Biff Escribi�:

I don't know if everyone knew about this but I presume that they aren't picking up on 15 year olds:



http://www.myspace.c...hemicalbrothers

that is run by astralwerks nothing to do with the chems themselves

On NYE i asked Ed about myspace and said it would be cool for them to have one.

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

On NYE i asked Ed about myspace and said it would be cool for them to have one.

haha you geek!



put these glasses on!

whirlygirl Escribi�:

It will be interesting to watch the messages transpire... Nice page, but still not enough to make me want to log into my stale old myspace account and leave a message! I'm much more keen on helping keep this forum going. Maybe I'm just being me, but I like messageboards... Plus, we have miloco2forum and ban the champagne spiller here!

Amen to that, whirly! Maybe I'm just not into embracing new technology anymore, but I reckon the myspace thing is a fad that will fade. Forums are much better as you get tons of people together in one place, rather than a small groups of friends chatting. I mean, we have IM for that, or failing that, the pub!!

I hear ya, chemicalfan. I don't think having an aversion to myspace means you aren't embracing new technology at all! myspace is hot right now, and I can see its appeal - it's just not for everyone and I'd hate to see myspace take over actual websites like this one. I don't need to have a collection of "friends" I have little in common with and I don't have much of a desire to re-connect with old friends I never bothered keeping in touch with in the first place - so myspace is not something for me. I am also resistant to change so maybe that has something to do with it. And the fact that Rupert Murdoch owns myspace.



stash and I were watching this talk show, I forget which one it was, and there was so 'chick' on there - a singer, who had amassed the largest amount of friends on myspace. She seemed bubbly and likeable enough in a surfacey sort of way, but she prided herself on being the most popular person on myspace. She likened it to queen bee of the cliques in school, like being the most popular person in high school. To me that was a major turn off right there - ooo, I'm popular on the internet, whoopdeedoo! It just seemed kind of funny to me that a full grown woman a few years out of the high school clique would still be so interested in popularity contests.



I like this place just fine, I like my little corner of the universe and the intimacy of our little world. But to be honest my fear is with sites like myspace, actual websites like this one may become a thing of the past. I can see a lot of places like this going away completely because of the upkeep as well as record companies wishing to consolidate their artists in one area like with myspace. But on the upside, myspace does allow for more exposure. myspace is where it's at right now so that means more exposure...

This is a great read :D by the guy who wrote "Rise of the Idiots" featured in Nathan Barley.



Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace



Charlie Brooker

Friday June 30, 2006

The Guardian



It had to happen, and it has. Age has crept up on me. I'm becoming resistant to technological change.



It used to be so different. I've always been a geek, and proud of it. In my 20s, I lived in a chaotic mangle of keyboards and wires. I was the person people would phone up when they had a problem with their computer. I wrote for videogames magazines, making up jokes about polygon counts and cel-shading.



Then the internet roared up. I ran a website called TV Go Home, which was essentially a fortnightly pisstake of the Radio Times with lots of unnecessary swearing in it - just the sort of thing that's been a staple of comedy spin-off books since year dot, except because it was on the internet it was somehow seen as the shiny sharpened bleeding edge of new. My career prospects suddenly changed. Traditional media came calling - TV, newpapers. They wanted me. As far as "they" were concerned I was someone who "got" the "modern" world and all that went with it. For about nine seconds, I felt vaguely cool.



Fast forward to now. I'm looking at MySpace and I'm a fumbling old colonel struggling to comprehend his nephew's digital watch.



Because I don't "get" it. I mean, I know what MySpace is and what it's supposed to do and how influential it is. It's just that whenever I've visited a MySpace page I've thought "is that it?" and wandered around the perimeter looking confused, like a blind man patting the walls for an exit he can't find.



So users create a page and upload their music and photos and videoclips; they post blog entries and links to other stuff and leave witty little messages for one another. And it all meshes together to form a thriving social network. Okey dokey. On the surface it all makes sense.



Yet it's not for me. I mean, I could go and create a page myself, but somehow I'd rather scrape my retina off with a car key. At 35, I'm too ancient for MySpace - I'd look like a school-gate paedo - but that's not really the issue. No. It's simply bloody-minded "olditude" on my part - the same sort of fusty grumbliness that made greying musos boycott CDs in favour of vinyl in the 80s because they JUST DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW about this new-fangled whatchamathing.



Last week, in the US, I saw an advert for a handheld gizmo using the slogan "It's not a cellphone: it's MySpace on the go." It's a terrifying first - a new gadget I know I'll never want to buy. I've never felt so lost.



Or perhaps it's MySpace's "social" element that disturbs me. I'm a misanthrope. Everyone on MySpace seems young and happy and excited and flip and approachable, and this upsets me. Still, at least the teenage MySpacers are getting on with the business of being young and alive, unlike the fustier elements of the "blogosphere", who just waste the world's time banging on and on about how important the "blogosphere" is and how it spells the end of every old notion ever, when the truth is that, as with absolutely every form of media ever, 99% of the "blogosphere" is rubbish created by idiots.



Especially the word "blogosphere". A word I refuse to write without sneery ironic quote marks either side of it. Because I hate it and it's crap and I JUST DON'T WANT TO KNOW.



http://www.guardian....tisfree/story/0,,1809647,00.html

Myspace is BOOORING and a complete mess, i dont know why is so pupular :?

^^ X-D Nice find, iggy! In a nutshell, except I was never that old-skool and hip in the early 90's with the world wide web!



Maybe I should start an Oldspace. X-D

Yeah I identified with it. He's a great writer. I suggest you or 'stash download "Nathan Barley ep1". It's a strange English comedy. The writer above writes a great piece in there called "Rise of the Idiots". Plus it's a bloody funny show :D

spot on that.