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Title: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: trip6 on October 17, 2007, 07:46:46 PM
Any of you guys on MySpace? Post your myspace pages here...

Mine is:

http://www.myspace.com/zarbo_bny
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: pVC on October 17, 2007, 08:16:25 PM
No.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Oli_hd on October 17, 2007, 08:22:00 PM
I do, but I dont use it.
I only have it cause I wanted to watch the vids and listen to the music.. but anyway its:

http://www.myspace.com/oli_hd (http://www.myspace.com/oli_hd)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Zero on October 17, 2007, 08:28:49 PM
I have a page there, or I should say my band...

http://www.myspace.com/crimsonskybristol

 :-D
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: pp1977 on October 17, 2007, 08:35:25 PM
I'm on hatebook.org.

 :-D
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: spookyx on October 17, 2007, 08:50:12 PM
yeah,

I don't know why though

http://www.myspace.com/mgdx1959
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: TjLaZer on October 17, 2007, 09:09:20 PM
http://www.myspace.com/tjlazer
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Starrunner on October 17, 2007, 09:15:50 PM
www.myspace.com/doctour
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Gaiyan on October 17, 2007, 09:17:51 PM
Myspace sucks. It looks cluttered... like websites from 1993. I use Facebook...
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: zylesea on October 17, 2007, 09:21:32 PM
No.
Don't like those "social networks". I rate them as ways too overhyped
and I like to keep my contacts private.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Karlos on October 17, 2007, 09:22:52 PM
Myspace is the absolute, uncontended, pits.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Piru on October 17, 2007, 09:24:22 PM
No
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Hodgkinson on October 17, 2007, 10:29:01 PM
Yes, myspace.com/em_radiation   (See the avatar), but I agree about it being overly cluttered. A large number of my friends' pages take an eternity to load, and due to the free customisation packages available, most pages seem to misrepresent the talents of individuals. And myspace never works correctly - I once tried to upload a short (Not one of these hour long things) video, instead the site just sat on "Processing" for a fortnight or so.

These days I just use it for messages. I used to use the IM, but since it became something you had to download and run on your PC, my IM’ing stopped abruptly.

Hodgkinson.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: ptek on October 17, 2007, 10:58:37 PM
No.

I don't see any special interest in My Space or other social community.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: corsavert on October 17, 2007, 11:27:30 PM
What? Where?

No.

Why?
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: benJamin on October 17, 2007, 11:53:24 PM
But, Amiga.org has a social community...  :crazy:

I only use mine for advertising other things, like the band (a search for the band name got no hits until I linked to it from another page).


jaminJay
"Collecting friends since... wait a minute... you call that a 'friend list'?  Lame."
"Tom is my only friend that doesn't exist." :-D
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: AMIBY on October 18, 2007, 12:06:14 AM
TjLaZer: Cool MySpace page you got.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: amigakid on October 18, 2007, 02:13:50 AM
http://www.myspace.com/fun_cow_boy
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: odin on October 18, 2007, 02:24:45 AM
(http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/07oct/xuf010817.gif)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: pan1k on October 18, 2007, 02:37:31 AM
http://www.myspace.com/88409
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Anonymous MOS on October 18, 2007, 03:31:18 AM
Just msg me and tell me who you are and that you're from Amiga.Org and I'll add you.:-)

http://www.myspace.com/ranthalion75
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: RW222 on October 18, 2007, 04:22:16 AM
Quote

Gaiyan wrote:
Myspace sucks. It looks cluttered... like websites from 1993.


Yeah, like when Geocities first went up and everyone had a string of dancing hamsters and a background that made your eyes bleed ...
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Damion on October 18, 2007, 04:24:08 AM
May I introduce...

teh white mocha (http://www.myspace.com/d_roas)

(Yes, it's pretty much a joke.)

Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Cammy on October 18, 2007, 05:58:33 AM
First of all, I agree with every negative comment made about MySpace. It's the worst piece of crap on the net, and nearly every page I go to either takes an hour to load or crashes the PC. It really does remind me of Geocities pages covered in animated gifs. But much worse.

However... I still use it.

