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Post by Paul Chamberlain on Jul 28, 2006 21:30:01 GMT
Don't Panic! If you have a Myspace page and you can't access it over the weekend it's being put through the wash due to various hackers trying to gain our details as www.allsouthernrock.com suffered yesterday. Normal service will be resumed asap but with near on 100 million users it'll take time. Small wonder Myspace is a target.
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Post by Janette on Jul 28, 2006 21:40:46 GMT
I got on mine this evening after not having been able to get on it all day Then accidentally logged off it and now I'm getting the 'undergoing routine maintenance' message. Wah! I am a MySpace addicted saddo ;D I want it back!
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Post by Alison on Jul 28, 2006 22:51:05 GMT
I got on mine this evening after not having been able to get on it all day Then accidentally logged off it and now I'm getting the 'undergoing routine maintenance' message. Wah! I am a MySpace addicted saddo ;D I want it back! Me too Janette!! It's been acting a bit ''funny'' all week though..
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Post by Liz from Cheshire on Jul 29, 2006 9:38:49 GMT
Sorry...you`ve lost me. I cant see the attraction of it to be honest. I go on if I have notification of a message, friends request or comment...
apart from that I dont bother..it bores me, pages dont load or they hang for ages before they do, 9 times out of 10 something is not working properly..and I can chat to my friends in other places.
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Post by Janette on Jul 29, 2006 9:57:04 GMT
Clearly not an addict then ;D It's handy for catching up with peeps tho........ in the last week a girl I used to know from well over 20 years ago has found me on there, so has a guy from Sweden I met in Glasgow in January, and a couple of months or so ago a girl I lost touch with about 7 years ago contacted me But it has been a right pain over the last week! It's normally ok tho. Fingers crossed it's fixed now.
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Post by Alison on Jul 29, 2006 13:08:18 GMT
I kind of agree with both of you (Liz and Janette) I don't depend on it to keep in contact with friends, but I do nevertheless find it oddly compulsive in a Jerry Springer kind of way! I look at someone's page then read one of the comments, then look at that persons page and so on until I can't remember where I started!! I think it's good for anyone who wants to contact like minded people (for whatever reason!) I'm definitely a convert.....and, strangely enough, that's thanks to Liz ! ;D
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Post by Liz from Cheshire on Jul 29, 2006 13:45:35 GMT
Its boring...you go to someones page..it takes ages to load the 234567 friends they already have even though they cant live another minute without you joining their merry band of following sheep Some peoples pages hang so you think your computers broken (mentioning no names, Mr P) you get bulletins that even Janette admits in a blog "she never reads" ;D No not my idea of addictive fun at all.
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Post by Janette on Jul 29, 2006 14:03:42 GMT
you get bulletins that even Janette admits in a blog "she never reads" ;D Indeed! I bloody hate bulletins! ;D Have probably read about 10 in the whole time I've had the thing ;D Fair enough if they're 'news' type thingies........ but the 'bye bye myspace' type shite makes my blood boil LOL I am just a very nosey person (surprised huh? ) and I love reading people's profiles....... as Alison says you can forget where you started! LOL ;D
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Post by Alison on Jul 29, 2006 14:16:14 GMT
you get bulletins that even Janette admits in a blog "she never reads" ;D Indeed! I bloody hate bulletins! ;D Have probably read about 10 in the whole time I've had the thing ;D Fair enough if they're 'news' type thingies........ but the 'bye bye myspace' type shite makes my blood boil LOL I am just a very nosey person (surprised huh? ) and I love reading people's profiles....... as Alison says you can forget where you started! LOL ;D Nosey?? I prefer to call it inquisitive myself! ;D Myspace can be a bit mindless, but it's no different than leafing through a magazine or half watching a TV show...I think mindless is very under-rated!! I don't have any problem with Myspace being slow though....
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Post by Janette on Jul 29, 2006 14:20:06 GMT
I don't have any problem with Myspace being slow though.... That's cos you have a sexy new computer!
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Post by Alison on Jul 29, 2006 14:43:52 GMT
I don't have any problem with Myspace being slow though.... That's cos you have a sexy new computer! Computers? Sexy? Now that is SAD!!! ROFLMAO!!!! ;D Actually it's the wireless router thingy that has really speeded things up!
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Post by Janette on Jul 29, 2006 14:45:51 GMT
That's cos you have a sexy new computer! Computers? Sexy? Now that is SAD!!! ROFLMAO!!!! ;D I have never denied being a saddo tho.......... ;D
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Post by metalhead on Jul 30, 2006 20:54:21 GMT
I'm with Liz on this one. Just don't see the attraction at all. The only thing I find it useful for is tour info from bands. Apart from that, everybody I'm friends with on there, I talk to on here, so it seems pointless really
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Post by Breezey on Jul 31, 2006 7:17:04 GMT
I love discovering new music on Myspace. I tend to look in friends comments and there are nearly always new bands that they've just added or have just added them. I go to these bands profiles and this way I've discovered some great music. Now that I have some time I'm going to download some tracks and start to play some of it in my interlude.
I like messaging people too and have made new friends, reaquainted myself with old friends and also discovered what my son has been up to in Denmark ;D
Myspace has been a godsend for musicians who find it difficult to get their music out to people. JY was able to play a few gigs in the States earlier in the year mainly thanks to freinds he had made through Myspace.
I know that Paul has discovered lots of new bands and it keeps on growing all the time.
As for the bulletins, I just read the ones that I'm interested in though I did once get caught out with a spam one that automatically reposted to all my friends under my name!! I'm a bit more careful what I click on now.
Some of the pages do occasionally take a while to download but it's only those that have uploaded loads of photos/videos etc to their page, I often lose interest and go and look at something else.
I wouldn't say I was a Myspace addict but it is certainly a useful tool for networking and keeping in touch.
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Post by Janette on Aug 2, 2006 5:33:29 GMT
Just a little footnote to this topic..... Some random guy messaged me the other day (*not* a perve which was a refreshing change ROFL) saying what good taste it music I had and that he also loved Thunder blah blah. He then went on to say that he'd recently been to a gig and ended up sitting next to Glen Hughes....... So I told him that he *must* listen to SP on Sunday for the Glen Hughes special, gave him the links and everything. Just got a message this morning saying he listened and how much he enjoyed it and how good it was So hopefully another ARfm convert! .......I'm spreading the word - hallelujah! ;D (eek - perhaps I would make a good nun after all )
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