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Is't MySpace closely tied to music preferences? Maybe a few influential bands heavily invested into MySpace presence and their audience happened to be black?
by ratcliffco 16y ago
Is't MySpace closely tied to music preferences? Maybe a few influential bands heavily invested into MySpace presence and their audience happened to be black?
- Kadin 16y agoI'm not sure that MySpace was ever associated that closely with a small number of bands, but it certainly was/is associated with bands and self-promotion in general. At least in the beginning (this has changed as Facebook has become more mainstream), you didn't hear people in "up and coming" bands flogging their Facebook URL, it was all MySpace. The flipside of that was, if you were just a regular person looking to interact with your friends, and not someone trying to 'build a brand' or tell people what club you were playing at this weekend, Facebook seemed like the place to go. The article talks about spammers, and spam was/is certainly a problem, but MySpace turned itself into a vehicle for self-promotion much earlier and more crassly than Facebook did. I think that shaped the direction of the site and drove users who weren't looking for that away.