I hope it's okay, but I added everyone from this thread to our new MySpace account for Underground Arcade. It's an Amiga games team that we're starting, and the page really doesn't have much on it yet, but we'll add content once we have the time, I just want to get my Halloween game demo finished first.

So, if anyone hasn't added us yet, here's the URL for Underground Arcade - http://www.myspace.com/undergroundarcade/

and my own personal page - http://www.myspace.com/moya_cammy
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: clemenza on October 18, 2007, 07:21:11 AM
http://www.myspace.com/dony_f95 (http://www.myspace.com/dony_f95)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: CodePoet on October 18, 2007, 08:09:58 AM
Myspace is for non-men.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: InTheSand on October 18, 2007, 09:25:50 AM
Quote

Cammy wrote:
It really does remind me of Geocities pages covered in animated gifs.


Aaah... Geoshiitties! Those were the days, a page of animated junk struggling to load in Netscape and some craptastic background MIDI played on the SB16's OPL3 synthesiser!!! Brings a tear to my eye!!!

And no, I'm not a member of any social networking site...

 - Ali
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Jope on October 18, 2007, 10:35:49 AM
lol, myspace.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Toxitalk on October 18, 2007, 10:51:50 AM
Im thinking of it again, since I heard there are offical developer tools afoot.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Dandy on October 18, 2007, 12:08:31 PM
Quote

trip6 wrote:
Any of you guys on MySpace? Post your myspace pages here...

Mine is:

http://www.myspace.com/zarbo_bny


And mine is:

http://www.myspace.com/dandy_piecemaker
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: steve30 on November 07, 2007, 09:17:24 PM
Social Networking sites ought to be banned.

I did have a profile on MySpace, but it was never used for things other than messages which could have quite easily been sent by email, or for stupid people calling me a {bleep}.

Most of my 'friends' there were people from school who I didn't like (and who didn't like me) so I just deleted it. I couldn't really see much point keeping in contact with them now I have left school.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: adz on November 07, 2007, 09:27:11 PM
Nope, I'm not all that much into self-glorification.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: koaftder on November 07, 2007, 09:35:58 PM
Myspace is well suited for teenage girls.... I'm male and hitting 30 so it's irrelevant to me. It seems every time I follow a link to that garbage heap I hit some kids profile thats blaring with some kind of music and a thousand animated gifs and a mile long drag of boring pictures and crappy comments from and about stuff I don't care about.

Myspace is a visual assault and and auditory disturbance. I do have a profile because one good friend of mine insisted on that being the only way to keep in touch. 6 months later he found a woman and now we talk on the phone like we always have before he decided to utilize myspace.


Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: rednova on November 07, 2007, 09:36:26 PM
here is mine

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=147025997

rednova
-mobilis in mobile-
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: motorollin on November 07, 2007, 10:36:15 PM
Myspace, like Facebook, is populated mainly by fawning adolescent girls who feel the need to endear themselves to strangers by showing perfunctory interest in them while bestowing every mind-numbing detail of their own lives upon not only their fellow inhabitants, but also innocent Googlers who then have to trawl through their bilge. Such shining examples of intellect usually describe themselves (with no apparent regard for the actual meaning of the words) as "random", "mad" and/or "bubbly", when in fact "disorganised", "irritating" and "obnoxious" would respectively suit them better.

--
moto
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Ancalimon on November 07, 2007, 10:37:46 PM
http://www.myspace.com/orhunmusic

I have my favorite song Transcending Soul which I recorded with my (now sold) Delfina Lite, and mixed with my A4000T (not working now)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: dovegrace on November 08, 2007, 01:09:38 AM
Mine is:

http://www.myspace.com/theoriginalconceitedjerk

Originally slated to be a dumping ground for the podcast I never got around to doing.  Now I simply use it for complaining about panhandlers, etc.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: LoadWB on November 08, 2007, 01:14:52 AM
Quote
motorollin wrote:

Such shining examples of intellect usually describe themselves (with no apparent regard for the actual meaning of the words) as "random", "mad" and/or "bubbly", when in fact "disorganised", "irritating" and "obnoxious" would respectively suit them better.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  :roflmao:

TOO TRUE!  Mind you, that extends well beyond adolescence, my friend.  If you're in your thirties and dating, it's not much different.

