I swear to God, the boy has fallen off the face of the earth! Anybody hear from him or know where he has been??? This board seems a little vacant without him. [img]graemlins/cry_smile.gif[/img]
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I swear to God, the boy has fallen off the face of the earth! Anybody hear from him or know where he has been??? This board seems a little vacant without him. [img]graemlins/cry_smile.gif[/img]
Carl sent him a message on myspace to which he posted a comment. Seen him online there a couple of times but as ya say he's been MIA from here since before christmas
AND "STICK"??? [img]graemlins/broken_heart.gif[/img]
Sorry Marky can't help ya with your mate Stick - saw stick on here just after Christmas but aint been any posts from that one since the answers to his/her posts about ya.
I'm looking for Raggz too. Thought he was a regular here
Raggz is a regular here. He has just been absent for about a month now. The longest he has ever been silent, by far.
Marky, you can confuse an old-timer here with looking for "Stick". I forgot about the new guy, and thought you were asking about Raggz bro "Styxxx" for a few minutes there.
I was wondering that myself. This time of the year though...ya never know. I've been pretty busy myself.
<font size="4" face="Arial">If he did move to Florida, you think he'd have time to be on these boards?Quote:
Originally posted by Stacey.:
Maybe he finally moved to Florida?
He stumbled upon the identity of 'Geoff for Sure'
and is now...ahem...wearing concrete boots?
D.
<font color="#FF0099" size="1">[ January 09, 2006 01:08 PM: Message edited by: Deviant D ]</font>
<font size="4" face="Arial">Marky, you think myspace has any future?Quote:
Originally posted by Markii Burnaway:
[b]<font size=3 color=gold>I've had a lil interaction wirh Marcus on MySpace...seemed like the same ol funny guy to me...LoL<BE>
[B]<font size=3 color=gold>MySpace could very well be a flash in the pan but itz a lot more fun than the technologically retarded EzBoards...the more they improve , the worse they seem to get..
I was actually being funny, note winky in previous post, but it does seem to be taking over a large bit from EZBoards, at least in the hookup stakes.
"Pinky Stardust," makes me think of Roz Kelly. She played Pinky on Crappy Days, plus she got her start as a Vegas dancer.
(edit: MySpace is more of a dating site disguised as a blogging one.)
<font color="#FF0099" size="1">[ January 09, 2006 03:11 PM: Message edited by: JayForSure ]</font>
<font size="4" face="Arial">Marky, you think myspace has any future?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="4" face="Arial">Jay check out this article: The numbers are staggering. It's overtaking Google on hits and the guys who started it just over 2 years ago, sold it for over 500 Million dollars!Quote:
Originally posted by JayForSure:
[b] </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="4" face="Arial">Originally posted by Markii Burnaway:
<font size=3 color=gold>I've had a lil interaction wirh Marcus on MySpace...seemed like the same ol funny guy to me...LoL<BE>
Teens hang out at MySpace
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Shanda Edstrom can't stop herself. Every day ? pretty much no matter where she is ? she's just gotta go to MySpace.
Teens post their pictures and profiles on their MySpace pages, and play music, just like in real life. Teens post their pictures and profiles on their MySpace pages, and play music, just like in real life.
www.myspace.com
Her friends are there. Her former high school classmates hang out there. Heck, these days it seems like every teen and twentysomething in the USA is there.
"I'm on it every day for like two hours at a minimum," says Edstrom, 18, of Clackamas, Ore., who works at a Kinko's in Portland. "It's just crazy."
Forget the mall. Forget the movies. Forget school. Forget even AOL. If you're a teen in America today, the place to be is the social networking site MySpace, which has virtually exploded in the past few months. (Related item: Adults question MySpace's safety)
Google just named it the top gainer for 2005, and, in only two years, MySpace has shot from zero to 47.3 million members, say founders Chris DeWolfe, 39, and Tom Anderson, 29. They launched MySpace in January 2004. In July Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million, but DeWolfe and Anderson still are CEO and president.
"This site caught us by surprise," says Pete Blackshaw of market researcher Intelliseek. "I honestly was flabbergasted by the numbers."
For those who didn't grow up with the Internet, it might seem strange to think of a mere website as an actual place. But for people like Edstrom and Michael Edwards, a high school senior from San Diego who can't remember when there was no Internet, cyberspace is a real place, even if the entry gates come in the form of a PC.
