For better or for worse, I am now the proud(ish) owner of a My Space profile.
I've always been a bit scathing of this site as it seems to be filled with the worst kind of scrappy web design imaginable by the nastiest of chavvy children, but I joined up as basically all the lads I knew back home with bands are on there and it's a good way to keep in contact. So I though if I'm going to do it I may as well ensure that I've got a reasonable profile and get in on this social networking stuff, given that I actually know peope on there.
I'm finfding that while it's horrifically designed and horrible to navigate it's strangely compelling, and a handy way (once plugins are installed.) to show off a little personal media, and check some new choons out. Was amazed to discover that there's a number of really huge name bands with official cpontact points on there...New Order, Bent and lots of others as well as the predicatble garage/experiental/mateur stuff you'd expect.
Anyway if any of oyu lot have My Space profiles contact me at
http://www.myspace.com/ldma and I'll add you.
it's really nice louis. i've got one but there's nowt on it and i've forgotten how to access it!
cool ones are really nice, i just don't have the energy to do it properly.
i know of one poster here with one, maybe he'll post a link also.
:smile:
Always thought it was for kids really.
check out this anti my space rant by the ever-probing and sometimes paranoid Alex Jones. I haven't taken his suggestion to test the My Space censorship policy yet. Maybe you can, Louis!
MySpace Is The Trojan Horse Of Internet Censorship
Media elite's last gasp effort to save crumbling empire
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | March 16 2006
MySpace isn't cool, it isn't hip and it isn't trendy. It represents a cyber trojan horse and the media elite's last gasp effort to reclaim control of the Internet and sink it with a stranglehold of regulation, control and censorship.
Since Rupert Murdoch's $580 Million acquisition of MySpace in July 2005, it has come from total obscurity to now being the 8th most visited website in the world, receiving half as many page hits as Google, despite the fact that on first appearance it looks like a 5-year-old's picture scrap and scribble book.
MySpace is the new mobile phone. If you don't have a MySpace account then you belong to some kind of culturally shunned underclass.
What most of the trendy wendy's remain blissfully unaware of is the fact that MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's battle axe for shaping a future Internet environment whereby electronic dissent, whether it be against corporations or government, will not tolerated and freedom of e-speech will cease to exist.
MySpace has been caught shutting down blogs critical of itself and other Murdoch owned companies. They even had the audacity to censor links to completely different websites when clicking through for MySpace. When 600 MySpace users complained, MySpace deleted the blog forum that the complaints were posted on. Taking their inspiration from Communist China, MySpace regularly uses blanket censorship to block out words like 'God'.
Earlier this week Rupert Murdoch sounded the death knell for conventional forms of media in stating that the media elite were losing their monopoly to the rapid and free spread of new communication technologies. Murdoch stressed the need to regain control of these outlets in order to prevent the establishment media empire from crumbling.
MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's trojan horse for destroying free speech on the Internet. It is a foundational keystone of the first wave of the state's backlash to the damage that a free and open Internet has done to their organs of propaganda. By firstly making it cool, trendy and culturally elite for millions to flock to establishment controlled Internet backbones like MySpace, Murdoch is preparing the groundwork for the day when it will stop being voluntary and become mandatory to use government and corporate monopoly controlled Internet hubs.
The end game is a system similar to or worse than China, whereby no websites even mildly critical of the government will be authorized.
The Pentagon admitted that they would engage in psychological warfare and cyber attacks on 'enemy' Internet websites in an attempt to shut them down. The fact that the NSA surveillance program spied on 5,000 Americans tells us that the enemy is the alternative media and that it will be targeted for elimination. Google has been ordered to turn over information about its users by a judge to the US government.
The second wave of destroying freedom of speech online will simply attempt to price people out of using the conventional Internet and force people over to Internet 2, a state regulated hub where permission will need to be obtained directly from an FCC or government bureau to set up a website.
The original Internet will then be turned into a mass surveillance database and marketing tool. The Nation magazine reported, "Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the
Knowing Alex Jones' stuff I'd say it's very paranoid, though I am uneasy about using a Newscorp site....it's like I'm reading The Sun or something. Their tentacles are very far reaching indeed these days.
What I like is that I've finally found a place where all my mates back home hang out, in that they were nevere net heads before and are musicians, now they're into this site like crack as they have a faint glimmer of hop of becoming famous through it a la Arctic Monkeys, and that other guy who got to number one in the popcharts via Myspace. Myspace (I hate to say this..) is the new rock and roll.
Conspiracy! Conspiracy! The whole world is a conspiracy!
You can check me out Louis KingDong@myspace.com :smile: ...
Well, that's not a Myspace address but on looking at this url ............. http://www.myspace.com/KingDong
D. Mittelberg
"Life Is GooD WheN YoU DrivE a BMW"
Male
18 years old
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
United States
About me:
What is poppin people. I am good, so what ya want to know about me. I am a musician, I play all kinds of music and produce it too. I am also atheletic, name a sport I am good at it, if I haven't played it yet, well I am still probably good at it. I am a little cocky, but what's wrong with a little ego eh? Oh yea, did I mention I have the woman of my dreams by myside at all times, she is my good luck charm. ;-), well alright thats all I got to say really, cuz I think I am going to go pass the fuck out.
Are you sure about this Laoshi? [image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/laugh.gif]
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The niks some people will register! What exactly do you find so hard to believe about me being an 18 year old Yankee who excels at sport and is a bit cocky? [image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/laugh.gif] ...
He command of the language is like some Bangkok English teachers to boot!
He should discountinue his employ of a fruit distributor ( [image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/laugh.gif] ) and make his way over to Bkk.
all i wanna know is...WHO IS ICE CREAM QUEEN?!!!
[image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/uk.gif] [image: http://ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/heartpump.gif] very nice!!!
If it's Satan's tool, then this is what satan looks like....
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....your friend Rupert...
Mr. Computer
I put up a page last week despite my better judgement. Same reasons as LDMA- all my friends back home are on it and I've gotten pretty lax at keeping in touch. I have managed to get up with some folks I haven't seen since high school/uni which is cool and the music pages really are pretty awesome. Now if I hear about some new band I want to check out 9 times out of 10 they have a myspace page where you can stream 3 or 4 songs. I've gotten turned on to quite a bit of new music in the last week or so. That doesn't change the fact that it's a tool of the Bavarian Illuminati and the Elders of Zion to keep us all good and pink. Anyway, here's my link if you care --> www.myspace.com/bizita (http://www.myspace.com/bizita)
all i wanna know is...WHO IS ICE CREAM QUEEN?!!!
Screw her! What about Tannis? [image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/lover.gif]
And on Tannis's site is that Elvis' daughter singing Dirty Laundry?
Right well, it's thanks to Tannis that I'm in Thailand at all. Was only using Yahoo to speak to her at the time and was waiting for her to come online when this Thai chick called Kan started chatting to me at random. I figured that a date with a chick at Nottingham Uni was a better bet than a date with a chick in Canada, so I went out with Kan and the rest is history,
Nice girl Tannis is, but now she's married to some US squaddie and lives in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Nice girl Tannis is, but now she's married to some US squaddie and lives in Fort Knox, Kentucky
Hmmmm...wonder if he is on "manuevers?" I'll be going thru Ft. Knox this week..several times probably. Ah alas I'm a happily married man myself. [image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/blush1.gif]
So 'Kan' is the girl you married then, right?
Yup... [image: http://www.ajarnforum.net/vb/images/smilies/grin.gif]