Hi there. I’m Gondek. Jason, the owner of this web-store asked me to be the new blogger for the site. I already have a blog called echoflip.com, but I’ve decided to start cheating on it. Based on who treats me better in the following weeks, I’ll decide if I’ll stay with my new lady here, or back to the ol’ ball and chain, echoflip.com.
I made two of the three shirts for sale here, so if you buy one, maybe HOPEFULLY Jason will finally pay me. But I doubt it. I am a freelance designer. One time my grandma made me a website. She named it mattgondek.com.
Ok enough about me. I better write something or Jason is not not going to pay me.
Um…
So, recently I’ve been writing allot about aquiring new freelance work through myspace. I’ve stumbled upon some websites that allow you to accumulate a large ammount of friends in a real short time. These people would then “supposedly” check out your myspace and notice you do freelance design.
Basically you go to one of these sites, punch in your myspace account ID to “log inâ€â€¦. Then, you can send mass friend requests to a list of everyone else who is using the site at the same time. Each request you send earns you “points†which puts your account higher up the list. Thus, other people using the site will see you on this list and friend request you back.
Also, you can spend alittle cash to become a “VIPâ€. A VIP is always at the top of the list. In addition to this, other people are enticed to add you because you are worth more points. Sneaky sneaky.
At first I was pretty gosh-darned excited about this. I make a majority of my income off myspace and thought that this was a way to increase that ammout like whoa. Then I started thinking about what I was doing.
The people on this site are just trying to boost their number of friends. They’re going to add you and probably never even look at your account. If no one looks at your account, then no one is going to buy any artwork, or order a T Shirt. Sure, it looks great to potential clients to see you have a giant ammount of friends, but in the long run, all these people would have never even visited your account. They’re like “junk friendsâ€.
My roommate brought up a valid argument however. If you have 30,000 myspace friends and you send out a bulliten, at least 100 of those people will look at it. If you’re using these bullitens to allert them of a new product you have, maybe one or two of them will buy it.
Well…
I didn’t realize this until last night, but if you have over 1,500 friends on myspace, they no longer show you bullitens. Something having to do w/ it taking up to much memory on their servers. Therefore, all those people you’re adding probably have more than 1,500 friends and are missing the bullitens anyways.
It seems that going to these sites and adding people is completely worthless, other than showing off that you have 60,000 friends
