Fuck.
I’m not terribly happy with this decision but I was passing up a lot opportunities for networking and traffic generation by being such a snob about Myspace for so long. I had a personal account for freakin’ years until the first of the year when my login credentials suddenly didn’t work and tech support didn’t seem terribly interested in fixing the problem so I swore it off and moved to Facebook thinking that I was somehow a much more sophisticated dude for doing so.
What’s my problem with Myspace, you ask? Don’t mind me while I get crabby on the subject. Myspace is what happened to all of those old Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire websites that allowed anyone to have a website. That’s not a bad thing in itself. I think everyone should have some kind of internet presence but Myspace promotes a real trailer park ethic, if you ask me. Take a look at any given profile and you’ll see no shortage of animated gifs, youtube clips, music, this disorganized hodgepodge of stuff that most users feel really expresses their true self.
I’m not so optimistic about it, obviously, but I think far more of you have Myspace profiles than Facebook profiles and even fewer of you know how to use my RSS feed to keep track on new posts, so this way I can keep you Myspace users in the loop as well.
Please drop by my profile and add me to your friends list. I promise not to be a dick about it.
