MySpace (A.K.A. The Dance-Off Thread)

[EUOL]

Well, it's what all the kids are doing these days, apparently.  And, since a lot of my hits come via MySpace, it was suggested to me that I throw up a page for my work there.  


http://www.myspace.com/brandon_sanderson

Any suggestions/hints on making the page look better?

[Spriggan]

Haha! You're on MySpace!  Looser.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

NOOOO!
YOu've become "one of them!"

Not that I have any idea what one of them is. Yours is actually the very first myspace account I've ever looked at.

I'd get the colors more like your regular site, to preserve some continuity. But other than that, it looks pretty much like an ad space. I'd either use it for a specific purpose separate from your site or drop it.

[Spriggan]

mySpace pages are boring and horribly done.  If you see people with like 5000 friends it's just one long page of comments and little else.  Plus it's become such a fad now that it's uncool to sell out your self-respect to be on there.

[EUOL]

http://www.myspace.com/foofighters

Losers?

[Spriggan]

Sell outs.

Besides it's just marketing that they're doing, MySpace has so many hits a day it's free advertising to be on there.

I honestly don't know what people see in that site, I sit next to people in class that just spend all period on there randomly clicking links and asking people to be their "friends" and that's the whole point of the site.  Kind of sad if you ask me.

[EUOL]

lol.  The only way you heard of them was because they "sold out" and got paid for their music.  

This is a business.  The fact of the matter is, MySpace is a portal for a large number of people who match the demographic that I would like to target with my novels.  MySpace is the #1 referrer to brandonsanderson.com--beating out the twg forums, even.  

If there are young people there who might be interested in my books, I want to get them to click through to my website.  That means making a MySpace page.  Mock me if you must, but I'll bet I get more sales from a MySpace page than from a NY Times newspaper advertisement.

[Spriggan]

You'd get more sales if you drove to book cons and sold them out of the back of your car like M.C. Hammer did with his first CD.  You'd sell even more if you wore parachute pants and could dance like no one else...except maybe SADDAM!!!



Go Saddam, Go Saddam, Go!!!

Man, if you could dance like that you'd be selling out of everything.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

i taught MC Hammer how to dance.

[Tink]

Search Google for MySpace layouts and backgrounds. This site has a few cool ones:

http://www.gazzump.com/graphics/layouts/

or here or here.

You just take their code and put it into your profile and it will change what your layout looks like.

[Shrain]

Hahaahaha. MySpace. Oh, wait... I'm on MySpace too, sorta, so I should lay off.

I'm not a huge fan of MySpace (I'm on there mainly because one of my good friends likes to communicate that way). BUT if it'll help EUOL rake in the dough, then it's all good.

[The Lost One]

MySpace? And I thought I was lost.

[Tekiel]

I agree, try to make it look a little more like your other page to keep the continuity.  Btw, who's Tom?  Aside from a VERY popular guy on MySpace.

(On a funny note, the first ad I saw on MySpace was an ad for TagWorld.  Their line: "Tired of MySpace? Meet cool people at Tagworld.")

[EUOL]

Tom is a MySpace employee.  They just add him as a friend to you when you make your account.

Sprig,

Dancing Sadam has nothing on Dancing Gay Spiderman!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I taught him how to dance too.