Does Beb count as a major networking site?
Jack
On Wed 24/09/08 4:03 PM , JIMMY CUMMINS [log in to unmask] sent:
> being one of the 20 somethings that has a site on all three major
> social networks (sad i know) Bebo/ myspace/facebook, i thought i
> would add my views.
> Bebo is so full of teenagers that it is of little use in terms of
> promoting ones-self as a writer or writing events. no one there is
> interested. they do have options to have author pages but it is so
> full of teenage angst poetry that i could never bring myself to set
> one up.
> myspace when i first started using it i thought was great. i made
> "friends" with loads of other small presses and other writers. i was
> able to promote events and broadcast it to a much wider audience. i
> set up a page on myspace for Soundeye and tried to promote that too.
> once you send out invites to people for an event you can check if
> people have viewed your invite and even send a reminder. but when i
> was promoting soundeye 2007 i saw that 90% of people were not even
> looking at the invites. maybe it is just me?? and my "friends"?? but
> it seems that myspace has died a death. plus i find it very old
> fashioned in its interface. it can be very slow and not very user
> friendly. plus i hate the fact that it is so full of bands who just
> want to claim that they have a million friends on facebook, in the
> hope that some record company will take them seriously. i am all for
> like minded people connecting with others but trying to make
> "Friends" with everyone just for numbers seems a little shallow.
> facebook is user friendly and fun. (the fun being poitnless little
> games that you can add to your page) "send me a bleeding heart for my
> new serial killer wall wall". it is so "fun" that Bebo is copying
> everything that it does. but in terms of promotion and so forth it is
> user friendly aswell. there are groups you can join or you cna become
> a "fan" of a certain thing...here is the list of groups i am a member
> of IRISH POETRY [1], Cork Midsummer Festival 2008 [2], Horizon
> Review [3],Intimate Encounters [4], Friends of Dusie [5], SAMUEL
> BECKETT [6], Poetry Factions Are Stupid [7], Mr. Mary
> [8], LETTERS FROM ALDENDERRY [9],thisisnotashop [10], Open Space
> Sessions--Dublin [11], DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL [12], POETRY TCD
> [13], POETRY CORK (Ireland) [14] , POETRY DUBLIN [15],Tears in the
> Fence [16], Gathering Voices / Pendas Productions [17], Salt
> Publishing Fanclub [18], FULCRUM Fanclub [19], Ex Dartington [20]
> each group has a forum and a wall where you can post things such as
> events and what not.
> i believe that all these social networking site are in essence a form
> of self branding or self definition. a sort of look at how cool i am
> with how many picture i have posted of myself doing wacky things.
> so i wonder with so much outward self obsession how many people are
> really communicating...
> in saying that there is massive number of poets/writers/publishers on
> facebook and most of them older then the 20/30 something mark and most
> just keeping there toes in the global community. just like
> listservs.....from one lonely computer to another...HHEELLLLOO
> :O)until thenJimmy
> www.defaultpublishing.com
> "DE-FAULT, the two best words in the English language"
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> Links:
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> [1] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20333983369
> [2] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13276125118
> [3] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28767225624
> [4] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9134019469
> [5] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9481511539
> [6] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6743258066
> [7] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5803791291
> [8] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20306429072
> [9] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13004165236
> [10] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7283217670
> [11] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17476935208
> [12] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4783039604
> [13] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4952037707
> [14] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19256762384
> [15] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6739050308
> [16] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2307588990
> [17] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404
> [18] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2698019052
> [19] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4089574795
> [20] http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2348491892
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