Comments on: Joined ComicSpace

By: West

West — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:59:45 +0000

The “friends” you’ve “never heard of” thing seems very common and another element that does not appeal to me.

I guess it’s like the AOL/AIM “buddy list,” though. The company set up a name, but the important thing is the function of the thing (i.e. having quick access to folks’).

I dunno.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:44:37 +0000

First ~24 hours:

Set up minimal profile info w/ tags & links.

Sent friend requests to a blogger I follow and a couple of creators whose work I like. Got two back approved.

Received 15 friend requests… all from people I’ve never heard of, all of whom appear to be comics creators or publishers. This may be in part because I had tagged myself with “website,” which I’ve since changed to “webmaster.”

Need to write a longer profile and see if I can track down more people I recognize from other forums and such.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:20:26 +0000

MySpace as a service definitely bites a moderate amount for average Joes and Joans, though I imagine the music community still finds it effective. It’s self-contained to the point of being insular, highly limited in its capabilities, and generally not much fun to use. I’m on it only because people I care about are on it. If they were on LJ, my life would be easier, but we can’t have everything. (Where would we put it?)

By: West

West — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:58:59 +0000

MySpace doesn’t appeal to me in design or content (judging it by the few pages I’ve seen here or there). I have no intentions of joining up.

ComicSpace doesn’t really blow my skirt up, as a concept, but I’ll at least check out your site and see how things go from there.

Good luck with it.