And at least these days, one's MySpace page is not just a home in that place, it's actually who they are online.
By Bob Riha, Jr., USA TODAY
Michael Edwards and Joyce Pace, high school seniors from San Diego, recorded an ode to MySpace to the tune of the Black Eyed Peas' My Humps.
"Your page is like your personality," Edwards, 17, says.
Judging from his, Edwards is a hip guy who is as much into music as he is into his family. (Two of his 10 pictures are family shots.) He likes open-minded and cool people but not nerds and liars. And he really likes Hilary Duff: He plays a song Ode to Hilary Duff on his page.
What do people do on MySpace?
They redecorate their pages, adding new pictures (often sexy). They spruce up their surroundings with new colors, backgrounds and images. Serious MySpace users brag about knowing a thing or two about HTML coding. They write poetry and put up their own art. They write about themselves.
They play music for friends and post music videos. Some are from well-known artists. Many are from virtual unknowns.
MySpace is fast becoming an avenue for musicians to reach out directly to fans and become stars.
Wired magazine recently featured the band Hawthorne Heights, which became a success after signing up with MySpace. And MySpace recently started its own record label with Hollywood Undead, a rap band that launched on MySpace in June and now has developed a MySpace following of 111,000 "friends" ? people who have joined their network.
Edwards is so into MySpace that he and fellow high school senior Joyce Pace, 18, recorded an ode to MySpace ? rewritten lyrics to the Black Eyed Peas' song My Humps? and posted it on the site.
How online hangouts stack up
In the past year, the number of visitors to MySpace (from homes, workplaces and colleges) has skyrocketed, making it the Web?s top social networking site:
MySpace.com
Nov. 2004: 4.9 million
Nov. 2005: 26.7 million
Facebook.com
Nov. 2004: N/A
Nov. 2005: 11.1 million
Xanga.com
Nov. 2004: 5.8 million
Nov. 2005: 7.9 million
Bebo.com
Nov. 2004: N/A
Nov. 2005: 1.5 million
Friendster.com
Nov. 2004: 966,000
Nov. 2005: 1.5 million
Tribe Networks Inc.
Nov. 2004: 62,000
Nov. 2005: 515,000
Linkedin.com
Nov. 2004: 123,000
Nov. 2005: 354,188
Orkut.com
Nov. 2004: N/A
Nov. 2005: 83,000
Source: comScore Media Metrix, a division of comScore Networks, Inc.
"Whatchu gonna do with all them friends, all them friends that's on your page," the song begins. "I'm m-m-m-m-make them comment, make them comment on MySpace, MySpace ... OMG (Oh My God) its MySpace, MySpace."
Then there's the purely social part of it: Instead of the antiquated teen ritual of talking on the phone for hours, MySpace members spend hour upon hour sending each other instant messages and short messages called bulletins.
But mostly what they do is cruise, big time, wandering from page to page in a tangled network that allows people to create links to one another's pages by naming each other a "friend."
The process of finding new friends ? often complete strangers ? is called "friending." And for many teens, it's the glue that makes them stick with MySpace.
"Teens are narcissistic and exhibitionist," says Anastasia Goodstein, who publishes online news and commentary site Ypulse, about Generation Y. "For teens, especially, who are going through this stage where they're constantly looking for that affirmation and validation and response for everything they are, it's just addictive."
Right place at the right time
MySpace users are often measured by the status of their friends, in the same way high school students are judged by whom they hang out with in the halls.
MySpace, says James Katz, a professor of communications at Rutgers University, "is the kind of place that in earlier generations, kids dreamed about ? where they could go and be with their friends, meet new people with similar tastes and find out what's cool, what's hot and what's not."
Of course, MySpace isn't the only place for teens to hang out online. Other sites, such as the social site Facebook, aimed at college students, and blogging sites LiveJournal and Xanga, also are popular.
But thanks to its easy-to-use tools, and being at the right place at the right time, MySpace is by far the most popular, says Peter Klaus, a marketing strategist with Fleishman-Hillard.
Web measurement company comScore Media Metrix ranked MySpace the 18th-most-visited site on the Web for November. When measured by the number of pages viewed, MySpace came in fourth, ahead of eBay and Google.
