I have been added to quite a few random groups on myspace, I was just wandering if Imafish has a group and if not why not??
You should make one Pete and recruit lots of randoms

Yea.. I looked into making a Myspace page for Imafish, but someones took the name already:@

ok well i have thought about it and discussed it with various people and the sort of outcome was:

1. Because Myspace has many of the facilities for discussion and community management I was concerned that discussed would move away from ImAFish and on to Myspace. We might get a couple of new posters but for the overall effort it wouldn't really be worth it.

2. Myspace is kinda gay. I didn't want to fill ImAFish with 11-14 year olds from Shrewsbury who would 1. be offended by half the talk on here and 2. not really have anything interesting/useful to contribute.

3. Myspace has a pretty bad reputation for spam, half of my "friends" only really want to by my friend so they can sell me something, an ImAFish group would only be the same as a strong community already exists here.

4. I'm already a member of a couple of groups, one being for the buttermarket I think but i hardly venture that far into the complex myspace site to bother checking it out. And the actual content once there is fairly boring.

5. I dont really agree with how myspace sells all our personal details and makes a killing in ad revenue through the site. Mainly because I want to be making that ad revenue rather than Rupert Murdoch.

6. Integration - unlike other web communities such as flickr myspace has very poor integration with the rest of the web. (in terms of being able to share posts on discussion boards, member groups etc).

7. Finally time - until there is an easy way to mass add people I cant be bothered to go round adding people. Also adding content on there would be time consuming - i already spend ages updating stuff on here, my blog and the rest of the site so cant really be bothered with myspace.

When anyone adds me already they get a nice spam msg from me. There is a nice forum image available for anyone to put in their profile if they want to help advertise imafish.

http://imafish.co.uk/images/imafishbutton.jpg




As always the best way for imafish to advertise is word of mouth - drinks club is still available - i will buy a pint for anyone that gets a new poster to imafish.

well I say it cant do any harm.. we have a block buttom remember!

want to create one then?

So 14 year olds have nothing interesting to contribute, huh? You offend me Peter White. lol.

no but in general thats not the age range we want to target

why not, freedom of speech, you never know who might have something to contribute.
I do agree that most 14 yr olds dont really have anything interesting to say

i cant see it doing any harm, so long as you make the page pointing people to the site rather than provoking any discussion on the myspace page. anyone wanting to talk to the myspace page just tell them to get to the forum or bugger off...

and it wouldnt just have to be 14 year olds from shrewsbury, anyone around the country can have an opinion on the music or gen. discussion threads.

give it a try, u can always take it off if people cease to post on the forum, but i doubt it.

ok mung, jonnie will leave it upto u

u including me in that?

I did say most and not all

fair enough

was that in response to my question? ouch.

lol, shannon was that you that edited my post?

the front page of the forum wont refresh on my bros laptop, doesnt say when someone new has posted, as if its just frozen on what the front page looked like a few days ago....

in internet explorer or firefox?

internet explorer, my bro doesnt want firefox....

its working now though, not sure what it was....

he should give it a try just cause its more secure