"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

when I first became aware of facebook later that year it seemed to be a used by people with less sub-cultural baggage.

a massive point in facebook's favour, this

MySpace phase 1: US collegers
MySpace phase 2: shitty bands
MySpace phase 3: me and everyone i know #1
MySpace phase 4: decent bands
MySpace phase 5: me getting a new account cos old one was neglected and got culled
MySpace phase 6: our parents, employment agencies, newborn babies, lolcats, facebook-induced backlasheroo

I generally agree with Steve M. that most people who are just now joining Facebook are probably already on MySpace. But I think that there are definitely some people who joined Facebook when they were in college and it was still students-only but who resisted MySpace because it was too much of a random free-for-all, lacked privacy, and wasn't as directly connected to a campus community. My girlfriend's one of them.

I generally agree with Steve M. that most people who are just now joining Facebook are probably already on MySpace

Nah, not among my (non-internet) friends, anyway. None of them have ever been on any social networking site before.

The straights have taken over the asylum.

i guess there are a lot of people i know who do/would do Facebook but never MySpace, thinking about it more. Of my friends I'd say 50% are on both and the other 50 would be Facebook only. I don't know/have any chav MySpace-only friends.

The straights have taken over the asylum.

got it in one, jim

For the record I would like to note that I was using MySpace long before the bands came on. Regular Friendster users made the transition pretty early and although some bands made profiles, the "music" and "band" parts of MySpace came along after it was already pretty well along. (I was also long out of college).

how is this not a good thing?

xp

Scotty, what's left?
Just the batteries. I can give you inpulse power in a couple minutes

...We don't HAVE a couple minutes

myspace perhaps a lot more suited to people in the process of finding / developing their identity.

scotty...SCOTTY!

Yeah, weird, I generally think of MySpace as the site for people who have never been on a social-networking site before and probably aren't interested in joining another one. Facebook would only be appealing if they enrolled in college/grad school.

scotty...SCOTTY!

JOHNNY!

ilxors be talking about weird internet types....

Flipmode Squad group just isn't the same without you quitney :(

Girls Aloud

i took bands off because i thought my honest list of favourite artists was needlessly long - and the ones i took out were some pretty 'obvious' ones - no other reason.

i might add Althea & Donna tho - man I have all their SONG

never understand why peoples band lists are so long

I am trying to hide my nerd life from new girl I met. How long will it take?

step one: not knowing my last name

block her.

Make sure she never hears of ILX

I hope you didn't tell her your name was Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, because there are only like 3 of those on the googleable internet

We don't know each other's last names.

^^ thats always the best way:)

people's band lists are so long because they want to cast the most comprehensive possible net in which to snare gurls people using band names as search terms

Or because they're extremely anal (see: my band's MySpace page).

Or record-collecting music nerds.

oh, it gets you sex? anyone mind if i copy and paste theirs?

Or autopopulated their list

i faked my list.

an ilxor knows someone i knew irl, it's wild.

w.r.t. f-book group 'I Love Music':

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UH-OH

try f-book group "i love music sandbox", perhaps?

can't believe there's no ornaldo bloomps for presidnetn group

i can. some memes go far enough.

http://bani.anime.net/o_rly.jpg

people's band lists are so long because they want to cast the most comprehensive possible net in which to snare gurls people using band names as search terms

yes

I do need to edit mine down though, I keep trying :/

argh u got me good, enrique

but u will not win ultimately because i am the small cat

*weeps*

hot girls are always, always searching facebook for guys who like the same bands they do. how else do they get guys, after all?

your logic is well sound

i mean, srsly, how many hot progressive chicks must there be?

maybe i will bond with a total stranger over a shared fondness for whoever the fuck's in my list.

no you won't enrique, because you have a closed profile, so nobody but your friends can see your music list. i know this because we're from the same area (london) and i can't access your profile. breathe a sigh of relief, why don't you.

shit has irl consequences bro.

i'm working on rolling it out a bit.

politics only go up to 'very liberal' = bullshit

for realsies.

nrq you are tripping over this so much it's kind of funny

c'mon milo, you should only need 'liberal'! i guess in america, 'liberal' still means 'fucking conservative, but we probably need a better healthcare system'.

i've never had irl consequences from my public facebook profile, although i HAVE had (well-publicised) irl repercussions from ilx...

yeah, with regards 'rolling out', it seems you've been in cambridge all this time and never suggested a mini-FAP. i'm disappointed, nay, heartbroken. sadly, i'm now back in london. maybe next year. tissp can come along too!

something which people should learn: just because a box is there does not mean you actually have to fill it in