It sucked (for me at least), and after a year, I killed my account.

Next, my Greymatter blog kept getting spammed. I had just stumbled across some interesting folks who use livejournal (Leigh Dragoon, Kelly Gammons and Leah Hernandez, to be exact), so I chose this site instead of, say, blogger. So far, it's not the smarmy pit I thought it would be. It has some handy features that make it easy to keep in touch with some of my new friends, and it also helps me glean info for articles for MangaPunk.com. So, the jury is still out on livejournal.

I thought I would at least try MySpace, as much as I hate it. I mean, DeviantArt was what I thought it would be, but livejournal wasn't. Maybe I also misjudged MySpace? Many comickers have pages and so do my fans, so maybe it could help me make contacts while spreading the comicking love. What really helped me decide to give it a go was Jen Contino's MySpace blog entry in which she mentioned Crow Princess. (She said she loved it! A public declaration of love for Crow Princess!! HOORAH! I'm such a kid.) It made me wish I had a page so I could add her as a friend :)

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[info]napoleana
2006-04-15 11:40 am UTC (link)
I guess you're right. I did consider LiveJournal pretty "smarmy" until I saw how easy and un-smarmy my friend's account was. Plus, SmackJeeves was having full-on siezures at the time.
I *do* know of plenty of people who've had fun with MySpace, but I know a bit more people who don't. So, I continue to sit on this side of the fense.
Now that you've got an account though, I hope you do have a good experience with it.

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(Anonymous)
2006-04-14 06:30 pm UTC (link)
I've got a Myspeace, yes. Personally, I just joined for the same reason you did- because all my friends asked me if I had one. So I lied and said yes, and ran off to make one.

For the most part, it's not so bad. It's not COMPLEATLY filled with hard-on-the-eyes profiles, crappy pop music (on the contray it's more like rock music), and sometimes tells me new things about people. I usuly useit now for collecting band profiles on my friends list (Biggest acmplishment- Getting Weezer on my friends list. geeky, no?) and linking to a few of my friends. I use LJ for Blogging, mainly because of the handy LJ cutfeatureette Reminds me- must fix LJ cut)

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[info]blackroses__
2006-04-14 06:31 pm UTC (link)
Damnit, Was me. I'm stupid, no need to remind me...

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[info]crowhen
2006-04-14 06:41 pm UTC (link)
Oh? Is there a way to port livejournal entries to MySpace blogs? Can you explain it to me? Pretty please?

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well... Ctrl + C Ctrl +V
[info]kahm007
2006-04-14 07:27 pm UTC (link)
Copy and paste is the best way i have found.

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[info]blackroses__
2006-04-14 07:30 pm UTC (link)
I'd just add a link to the myspace blog entry to the LJ entry. Simple, really.

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[info]kahm007
2006-04-14 07:24 pm UTC (link)
yup! woohoo! i post more to my lj then i do to myspace. Myspace is too busy and ... well stupid... but all my friends are located on there. So ... to stay in touch with them I created the account.

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[info]thegyptian
2006-04-15 10:41 am UTC (link)
MySpace is creepy because you can jump from person to person and suddenly there's all the information you've never wanted to know about someone you knew like 3 years ago. >.> I didn't pimp mine, and I don't feel like adding music... so... I guess they're not all bad? The MySpace Music part of it is handy if you're looking for bands, since each band has a few streaming songs and pictures and tour dates up, so you don't have to go by word of mouth about how they sound, or try to guess from clues ("they're like a cross between The Byrds and The Equals!" "...wha?")

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[info]mistresskittie
2006-04-15 11:25 am UTC (link)
sadly i have one. i was on it waaaaaay before it got this big. i hate when things do that. alot of sites i get hooked on early in their years become really big. meh. http://www.myspace.com/9763300

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My space
(Anonymous)
2006-04-15 12:16 pm UTC (link)
Hope you have a fun time on the site but your going to end up getting alot of chain bulletin and quizzes!

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not u too
(Anonymous)
2006-05-24 05:27 pm UTC (link)
MySpace just keeps corupting the masses. I fear for them all. And i your right about deviant art. Although, i dotn think it's as bad as myspace. Probably cause deviant art is a little more underground, so so speak. I think im gonna do a comic about it. If i ever get my lazy butt to Kinkos, ill send it to you. <(^^)>


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Re: not u too
[info]crowhen
2006-05-24 05:42 pm UTC (link)
Sweet. Looking forward to reading the comickiness >^.^

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