 Rich Hodge Simi Valley, CA |
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2006-07-26
Can no longer ignore Myspace
Fun stuff! I still don't really understand the groups sections or the bulletins part of myspace because I've been too busy to explore all of it but the adding friends and commenting part is fun. It is amazing to see how many golfers are out there. Myspace is rapidly approaching the 100 million account mark. That is just incredible. 100,000,000 myspace accounts. That is to many to just blow off any longer. Like it or not myspace is a huge part of the internet and is the only "internet" a lot of these noobs ever see. As a golf blogger, myspace is very exciting: an entire untapped group of golfers that have never even read Eat Golf. And they never would because they would never find it without a connection from myspace. The whole fun in writing this blog is having people read it - the more the better! If a huge chunk of the net won't find Eat Golf because they never leave myspace then I'm there. Among the existing golf blogs in the myspace world beginnergolfing blog is the undisputed king with almost 400 golfing "friends" - nice job Jason! Myspace is not just teenagers anymore.. When I joined two months ago I thought that I was at the very end of the fad - but since then there have been 30 MILLION people that have signed up after me. And right now they are getting about 5 hundred thousand new sign ups each day. Eat is user 67,025,838. That means myspace has increased by almost a 50% in the last couple months 67 x 1.5 = 100. Incredible. They were already so huge. I've found that most of the people that request to be friends with Eat are golfers from all age groups. The myspace stereotype of young teens and indie bands is now over since the floodgates opened a few months ago. Myspace is equivalent to about a fourth of the population of the United States - they can't all be teens with bad webdesign skillz. HOT TIP: Everything at myspace gets ranked by your account number. If you haven't signed up yet... go do it this week before they hit the hundred million mark. A year from now you will be looked at as slightly cooler by your peers/friends/kids/grandkids because you have one less digit in your account number compared to them. Sign up is free, all you need is an email address, and a first and last name (or nicknames are ok), and a zip code. (Sign up at http://www.myspace.com )
Like it or not, not having a myspace these days is like saying that you've never been to google. Go spend the 5 minutes, sign up, leave it untouched indefinitely, and then don't forget to thank me six months later for the heads up on being "hip" Here are the myspace friends Eat Golf's profile has accumulated so far:
 How cool is that! I've read each and every one of their profile pages and each of these myspacer's are super cool or I wouldn't have added them as friends. Note that like everything on myspace, they are sorted by lowest account number first (that myspace inventor guy Tom is top-left).
TheGolfSpace.com, where I read the blog section everyday, kicks a$$. Besides the typical myspace stuff, Tony has just added an awesome, very slick personalized online scorecard tracker. All golfers with a computer should spend 5 minutes and get a free account at www.thegolfspace.com. Here are Eat Golf's "friends" at thegolfspace: 
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