New Networking MySpace

I have traditionally had a strained relationship with MySpace. I've always been much more of a Facebook person, but yet, I still have three, yes three, MySpace accounts. Why? Well, the first was the typical personal MySpace page, mainly just because everyone else was doing it. Ultimately though, once I got to know both MySpace and Facebook, it was clear which one I was going to favor, as MySpace was (and still is) a particularly trashy site for anyone trying to network outside of the entertainment industry.

In that light, both my second and third MySpace accounts were created essentially as artist-promotion utilities. The second was (and kinda still is) my personal composer site, although I mainly made it simply to allow friends to hear my music online without having to have it hosted elsewhere for money. Although I have directed a few people towards that site, it always comes with an apology for how shoddy and unrepresentative of the pride I have for my work it is.

But today is another day, another MySpace page. Considering that I'm trying to get a band up-and-running and in the process am meeting a number of bands to be networking with, it just made sense to start doing so on MySpace instead of Facebook, as the former is by far the preferred site for musician-networking. Considering though that I didn't want to contact everyone with my composer page, fearing that this might seem to indicate a much different project than I've been talking about, I opted to not contact everyone via that page. Ideally, I would have used my original personal page, but I've forgotten how to access it, as my registered email address there is my old IU school email (which I can no longer check...).

So, although it's nothing flashy by any means, here's my band-to-be temporary promotional/networking MySpace page. I'm basically only using it to stay in touch with all the bands I've been meeting and will therefore probably stop using it (for the most part) once our band puts up an official artist page ourselves (would that be my fourth page?), but until then, I hope it serves me well!