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I have never really checked out myspace and was wondering if it's a good site or not...Input is requested before I consider joining. Thanks. Jul 18 05 10:08 pm Link i like it but there's no central interestest. some people are looking for work connections, others party connections, and some are just looking to get laid... it is a good way to stay in touch with people however, cos everyone is on it... check mine out: www.myspace.com/munyeka xoxo -denise Jul 18 05 10:13 pm Link "it couldn't hurt" Jul 18 05 10:17 pm Link Personally, I feel Myspace SUCKS! The Myspace administrators ALLOW and PROMOTE illegal activities such as copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and identity theft. If a person brings such violations to the attention of the Myspace administration, and includes details about which myspace "terms of service" and laws are being violated, the Myspace will ban the person that reports the illegal acts, while they PROMOTE the scammers! Most people think that a web hosting service is immune to copyright violations and illegal activities of its users, which is a falicy. The "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" (DCMA) law states that when such problems are brought to the attention of the web hosting service, the service must take action to eliminate the problem. If the the web hosting service decides to allow the illegal activities to continue, the service will also be held liable for the illegal activities. I feel it is just a manner of time before Myspace gets shut down because of the massive fraud and copyright infringement that continues to take place on their website. Jul 19 05 01:27 am Link yeah.. myspace is great if you happen to be between age 14-20 Jul 19 05 01:32 am Link I like it. Jul 19 05 03:44 am Link Posted by David Holloway: I LOVE MYSPACE! Jul 19 05 03:54 am Link Posted by munyeka: Denise, there are "interests" groups on MySpace. You just need to explore it. Since it is much larger then ModelMayhen, it is more hit an miss at times, but there are a lot of people on it now. It just takes some research. Jul 19 05 03:57 am Link Posted by CharliesImages: Exactly my point! Jul 19 05 03:58 am Link Posted by SayCheeZ!: That simply is NOT true! Jul 19 05 04:16 am Link Posted by StevenNoreyko: The ones younger than 16 are doing so by lying about their age. In my profile of "friends" on MySpace, there are mostly 20 and 30 something's. But there is a wide range of ages for MySpace users. Jul 19 05 04:20 am Link Posted by Monsante Bey: Glad somebody here besides me does! Jul 19 05 04:21 am Link NIN is on it. Kylie is on it too. I love it. Jul 19 05 04:33 am Link MySpace is Cool if ya work it Right..Just like any site!! I met My 14 year old Nephew for the first time on myspace.. It has lots of people on it.. I have a photography port on it.. Recieved a paying job off of it ,And met some very nice People.. Thank You Patrick!! www.myspace.com/siskiyou Jul 19 05 04:34 am Link myspace to me is primarily an online community of kids that want online friends, and a networking tool for kids that are promoting for clubs and want to rake in as many "friends" to his party. The good side of myspace is that some people find it a place of ease where you can post your diary, inner feelings, etc... that otherwise he/she may be embarrassed or feel awkward expressing. But if you're not in the mood of expressing your thoughts, posting diaries/blogs, collect "friends" in your online network, there's really not much point in joining it... I'm not on it because my brother in law is actively engaged in that site posting blogs all the time, and, as much "friendly" supports he gets, he also sometimes get unreasonably bashed or picked on by those that hurts others to make themselves happy. Plus, I don't really see the point of networking with completely random people unless they share similar interests with me or are work potentials. That I can find in MM better, and those friends that I actually know in person, i.e. college friends, I'm already networked with through friendster : P Jul 19 05 04:42 am Link Posted by Hugh Jorgen: Hugh, that cool you met your Nephew on it! I have two Nieces on it ... both in their 20's. They are active in many of the same things I'm doing. One is an event planner, and the other is an actress and model. They are both doing well! Jul 19 05 04:57 am Link Posted by Sascha: Because it is a larger site, I have come across more angry people there, as well as out right "haters!" There does seem to be a small town feel to ModelMayhem vs. the big city feel of MySpace. It happens! Jul 19 05 05:00 am Link There are Crummy people everywhere!! Jul 19 05 05:26 am Link BUt you have to look at it this way Myspace is not a photography base site. So people will try to get away with anything and try to get in your pants at the same time. It's a different animal than ModelMayhem.....then again how many times have you been hit on by non-photographers claiming to be photographers Jul 19 05 05:30 am Link From a photographer's perspective, I've gotten a decent amount of work from having a myspace account. Just another marketing avenue for me. Jul 19 05 07:01 am Link All I get from myspace are obnoxious guys trying to cyber-hit on me and garage bands wanting me to listen to their mp3s. I haven't found benefit in being there, but perhaps I just don't have the enrgy to harass people to work with me. Jul 19 05 09:28 am Link Theda on myspace. How cute? Do you play with Dollies too? Jul 19 05 09:31 am Link My space is cool- in that there are lots of subcultures- goth,horror etc. I usually only allow friends of people I know because it can get way out of hand with the cyber guys hitting on me also. I happen to like garage bands-so the music thing is cool. I am Groupichik66 over there- Jul 19 05 09:35 am Link Posted by Jack D Trute: Have you ever looked at my website? Jul 19 05 09:44 am Link Posted by theda: Posted by Jack D Trute: Have you ever looked at my website? I have it on 24 hours a day as my screen saver but I hacked the system so that those scary ones do not show. Jul 19 05 09:48 am Link Posted by Jack D Trute: Posted by theda: Posted by Jack D Trute: Have you ever