Many people have told me I need to join MySpace, so I did. (I'm easy that way.) Apparently, MySpace is very helpful when marketing a book - like this one!
I like the way you can "meet" people, but I don't really get what MySpace does. I suppose I'll have to educate myself.
But why do MySpace pages have to be so butt ugly? I've never seen more cluttered design in my life. They look like electronic ransom notes. Check out the mess below. Yikes! And this isn't just my page - most of them are this bad. Ugh.
I don't mind some advertising on a free service, but the entire right third of this page looks like Google Adwords threw up on it. Horrible.
And the functionality of a MySpace page - sheesh! When I was writing my profile, there were no rich formatting text tools - no way to make fonts italics or underlined or to indent a list. You had to either write your post in HTML or something called CSS sytle sheets or some such. What?
I though MySpace was supposed to be for the masses - they can't have a button to make your text bold? I have to code simple text in HTML? Am I writing an online profile or going for my Microsoft.net certification?
Anyway, if you want to be my MySpace friend -and Lord knows I need friends - look how cranky I am - you can find me here: myspace.com/scottshermanonline.
Hi Scott,
I just wanted to let you know that it's not all visually-dismal when it comes to MySpace. Here are two really great sites that provide "skins": lovemyflash.com (free stuff!) and bandspaces.com. Bandspaces isn't free, but there is a link at the top to find a few free skins. I haven't totally jumped on the MySpace bandwagon (what, like 3 years later?!) but I've found these two sites recently. Hope they help!
Samantha
PS - I'm a listener of the DPS and I found your blog here when I went looking for where you'd disappeared to! The new novel looks like a great read - it's been added to my summer list!
Posted by: Samantha | May 16, 2008 at 02:16 PM