{"id":11373,"date":"2011-01-16T04:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11373\/bloggers-friendburst-members\/"},"modified":"2011-01-16T04:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T09:40:10","slug":"bloggers-friendburst-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/11373\/bloggers-friendburst-members\/","title":{"rendered":"For Bloggers and Friendburst members."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Months ago,\u00a0while Myspace\u00a0was in the process of changing\u00a0 our beloved profiles into 3.0 madness,\u00a0\u00a0 a blog was posted\u00a0 to gather up our grievances\u00a0 about the\u00a0 new improved<\/em>\u00a0 my____ .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many people\u00a0commented \u00a0and gave their input.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sean Percival showed up and took it all in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He\u00a0 wanted \u00a0the peoples top three \u00a0ideas for improvement \u00a0so that he could take it back to the boss and say here… This is what the people want.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Within about a week, our profiles had been changed completely over.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0There were no more back doors to get to our old familiar blogs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were left with this small area, without customization, without subscriptions ,without\u00a0the ability to preview a blog we posted, without blog notifications, \u00a0and the comments had been changed so that the last comment made appeared first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WTF!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now how could that have happened?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Ninety percent of the people\u00a0 on that very \u00a0blog expressed\u00a0 major concern over the blogging format.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WE SURE AS HELL DIDN’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM TELLING\u00a0THEM WHAT WE WANTED!<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY WERE THEY\u00a0NOT GIVING US WHAT WE WANTED?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we\u00a0said \u00a0“WTF?”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0to the\u00a0fat cats at Myspace, they replied……\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0“Well we didn’t get to the bloggers this time around. “<\/span><\/p>\n

” We gathered\u00a0data from our demographics and bloggers were low on the list” <—in red, explain later. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 During an interview, Mike Jones briefly stated, we had to work with what we thought would\u00a0turn the company around. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and….. ( this is important)\u00a0\u00a0 We had to know what to let go. <\/span><\/p>\n

THEY LET US GO.<\/span><\/p>\n

AND<\/span><\/p>\n

WE WERE POWERLESS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was completely\u00a0baffled by his remark!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I mean not that many people even go to myspace anymore.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0one\u00a0positive thing\u00a0it had going for it was\u00a0\u00a0its \u00a0blogging platform with a built in audience.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook didn’t have that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The people who flocked to\u00a0Facebook always came back to myspace to blog.\u00a0 \u00a0 Why did they destroy the one thing that made them\u00a0superior and unique from\u00a0 all the\u00a0rest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Why did they scrap that one positive thing?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 When\u00a0we turn on\u00a0our computer in the morning ,\u00a0after\u00a0we’ve checked messages and accepted friend requests, what do\u00a0we do next?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 We hit the blogs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u00a0go to our subscription list and\u00a0to see what our friends have posted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If we couldn’t find what we wanted we would go to the top blogs and look for it there.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We posted blogs ourselves.\u00a0\u00a0 We posted comments and replies out the yazoo.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some were heartfelt,\u00a0some were intelligent discussions,\u00a0\u00a0and some\u00a0were just bitch slapping that friggen cow we hated so much. \u00a0 We posted lols, omg’s, idk’s, tff’s, \u00a0no u’s,\u00a0wtf’s\u00a0and every possible abbreviation known to man.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We posted pictures of our\u00a0enemy’s face on a foot long\u00a0female’s hoo haa\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0dweeb of the hour \u00a0was \u00a0doing disgusting things to animals all with a little help from photoshop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OH MY GAWD\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

there\u00a0are no limitations with<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0the <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

POWER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PHOTOSHOP.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0We fought the good fight, and won.<\/span><\/p>\n

We fought a\u00a0shit fight but\u00a0miraculously\u00a0………\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

*A mysterious unknown person having nothing to do with with anyone or\u00a0anything….\u00a0at all…. omg! omg! omg!….\u00a0 reported the profile to myspace for deletion.*<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

WIN!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

by DEFAULT\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0When we had our fill of blogging for the day… <\/span><\/p>\n

what did we do?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

well \u00a0DUH!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

we logged off. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, \u00a0more importantly … What didn’t we do?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See that remark up there in red letters?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That shit about demographics.\u00a0\u00a0Here, I’ll post it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

” We gathered\u00a0data from our demographics and bloggers were low on the list”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Wanna know what its about?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 COLD\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0HARD\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0CASH.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It would seem that we, THE BLOGGERS, \u00a0were\u00a0LOW on that list because <\/span><\/p>\n

we weren’t bringing\u00a0in any revenue….that\u00a0 COLD HARD CASH.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In short….\u00a0we were not clicking <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

on<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0the<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ADVERTISMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I mean why the hell would we want to\u00a0click on a\u00a0\u00a0Wendys link to completely <\/span><\/p>\n

understand the\u00a0<\/span>value\u00a0 of a meal for ninety nine cents, when\u00a0we could be in hardcore debate about<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>the pros and cons of fapping in public?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What possible benifit can we gain from clicking on a link that tells you how to toss a salad, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

when\u00a0we could be\u00a0 tossing someones ass out of the myspace blogosphere and<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

send them crawling to facebook.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is your profile naked?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Click here and\u00a0 check out our faaaaaaaaaaaabulous…………..<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0GLITTER GRAPHICS!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

YAY!… SIS BOOM BAH! ….HOORAY!….YIPPY SKIPPY DOOOOOOOO<\/span>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

um, no thanks. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So here we are, myspace refugees, at\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FRIENDBURST.<\/span><\/p>\n

And like before we are asking for improvements such as..<\/span><\/p>\n

reply button on the blogs<\/span><\/p>\n

a wider space to blog in<\/span><\/p>\n

less\u00a0clutter in the blogging area<\/span><\/p>\n

wider comment section<\/span><\/p>\n

emoticons\u00a0in the blog comments<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 this is just a few of the request, I’m sure you can recall more.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

did we get them?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

yes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

almost immediately<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We want more<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

subscription lists<\/span><\/p>\n

which gives us more privacy <\/span><\/p>\n

so we are afforded\u00a0 more freedoms with the tone and content of our blogs<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>notification of blog comments<\/span><\/p>\n

the ability to customize our blog background<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

COLD <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

HARD<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

CASH<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

and how do we do that?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By merely clicking on the advertisements.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If everyone here, and that’s roughly 1500 people, would\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0take the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0time to click on the advertisements at the bottom of the page and do it<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

every time they sign in<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0 we would have basically what we want.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just\u00a0\u00a0clicking, not necessarily buying brings in revenue.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Buying something from the FriendBurst store\u00a0brings in a lot more. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It cost Myspace over a million dollars a month for a server.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They were bleeding out money and looking everywhere for revenue.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We asked them for a better blogging arena.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They refused\u00a0 give it to us and simply said….<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>” We gathered\u00a0data from our demographics and bloggers were low on the list”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

We have the power<\/strong><\/span> literally in our fingertips to keep that from happening again. <\/span><\/p>\n

We have the power<\/span><\/strong> to get the things we want and keep this place running.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WE ARE NOT POWERLESS<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

spread the word\u00a0,\u00a0post other blogs about it,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0and thanks for reading. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Months ago,\u00a0while Myspace\u00a0was in the process of changing\u00a0 our beloved profiles into 3.0 madness,\u00a0\u00a0 a blog was posted\u00a0 to gather up our grievances\u00a0 about the\u00a0 new improved\u00a0 my____ .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many people\u00a0commented \u00a0and gave their input.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sean Percival showed up and took it all in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He\u00a0 wanted \u00a0the peoples top three \u00a0ideas for improvement \u00a0so that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}