To all of the Myspace Haters.....

[STR8UP]

I just have to say one thing......you're crazy!

Social networking has to be the best invention since sliced bread.

But as with seemingly all new technology, it is embraced by women as yet another tool for attention wh0ring and an umbilical-like communication line, and as such it gets labeled as "non-DJ" or whatnot. Just like with my texting thread, it's HOW you use it that makes it an asset or a liability to a Man.

Just found out that I am flying to London for business in a few months, and that I am going to be connecting in NYC.

Now I've never been to NYC, and it is at or near the top of cities I want to visit in the US. So I started thinking. My flight from NYC to London has already been booked for me, but i still need to book my flight to NY. I might be able to leave a day early....Hmmm....the wheels start turning....

So I start thinking that I need to take this opportunity to see a new city. But I will be by myself....hmmm....I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Then BAM it hit me. I know someone in NYC. It's a chick that I banged a couple of times when she lived here. PERFECT!

I think I still have this chick's number from way back so I could have called her but it's highly likely it has been changed by now. FORTUNATELY FOR ME, she is on my Myspace friends list. BINGO!

Hit her up and it turns out she lives right in the heart of the city (I haven't had contact with her since she left here) and would love to "show me around for the night".

So had it not been for this stupid, ridiculous, chick dominated communication medium, I might not have even bothered stopping to see a city that is on my list. It would have just been another city where I stopped over for 6 hours hanging out in the airport Chili's wishing I was able to see the sights of a lifetime only 20 miles away.

Actually, I am getting ready to develop a social networking website for this new business I am getting off the ground. It's going to be a great tool for connecting a group of people that previously had few options to be able to find others that are involved in the same activity.

I have a facebook and a myspace page. I rarely visit facebook and only slightly more often log onto my myspace, but the facebook account allowed a long lost cousin of mine to reconnect with me, and I'm sure this will not be the last time one of these sites proves to be valuable.

Don't automatically discount things like this just because they CAN be misused. Learn what makes them good and what makes them "bad" and use them to your advantage.

 

[Bible_Belt]

word

 

[Your_Royal_Flyness]

2 steps ahead of ya :rockon:

Check it out:
http://www.MySpaceToMyPlace.com​

Met over 200 women off MySpace, Facebook and the like. Its definitely where it is!

 

[horaholic]

A lot of people think myspace is for 'hookin up' Sure it can be, but I dont even see it that way. I'm a musician, and myspace is the best thing to happen to music since recording. Also its like a space age address book. Im in touch with people I never would have heard from again. I have ex's from ten years ago contact me, just for the hell of it. not for tryin to hook up again, although, thats happened too. Its cool when someone from years ago, contacts you out of the blue. Especially ones that live in other countries. I cant call my friends in Germany, or London. Its stupid to think bad of myspace. Some people here think that every chick on myspace is tryin to hook up, and they think less of a chick with a myspace. Thats retarded. Sure, it CAN be that way. Its really easy to spot pages of chicks who want to get fvcked. I stay away. Its for networking, and connecting with people.

 

[I.A.F.Y.B.]

I understand myspace can be good.

But, if you are new to the game and get a date with a chick off myspace. How are they gonna act around her? Can they be as social, funny, and ect. Or will they fail miserably cause they don't know how to use kino and hold eye contact or be social.

Atleast for the new guys.. They need to approaching women in a real life setting. You may sound good over the computer but, you may not be when she meets you.

When, you approach a girl on the street she sees your body language, your personality, how you act... The computer; she just sees a few pictures and what you typed to her.

I'm not hating on myspace. But, I think with some of the examples I showed you probably have a better chance in person than on myspace. But, maybe I'm wrong.

 

[STR8UP]

Just for the record....this isn't about "hooking up" via Myspace. I have never done that. What I am talking about is using it to keep in contact with the people you meet in real life.

My issue is with the people who say to totally avoid a woman with a Myspace page, or that you shouldn't use it as a tool because it can be misused as a buffer for rejection. I agree that it should not be misused. A telephone shouldn't be misused when communicating with a chick either. If you call her too much or if you spend hours on the phone with her you are shooting yourself in the foot. Same with Myspace. If you don't use it PROPERLY it works against you. If you know the game and use it the right way there are many benefits.

 

[ketostix]

STR8UP, I see what you are saying about Myspace being a good "record keeper" for old contacts, but I wouldn't consider it a great advance or perfect. Women can delete their page, change their email and profile to one you don't know of, stop signing on all together, or what have you.

Back in the day people use to use phone books and write down names and used their full names more. If they moved you just called directory assistant. BTW, now cells phones are nice for phonebooks. It wasn't that uncommon to get a phone call out of the blue from an old contact, or to search for an old contact or ask relatives, friends of theirs how to get in touch with the. Anyway, people would write down names, numbers, addresses, exchange real photos, mail letters etc, before myspace.

