I had two myspace pages, one for poems and one for the SFF books. I
just deleted the poetry one last week, because all I was doing was
checking in every couple of months to delete spam and add friends. I
didn't have the heart to delete the SFF one, because it's full of
sweet young fans, but in terms of actually communicating with people I
find myspace very clunky, and like Jimmy said, the software is
horrible. I think as a promotional tool it's fairly limited, except
for music, where it's worked brilliantly.
Facebook is much sleeker and easier to use, but again all I do is add
friends. I realised I don't really have time for social networking,
but it's kind of useful in various ways; I use it to keep an eye on
what's going on in indie theatre in Melbourne. I've noticed that all
the younger theatre companies here make extensive use of Facebook in
terms of contacting audiences, and it works. Blogs are the things that
work for me, because they're much more dialogic. But then again, I
don't do poetry blogging, although I read them, and making a
successful blog that people read regularly is a very large commitment
of time and energy, whereas the promise of social networking is that
it's easy. Great tool for procrastination, tho.
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Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
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