Make Over: MySpace

Before the days of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and the like there was MySpace. I'm sure we've all had an account whether we remember our log-in info or not. Well turns out MySpace is getting a facelift.
I don't know about you but it looks AWESOME compared to all the recent and never-ending changes Facebook makes. The number of advertisements alone are enough to make "deactivate" my account.

The relaunch is based on a place for musicians to connect with their fans...we'll see how long that lasts (i.e. Facebook and college students -__-).

Forbes reports that the new MySpace “is not a social network per se but a socially-powered venue wherein music fans can experience artists through every facet of their output — music, videos, photos, profiles, social feeds, live events and ticket sales.” Chris Vanderhook goes onto say, “MySpace is the only site in the world where you can get everything an artist does if you’re interested in that artist…To do all those things would probably take you 30 different properties.”

Check out some articles below.

Forbes: MySpace Gets A Makeover, With Help From Justin Timberlake

 

WMCTV.com: It's Baaack: Myspace Plots Another Relaunch

Business Insider: Justin Timberlake's Hip New Myspace Looks Awfully Familiar

Who's going to join the movement?

-AF 

Hate is a Strong Word [4]

1. changes on FB
2. "Jack in the boxes"
3. apartment shopping

I don't know if you've noticed but it seems that every other day there's a new feature or change on Facebook. They like to sneak them in thinking we won't notice, BUT WE DO!!! I am NOT amused. I want things back to they way there were. It was just last week that I realized my "status updates" weren't even real statuses anymore. They were just comments that happen to be directed at everyone and seen on peoples timeline. KIND OF LIKE TWITTER. I already have a Twitter account, I don't need another one.
Don't get me wrong there are some changes that I like [the ones with uploading pictures and the larger albums]. But the positives are few and far between. There isn't anything I can do about it, but I just thought I'd get it off my chest.

JACK IN THE BOXES... no I'm not referencing the toys or the fast food chain [that's the name right]. A "jack in the box" is a euphamism I came up with to describe someone who JACKS your swag, ideas, life, men etc etc and trys to portray them as their own. And while doing so they hide behind a fasade, either through "friendship", great distances, different cirlces of friends etc.
They're like copy cats, but scarier. Definitely add a touch of stalker to it, like the whole fan vs stan [stalker fan] thing.
Yes I know "imitation is the best form of flattery" but REALLY! Compliments, patronage, money, those are forms of flatter I can live with. Imitation is just creepy. Obviously originality, especially in our day an again is hard to come by. And I'm in no way implying that I or anyone else is the end-all-be-all of all things. But when for example I say or do something and not even an hour later the same thing [if I'm lucky slightly changed] comes up from these "Jacks" it just puts me on edge.

UGH! This is probably one of the few times I won't enjoy "shopping". I don't know maybe it's the area I'm looking in, the time frame, the price range. Whatever the reason I have NOT been enjoying this particular search. Stressed, so much going on in my life and add on to it that I need to find housing for the fall. SMH, it's not even something I can put off for too long or just not do. The only upside to this is that I'll have my own place [preferably a two bedroom so I can have a studio for my art and sewing stuff] that I can decorate however I like.

Whelp glad to have that out of the way....

-Fembot

L. O. V. E.

Have you ever Googled it before, the word love? I was bored one day and did. There is a wealth of info online. Man it’s so easy to find stuff out. But anyway…This is what I found.

Definitions 

Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. [this is from Wiki, there was a LOT more]

love

 /lʌv/ Show Spelled [luhv] Show IPA noun, verb, loved, lov·ing. –noun
1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
[there was more, as expected, but here’s the link dictionary.com]

i think two is enough, but in my search i stumbled upon a wikiHow to on LOVE…man the internet is such a useful resource, was gonna give examples of love…but i think i’ll just include the how too [and a link at the end]. ok ok i’ll include a couple examples.

How to love

Love is both an action and a feeling. The action of love generates a blissful feeling called by the same name. When the action stops, the blissful feeling is replaced with pain. Every person is capable of great love (and its opposite, fear, which generates all painful emotions such as hate, greed and jealousy).

While there are many different ways to define love and there are many different ways to love someone (or even yourself), here is a general guide to loving.

Steps

1. Say it. When you say the words "I Love You", they should carry with them the desire to show someone that you love them, not what you simply want to feel. When you say it, make sure you really mean it and are willing to do anything for that special person.

2. Empathize. Put yourself in someone else's shoes. Rather than impose your own expectations or attempt to control them, to understand how they feel, where they come from, and who they are. Realize how they could also love you back just as well.

3. Love unconditionally. If you cannot love another person without attaching stipulations, then it is not love at all, but deep-seated opportunism (one who makes the most of an advantage, often unmindful of others). If your interest is not in the other person as such, but rather in how that person can enhance your experience of life, then it is not unconditional. If you have no intention of improving that person’s life, or allowing that person to be themselves and accepting them as they are, and not who you want them to be, then you are not striving to love them unconditionally.

4. Expect nothing in return. That doesn't mean you should allow someone to mistreat or undervalue you. It means that giving love does not guarantee receiving love. Try loving just for the sake of love. Realize that someone may have a different way of showing his or her love for you; do not expect to be loved back in exactly the same way.

5. Realize it can be lost. If you realize that you can lose the one you love, then you have a greater appreciation of what you have. Think how lucky you are to have someone to love. Don't make an idol of the person you love. This will place them under undue pressure and will likely result in you losing them.

6. Never stop loving. Even if you have been hurt before you should not stop giving love.

hi i’m the LINK

Examples of “great” love [fictitious and real]

•  Romeo and Juliet
• GOD and us [his children]
• Jennifer Anisten, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie 
• Jennifer Anisten and all her co-stars [jk]
• Marylin Monroe and JFK [ok that was a joke too]
• your parents [hopefully]

you get my point though right.

my thoughts on all this…love is fricken complicated, and i hope i don’t fuck it up :/ [the internet provided very little help in practice, but research wise it was]

~f3mb0t