How many of you use Myspace?

I have been playing around with a myspace, a blog and my webpage.

Do you link them all together? How? Do you share them all with clients, or is one more for friends etc.

Isn't MySpace a place for teenagers with nothing meaningful to do on their free time? Hardly a typical hangout for wedding photographers

Myspace sucks! I have a page just for keeping in touch with friends in other states. I have nothing but problems with that place though. Errors out all the time. Half the pictures don't load. Super slow loading of any page 90% of the time. The spamming that goes on there is horrible! I can't log on without 10 spammers hitting me with friend requests and message to join porn sites or buy a house.

Maybe a place to promote your business a little, but not to be used as your main site if you want to be considered professional. More for friends if you can put up with all the BS.

I'm on facebook, better than myspace in my opinion!
I've got some business off it actually. People post my photos I've taken of them and it goes from there.... meet up with friends I haven't seen in years... "oh you're a photographer?, do you do family portraits?" etc.

I think its a neat idea to add the brides/grooms you've worked with.

I have seen many photographers on myspace..including our own david J.

I started one, probably will just keep it active enough though...with a blog, photosharing and webiste that keeps me busy enough.

R_Metzel wrote in post #3210111
Myspace sucks! I have a page just for keeping in touch with friends in other states. I have nothing but problems with that place though. Errors out all the time. Half the pictures don't load. Super slow loading of any page 90% of the time. The spamming that goes on there is horrible! I can't log on without 10 spammers hitting me with friend requests and message to join porn sites or buy a house.

Maybe a place to promote your business a little, but not to be used as your main site if you want to be considered professional. More for friends if you can put up with all the BS.

If you make your site private, then you won't get those requests, which is the reason I made mine private, but then it's not very good for business, but I only use mine to keep in touch w/friends out of state or country, not my biz. If your pics are fairly small, then they shouldn't take too long to upload.

Myspace: The internet for people with no design sense.

Prove me wrong.

Seems that facebook is the place to be right now for the older crowd.

I tried to get excited about myspace, but it's basically the most poorly coded and bloated site on the web and I just couldn't bring myself to use it.

I have myspace and facebook. Facebook is nicer, but I have more friends on myspace, and it seems you can do more with it.

I have a myspace profile for my business and for myself. I have booked a few weddings and a all of my senior portrait sessions because of myspace.

I briefly considered the Myspace route, but then decided to invest my time in Blogger. It seems reasonably customizable and has a nice look to it. You can choose to code in it, or not (I can't), but I was up and running in about a half hour with something that I liked.

If there were a Facebook POTN network, I'd join it.

We have had a myspace page for less than 3 months. I have over 500 contacts now and have been getting inquires from it.

The trick is to make your site look nice. Make it about your BIZ not about you personally.

It is also FULL of wedding vendors. It'd be a waste to have a MySpace page and not to use it to cross-market your biz with other vendors. We've contacted wedding vendors, done cross promos, found great models, MUA, couture gown companies, caterers, etc. The more you know about your biz, the more your clients think you know your stuff. MySpace is really helpful with that too.

myspace sux