Comments on: Your space or mine?

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:42:46 +0000

It’s the problem of the friends thing on there being reciprocal-only - the ‘value’ of friend collecting becomes one that it’s hard to opt-out of without implying a load of odd criteria to your acceptance requirements that are way too convoluted for a poorly designed music promo page!

Myspace offers so little control over things like that - a massive step forward would be the option to only accept friend requests from people who also attach a message (there’s a box for a message on there whenever someone adds you as a friend) - that would at least instigate some kind of interaction from the start!

But a list of ‘what’s wrong with Myspace’ could go on a very long time :) Sx

By: Jemima Gibbons

Jemima Gibbons — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:33:10 +0000

Thanks for explaining that Steve - I was kind of surprised to see you had so *few* MySpace friends, considering the time you’d been on there, but now you’ve given the back-story, it all makes complete sense.

Being forced to delete “friends”, though - it sounds kind of tragic, doesn’t it?

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:13:55 +0000

thanks for this, Jemima - talking to you about this stuff was fascinating!

The Myspace thing runs even deeper than that - I had 8500 myspace friends, but was seeing no benefit from it whatsoever. They weren’t writing to me, commenting, listening or anything… it was just a nonsense numbers game. So I deleted everyone that I didn’t recognise from their avatar… what it meant was that I a) had a myspace story to tell (which I hadn’t for a long time), and b) deleted a load of people who still wanted to be friends, so they sent me messages, I readded them, and had a nice chat :)

But yes, I get WAY more value out of twitter in every imaginable way than I do out of myspace. x