im was not sure whether to post this in the actual thread, i decided to post it here since it involves a lot more personal stuff than the actual question was asking for
otherwise im sure shirow can just move it back to the respective thread
(here goes nothing ...)
Hi Creepster,
I wonder if you wouldn't mind giving me some feedback on what the problem with the myspace page was. Was it simply the fact that we use it, the way it looks, the way we use it, or something that i totally missed? We always welcome any kind of feedback or criticism :)
Peace,
daemonikal
www.forgetmeknots.netsince you ask so nicely (;
beware of the jaded grandmother of chats on a caffeine withdrawl:
yes, it is the simple fact of using a myspace profile
first of all i have to admit that this thinking is totally personal and also quite irrational, i cannot support this opinion by any logic arguments
it is connected to my incomprehension about services such as myspace, lj and facebook which all kind of mushroom'ed up and become a huge trend
people of all sorts jump the bandwagon in seeing those communities or services as a way of getting themselves out there
but i do think that you can meet 90% of the idiots there who are as oh-so-individual as you can be in a cookie cutter format
mind you, i can see the point for bands trying to get a broader audience but it all turns in circles anyway
word spreads around in a clique or groups of friends or by searching for the right key words
im not convinced that you will catch a whole lot of unaware people who just stumble across your myspace profile
thus i cannot see the point in it, because people interested in the music genre are already able to find you by searching for/surfing appropriate specialty sites, services (such as DG) or know people/friends with the same music taste
you already have a perfectly fine web page with a lot of subpages and information, why go there?
although i do have to say that your myspace site was one of the fewest i have seen (and i have seen only a few) that are well readable (text on picture background)
last but not least (and i realized this post has become far more voluminous and derailed from the topic) i know im singled out with my point of view in most of the cases and im probably a hypocrite when i scorn myspace, yet use icq and irc (popular as well, not?)
i have become somewhat bitter and mostly impatient, but i am tired of holding back and have been too much in communities with blind back patting where you cannot be of different opinion, besides seeing my fare share of stupid people
realizing that often i go overboard in regard to manners and tone not only because i am disgruntled but still miss subtlety or plain misconceive due to language barriers, i can appologize at times
so, mea culpa ... also to shirow
generally i wont change though as people who are online should be grown up enough to either argue, defend themseves or suck it up, otherwise go in a corner and cry
i know this is not a reason, but i have went through this school myself, i guess my diploma certifies me as an erratic bitch
