Karen Foley
Lynn Raye Harris
Ellen Hartman
Diana Holquist
Samantha Hunter
Shirley Jump
Dee Tenorio
Jeannie Watt
It's a MYSPACE world and I finally joined in!
Happy late Thanksgiving! I had lots of food and saw Fred Clause. Cute movie! Now its back to work -- do you hear the silent whip in the background? I needed that. I wanted to keep relaxing!
Anyway, I did accomplish something since the return! YAY! Finally I have a MySpace page. Now its figuring out how to use it that is the issue. I just learned Vista and have lost hair in the process!
The craziest thing about MySpace to me is the way men email and try to meet you! This feels creepy to me. Is that just the times now and I am showing my age? In You got Mail Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks make on line meeting romantic but in real life it feels kind of creepy to me. Do you MySpace? And would you ever consider meeting someone on MySpace?
Lisa
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The one thing I have so far resisted...
I've given in to all the techhie stuff over the years, but have so far remained stalwart against MySpace. ;)
Funny about the pickups. I am a veteran online chatter, I met my husband online FOURTEEN years ago! LOL Before there was any such thing as online dating etc -- we had a great group of people at an online environment called LambdaMoo (we still go there sometimes) and we had so much fun, and we met by happenstance, not out looking... Nowadays I think you have to be way more careful, people trolling the net, more sickos, etc and yes, when the first question out of someone's mouth is "M/F?" you know it's time to say see ya... ;)
That said, I still think you can meet good people online, romantically speaking (my niece has met several nice young men online) but I do think you have to be more careful than we had to be back when we met.
Sam
My Space
I have a MySpace page, but my heart is not in it. Yet. Maybe I'll embrace it...someday. However, the friending weirds me out, too. I once had a neighbor who appeared to be normal. At first. Eventually he started raging in public and carrying a gun. He's also on MySpace, where he comes off very normal--even charming. It really makes a person think.
Jeannie
The stranger friending thing
The stranger friending thing can be weird. I read about that lady who responded to Craiglist for a nanny and ended up dead. It makes you nervous to hear these things!
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I don't MySpace because like
I don't MySpace because like you it feels creepy to have men hitting on you. I don't feel like in today's world it would be safe to meet someone in person who you met online--too many perverts are looking for someone gullible or young.
I agree. I think its a great
I agree. I think its a great marketing tool to connect with readers but I could leave out the rest!
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I don't do My Space.
I don't do My Space.
Facebook
I had a MySpace page, but I got closed the account after a few months. I wasn't really doing much with it. I'm thinking about getting a Facebook page.
What is Facebook? I heard
What is Facebook? I heard something about that in the search for that missing cops wife I believe -- as a resource or something to get the word out -- I'd never heard of it until then
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Facebook
Facebook is a social networking site similar to MySpace. A student at Harvard founded it when he was in school. It was originally only open to students at Harvard and it expanded from there to include anyone over the age of thirteen.
Facebook
I had a MySpace page, but I got closed the account after a few months. I wasn't really doing much with it. I'm thinking about getting a Facebook page.
MySpace
I do have a page, but I haven't been hit on LOL - I must not be doing it right.
I agree, Lisa, that its just creepy out there. I do get the grossest emails (m/f indeed) that go through my website account and it really squicks me out. But for whatever reason, my MySpace page seems to stay pretty clean. Then again, I listed my age as 99 *beg*
I have a page...
But MySpace annoys me. I'm way too OCD for their system, lol. I have a Facebook page which is much easier...but I can't really tell what it's for. I mean...what do you do but play tag? Guess I'm too pragmatic, sigh....
Dee
Don't have one...
I know I'm hopelessly behind the times, but I don't have time for it right now. And I've never been able to make heads or tails of the few MySpace pages I've seen before--it feels completely disorganized somehow.
And no, I don't have a Facebook account either... ah well... I've just discovered author blogs, so I think I'm doing pretty well ;)
Congrats to you though, Lisa, for taking the bold step ahead! :)
Neither one for me
I don't have Facebook or MySpace and I don't have a desire for either one. I've been sent there to look at other peoples' pages before and it kinda creeps me out. I used internet chat rooms in college and even met some people in person that I'd met online. I don't know why that seemed okay and yet these pages scare me. I have some friends that have them and think I'm just weird for resisting. I can't really explain it, but I don't want to have anything to do with either place!
Hi Cathy! It's interesting
Hi Cathy!
It's interesting how this happens -- I knew some people who logged onto Lambda, and they hated it, it also creeped them out. For others of us, it was like an addiction. I could really get into the role play (much like RPG is an addiction for a lot of people). But it's always kind of interesting what online things we take to, or not... For instance, as much as I chat and blog, etc I don't really care for IM all that much, and never did IRC...
Sam
I agree...
..it is interesting!! I use IM occasionally, usually with family members because none of us are good at calling each other. That is how we keep in touch - a hello here and there. LOL - I don't even know what IRC is!! And not that old, really! :-) Although, my mom tells me I'm caught in the middle. Her generation is learning all this stuff as a totally new technology. My other siblings grew up with it and don't remember otherwise. I've known both worlds. I suppose it is things like this that keep the world interesting. I mean, how boring would it be if we were all the same? :-D
Yeah, I use IM for editing
Yeah, I use IM for editing work for the magazine, but sparingly, and keep it turned off most of the time.
IRC is Internet Relay Chat, probably antiquated now, though it's still out there, and a text-based chat client. It was always too muddy for me, but I remember talking on old boards in the 80s. ;)
I loved the MOO (Lambda). You can find out more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LambdaMOO
Sam
Hi Lisa
I have both Myspace and Facebook. Most of my friends are either authors or family and close friends. I choose to accept only those people that I know. This keeps the creepy people away. I also have my page set to private. This allows only my accepted friends permission to view my page.
For authors, it can be a good promotional tool, if you choose to use it for that. Karen Kendall and Shirley Jump are also on Myspace. If you need to find out how to use Myspace to promote your books or just get the word out about a new release, you might try getting in touch with Karen or Shirley. They could probably tell you more about how authors use Myspace than I could.
Good Luck with Myspace, and take your time learning how to use the site. It gets much easier the more you use it.
As a side note, just delete all the messages you get from men trying to meet you. If you don't know who they are, don't answer them. There are a lot of good people on Myspace but, there are also a lot of strange people too.
Mads:)
I don't my space and I don't
I don't my space and I don't think I would meet anyone if I did, I'm been married for 21 years and one man is enough :)
I myspace and I really enjoy
I myspace and I really enjoy it. I've too had the men and women send me things Im really not interested in, but I just block them. For the most part, I use it alot to catch up on my favorite authors and my close friends and family.