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I got a message from Fuzz user PunkPorpoise (http://www.fuzz.com/fan/PunkPorpoise) who informed me that she had committed "MySpace Suicide" because it was causing her more stress than anything else.
I told her I hoped she wouldn't have to ever commit Fuzz suicide. What makes a site fun to be at? What makes it stressful? Of course I think about this stuff a lot. Maybe too much.
For myself it's interacting with people I know and am getting to know who have common interests. It's weird--like the 6 degrees of separation thing. There is so often a commonality. So often it turns out that even with a complete stranger, we have either a common friend, a common experience, or a common passion.
It's also letting other people know about cool people like PunkPorpoise. She's been on Fuzz since February, but we've mainly been connecting on MySpace, where she found me, having been a Babes fan. So go say hi, because I think she's cool. But don't make her commit suicide.
Tomorrow's Blog: Maureen declares email bankruptcy
I told her I hoped she wouldn't have to ever commit Fuzz suicide. What makes a site fun to be at? What makes it stressful? Of course I think about this stuff a lot. Maybe too much.
For myself it's interacting with people I know and am getting to know who have common interests. It's weird--like the 6 degrees of separation thing. There is so often a commonality. So often it turns out that even with a complete stranger, we have either a common friend, a common experience, or a common passion.
It's also letting other people know about cool people like PunkPorpoise. She's been on Fuzz since February, but we've mainly been connecting on MySpace, where she found me, having been a Babes fan. So go say hi, because I think she's cool. But don't make her commit suicide.
Tomorrow's Blog: Maureen declares email bankruptcy
Comments
I love Fuzz, but for example: if it weren't for myspace and having Eddie Izzard as a friend I would never have received his bulletin. I saw him perform Monday night in SF. I was able to purchase tix to the show quickly because of the bulletin.
People need to get thicker hides when they are on the internet. Some people take what others do or say too seriously and over react. I have met many interesting peeps here and I have met some very intriguing people like authors, writers, etc. on myspace. What's the big deal?
Stop over-analizing everything.....things are what they are. geeeesh!
Slamming the other spaces and other people is just NOT good Karma...
They are what they are and you are what you are!
Get some self-esteem.
Link: http://www.fuzz.com/fan/TCUB/blog/The-internet-music-rules-of-engagement-The-internet-curse-or-cure
I myself have been given to hyperbole in demonizing the OtherSpace when the better approach should be that Artists need every access to the internet community that they can get and have time to develop to their personal advantage/satisfaction.
In this regard, I have often discussed with the folks at Fuzz that, in my view, as a new kid on the block they are well-positioned to benefit from the "power of the conjunctive, rather than disjunctive" meaning that Artists will, in time, use both MySpace AND Fuzz rather than MySpace OR Fuzz.
In order to make sure that the Internet is a Cure rather than Curse, both Artists and Fans should optimize rather than minimize communications and distribution channels. Some will use more, some less, according to time and inclination.
I hope I have restored some of that bad Karma you mentioned. Mono no aware. [So as not to hi-jack Maureen's blog, I can take your further comments, if any, at my/your page.]
Didn't mean to throw a Karma bomb at you I'm guilty of bad karma too, then. I'm sorry for being harsh. I'm not talking from atop some mountian with stone tablets. My friends think I am sometimes...hahaha. They still love me. Hope you do to.
T-CUB