All MySpace Discussion III - Page 14

Cleasai · 06-23-2007, 03:10 PM

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Originally posted by waynetravis

i make a game out of mine:

Geez do you have Non-Interference friends like at all?

Kiki · 06-23-2007, 03:31 PM

not sure I ever joined in on this. anyway, my site address is

www.myspace.com/dublinluv

for anyone who cares. uh...yeah just send me a small note if you're sending me an ad request so I know you're a friend from here and I don't deny you if I don't recognize you!

kafrun · 06-23-2007, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by waynetravis

i make a game out of mine:

What is this game of which you speak? Are you trying to take me out?

BoMac · 06-29-2007, 12:39 PM

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Facebook is for 'good' kids - MySpace is for freaks
Research reveals class divide. Teenagers tend to favour environments in which they feel comfortable, study finds

MISTY HARRIS, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, June 29, 2007

Choosing a social networking site is beginning to resemble finding the "right" table in the school cafeteria.

According to a University of California ethnographer, adherents of rival sites Facebook and MySpace are lining up on opposite sides of a class divide, with "the goodie-two-shoes, jocks, athletes, or other 'good' kids" going to the former and "punks, emos, Goths, gangstas, queer kids and other kids who (don't) fit into the dominant high-school popularity paradigm" aligning themselves with the latter.

Researcher danah boyd - her name is legally lowercase - writes that Facebook's teen users "tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college," are predominantly white, take honours classes and "live in a world dictated by after-school activities." Young occupants of MySpace are described as "geeks, freaks or queers" who hail from lower-income families and are expected to get jobs after graduating Grade 12.

The reasons for the technological class divide, which boyd examines in the context of high school users, are complex but boil down to a Breakfast Club scenario in which teens gravitate toward that which makes them most comfortable.

"People tend to self-select," says John Craft, a professor of mass communication at Arizona State University. "While everybody wants to move up into a better neighbourhood, you still tend to associate with people who share common traits." He reasons the class division that boyd describes is simply a digitized version of Pygmalion.

"I don't think it's any different now than when Henry Higgins was trying to teach Eliza Doolittle to speak English correctly," says Craft, recalling the George Bernard Shaw play in which an academic and a cockney flower girl are unable to overcome their divergent backgrounds.

According to Comscore, an Internet data collection company, nearly 50 per cent of Facebook users - compared with the overall Web average of around 40 per cent - live in households in which the annual income is higher than $75,000 U.S. MySpace's demographic reportedly falls below both, with just over one-third of the site's users having household incomes topping $75,000.

Although the findings were presented as a "blog essay" rather than an academic article, boyd's reputation as a leading analyst of online behaviour has observers taking her report seriously.

"There was no way to pick apart something like class (in previous years), hence the signature refrain that you could be a dog on the Internet and no one would know," says Gabriella Coleman, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Alberta.

"Now, there's a little bit more possibility to start thinking about these issues and I think that's what (boyd's) got her finger on." Discrimination may be the chief concern for all demographics, she says, pointing to a section in boyd's paper that notes the U.S. military recently barred access to MySpace - an apparent favourite of the soldiers - but not Facebook, which is said to be preferred by officers.

"Once you have a hierarchy between the sites, there's a problem because you're valuing one group over the other." According to boyd, much of the division - at least among teens - can be attributed to aesthetics.

"That clean or modern look of Facebook is akin to West Elm or Pottery Barn or any poshy Scandinavian design house, while the more flashy look of MySpace resembles the Las Vegas imagery that attracts millions every year," she writes, noting the latter design might be dismissed as "gauche" by a Facebook user but lauded as "bling" or "fly" by the "subaltern communities" populating MySpace.

Representatives for the websites could not be reached for comment.

LemonMelon · 06-29-2007, 06:35 PM

I'm about to send friend requests to most of you.

This could take me a while...

Zoots · 06-30-2007, 11:15 AM

Does anybody else get annoyed by myspace pages that automatically play loud music?

I don't mean to be rude to anybody here but I hate to rush to click on the stop button as soon as I go to somebody's profile. The most I'd have is something soft or instrumental or at least something that doesn't automatically start. Just a personal preference. Currently I don't have anything on there but I'm considering putting Pink Floyd's Marooned.

