Face Book how too?

Yeah, Facebook is pretty evil (and lame). I'd abandon it altogether but now all my friends and family write me there instead of e-mailing me so I'm trapped there. Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in! Avoid it altogether if you can. Can't you use myspace instead? Much better site for musicians.

no - when it wants to search your email account for addresses - it's going to search for "friends" for you to invite on facebook with those email addresses.

I wasn't even aware that facebook had a "musician" type - I know myspace does that, but maybe I had my facebook account before they started the musician type of account. I don't understand that anyway - why don't they just make them the same account types and let you choose whether to put music up or not???

I've only been a FaceBook member for a couple of months, but to me it looks like musicians can be groups or "pages", which are different than normal user profiles. Facebook users can become members of those groups or fans of those pages. But it's not like MySpace where you are either a person or a band.

There are several ways to get your music in your FaceBook. On my page, I used a FaceBook "application" called MyStuff, which adds a tab to my profile. If a user clicks that tab, they can see whatever I put in there. I can add HTML code that links to pictures or videos, and in my case, I've embedded the SoundClick player with my music ready to play. The problem is that when someone views my profile, it's not obvious that they must click on a tab to get to my music.

But there are FaceBook applications that can use a "myTunes" player that is presented on the user's main profile page, and you can load the player with your own songs if they're on iTunes.

In general, Facebook does not make it simple to use your own page to represent yourself as a musician.

This is what confuses me...

CJ, I'm looking at your page... but I feel like because I'm not yet a Facebook member that I'm not seeing all of your page.

Is that the case or are the Facebook pages a lot plainer than the Myspace layouts?


Here's what happened... I posted a song last Friday and did a bulk email to my personal friends list. Over the past week a dozen or more folks have walked up to me singing the song and asked why I'm not on Facebook... because they wanted to share the song with their friends.

It's such a rare occurance that someone connects with my artwork... and I have an established rep as a local hermit that hides out in the forest studio... that it's inspired me to get up to date and into the social networks... so that on occasions someone does like something they can distribute it via channels they enjoy.


thanks for the explanations,
mike

Let me tell you about my "ongoing" facebook experience. Facebook worked fine at first, though I wasn't happy with some of the limitations inherent in it's setup. Too many details to go into there.
Then one day I could not login to facebook, everytime I tried my browser froze and I had to end task on it. With no support address's or ph. #'s for facebook I was caught in a loop of Microsoft Error Reporting and useless attempts at getting to my facebook home page. I emailed Norton Internet Security and they suggested I turn off my auto protect features. I did and got back on facebook three or four times before it all went south again. Then I found if I went to facebook from my internet provider home page I could not get in. So I went directly from the desktop and got in. It started to freeze up again so I canceled my account via their link. The browser froze while in the cancel account page change. I ended task on it and deleted every trace of facebook in my registry.
Meanwhile Norton Security advised me to update to the newest version of Internet security and try again. I went to facebook login and it went right in. It has been working though clearly with some problems.
Yesterday my cookie alarm went off twice while logging in to facebook, this morning I had to do a recovery to get to my personalized desktop.
Bad cookies, hidden script, no support links, a lack of communication between security providers and microsoft, I'm ready to cancel my account on facebook again but I'm pretty sure my page would still be there after I did.
I wonder if that constitutes identity theft?