MySpace is cool.
I know there is all this hubbub about the dangers of MySpace for innocent teenage girls, blah blah blah. I get that and can see why it freaks people out. However, I just signed up this week and it had been pretty neat so far for a different reason:
I'm using MySpace to find and catch up with old friends, not to make new friends.
I had lost track of a very good friend from my first band Recluse Chant from back in the early 90s. We got together about 3 years ago with the kids and all, but we don't live close and we just lost touch. Between lost cellphones, abandoned email accounts (thanks spammers) and corrupted Outlook databases (no more Outlook for me) I didn't have a current email, phone number or address for him. Just a few months ago I looked through every file and phone I have trying to find his number, but with no luck. I couldn't think of anything else to do so I just put it on hold for a while longer (it had already been a few years).
Now I had never used MySpace before because:
a) I am over 30
b) I'm not really looking for any more friends (I can't keep track of the ones I already have!)
c) I'm very happily married so I'm not trying to find love.
So I didn't think MySpace had anything to offer me. The guitar player from our currently innactive bands Urthmen and Urthgirl had made MySpace pages for the bands, but I let him manage all that PR stuff, so it never really paid much attention. My brother-in-law Andy Zipf pretty much runs his music career from MySpace and has been talking about it for the last year, so I hear about it all the time but just didn't think about using it. Then last week, sort of by accident, I realized that I had heard my old Metal band had a MySpace page. It all finally clicked that I could get in touch through MySpace!
So I signed up, found my buddy, and we chatted on the phone and got together for breakfast last week. It was great! I also got contacted by a friend from my old church who I hadn't seen in probably 6 years, which was really neat. Then by a weird coincidence, I saw her mom at my current church. Very weird, but cool!
So what I'm saying here is,
MySpace is cool.
I'm using MySpace to find and catch up with old friends, not to make new friends.
I had lost track of a very good friend from my first band Recluse Chant from back in the early 90s. We got together about 3 years ago with the kids and all, but we don't live close and we just lost touch. Between lost cellphones, abandoned email accounts (thanks spammers) and corrupted Outlook databases (no more Outlook for me) I didn't have a current email, phone number or address for him. Just a few months ago I looked through every file and phone I have trying to find his number, but with no luck. I couldn't think of anything else to do so I just put it on hold for a while longer (it had already been a few years).
Now I had never used MySpace before because:
a) I am over 30
b) I'm not really looking for any more friends (I can't keep track of the ones I already have!)
c) I'm very happily married so I'm not trying to find love.
So I didn't think MySpace had anything to offer me. The guitar player from our currently innactive bands Urthmen and Urthgirl had made MySpace pages for the bands, but I let him manage all that PR stuff, so it never really paid much attention. My brother-in-law Andy Zipf pretty much runs his music career from MySpace and has been talking about it for the last year, so I hear about it all the time but just didn't think about using it. Then last week, sort of by accident, I realized that I had heard my old Metal band had a MySpace page. It all finally clicked that I could get in touch through MySpace!
So I signed up, found my buddy, and we chatted on the phone and got together for breakfast last week. It was great! I also got contacted by a friend from my old church who I hadn't seen in probably 6 years, which was really neat. Then by a weird coincidence, I saw her mom at my current church. Very weird, but cool!
So what I'm saying here is,
MySpace is cool.
posted by ry4n at 3:56 PM
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