For Bloggers and Friendburst members.
Months ago, while Myspace was in the process of changing our beloved profiles into 3.0 madness, a blog was posted to gather up our grievances about the new improved my____ . Many people commented and gave their input. Sean Percival showed up and took it all in. He wanted the peoples top three ideas for improvement so that he could take it back to the boss and say here… This is what the people want.
Within about a week, our profiles had been changed completely over.
There were no more back doors to get to our old familiar blogs. We were left with this small area, without customization, without subscriptions ,without the ability to preview a blog we posted, without blog notifications, and the comments had been changed so that the last comment made appeared first.
WTF!!!!
Now how could that have happened?
Ninety percent of the people on that very blog expressed major concern over the blogging format.
WE SURE AS HELL DIDN’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM TELLING THEM WHAT WE WANTED!
WHY WERE THEY NOT GIVING US WHAT WE WANTED?
When we said “WTF?” to the fat cats at Myspace, they replied……
“Well we didn’t get to the bloggers this time around. “
” We gathered data from our demographics and bloggers were low on the list” <—in red, explain later.
During an interview, Mike Jones briefly stated, we had to work with what we thought would turn the company around. and….. ( this is important) We had to know what to let go.
THEY LET US GO.
AND
WE WERE POWERLESS
TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I was completely baffled by his remark! I mean not that many people even go to myspace anymore. The one positive thing it had going for it was its blogging platform with a built in audience. Facebook didn’t have that. The people who flocked to Facebook always came back to myspace to blog. Why did they destroy the one thing that made them superior and unique from all the rest. Why did they scrap that one positive thing?
Why?
When we turn on our computer in the morning , after we’ve checked messages and accepted friend requests, what do we do next?
We hit the blogs. We go to our subscription list and to see what our friends have posted. If we couldn’t find what we wanted we would go to the top blogs and look for it there. We posted blogs ourselves. We posted comments and replies out the yazoo. Some were heartfelt, some were intelligent discussions, and some were just bitch slapping that friggen cow we hated so much. We posted lols, omg’s, idk’s, tff’s, no u’s, wtf’s and every possible abbreviation known to man. We posted pictures of our enemy’s face on a foot long female’s hoo haa and the dweeb of the hour was doing disgusting things to animals all with a little help from photoshop.
OH MY GAWD
there are no limitations with
the
POWER
of
PHOTOSHOP.
We fought the good fight, and won.
We fought a shit fight but miraculously ………
*A mysterious unknown person having nothing to do with with anyone or anything…. at all…. omg! omg! omg!…. reported the profile to myspace for deletion.*
WIN!!
by DEFAULT
When we had our fill of blogging for the day…
what did we do?
well DUH!
we logged off.
Now, more importantly … What didn’t we do? See that remark up there in red letters? That shit about demographics. Here, I’ll post it again.
” We gathered data from our demographics and bloggers were low on the list”
Wanna know what its about?
COLD HARD CASH.
It would seem that we, THE BLOGGERS, were LOW on that list because
we weren’t bringing in any revenue….that COLD HARD CASH. In short…. we were not clicking
on
the
ADVERTISMENTS
I mean why the hell would we want to click on a Wendys link to completely
understand the value of a meal for ninety nine cents, when we could be in hardcore debate about
the pros and cons of fapping in public?
What possible benifit can we gain from clicking on a link that tells you how to toss a salad,
when we could be tossing someones ass out of the myspace blogosphere and
send them crawling to facebook.
Is your profile naked?
Click here and check out our faaaaaaaaaaaabulous…………..
GLITTER GRAPHICS!!!!
YAY!… SIS BOOM BAH! ….HOORAY!….YIPPY SKIPPY DOOOOOOOO!
um, no thanks.
So here we are, myspace refugees, at
FRIENDBURST.
And like before we are asking for improvements such as..
reply button on the blogs
a wider space to blog in
less clutter in the blogging area
wider comment section
emoticons in the blog comments
this is just a few of the request, I’m sure you can recall more.
did we get them?
yes
almost immediately
We want more
subscription lists
which gives us more privacy
so we are afforded more freedoms with the tone and content of our blogs
notification of blog comments
the ability to customize our blog background
WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE?
COLD
HARD
CASH
and how do we do that?
By merely clicking on the advertisements.
If everyone here, and that’s roughly 1500 people, would take the
time to click on the advertisements at the bottom of the page and do it
every time they sign in, we would have basically what we want.
Just clicking, not necessarily buying brings in revenue.
Buying something from the FriendBurst store brings in a lot more.
It cost Myspace over a million dollars a month for a server.
They were bleeding out money and looking everywhere for revenue.
We asked them for a better blogging arena. They refused give it to us and simply said….
” We gathered data from our demographics and bloggers were low on the list”
We have the power literally in our fingertips to keep that from happening again.
We have the power to get the things we want and keep this place running.
WE ARE NOT POWERLESS
spread the word , post other blogs about it,
and thanks for reading.
” I gathered data from our demographics and MySpace and Sean Percival were low on the list”
😉
Okay! 😀
*2 Kudos* **Siskel and Ebert two thumbs up**
I had been contemplating composing a message to one of my superiors in the NWO regarding this very thing. Your public message has made this unnecessary, and thus freed up some valuable time for other important activities; namely trolling and fapping. In return for this, I will do my part to get on board, in a consistent manner…. And submit for you some of my favorite fapping material; may it also bring you happiness:
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Great blog, made a lot of sense.
