advertising and its lovely complications

When you have a product you obviously want it presented and any free promotion you can find is obviously desirable right?
Well, one great market that advertising is hugely active in is the world of Myspace. The question is what is cool to use and is really fair game and what is uncool? Often bands or companies messages massive quantities of people presenting their music, show, or product. Many people flip out in anger that it is SPAM!!! However, sometimes these messages are personalized based on information that involves much of your profile. I personally think the random duplicate message are almost surely classifiable as spam, but what about the messages with personal attention? Really myspace is a place for networking and friendmaking so couldn't a message like that be placed in the same category as a hello message stating the interest in talking to someone?

It has been clearly defined that emails from random sources are spam, but with a networking world such as myspace what do you do because while some people are absolutely against a message from a stranger, isn't that the same thing that you see on television called a commercial that alot of people DON'T WANT TO WATCH? I have thought about this a lot and one idea i thought about was...What if on your page you could choose whether to allow messages from people you didn't add or not, wait that is an option! That means that people that don't want the messages can prevent them, however i do sympathize the technologically challenged somewhat...ok enough sympathy, figure it out already. If you are going to be on myspace you better be ready for complex technology because it employs all sorts of multimedia and linked pages!

When dealing with music the purpose of myspace is to be able to be heard and get your name out there. Here's to the creation of filling out a section of musical preferences to be added to your personalization of your profile so you can only receive messages for your style of music!!!

Chris Lundeen