23rd July 2012
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#1 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Utah
Posts: 534
Thread Starter | But Facebook likes...
Because being liked on Facebook, will make your music career..!!  WOW .... | 
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23rd July 2012
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#2 | | Gear Guru
Joined: May 2008 Location: Mountain View, CA
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That's ultimately why all social media are doomed the same way that MySpace was. The more highly visible they become, the more they will be targeted for activity that makes their value purely specious. People will never control their urges to play such systems for their own advantage. Any amount of latitude required to make the site valuable also makes it vulnerable to abuse.
I don't use them anymore, other than some light usage of LinkedIn, just on the off chance it might be of business use. But the degree to which they allow user activity it seems to be heading in the same direction as MySpace, with lots self-pimping and spammage on the discussion groupy oriented parts of it, at least the ones I've looked at, and those are probably some of the ones least likely to suffer from that sort of thing (i.e. the most geeky ones.)
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23rd July 2012
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#3 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Aug 2007 Location: Oceania
Posts: 2,469
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Originally Posted by Joe Haze  Because being liked on Facebook, will make your music career..!! | Do I have the choice of excluding this guy?   Quote:
Originally Posted by Dean Roddey That's ultimately why all social media are doomed the same way that MySpace was... | Or the pay for play at www.mp3.com somewhat over 15-years ago...
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23rd July 2012
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#4 | | Gear nut
Joined: Dec 2007 Location: London UK
Posts: 128
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Ha ha it's Tom.
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24th July 2012
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#5 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2010 Location: USA
Posts: 2,692
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Originally Posted by Joe Haze Because being liked on Facebook, will make your music career..!! WOW .... | Bollocks!
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24th July 2012
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#6 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 2,887
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how odd this world has become
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24th July 2012
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#7 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Germany |
Does Facebook have a dislike button?
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24th July 2012
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#8 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Feb 2007 Location: Houston, Scotland
Posts: 150
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It's amazing that people still think this will make you successful. 10,000 fake likes doesn't really look good when you can see the bands posts and nobody responds to them or interacts with them.
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24th July 2012
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#9 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jul 2011 Location: florida
Posts: 1,344
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Originally Posted by erasedcitizen It's amazing that people still think this will make you successful. 10,000 fake likes doesn't really look good when you can see the bands posts and nobody responds to them or interacts with them. | same with the soundcloud follows, go to someone who has 2500 followers half of them don't have pics and there songs have 10 listens no comments! lol
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24th July 2012
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#10 | | Gear Guru
Joined: May 2008 Location: Mountain View, CA
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I think that, in the longer scheme of things, one of the most 'powerful' aspects of the internet has been that it finally created a scenario in which companies could sell back to people their own egos, on a broad scale.
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24th July 2012
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#12 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jul 2011 Location: florida
Posts: 1,344
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Originally Posted by seen-da-sizer | i have a guy who bought all his follows and likes... i just don't get it. I would rather build true fans.
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24th July 2012
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#13 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Aug 2007 Location: Oceania
Posts: 2,469
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Originally Posted by teknatronik I would rather build true fans. | +1  | |
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24th July 2012
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#14 | | Toronto Maple Leafs fan
Joined: Nov 2009 Location: Winnipeg MB
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Bands spend too much time on useless shit like this when they should be working on their craft. I shouldn't really talk though, should be recording right now.
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24th July 2012
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#15 | | Guitar/Vox of Skyway Ave.
Joined: Oct 2008 Location: Bournemouth, UK
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Check out fiverr.com, you can get LOADS of likes for 5 dollars. If you so wish. But, to each their own. I dunno if I'd prefer real likes from kids who actually like my band's music or bots. That said, FB ads were more expensive and gave me entirely bots so, really...
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24th July 2012
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#16 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Sep 2004 Location: Canuk
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When the world finds out what the Facebook scam the M.Z. is running in Mountain View there will be a huge online backlash. 
He is going to end up like the executives at News of the World "Claiming" they knew nothing about it. Now they are in deep trouble.
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24th July 2012
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#17 | | Gear addict
Joined: Jul 2012 Location: Athens
Posts: 322
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So...let me get it right!We do still need major labels for marketing or we can still believe in DIY which usually passes through social media?
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25th July 2012
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#18 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 2,887
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Originally Posted by lordward Does Facebook have a dislike button? | If they build one, I'm starting a company that sells dislikes and applies them to a competitor's page.
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25th July 2012
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#19 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Feb 2009 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,076
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I'll be all over that, like a Jackson on a dollar Quote:
Originally Posted by kennybro If they build one, I'm starting a company that sells dislikes and applies them to a competitor's page. | | |
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25th July 2012
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#20 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Germany | Quote:
Originally Posted by brockorama I'll be all over that, like a Jackson on a dollar | Me 2.
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25th July 2012
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#21 | | Gear nut
Joined: Dec 2011 Location: San Francisco | Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeTSH Check out fiverr.com, you can get LOADS of likes for 5 dollars. If you so wish. But, to each their own. I dunno if I'd prefer real likes from kids who actually like my band's music or bots. That said, FB ads were more expensive and gave me entirely bots so, really... | Wow, never saw this before. That site is full of Seriously.. you'll find some great laughs on that one!!
Myspace had multiple "buy friends" programs back in the day. I guess there is always a loophole for these sort of things.
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28th July 2012
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#22 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Utah
Posts: 534
Thread Starter |
Very crazy! I thing its all a crap. Send me a dollar, but don't "like" my page..  | |
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28th July 2012
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#23 | | Gear addict
Joined: Oct 2005 Location: west coast yo
Posts: 423
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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey the internet finally created a scenario in which companies could sell back to people their own egos, on a broad scale. | social media in a nut shell.
By the standards of 1988...everyone IS famous !
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