Supported through ads, MySpace is free to users, who are mostly ages 14 to 34. Membership is growing by 5 million a month, according to MySpace's numbers.
In addition to the record label, MySpace is expanding offline with local event planning ? including large-scale concerts and festivals ? and plans to bring MySpace to mobile devices and satellite radio.
Numbers aside, for hard evidence of MySpace's popularity, walk in on any teen using a PC with unrestricted Internet access and you're likely to see the chaotic world of MySpace splashed across the screen. Or turn on a popular radio station and hear the disc jockeys talk about MySpace.
It's now replacing the ritual of giving out phone numbers or even e-mail addresses.
"MySpace has gotten to the point where instead of 'What is your phone number?' it's like 'What is your MySpace profile?' " says Edwards. "Like every single person has one. It's like 'Oh, what's your MySpace page?' "
Too popular?
Pace, Edwards' song partner, says she remembers when only the hippest were on MySpace.
"Now that it's gone all mainstream, it's kind of weird," she says. "A lot of people get profiles because they feel obligated to have one. Like 'Everybody in my class has a MySpace, so I should get one, too.' " But having a MySpace profile is still OK, even if it has caught on, she says.
"It's cool in a sense, because it does help you stay connected with people who you don't really talk to, especially if they live far away."
Edstrom, who also models on the side and posts provocative pictures of herself, says MySpace has totally changed her social life.
"I go to parties and a lot of people recognize me from MySpace," she says. "Which is weird. 'Hey, you're MySpace girl.' I've gotten a lot more friends from it.
"I wasn't the popular girl in high school. And now it's like when I see those people, they know me because they know me from my MySpace. They're more inclined to talk to me then than they would be just seeing me on the street."
E-mail reporter Janet Kornblum at [email protected]
I know the damn thing is huge, I was only funning with Marky B. .
Anyone who likes the excreble Black Eyed Peas isn't even worth discussing anyway, as their brain has been killed by that sort of shit. An ex-Mouseketeer shaking her ass...isn't that something to go nuts over? [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img]
TALKED TO RAGGZ ABOUT TWO HOURS AGO .... HE SAID HE HASNT BEEN ABLE TO GET INTO GLITZINE FOR ABOUT A MONTH ... AND DONT KNOW WHY . HE WILL BE MOVING AT THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY TO BECOME A FLORIDIAN GLAM GATOR . SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT OF A TEXAS COWBOY WITH PURPLE STIRRUPS AND TIN STARS RIDING A HORSE DOWN I-10 HEADED EAST . I'D SAY I THINK HE'S CRAZY BUT I ALREADY KNOW IT .
[B]<font size=3 color-hotpink>PiNkY rules !
MySpace ...dating ? ...ludicrous..<img src="http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/icons/icon19.gif"
Maybe he finally moved to Florida?
[B]<font size=3 color=gold>I've had a lil interaction wirh Marcus on MySpace...seemed like the same ol funny guy to me...LoL<BE>
<font size="4" face="Arial">Hey, I like Happy Days.Quote:
Originally posted by JayForSure:
I was actually being funny, note winky in previous post, but it does seem to be taking over a large bit from EZBoards, at least in the hookup stakes.
"Pinky Stardust," makes me think of Roz Kelly. She played Pinky on Crappy Days, plus she got her start as a Vegas dancer.
(edit: MySpace is more of a dating site disguised as a blogging one.)
<font color="#FF0099"><font size="1">[ January 09, 2006 03:11 PM: Message edited by: JayForSure ]</font></font>
[B]<font size=3 color=hotpink>I picture you as the Fonz...
MySpace's exponential success seems to
mimic mp3.com's a bit - right place,
right time, right demographic. And like
mp3.com, no doubt the founders will fuck it
up by spending all their budget trying to
attract/sign up big stars to the site - and
making the nobodies pay for it (music down-
loads, etc.), sending them all scarpering
away back to blogger.bollox ... he says
cynically.
Like mp3.com, take away the music - which is
what they did, essentially, but forcing nobodies
to charge their friends to download their crappy
demos - and mySpace becomes pointless for most
of its users.
D.