I'm too lazy to scan through to see if I already answered this... I have a MySpace page that I put together so I could keep up with my family and cousins (a lot of whom are under 18, so you have to have a profile,) but then found that several colleagues and former high school classmates also have pages.  It's a pretty good idea, if you either limit yourself to people you know or have the patience to wade through the drivel.

LoadWB's MySpace Page (http://myspace.com/loadwb)

There's some Amiga-related stuff there, but I took most of my things down as I was preparing to delete the page (long story, not worth telling.)  I'm in the process of putting it back up.  But I do have a number of my rants there...  everyone's entitled to my opinion ;-)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: spihunter on November 08, 2007, 01:33:36 AM
I'm not a huge myspacer myself but, for bands its nice to have a page you can setup and have steaming songs with little to no effort until you can get a real website up.

Which I'm still in the process of... (see sig for link)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: koaftder on November 08, 2007, 01:38:47 AM
Someone on a.org has this myspace Scientific Superstar (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=30175220)

Too bad it doesn't have gears scientific on it though, i love that song.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: huronking on November 08, 2007, 01:46:15 AM
As a musician Myspace works pretty well for me. Its a
pretty easy forum for people that I played with or met
in my travels over the years to find me. People I hadnt heard from in 15 years have reconnected and that seems good for the soul.

Its also pretty well accepted within the music industry
for networking.  Wanna write with someone? Need a drummer?
Well, if you dont have one in your friends, someone you
know does.

If you have no use for something like that, OK. But I
really dont know much about fawning adolescent girls. Never
actually dealt with any on myspace.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: mingle on November 08, 2007, 02:38:57 AM
Bah, should be called WASTEOF(My)Space...

So messy-looking and pretty pointless, I reckon...

Most of what it does can be achieved with an IM and email...

I guess it's just an advertising site which appeals to people who think it's "kewl"... LAME!
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: LoadWB on November 08, 2007, 04:40:46 AM
Quote

mingle wrote:
Bah, should be called WASTEOF(My)Space...

So messy-looking and pretty pointless, I reckon...

Most of what it does can be achieved with an IM and email...

I guess it's just an advertising site which appeals to people who think it's "kewl"... LAME!


Unless family and friends have IM and email addresses which change like underwear, but they all have a web browser.

Really, the idea is quite keen: a single place for pictures, videos, 'blogs (I really hate that term,) in a more passive format than email.  My cousins and other family members can browse my page at any time of the day and see what's going on.  It really does beat sending emails out to a butt-load of people, some of whose email addresses are no good, or the box is full, etc.  This way the effort is on their part: all I have to do is make a quick post, and blammo, done.

As for the advertisements, I never see them.  Between AdBlock, FlashBlock, and NoScript, I don't see crap I don't want to see.  Makes my MySpace experience, and web experience as a whole, much better.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: motorollin on November 08, 2007, 07:28:27 AM
Quote
LoadWB wrote:
'blogs

Eugh, don't get me started on 'blogs. It's bad enough that people feel the need to bombard the Internet with this self indulgent bollox, but does Google really need to return every singly bloody one of them when I'm trying to find something?

--
moto
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: HopperJF on December 18, 2007, 04:39:23 PM
Yes, but only really use it to plug my music

My personal profile: myspace.com/mikemikemike200720072007

My music profile (K-MEX): myspace.com/kmexmusic


There is a band on there at the moment called "My Amiga"

 :-)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: theformula on December 18, 2007, 04:45:47 PM
http://groups.myspace.com/amiga

Please join the amiga myspace group :D
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 18, 2007, 04:49:56 PM
my brother's band:

http://www.myspace.com/doublespeaktheband
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: hamtronix on December 18, 2007, 04:56:54 PM
http://www.myspace.com/clawpawfist
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: meega on December 18, 2007, 05:02:01 PM
Quote

koaftder wrote:
Myspace is well suited for teenage girls.... I'm male and hitting 30

 :-o Lucky bar-steward. I'd be happy enough hitting one! :lol:
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: odin on December 18, 2007, 05:02:06 PM
Quote
koaftder wrote:
Someone on a.org has this myspace Scientific Superstar (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=30175220)

Urgh, a shining example why some people shouldn't be allowed to touch design tools.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: spihunter on December 18, 2007, 05:45:12 PM
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Urgh, a shining example why some people shouldn't be allowed to touch design tools.



