# Myspace - is it worth it?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 10, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594 "2013-06-10T00:34:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594/1 "2013-06-10T00:34:35Z")

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I am always looking for new music, and new platforms from which to launch my own stuff. On the face of it, Myspace sounds kinda useful. But I keep hearing not-so-positive things about it. Is it rubbish? Is it worth using? Does anyone use it any more?

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**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594/2 "2013-06-10T03:04:44Z")

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I don’t think it’s used by many anymore. bandcamp, soundcloud and youtube have kinda eaten it’s lunch as far as self publishing music goes.

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**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594/3 "2013-06-10T04:35:13Z")

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I felt like I was the last person I knew to join, and I don’t think I’ve been there since 2009. Some musicians still use it, but I don’t many use it primarily.

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**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594/4 "2013-06-10T06:18:51Z")

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…oh wow. I just visited Myspace for the first time in what seems like decades and it actually looks pretty good. And I can sign in with my facebook account.

As to whether or not its worth it or not: with social media you really need to test things to see whether or not they work for you. For my photography business Facebook has worked quite well: Google Plus is like a wasteland and no-one follows me on twitter. But others have very different experiences: and locally around here most of the bands have a myspace as their primary site followed by a facebook page. Its worth trialling just to see what sort of impact it might have: with social media you can never be quite sure what is going to take off.

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**Author:** ![Molotok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Molotok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molotok)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myspace-is-it-worth-it/660594/5 "2013-06-10T06:30:55Z")

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Yeah I guess you’re right. Everyone’s got different tastes, requirements, ability to people to their profile etc. I should just jump in and have a go. If it fails, I can just scramble it and move on. That’s my current experiment with Livejournal (who deleted my other account because I never used it…)