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	<title>Brian D. Hawkins &#187; Social Media</title>
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		<title>MySpace Sucks! Should I Flush It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Hawkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySpace seems to be dead, put in the dirt by Facebook. The site is over run by teenagers (I know, they were first) and online whores but it always was. So what changed? For one thing I feel like I&#8217;m going into an epileptic seizure with all the flashing banners and ads everywhere. That&#8217;s after [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/extremeezine" target="_blank">MySpace</a> seems to be dead, put in the dirt by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Hawkins/676057430" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. The site is over run by teenagers (<span style="font-style: italic;">I know, they were first</span>) and online whores but it always was. So what changed? For one thing I feel like I&#8217;m going into an epileptic seizure with all the flashing banners and ads everywhere. That&#8217;s after waiting ten minutes for the page to load.</p>
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<p>The purpose of this post was going to be about using my MySpace friends as a starting point when developing your own MySpace page if you are new to it and looking for marketers. It took less than a minute to understand why I don&#8217;t log in any more &#8211; MySpace sucks! MySpace is a very boring place right now but I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll get a clue and improve it so my past efforts don&#8217;t go to waste. I actually had my profile page up to a PR of 5 when I was on there promoting everyday. That was when <a href="http://extremeezine.com/" target="_blank">ExtremeEzine</a> was 05/10 too. Yep, the good ol&#8217; days.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty selective who I&#8217;ve accepted as a MySpace friend over the years. From the beginning I decided to limit those friends to other internet marketers and online business owners. I wasn&#8217;t interested in big boob bimbos and rock star wannabes, I wanted to stay within my niche. I know 600 MySpace friends is tiny but, like I said, I was very selective and never used automated crap to build the list.</p>
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<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Should I Flush MySpace?</span></big><br />
 I&#8217;m wondering if I shouldn&#8217;t just cut my loses and drop MySpace altogether. I have enough time-wasters. What do you think, should I flush MySpace?</p>
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<p>Feel free to send me a friend request and next month when I log in again I&#8217;ll probably accept the invitation. At this point it&#8217;s better to just concentrate on FaceBook I guess. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Hawkins/676057430" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s mine</a>, what&#8217;s yours? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Feel free to add your facebook link in your comment.</span></p>
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