BAW · 06-30-2007, 12:47 PM

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Originally posted by Zootlesque
Does anybody else get annoyed by myspace pages that automatically play loud music? I don't mean to be rude to anybody here but I hate to rush to click on the stop button as soon as I go to somebody's profile. The most I'd have is something soft or instrumental or at least something that doesn't automatically start. Just a personal preference. Currently I don't have anything on there but I'm considering putting Pink Floyd's Marooned.

go to "edit music" in your preferences and you can choose the option that will stop other people's music from automatically starting when you visit their page.

or you could turn your sound down when you're on myspace

Zoots · 06-30-2007, 12:49 PM

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Originally posted by Bono's American Wife
go to "edit music" in your preferences and you can choose the option that will stop other people's music from automatically starting when you visit their page.

or you could turn your sound down when you're on myspace

I see. Thanks!

I can't turn my volume down cos more often than not, I'm playing my itunes when online.

LemonMelon · 06-30-2007, 01:38 PM

I added many of you, but quite a few of you don't accept friend requests from bands.

**Sicy** · 06-30-2007, 01:40 PM

whats yer space?

**Sicy** · 06-30-2007, 01:41 PM

Oh nm.

LemonMelon · 06-30-2007, 01:46 PM

lynnok · 06-30-2007, 01:53 PM

I don't know if anyone would want to but mine is

http://www.myspace.com/colleendds

waynetravis · 06-30-2007, 01:56 PM

added you LemonJuice

LMP · 06-30-2007, 01:57 PM

Here's another music playlist site:

http://projectplaylist.com/

The coolest thing about this is that it searches for already hosted versions of the song that you want AND it can hold up to 75 songs.

06-23-2007, 03:31 PM	#197
Kiki Mrs. Scott Weiland Premium Silver Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: mainly in my fantasy land.....ooooo how I wish it were reality Posts: 2,459 Local Time: 08:54 PM	not sure I ever joined in on this. anyway, my site address is www.myspace.com/dublinluv for anyone who cares. uh...yeah just send me a small note if you're sending me an ad request so I know you're a friend from here and I don't deny you if I don't recognize you! __________________

06-30-2007, 01:40 PM	#205
Sicy Sizzlin' Sicilian Forum Administrator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: runnin' down the road like loose electricity Posts: 61,807 Local Time: 05:54 PM	whats yer space? __________________ sicy[at]interference.com

06-30-2007, 01:41 PM	#206
Sicy Sizzlin' Sicilian Forum Administrator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: runnin' down the road like loose electricity Posts: 61,807 Local Time: 05:54 PM	Oh nm. __________________ sicy[at]interference.com

06-30-2007, 01:57 PM	#210
LMP WHO THE HELL IS CLARA?! Premium Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Posts: 33,513 Local Time: 08:54 PM	Here's another music playlist site: http://projectplaylist.com/ The coolest thing about this is that it searches for already hosted versions of the song that you want AND it can hold up to 75 songs. __________________

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06-29-2007, 06:35 PM	#200
LemonMelon Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Wild Kindness Posts: 32,392 Local Time: 08:54 PM	I'm about to send friend requests to most of you. This could take me a while...

06-30-2007, 11:15 AM	#201
Zoots Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: the great beyond Posts: 36,847 Local Time: 03:54 AM	Does anybody else get annoyed by myspace pages that automatically play loud music? I don't mean to be rude to anybody here but I hate to rush to click on the stop button as soon as I go to somebody's profile. The most I'd have is something soft or instrumental or at least something that doesn't automatically start. Just a personal preference. Currently I don't have anything on there but I'm considering putting Pink Floyd's Marooned.

06-30-2007, 01:38 PM	#204
LemonMelon Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Wild Kindness Posts: 32,392 Local Time: 08:54 PM	I added many of you, but quite a few of you don't accept friend requests from bands.

06-30-2007, 01:46 PM	#207
LemonMelon Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Wild Kindness Posts: 32,392 Local Time: 08:54 PM

06-30-2007, 01:53 PM	#208
lynnok Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: May 2006 Location: knep eller spandere Posts: 3,876 Local Time: 08:54 PM	I don't know if anyone would want to but mine is http://www.myspace.com/colleendds