Well it sounds like I'm disagreeing with you, but not really. I'm just saying Myspace is just a new way that makes it somewhat easier to do what people did in the past. However, Myspace isn't that good for meeting new women and hooking up, which could be it's big advantage. Myspace has some drawback so I'm just saying I wouldn't necessarily call Myspace haters crazy since facebook is much better laid out for social networking, but it has it's shortcomings too.

 

[Jitterbug]

I'm a Myspace hater. It looks like a dog's breakfast and gives me the royal sh!t. I use Facebook instead.

Just for the record....this isn't about "hooking up" via Myspace. I have never done that. What I am talking about is using it to keep in contact with the people you meet in real life.

Yeah that's what I use Facebook for. The ones I add to my FB are those I've already met in real life and want to keep in touch with. It's easy to maintain communication with acquaintances, set up events and exchange photos & sh!t.

However, for anything deeper than just casual BS, I will always keep in mind what an older friend told me. He used to organize events for our group. He used to call & TXT people to get things going. Someone suggested email and eventually it was all moved to Facebook. However, fewer & fewer people in the group rocked up to those events and eventually the group fell apart. I had a chat with him one day and he told me why that happened. He said that the phone calls & the TXT messages were a lot more work compared to Facebook & email, but they add a personal touch and tell people that they are important, that the group really do care about them. An invite on Facebook or a group email cannot compare to that. I think he was right.

 

[STR8UP]

I'm sticking to my guns....Myspace haters (or more correctly social networking site haters) are crazy.

Facebook, Myspace, whatever you choose to use it doesn't matter. What matters is that you maintain one or both as a means to maintain a network that would have in past times fallen apart.

Kids today have an advantage in that they are establishing these "online phonebooks" while in highschool and it can help them keep in contact with people for a long, long time.

My beef is with the people who discount these sites altogether or who say they should ONLY be used to maintain connections between friends and family. I have friends, family, ex g/f's, ex FB's, chicks I have had make out sessions with, chicks I went out with once or twice and got nowhere, chicks I met and felt a connection with but it never went anywhere, models I worked with....WHATEVER. To me it can't hurt a thing to keep the contact open via a common source.

You never know when it might come in handy. I'm planning a couple of days in NYC with this chick as we speak.

I love technology!

 

[Solomon]

Myspace takes to long, I rather used POF

 

[ketostix]

I love technology!

I do too. I just hate how AW women and AFCs misuse and screw it up for everyone lol.

 

[cordoncordon]

I love technology!

"Always and Forever" THE TECHNOLOGY SONG
(by Kipland Ronald Dynamite)

Why do you love me?
Why do you need me?
Always and forever

We met in a chat room
Where love can fully bloom
Sure the World Wide Web is great
But you, you make me "salvavate"

Yes I love technology
But not as much as you, you see
But I still love technology
Always and forever

Our love is like a flock of doves
Flying up to heav'n above
Always and forever
Always and forever

Yes, your love is truly great
Always and forever

Why do you need me?
Why do you love me?

 

[wjh]

i've had too much drama w/ myspace. facebook is probably the same. i hate being so public.

 

[Your_Royal_Flyness]

Myspace takes to long, I rather used POF

If it takes too long, you aren't doing it right. ;-)

 

[Knight's Cross]

STR8UP,
If it works for you cool. I was at one time on both FB and MS. My logic for pulling off was work related. I used to be in a networking organization that helps ex-military get hired into civilian aviation. Well too many people from that organization were finding me on FB and e-mailing requests for job help. Now I'll pretty much help anyone, but when folks were asking me to walk in resumes, write reference letters etc, and I didn't even know them it got to be too much. So I pulled off both sites.
Here's a little advice, if FB and or MS work for you, great. If a chick ever asks you to join so you can be friends, and you have reason like me not to be on there, then politely decline. Whatever you are when a chick meets you, stay that way. Don't ever do something just because a chick wants it. If you want to join a network site, do it becuase you want to.
As far as using the sites for business, well there are plenty of professional organizations that do a far better job in most areas, music excluded.

KC

 

[Truman181]

Facebook is gay!

Myspace is only marginally better.

At least on Myspace it doesn't tell your friends 'so and so wrote on so and so's wall'.

Shyt I left high school a long time ago and the bad thing is, these social networking sites turn everything into a big popularity contest all over again. At some point people need to GROW UP and stop the childish popularity contests.

Besides, I don't like the idea that everyone from my past can locate me or 'my network'. There are a lot of people I would rather leave behind.

Not to mention I don't like being part of 'The Grid'. You meet a random girl and she checks your friends to see who your connected to and if she likes your social circle, you're in.

I like to be the guy outside of the social circle. I'm the guy that is a man of mystery that can't be pinned down and can't be identified by my group of friends...that's one of the reasons I hide my friends...

Ah well, to each their own.

 

[mrRuckus]

Use some CSS code to hide your friends list.

I don't see why it has to hurt your female social skills development. A guy is likelier to get on myspace and get a few chicks to meet him to practice on before he's willing to grab his balls and walk right up to them in public.

Any contact is still practice and learning.