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What a whiner. MySpace was an ugly hybrid of a social network and a music site. I'm glad that it's gone. Just because he hates social networks doesn't make MySp

• initself 17y ago
  Bandcamp look pretty brilliant, especially at a price point of FREE.
  • fauigerzigerk 17y ago
    That price point seems to be exactly the root cause of that guy's complaints.
• izak30 17y ago
  Well, myspace had traction and users.
  • unalone 17y ago
    I get your point, but I disagree with you. Users doesn't matter unless those users are seeing you. If you're a band, using MySpace to attract users doesn't work well; I can imagine a clever band using Facebook much more effectively than they'd ever use MySpace, because Facebook's designed for virality. If I'm a band, I want two things: I want an easy way to distribute music, and I want networking. My point was that MySpace offered a bastardized version of each. Facebook offers networking better than anything else; if I'm looking for follower count and nothing else, Facebook's got everything beat. Its music system isn't terrible, but it's much easier to use Bandcamp to attract users. That means that you've got everything you need, unless you're deluded into thinking that people will randomly stumble upon you online and that Facebook doesn't work well for that; in that case, The Sixty One is the perfect solution. So it takes a little set-up, but you end up with a much stronger solution than you had with MySpace.
    • dan_the_welder 17y ago
      I just checked out The Sixty One and it looks great, but it did not exist when the the Myspace band rush started. Edit-- The Sixty One is amazing. What a beautiful UI, it works likes a charm. I am gonna join and recommend the hell out of it. Edit,Edit-- It let me sign up without stopping the song I was playing or losing track of the songs I had already listened to. Very pro, this is how you do it right.
• Kadin 17y ago
  Yeah, it did come across pretty whiny, but I think it's representative of what a lot of Myspace users think/thought about the service. For some reason -- which I still don't really understand -- a lot of people got lured into believing that Myspace was a replacement for running a legitimate website under your own domain. And it's not. Really, truly not. But a lot of bands thought that, as long as they were on Myspace, they didn't need to do anything else (or in some case could even take their existing sites down). I'm glad that people are finally figuring out that this was a bad idea. There's no problem with maintaining a presence on Myspace, Facebook, etc., if you're a band (in fact I think it's a really good idea), but it shouldn't be your only online presence. It's a lot safer to use those free services as traffic-drivers to your own domain than to depend on them exclusively.
• dan_the_welder 17y ago
  Sure it sucks now, but in 2004 it just blew away Friendster which what my social network was using at the time. Watch Facebook pages eventually add music and other content. Watch some light themeing appear for your personal page. What Facebook is doing right is keeping people separated from things like bands and companies and going real slow on development and keeping control while they expand their userbase.
  • unalone 17y ago
    I'll bet money that they don't let you theme your personal page. It goes against Facebook's central philosophy.
    • dan_the_welder 17y ago
      Give it time. I meant to emphasize light, as in not Myspace style chaos. People would pay for it.