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Post by hazardous on Nov 6, 2009 6:08:18 GMT
It's a ghostown in here.
I've been too busy with recording and work, but what are all your excuses? ;D
Word!
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Post by Darren E on Nov 6, 2009 12:43:15 GMT
Facebook?
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Post by hazardous on Nov 6, 2009 16:53:05 GMT
Perhaps you'd like to follow me on twitter? Here's a sample hazardous: Hmmm, I feel a dump brewing...I'll hold off until after the hockey game hazardous: I wish my ears would stop ringing hazardous: I guess I'll go rake the leaves hazardous: Hi all, I'm deleting my account due to one follower and I've realized a magnified view of my life is too fascinating to post on the internet. ;D
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Post by Hud on Nov 6, 2009 17:23:49 GMT
FaceBoak, loads of people who never would have made it through the door at a party. yet you want them to know what you had for tea on Tuesday. Fuck that. Theres reasons i never kept in touch with these people. This is easier you lot won't be offended if i don't invite you for Xmas dinner. H
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Post by Stace on Nov 8, 2009 14:34:49 GMT
Yeah, it has been pretty quiet around here lately, but the number of visitors suggest that folks are still checking in.
The fact that people don't need to log in to read is the thing. Either people don't have anything interesting to share these days, or as D suggested, they've chosen to share their lives on other networks.
Personally, I tend to use Facebook more, and Myspace is dwindling apart from Band-spamming. Twitter is something I vow not to do. But then I did say that about Myspace, back in the day when LiveJournal was the place to be.
These peaks and troughs come and go, but hopefully people will find their way back when the next fad is over.
Where did everyone go? I've been using up my annual leave over the past month or so. At the end of September I spent a few days in Helsinki, catching a gig by a Finnish band called Apulanta, and having a few beers with Jemina. This last week I've been over to Madrid for a bit, catching a D*A*D gig and hanging out with old Glitz buddy Isabel (aka Magenta) and her other half Jèsus. Had a great time and thank them for their hospitality.
As for eveyone else...dunno!
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Post by vidboy on Nov 9, 2009 3:26:14 GMT
I still check in just to hear what Sandy has to say since we never see each other in person anymore.
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Post by chrisdamien on Nov 9, 2009 10:49:27 GMT
I still log in almost every morning, but there's so little action that I almost stopped posting. Nothing big to share bandwise yet and don't have too many punk/ sleaze or glam questions at the moment.
So that's about it, really.
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Post by Darren E on Nov 9, 2009 14:51:04 GMT
My Facebookers -- all 59 of them -- are ex-school, college and uni mates. We're all now mid - late 30s and really happy to have found each other again.
I predict Glitzinet would be more industrious if it shifted wholesale to Facebook. I could be wrong.
D.
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Post by chrisdamien on Nov 9, 2009 16:38:55 GMT
My Facebookers -- all 59 of them -- are ex-school, college and uni mates. We're all now mid - late 30s and really happy to have found each other again. I predict Glitzinet would be more industrious if it shifted wholesale to Facebook. I could be wrong. D. It might be, but to me it seems like most FB groups are pretty dead.
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Post by carl on Nov 9, 2009 19:05:21 GMT
My Facebookers -- all 59 of them -- are ex-school, college and uni mates. We're all now mid - late 30s and really happy to have found each other again. I predict Glitzinet would be more industrious if it shifted wholesale to Facebook. I could be wrong. D. I think I would be one of your Facebook folks...and I've never been to Wales...or outside of the U.S. for that matter. So obviously you also have included the exceedingly cool people into your Facebook crowd. I still check in here most days, but I rarely have diddly squat to say. Not so sure how to get things back on track. For me it is just, as much as I hate to say it, kind of a struggle just to stay interested anymore.
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Post by gunstone on Nov 11, 2009 14:01:03 GMT
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Post by Darren E on Nov 12, 2009 11:46:18 GMT
My Facebookers -- all 59 of them -- are ex-school, college and uni mates. We're all now mid - late 30s and really happy to have found each other again. I predict Glitzinet would be more industrious if it shifted wholesale to Facebook. I could be wrong. D. I think I would be one of your Facebook folks...and I've never been to Wales...or outside of the U.S. for that matter. So obviously you also have included the exceedingly cool people into your Facebook crowd. There's always one that slips through the net, eh? I disallow ongoing project clients, family, office colleagues and school friends I never liked the first time around. The Facebook experience seems a lot more funner that way, plus I get to whinge having to talk about it in the pub or similar a few days later. I think this kind of forum/communication structure -- much like a lot of media platforms, including telly -- is dying, losing it's appeal. One thing everything liked about GNet v.1 was the speed of the platform and convos-- mostly because it was a glorified IRC channel, I suppose. On my phone Facebook is one click but logging in to GNet is a chore, especially with Opera Mini browser. -- And I'm a busy guy -- there's meetings to meet and biscuits to eat. I haven't got time for all this computer bollox. Were we all dipping in and out of GNet on FB using phones, laptops on wi-fi, online games consoles etc. it might be as busy as the old days? D.
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Post by carl on Nov 12, 2009 18:18:19 GMT
Nah, I think it would still be a bit of a ghost town. FB and the like allows you to only deal with the people you wish, and they have to discuss the only topic that matters to many people: themselves.
Plus, I seriously think this genre is a dying genre. The lines have blurred too much.
Plus, FB has Farmville and bullshit like that, and I think the only reason people join it anymore is to play games. It's become the gaming platform for the non-gamers.
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Post by Gav Ruadh on Nov 12, 2009 19:24:50 GMT
I suppose that when you consider that most of us joined Glitzinet back in 2001.... a lot has changed since then! 8 years!
Facebook is beating myspace mainly due to the fact that FB works really well on mobile phones. myspace mobile just allows you to do the bare minimum of inbox, comment and friend requests. It needs to catch up!
As for the state of the genre, unfortunately you have to wade through a lot to find good stuff. "The Dirt" book unfortunately inspired far too many shit Crue-clones that wanted to be Oasis before that book came out. There's still great stuff out there that holds up against the 80s-90s stuff very well, if not better on some occaisions.
I dunno, it's all "adapt & survive" even more these days with the changes in technology.
I get the most disheartened when I'm at a rock pub/club or a gig and see a fraction of the people that used to turn out. The new generation aren't rising up. Their social scene seems limited to Twitter.....
What is the world coming to?!
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Post by hazardous on Nov 13, 2009 20:42:36 GMT
Nah, I think it would still be a bit of a ghost town. FB and the like allows you to only deal with the people you wish, and they have to discuss the only topic that matters to many people: themselves. . I'd agree with you Carl. You'll hardly get much discussion/debate when you have all like minded people that you pre-determine to have those discussions with. Have "you" become disinterested in music? or. As for lines blurring, Glitz has been like that for quite some time, discussions about glam, punk, power pop, pop punk etc...so not too sure what you meant by that?
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