looked at my website? I have it on 24 hours a day as my screen saver but I hacked the system so that those scary ones do not show. Wise move. Jul 19 05 09:54 am Link I love myspace! I dont use it to advance my modeling career but I did hear about mm from myspace and most of my friends on there, I know in real life as well. I do get the occasional "hey- let's have sex" emails from 17 year olds, but I just delete them and move on. http://www.myspace.com/thefabmissj Jul 19 05 09:56 am Link Beacause everyone for the better part has myspace, I was able to find an incredible amount of people with whom I fell out of touch with. You can use it to meet new people, find old ones, whatever. Because there is really no content moderation, DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, and sometimes that is fn GREAT! So what 90% of my emails are from creeps, the 10% from people I actually miss is worth having one. http://www.myspace.com/nikan Jul 19 05 10:09 am Link u can link up with whomever you choose also can keep logs private or not theres bound to be abuse and i was badly conned by a so called HEALER on there..... but I like it and keep in touch with friends and family that way - rarely adding anyone else although I get to hear some cool bands! www.myspace.com/4Anjel I WOULDNT talk about being a model...I mention my yoga work and send inspirational bulletins to my group its even got IM Jul 19 05 01:49 pm Link I love myspace!! I use it to make friends first. Then network my businesses like D2imports.com(car parts and accessories) and D2Images (photography). I also used it to talk to potential models. If I've seen them on the other modeling websites (MM, OMP, Net models, etc...) I say I have and it gives them a place to look at my work and hopefully make them feel more comfortable about possibly working with me. It also gives me a way to see what new models might be out there. I email them about modeling and they either say yes or no. All of the ones that say no, I still talk to because like I said I'm there to make friends first. I have quite a few friends on my list, not as many as some but more than others. haha The music does get obnoxious and some of the profiles load very slowly, but that's to be expected when they can create their own webpage. My myspace is: http://www.myspace.com/d2imports D2I Jul 19 05 02:14 pm Link Myspaces is a networking tool of various forms, professional, friendly or partying trolls. I have a Myspace that I barely use. For some its great cause you can IM, blog, and post a calendar of events. Like anything its what you make of it.... Now where's Theda's web page  Jul 19 05 02:17 pm Link You have to take it "tongue in cheek" but MySpace can be fun! It is a good thing to have control of your "friends" list on MySpace just as we do here on ModelMayhem. In fact, I'm sorta picky about who I have as a "friend" on MySpace. It's really funny that I get 16 year old boys wanting to be "friends" every time I put a new picture of some HOT female model up as my aviator! Obviously they don't READ my profile to find out that I am male, also the photographer, AND that is NOT a picture of me! Plus my last name is not Jackson! ROFLMAO! It is also cool for the music. I happen to like garage bands myself, and go to photograph the local ones when I can! Some of the bands on there are really good! Also some of the bands are well known ones ... a favorite of mine is Wang Chung! Remember "Everybody Have Fun Tonight!" http://www.myspace.com/wangchungtheband ... Wang Chung! It's the REAL guys, and they are back in the UK right now. I partied with them back in the 80's when they toured California! There are MANY other people I know in the music industry that you would be surprised to know they are on MySpace. But that's a whole story best saved for my http://groups.myspace.com/backstage411 or Backstage411 (a magazine!) If you are interested, I am http://www.myspace.com/bellaimages BELLAIMAGES ON MYSPACE and my other group is http://groups.myspace.com/internetmodelclub or InternetModelClub Please join! Jul 19 05 02:18 pm Link Myspace was just purchased by NEWS Corp. They see it as a way to advertise and promote FOX TV. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495.stm EDIT: I suppose I should be more specific. NEWS Corp bought the company which owns myspace.com, thus also buying myspace. Just read the article. Jul 19 05 02:19 pm Link Posted by Bill Sylvester: That is HUGE NEWS! Jul 19 05 02:28 pm Link Wang Chung is on there? Perhaps I should rethink my views. Jul 19 05 03:40 pm Link Well, I now eat my words. I told this one girl on myspace that she better talk to Tom to see if it was true. But some other rumors where that they were going to have people pay for the site, take it down for another one and whatnot. But I didn't think he would sell it. I feel kind of stupid. haha D2I Jul 19 05 04:48 pm Link like any webcomunity you can't take it to seriously and you can't let it RUN your life... this sort of goes for this site as well i guess. But myspace isn't a bad site. Life doesn't happen on myspace, life doesn't happen on model mayhem... so it's what you do with a site. Jul 19 05 04:59 pm Link it's another great way to meet people you will never have to look in the eye. it's amazing to see how people wish to represent themselves, we can remove all the flaws become less human... we look less like what we see in the mirror and more like what we see on the screen. isn't this site becoming a lot like myspace? and hell just yesterday myspace was bought by fox broadcasting for the kind of money we could all split up and live seperately and comfortably off of for the rest of our lives. Jul 19 05 05:43 pm Link Posted by theda: Yep, and the REAL Snoop dogg is on it too, but he lays low. I know his producer personally since Fred came out of the San Jose area to work with Snoop. Also you have people who are doing PR or rep others on the site. It's hard to know who is for real and who is fake though ... Jul 19 05 06:52 pm Link Posted by Ian Powell: That is so true! There are many websites on the 'net ... why get hooked up with only one? Besides, websites come and go! E-Bay is like ancient being that it is 10 years old! Jul 19 05 06:56 pm Link |
