Some people find MySpace useful for marketing or publicity or keeping in touch with fans/readers, etc. It basically has a LOT of people on it, mostly in a certain demographic. It probably can't hurt to have a page up (unless you do get some malware, of course). You wouldn't need to active or friend anyone back, probably... mostly you could just post any announcements or whatever in their blog function.
I find the UI very clunky there... I'm not a horrible luddite, but it isn't easy for my old dog brain to figure out, either. I joined up a year or so ago but haven't done much with my account aside from friend a few people. Most found me--one of whom was a cousin of mine. Users just manage to find you out. I certainly am not going looking...
I had a friend who discovered that someone had created a fake MySpace page for her! It was actually quite a nice page and looked totally authentic--with correct information and all. I was actually fooled by it, myself. She got MySpace to take it down. Her market overlaps the MySpace demographic, but she obviously doesn't feel the need to be there.
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Date: 2008-04-19 07:37 am (UTC)I find the UI very clunky there... I'm not a horrible luddite, but it isn't easy for my old dog brain to figure out, either. I joined up a year or so ago but haven't done much with my account aside from friend a few people. Most found me--one of whom was a cousin of mine. Users just manage to find you out. I certainly am not going looking...
I had a friend who discovered that someone had created a fake MySpace page for her! It was actually quite a nice page and looked totally authentic--with correct information and all. I was actually fooled by it, myself. She got MySpace to take it down. Her market overlaps the MySpace demographic, but she obviously doesn't feel the need to be there.