Well thats just it. I'm a musician not a designer or web designer. what do you expect?

If I had to make a web page from scratch it would look alot worse then that!

Wanna help me out? :idea:
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Methuselas on December 18, 2007, 06:13:59 PM
@ Pan1k,


Atari???? TRAITOR!!!!!  :lol:


Gimme some of that home brew!  :-D


Okay.....here's mine. I only have this for family and friends, who complain that I disappear for months at a time.  :roll:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=281459549 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=281459549)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Hodgkinson on December 18, 2007, 06:26:41 PM
Yeah, some peoples pages...click on link...wait 20 seconds...wait another 20 seconds...stare at progress bar chugging away...another 20 seconds goes past...and finally the page appears, bit by bit, whilst some music starts stuttering in the background and my PC tries to cope with the shear amount of useless data on there.

...I think this might be why sites like facebook have suddenly become so popular.

TBH, I did use it once or twice for IM, but since they made it so that you have to download a program...NO THANKYOU! (What was wrong with the old IM???)

That reminds me. What to people make of the new layout when you log in? Personally, I recon it just serves to complicate, confuse, and slow everything down even more.

Enough ranting...Hodgkinson.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: EDanaII on December 18, 2007, 08:29:49 PM
Funny story...

I joined myspace a more than a year ago when I opened up one of my private email accounts -- one I use for transacting business on the web -- and found it flooded with hundreds of MySpace messages, including a large amount of "friends" invitations. It turns out that a 16 year old "persian" girl living in California was using my email account as her logon.

Initially, I wasn't sure what it was I was dealing with, I was suspicious that it was some kind of phishing expedition, but eventually figured out what was going on. The only way I could communicate with the girl and ask for my email back was to sign up for myspace, myself. So sign up I did. Unfortunately for me, she didn't want to give up my email address for her logon. MY ADDRESS! Can you believe it? It seems she had "invested too much time setting her page up" and didn't want to bother changing her logon.

Unfortunately for her, since it was my email address she was using, I had access to her password and just about everything else regarding her account. So, I simply hit the "lost password" button and got her password. Now, I could have been a real meanie and changed her password and completely locked her out of her account, but I decided to be nice  and, instead, wrote her an email telling her what her password was. Amusingly, she denied that it was hers but then quickly changed it. Naturally, I got an email notifying me that her password had been changed and, once again, informed her what it was.

She finally got the message and tried to change her logon, not once, but several times. Somehow, I just don't think she was getting the problem here. It was my email address, so, everytime she requested a change, I got the an email requesting that she confirm the change before it became official. I finally made it official for her, ending a very long and head-butting experience and freeing my email from myspace tyranny.

I kept my MySpace account, just for the hell of it, and currently use it to keep in touch with younger members of my family. Why not? :)

Just for giggles: EddyDBravo (http://www.myspace.com/eddydbravo)

Ed.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: jrkenn on December 18, 2007, 11:00:37 PM
www.myspace.com/comstarcomputers
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: SamOS39 on December 18, 2007, 11:35:19 PM
http://myspace.com/thisis_sam :-)

I also have a music page

http://myspace.com/bluereverberance
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 12:01:45 AM
hey, all you clever myspace people: what is the secret to putting a you tuve video in one's myspace?

I have the code for the you tube. I just want an idea where the heck to put it.

my space is so disorganized it makes me mental.   :crazy:
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: EDanaII on December 20, 2007, 02:03:36 AM
MySpace has a profile editor that allows you to edit the code of your profile. You can take the "embed" code from YouTube and place it in your profile just as you would were you making an HTML page.

Ed.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 03:42:40 AM
Quote

EDanaII wrote:
MySpace has a profile editor that allows you to edit the code of your profile. You can take the "embed" code from YouTube and place it in your profile just as you would were you making an HTML page.

