Myspace getting more hits than google?

thats not nice.
i have a feeling now ur just set on hating on it, and nothing will change ur mind, so ill stop promoting it. it works well for me, i volunteer for amnesty, have 200 friends on my list so when i post bullitens for causes that need support, it gets immidiate awareness. i cant see how thats a bad thing.
garbage? sure...

I think that is part of the problem. The only things even remotely worth looking at are pages that are promoting something, Like bands and causes...
So why would people want to wade through rubbish in the hope that eventually they will find some adverts?

well thats what im saying, if you and all your friends, as well as bands u have added and people you have met have access to the causes youre promoting, then it creates an intimate access to what youre saying. u dont have to go through everyones page, u add u and ur friends that have it, and eventually random people request you and u see what theyre about and add em if you like. its up to you how much u want to be out there, and what ur purpose is on there. yah there are pervs and random hot girls that just want comments or excessive friends, but there is that everywhere. if u choose to use it for good, then it can be a really influential tool that has access to potentially millions of people within a click of a button. i have yet to find that anywhere else.

Unfortunatley, you are a minority from the majority of myspace pages I have seen. If everyone did as you did it might be worth something.

You just have to make the good happen where you can, the majority or minority is irrellevent to what youre striving for, even if one person listens I think its worth it.



haha i love the emoticons

The thing that would run through my mind is "Would i want to be associated with myspace".
And i don't think i would.

The majority or minority is very important if you are dropping your good cause or product in a big pile of majoritively dog crap.

What you do on myspace may be a good cause, But your souroundings, or neighbourhod, is also an important factor when it comes to reputation..

i dont think u should knock it until you have an adequate experiance with what it is. for whatever reason you associate it negatively, yet it seems strange to make these assumptions unless you have made some molecule of an effort to what youre exactly knocking down. atleast do it with enough research. i actually dont really care if any of you guys join myspace, lol, but clearly there is a good reason for it gaining more hits than google and more members than anything else online. in a super short amount of time it has had exponential growth. that speaks for itself. but due to ur negativity i support that you never ever join myspace.
thanks for the feedback though, always interesting to read others oppinions.

We have seen it. Our opinions are based on what we have seen on myspace... And i havn't seen a single thing on there that i would call interesting. We don't need to be submurged in it to see it's bulging at the brim with crap.

It's just profiles. Pages and pages full of profiles that detaiil the lives of boring people who i don't know.

I'm not doubting it's popularity, A lot of people do use it, But that just means people use it, It doesn't mean it's quality.

ok
sigh*
dont hate me now because of my association with myspace.
im really rather hip and happening. *sarcasm*

Wow! I guess I got what I asked for. Definitely an interesting dialog, and there are obviously widely differing opinions as to myspace's relevance and quality. As for me, I doubt I would personally have any interest whatsoever in surfing myspace and looking for items of interest. But that doesn't mean a lot of other people aren't interested, and it would appear that they are. If they have money, and they buy music, then I want them to buy MY music. I'm not too proud.

Sam

Azita_RG, I think the problem you're facing with this arguement is most of us that are doing the arguing would simply create our own domains, and either host our sites on our own servers or choose a good (not free) hosting service such as EV1 and then SEO the crap out of it. It wouldn't occur to us to use something like myspace. I mean think about it. Trying to market your website in a vast "neighborhood" as meman described it would be like trying to send a rocket to Orion and hope you hit it. It might be a great space for kids and novices who haven't the first clue about designing a site, but to web designers and developers it just isn't going to cut it.

The funny thing is, modifying the myspace layout isn't all that simple. My wife wanted me to set one up for her so she can keep in touch with old friends. You have to have a bit of HTML knowledge and modifying it isn't all that intuitive.

Of course there are sites dedicated to myspace layouts and other junk you can add to your page.

My wife was not very happy with my opinions of myspace either but I set it up for her to avoid any further arguments.

I would much rather purchase a domain and add it to my hosting and create a site for her instead.

Nothing like giving people a little space to make themselves who they want to be, or someone else..

And give them the idea that they are newsworthy, deserve attention, and are the center of the universe.

Blogging about yourself is prettymuch the same thing. Oh to just have useful information on the web, imagine how much time would be saved.

To each their own, though I was not aquainted with this expression i thinkl i agree with you.
Having a band myself its undoubtful its a good tool for getting promotion and feedback from your peers, but, it could be better accomplished if the site had a better design and stuff - of course.

but before publishing any work of yours let me suggest you visiting this link:

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/myspacefox-artists-beware


And for the curious matter i wouldn't mind to check on your profile Azita

im a 20 year old girl. i dont know a hell of a lot about purchasing domains or creating a site for myself. Nor do i really want to. Myspace is a free venue, maybe more targetted at a younger audience,that has been good to me. its been great to hear bands, see clothing lines promote themselves, but in a personal way, you talk to the owners, its not one illusive webmaster, its just all in one place and ive met great people, gone to fashion shows, won tickets to see NIN in vegas. and promoted what i want to through bullitens to the friends that ive added or have added me, people that i wouldnt know if it wasnt for myspace have shown up to charitable events. i like my layout, i change it up, or get my tech savvy male friends to fix it for me if i cant wrap my head around the HTML stuff. you play music on ur page, u see when ur fave bands will be playing or when, all in one place.

maybe its just not for what you guys are about... but to me its been great and id still highly recommend it.