[Clancy]

I've never been a fan of myspace - for a few reasons, but I won't get into another rave about it here... but I do think that social networking is a good idea and would like to build that into our forum.

So, my question is... do you like the friends aspect of a myspace like site... for example, the adding of friends to each others profile (really just reciprocal linking) or do you think a better way would be just to be able to link to other members pages that you liked rather than having to approve of each other as friends. Hope that makes sense.

Also, what else do you think would be good to add onto our profile pages. I am going to be adding a comments section (that can be edited by the member). What else would you like to see? Our profile pages as they are, are pretty damn boring and it'd be great to beef them up a bit.

So any ideas?

Clancy

[allthumbs]

I don't have MySpace and don't visit them. Not enough time in the day. Too much junk to wade through.

[Clancy]

Originally Posted by allthumbs

I don't have MySpace and don't visit them. Not enough time in the day. Too much junk to wade through.

I don't blame you Marty. Patterned backgrounds, flashing graphics, unstructured pages and music loading automatically is enough to give anyone a headache... but I'm more looking for suggestions on what could be added onto our profile pages here to make our site more interactive and interesting.

Clancy

[6string]

Originally Posted by Clancy

loading automatically is enough to give anyone a headache...
Clancy

the midi music drives me nuts.

What about the way youtube is set up, you can befriend someone
which gives access to designated videos in the friend group, or
if the videos are for all to see and you like a particular one you can just 'favour' it without asking permission, or subscribed to the whole thing.

[Clancy]

Originally Posted by 6string

the midi music drives me nuts.

What about the way youtube is set up, you can befriend someone
which gives access to designated videos in the friend group, or
if the videos are for all to see and you like a particular one you can just 'favour' it without asking permission, or subscribed to the whole thing.

Hmm, tricky... I don't know if I could set that up... I have another part to the forum that I'm working on at the moment which will link in with the profile and show all uploaded music of that member, but I'm not sure how to set it up so that if a member adds new music the friend would be notified... but it's a great idea.

Clancy

[6string]

Originally Posted by Clancy

but I'm not sure how to set it up so that if a member adds new music the friend would be notified... but it's a great idea.
Clancy

I probably don't know what I'm talking about (okay I definitely don't know), how about the profile links to a thread that has all the persons music in it and the friend just subscribes to the thread (without posting). The particular thread is restricted, only the owner can post music links in it.??

[Hilch]

I have my space , ok its only so my friends can keep up with whats going on with my guitar playing . The problem is I get some very weird messages from people I don't know and people asking to be my friend that I have never seen or met through forums .

Currently on my space there is Elle singing "Shes' a Chimp " and 2 guys and me playing some rock and roll from another forum , Kenny I always forget his user name here X4 something I think { sorry Kenny} ,Elle singing "Kiss Me". I had Eddie singing Everbody Lies on there . I only put songs on there that
A. I wrote
B. I played on
C. I sang on { thats scarey }

As for friends they are all people I have converse with on a regular basis , even my son wanted me to add him so I did . I am hopeing he will let me record him playing soon , I heard him playing "Your Beautiful " by James Blunt last night and it was beautiful I must say ..

My space is what you want it to be in my opinion , I can add a song there send a quick email to a friend and they just open my space up and see how my song writting is going or my playing for that matter , I try not to sing as I don't want to damage peoples hearing ..

What would be very kool Clancy {No E } I think would be if you could put a face to a name avatars are great but its like talking to a monkey if thats they avatar they have { pun intended }is a monkey also if I was to click say on your profile Clancy , it would be nice to hear your playing / singing or something { hope you get my meaning } ..

Just my demented thoughts
Trev


Trev

[Clancy]

Well the friends you would add here would only be members of this forum hilch... it wouldn't be as open as myspace... I was just using myspace as an example of social networking and how their friends system worked.

Clancy

[Rockerbob]

My space is rockerbob.com

[Clancy]

Originally Posted by Rockerbob

My space is rockerbob.com

Spammer!!!!

[Hilch]

I realise that Clancy , but just wanted to point out that the friends aspect of my space is very flawed .

Would there be away of personalising { hope I spelt that one right}
Each members page ? Like a member could add their own theme maybe when one clicks on their profile . Just throwing up " IDEAS "

Trev .

[Clancy]

Originally Posted by hilch

I realise that Clancy , but just wanted to point out that the friends aspect of my space is very flawed .

Would there be away of personalising { hope I spelt that one right}
Each members page ? Like a member could add their own theme maybe when one clicks on their profile . Just throwing up " IDEAS "

Trev .

Yeah, I agree it is flawed, that's why I have my reservations about introducing it here using the same way of doing things... we can have it so that a member (for example me) wants to add say Rockerbob or Hilch or Lcjones or anyone to my profile page as members I would like to link to... but it doesn't send them anything so that they have to add me to their profile... it just says that I like their music or I think it's worth checking out their profile because I think they're cool - The friends thing only works (as far as I know) when you accept them as your friend too... I've always seen this as a little lame and open for spammers and self-promoters.

Do you mean theme as is background image hilch?

Clancy

[eddiez152]

Clancy,
I have my space, but really do not know how to use it well. Besides,
my interest is mainly in the guitar spectrum and people who can relate to the subject or music. It would be nice not to have to link to another site.

[Hilch]

Do you mean theme as is background image hilch?

Yes Clancy , I don't know if that would be possible but I do think it would be nice though . I know this is a music site and all but like that song goes ..
Its the little things
The little things
To me they mean alot


Ahh thats all I know , If you clicked on my profile and say I had a view from my mates place over looking the pacific ocean out to Great Keppel Island , and you hear lil ol Hilch picking some poor guitar ..Just a thought
Trev

[Clancy]

Originally Posted by hilch

Do you mean theme as is background image hilch?

Yes Clancy , I don't know if that would be possible but I do think it would be nice though . I know this is a music site and all but like that song goes ..
Its the little things
The little things
To me they mean alot


Ahh thats all I know , If you clicked on my profile and say I had a view from my mates place over looking the pacific ocean out to Great Keppel Island , and you hear lil ol Hilch picking some poor guitar ..Just a thought
Trev

We can add a photo gallery with more photos of each member showing up on their profile page, but the photo background images (that repeat as a background image) really make the text on a page hard to read and anything else on the page hard to see... that's one of the things about myspace that I really don't like... I know a lot of people like it... but to me it takes away from getting what's important across to the viewer. The content.

Clancy