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November 19, 2006

Spaced Out

I think it’s time to call it a day for the MySpace revolution.

Every day I get a dozen or so event invitations, asking me to attend events thousands of miles away, from people I barely recall “friending.” I can’t imagine the avalanche of crap delivered to people with thousands of friends. Who is reading this stuff?

I’ve read that people are tiring of MySpace and flocking to new networks like Facebook and Bebo. I caught a little of the new buzz at the Music Tech summit: “you just gotta be on Facebook, that’s where the action is…”

Is this what it comes down to? A taillight chase? Are we expected to just chase people from site to site in some desperate attempt to get our stuff in front of anyone, anywhere?

It’s like all these big social networking sites are a big giant city bus. And everyone with something to sell is throwing themselves in front of the bus, hoping it’ll stop.

I used to think social networking was a great way to find new fans. In a way, it still could be. But who wants to sit for hours on some sort of online snipe hunt?

I’d rather be writing music. Or playing gigs. Or doing something interesting. When my time’s up, no one’s going to give a crap about how many MySpace friends I had.

3 Comments

  1. And Jim Kloss did speak thusly:

    This entry gave me a big smile. Reminds me of a t-shirt I’ve seen and want to get or make myself … “I hated Bush before it was cool!”


  2. And Brad did speak thusly:

    Yes, MySpace is rotten. And all the other ones are equally retarded.

    What I’ve been thinking about (but lack the time to develop) is some sort of platform independent social network. Like a widget you put on your blog or something. And then THAT goes to hell and everyone moves to a different widget, etc.


  3. And Daniel did speak thusly:

    In response to Brad, I suppose it could be argued that xfn was originally intended as just that - a platform independent social network. Then mySpace came along and ruined the party…


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