What a load of bollocks. Most people never click the adverts. You will click if the product has relevance to you. An example if your fridge fails you will see every advert for a fridge until you buy one after you have bought the fridge you will still see every one for about 6 months at which point your interest in fridges is over. The owners of this site need to get membership and readers and then sell that readership. That is the hard issue but K&K have some advantages. I have brought new members and I will bring a few more. I am recruiting hard because I want this venture to succeed. My last tonight MySpace blog
“Sabrina Phillips Catwoman and Vhision ( Not to mention a few others )
I like smart women and all three are smart. Sabrina is right wing and a woman I love discussing politics with. I miss her and I want her back. Cat Woman is probably appalled by my left wing stance but she is much closer to the left position than Sabrina and she is another very smart woman who I am missing. Last but never least is my mate Vhision who I have never really heard get political but is a fabulous blogger.
I want to see you at FriendBurst you bad women. I miss you all and I hate that I spend time composing thoughtful replys to your blogs that MySpace won’t post.
Can I respectfully suggest you get of your bums and make the move. I intend to keep naming and shaming something that Serendipity might want to think about along with quite a few other bloggers. Yup I am talking about you Grace and you Divinia. Lady Ginger and Pele can also expect to feel the Hamish boot. Cassandra where the hell are you ?
Brandi and Precius my eye is looking in your direction.
Oh and my three very bright underage girls one with Brown Eyes another who Writes at Night and the third Rocio excuse me but all 3 of you are ment to be early adopters ? WTF . Hell all of us old people have done it.
Don’t for a second think I am just going to smack the women excuse me Richard and Richard ? or the young are you awake yet Auntie Mimi and as for you Barack I don’t think that running America is any reason not to get of your backside and sign up.
You non bloggers will be delt with soon.
Oh Carlie. I haven’t forgotton you this time either ”
Deliver a market first.
G*ddamn, hamish, how will they be able to resist that charm?! Imagine! My old friend, Karlie… Here! Brings back warm memories…
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Rupert Murdoch tried to sail Myspace on autopilot, like he does with all his other web investments. The blogging niche was already well established there. All they had to do was use that to their advantage and lord forbid, get innovative with things. But instead they shot for the pop culture teeny-bopper demographic. A demographic that changes it’s mind once ever two months (in sync with pop culture trends). They traded out the guaranteed demographic of us dinosaur bloggers for a quick fix demographic that they couldn’t harness to begin with. This is what happens when you’ve got a boardroom full of idiots making the decisions. People who are surrounded by so many Yes-men, they’ve lost all touch with reality.
excellent blog Robbie
Ah, NewscorpSpace. Bad business decisions right down the line. It didn’t help when they put their servers on top of an old Indian burial ground or Tom Anderson ran over that Gypsy while in a children’s cough syrup induced stupor. OK, I’ll click an ad now.
Haven’t been there for a little while myself, but Musician’s Friend was always a good place to visit. Well, for musicians. I don’t think there is a place called Screaming Fisherman’s Friend, but Hamish could always visit Amazon for a book on winning hearts and minds.
I’ve gotten into the habit of clicking on the adverts at some point while I’m on. Clicking on 3 or 4 of them each time I’m on takes a total 30 seconds or so. Not that big of a deal. I think I can spare the time to keep this place going.
Robbie strikes again!
Your suggestions have been duly noted.
Done and doner.
Great job, Robbie!
Hey Kev, take note: Top on the bloggers list for what we want: a blog control panel with subscriptions & notifications of new comments, and we’re willing to click on advertisers to get it!
you got it, why not? kevin’s a good guy, i’d like to see him succeed:-)
To a degree, I agree. Advertisers pay attention to where the hits to their ads come from.
But advertisers are not stupid and they’re all about the cash, too. Sooner or later somebody’s gonna scratching their head and saying, “We get all these hits from Friendburst, but they never buy anything.”
Thanks Robbie, it only takes a few minutes out of our day to go clicky clicky on the ads and has so much benefit. Besides, we might actually stumble upon something we are interested in.
Excellent!! I was reading a blog on my_____ and spotted a site called Friendburst so decided to sign up. I liked this site immediately! No clutter, easy to read, easy to get into, no lagging, no junk on one’s own profile page. Many thanks to the person(s) who created this site. 😀
Excellent write Robbie! I am glad to see you blogging more often. I agree with you completely. The ads at the bottom are for amazon.com and I do spend quite a bit of time on there sometimes shopping, other times comparing prices etc and lately I have been going to the site through the links here rather than the link I have bookmarked, just as easy. MySpace is dead and just about gone. Since they screwed up the entire site they have laid off 47% of their workforce so much for “new and improved” more like crap and garbage and it’s cost people their jobs. As long as we take 5 mins to support this site by clicking on the ads on the bottom (who doesn’t love amazon.com) we will be helping this place go a long way to being the site we truly want it to be. 😀
You said “Toss a salad” heheh
I’ma clickin’! 😉
Thought you said you couldn’t blog…hogwash. Great job.
Great blog! Will do a bit of ad clicking! 😉
I asked Kevin if at some point we could get a counter so I could see how many viewers I had besides the comments. No kidding, within 5 minutes it was done. Unreal.
I agree with you about the ads. Click away, folks!
Thanks for the explanation. I wondered why MySpace killed blogging and what you say makes sense from their idiotic and short-sighted perspective. So my question to MySpace is, “How many people are clicking on ads now that no one is there?” As far as I can tell the only activity is from links to what people put on Twitter and elsewhere.
I really feel sorry for all the musicians. That was the other great thing about MySpace. It has been a great place to discover new music and unsigned artists.