<font size="4" face="Arial">Hey, I like Happy Days.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="4" face="Arial">Carl, SuziQ wasn't on that show until it was on its last legs [img]wink.gif[/img] . Me, I much preferred Laverne and Shirley. That show was funny on its own terms, without even thinking of Happy Days.Quote:
Originally posted by Carl I.:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="4" face="Arial">Originally posted by JayForSure:
I was actually being funny, note winky in previous post, but it does seem to be taking over a large bit from EZBoards, at least in the hookup stakes.
"Pinky Stardust," makes me think of Roz Kelly. She played Pinky on Crappy Days, plus she got her start as a Vegas dancer.
(edit: MySpace is more of a dating site disguised as a blogging one.)
<font color="#FF0099"><font size="1">[ January 09, 2006 03:11 PM: Message edited by: JayForSure ]</font></font>
Are you saying that Fonzie was some sort of Maynard G. Krebs type weird sidekick? Interesting, considering that beats hated the very music that Fonzie loved.
Fonzie was more or less a parody clone of James Dean, the misunderstood, moody type that women fall for very easily. He always felt insecure around the more well-off Cunninghams, it was obvious from his actions.
Yes, R, P, and R were sort of misfit jocks, which would make them more or less like the Alice Cooper Band! As I recall, Glen Buxton was the only real musician type in the band, and of course, he died young.
Man, are we REALLY reading this much into Happy Days??? LOL!!!
Just a simple critique [img]wink.gif[/img] !
Well, I didn't like the show due to Suzi, that was just a nice perk to go along with the show. I also didn't realize who she was at the time. I just knew I liked her a whole bunch. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
I liked Laverne and Shirley also, as long as they stay in Milwaukee. Once they up and moved to the West Coast it went to crap.
Joanie Loves Chachi though was always crap.
Markii, I had the old Fonzie doll that did the thumbs up with the lever on the back! LOL! Yeah, Fonz and Ralph were the best.
I always found the idea of a group of jocks worshipping a greaser to be preposterous. Richie, Ralph, and Potsie were lettermen, why would they worship a loner ex-biker such as Fonzie?
I knew a girl many years ago nicknamed "Fonzi."
I always took them to being a bit of an odd group, and purposely so.
None of them were all that "cool" or popular in their lettermen ways though, until years later when Anson seemed to want Potsie to actually be a suave crooner.
Ralph though was just the class clown, and Ritchie always was a bit of a dork.
Fonz kind of just fell in with them, and didn't the first season really show him to being an outsider who kind of fits in?
In high school, I was pretty much the lone Punk/Glam guy. I wore make-up, wild clothes and all that. But it was cool to be my friend. It was cool back then to have a "Punk friend", and that was me. It could have been that way in the 50's also. If the place wasn't over run with greasers, it would be kind of cool to be friends with the only one. Plus if said Greaser/Punk is actually a good guy who just wants to be himself, he is able to gain a decent amount of respect. Yeah, I had to fight quite a bit because of the way I looked, but I also had a bunch of friends.
myspace already is pointless
I found it about 9 months ago
since than it was constatly gotten slower
glitches are becoming about 50/50 chance
of hitting one
I check my messages and leave
Can't stand having to watch alittle green bar at the bottom of the screen try to fill up
every time i try to change pages
ever since it was sold,
the end has been coming people just have to stop
which is not easy cause everyone in the world has a page
<font size="4" face="Arial">Yes, Happy Days was a development of a segment of LAS. Different big brother, different father. Sure it was about the 1940s? [img]wink.gif[/img]Quote:
Originally posted by Markii Burnaway:
[b][B]<font size=3 color=gold>Let us not forget another spinoff of Happy Days...*Mork and Mindy* I like Robin Williams but the jury is out on Mork from Ork...and more useless trivia...Happy Days pilotted on the TV show *Love American Style*...
I am the *Leather Tuscadero* of MySpace http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/icons/icon17.gif
Leather Tuscadero of MySpace? Planning on taking a trip to Trinidad Colorado anytime soon? [img]wink.gif[/img]
[B]<font size=3 color=gold>Let us not forget another spinoff of Happy Days...*Mork and Mindy* I like Robin Williams but the jury is out on Mork from Ork...and more useless trivia...Happy Days pilotted on the TV show *Love American Style*...
I am the *Leather Tuscadero* of MySpace <img src="http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/icons/icon17.gif"