Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

Come on, people! Friend me! How else can I judge my worth?

In return I promise not to send you endless messages about my great real estate opportunities, my seminars on how to feel really good about yourself, or offers of pictures of me that "MySpace won't let me post." I won't post animated graphics in your comments. I don't have MySpace's IM service installed, so you're safe from me there, too. Any bulletins I send will be rare and relevant. My own page will neither blink excessively, play any music at all, or contain color combinations that cause cancer in rats.

Which rather begs the question, what do I use MySpace for, anyway. But the answer is clear.

To collect friends. So get going.

Updated: I hit the 1,000 mark. And you can really tell the difference, I actually feel more loved. I'm all shivery now.

I am a total MySpace Friend whore. I accept this.

Getting Friends is simple on the insanely popular networking site MySpace.com. You find someone you want to be connected to and you click on their “Add Me” link, then you wait to see if your request has been deemed worthy. Suddenly their little avatar picture is in your Friends list, your picture is on theirs, you’re receiving each others’ bulletins, you’re connected! And another tiny community is formed.

Friending folks on MySpace — and yes, “friend” has become a verb, like "game," "blog," "google," and "shindig" — is how you keep in touch with them. You can see their current doings, hear the music they like, view their embarrassing pictures, admire (or cringe at) their choice of background designs, and compare your interests to see how cool yours are. Or, more likely, aren’t. And your Friend list displays the people that are now networked with you.

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I'm sitting here in the dark, light from my monitor flickering across my face. Were I a drinking man, I would surely be hammered and morose; instead I'm starting to get queasy from all the Diet Pepsis. I've started to type dozens of times in the last two hours, each time getting several sentences in before angrily deleting it all in frustration.

I have a great idea. Original, startling, innovative. Guaranteed to get attention and maybe bring in some bucks. And I don't know where to talk about it.

I started to put it here where it would have the biggest audience, but froze when I realized that my MySpace page would have a broader reach. Then I backpaged and went to post it on my own Web site since anything major in my life should go there, even though I usually forget since the most major thing in my life is usually posting on a blog.

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So I signed up for MySpace mainly to be able to read Nathan and Jewel's blogs, and now I'm at least temporarily hooked on it. I'll be posting SerenityStuff there occasionally, so if you're accustomed to getting all your news that way feel free to check it out. I won't post any merchandise news there that doesn't also appear here, so don't worry you'll be missing anything if you prefer to avoid it like Niska in a romantic mood. Be warned – it's a personal page, so expect (gasp!) non-versy items to appear occasionally.

Yes, I have a non-Firefly life. I think. I had it here just a second ago…

(Link fixed to go to my profile page, and not to the annoying signup page)