Ed.
I know about the profile. what I'm asking is WHICH box do i put the code in.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Methuselas on December 20, 2007, 05:46:29 AM
CeCe,


You can put the code in *ANY* box. How it looks, though, is dependent on the box size. Just play with it. You'll be fine. =)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 01:57:49 PM
Quote

Methuselas wrote:
CeCe,


You can put the code in *ANY* box. How it looks, though, is dependent on the box size. Just play with it. You'll be fine. =)
Thanks....how about this:

http://www.myspace.com/talkingpictures
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: odin on December 20, 2007, 02:05:41 PM
Quote
Wanna help me out? :idea:

I'm not a designer either, but I'd say losing the background would help a lot to start with. It'd make the page actually readable =).
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: spihunter on December 20, 2007, 02:21:32 PM
@Odin,

I'm about to put all new songs/material on there so I'm probably going to wipe the whole thing and go back to 2 basic colors.

Maybe put a couple images of our comic and thats it. Back to simple.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 03:23:40 PM
Quote

odin wrote:
Quote
Wanna help me out? :idea:

I'm not a designer either, but I'd say losing the background would help a lot to start with. It'd make the page actually readable =).
one of the MOST annoying things about myspace is all the stupid annoying crap people insist on loading up on their pages.

it's horrible.

I say, keep it simple and clean!
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 03:25:35 PM
Quote

spihunter wrote:
@Odin,

I'm about to put all new songs/material on there so I'm probably going to wipe the whole thing and go back to 2 basic colors.

Maybe put a couple images of our comic and thats it. Back to simple.
a friend just sent me this:

http://www.pimpmyspace.org/myspacelayouts.php

and I used one of the codes, substituting my own backgrounds

it loads faster than other codes I've tried
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: McVenco on December 20, 2007, 04:01:26 PM
I typed in a myspace URL with my Internet username and it turned out I have a myspace too!

I probably signed up and totally forgot about it. :-)

Maybe I should delete the account. I'm not using it anyway, and Google gives an ever-growing number of hits when I type "McVenco" (and all those hits relate to me - how's that for a unique nickname? :-))
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Methuselas on December 20, 2007, 05:42:47 PM
Quote

cecilia wrote:
Thanks....how about this:

http://www.myspace.com/talkingpictures


Looks good to me. That's usually where I'd put videos. =)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: SamOS39 on December 20, 2007, 06:39:54 PM
8-) 8-) 8-)

Quote
hey, all you clever myspace people: what is the secret to putting a you tuve video in one's myspace?


 :lol: n00b  ;-)
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: TjLaZer on December 20, 2007, 07:16:27 PM
People are so stupid I swear, if it was not for Broadband they would be up sh!t creek!  Remember back a few years ago when people would try to email a 5MB BMP file on dialup?  Well Myspace is full of those people!  With a gazillion BMP files, MP3s, AVIs, MPeg videos, etc.  It's slow to load pages even with a 1.5MBit connection!
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: GreggBz on December 20, 2007, 07:53:22 PM
Guilty.
http://www.myspace.com/greggbzz



Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 08:49:56 PM
Quote

Methuselas wrote:
Quote

cecilia wrote:
Thanks....how about this:

http://www.myspace.com/talkingpictures


Looks good to me. That's usually where I'd put videos. =)
thanks!

The site belongs to a friend of mine and as he only has dial up I am the one doing the graphics on his site. The idea of having my own my space site would drive me up a wall.

it all seems like it's set up for people who can't figure out how to write html.

the trouble with something being "simple" is that this makes it confusing for me.
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: cecilia on December 20, 2007, 08:51:31 PM
Quote

SamOS39 wrote:
8-) 8-) 8-)

Quote
hey, all you clever myspace people: what is the secret to putting a you tuve video in one's myspace?


 :lol: n00b  ;-)
:roflmao:

[3 stooges]
Why Yooooou! Smack!   :smack:
[/3 stooges]
Title: Re: Any of you on Myspace?
Post by: Methuselas on December 21, 2007, 01:22:58 AM
My MySpace is solely for the purpose of *NOT* having people call me incessantly. If I have one and check it at least once a day, people leave me alone.  :roll:


Otherwise, *ring, ring*....


*shakes head*