Hello everyone out there in MySpace Land,

Or should I say, "AD SPACE LAND!" 

Recently I had a good look down our comments and was thoroughly disturbed at the amount of advertising being done by bands, people and who ever else learned to make an advert.  Furthermore, the ads aren't simple ads for gigs or whatever, they're half the page long with graphics bigger than Dubya's love for crude oil!  Isn't that what you should be sending out in bulletins?  Perhaps people aren't reading your bulletins.  WELL MAYBE IF YOU WEREN'T ACTING LIKE AN ADVERTISING COMPANY, THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY READ YOUR BULLETIN!! 
It's funny because many people are pushing their band.  Now, everyone knows how bands go against the corporate system and wouldn't dare to go the same route as money grubbing commercial retailers and record companies would they?!?!?!  Of course not!  Because there is supposed to be a code of ethics between musicians that says, "THE MUSIC COMES FIRST." 
Now, I realize that in our society we must advertise.  Of course we must.  P.T. Barnum said, "A terrible thing happens without advertising............NOTHING!"  So of course we all want and need to advertise.  What's really gotten to me about all of this is that people are so impersonal about adding friends and advertising for every single thing they do on everyone's MySpace site! 
What we should be doing, in my opinion, is writing something like, "Hey, "insert band/person's name here" just thought I would stop by and say hi and see how you were doing.  By the way, we're releasing a new record/performing at this venue/doing whatever."  It's just a little more personal especially considering how most of the people on our friends lists WE HAVE NEVER MET!!
You see it comes down to this;  the subconscious mind causes us to move toward things we find pleasing and move away from things we find  displeasing.  SO, if we want MySpace to be something that we all continue to enjoy, then let's have a little more respect for everyone else out here who is trying to enjoy this site.  Let's try to be a little more personal and at least have the decency to stop by, say hello and then leave a respectfully sized advert if we must.