i feel like I'm spamming when I post a link in here or 8bc

I always find it cute how smug people who don't use new/popular Internet technologies are. They're just SO proud of themselves.

Facebook is just a tool, if you put garbage in, you get garbage out.

That being said, I personally am notified of releases from netlabels from Twitter and Facebook before I see it elsewhere. Also, when performers setup event pages for gigs, I get reminders and notifications of dates.. all in one spot. It's a great tool for promotion. I'm also able to easily retweet/share releases/gigs with other people with a click of a button, so out they go to even more people, who may pass it along to another set of people.

Obviously, it SHOULD be used in conjunction with other tools. So, do your website, your RSS, your mailing lists.. but if you ignore Twitter/Facebook because you think you're just "too cool" for it, you're just missing out on reaching people. Period.

And its back! Im famous!

It ended on a good note.

Yea and the day it gets disabled from the front page no less. RIP-OFF.

Best tweet ever.

ATTN NETLABELS: This is all.

ATTENTION NET-LABELS:

Hi

i can't believe we don't have a facebook page. we will soon. haha

fuck yes streaming now working!

ATTENTION NETLABELS: FIX YOUR ID3 TAGS

Sorry if I seem a bit bitter, I just wasted quite a large portion of this morning hand-numbering and labeling songs.

I personally hate Myspace but I keep my page around because people still listen to my music there. I'm all about trying to promote my stuff wherever I can, even if I don't particularly like the site that much (hence why I'm still using Myspace and 8bc). So letting your hate of Facebook influence your decision to not promote your music there is silly. My view, the more people I reach out to, the more potential people I have coming out to shows and having a good time.

Yeah I agree with Subway Sonicbeat, it's definately worth chucking a few mails at 'proper' music sites, just get used to the success ratio being tiny.  While chipmusic is seen as a bit of a 'gimmick' outside the scene that's also a benefit imo, I mean if you're doing something a bit different with it you can use that style as an angle no one else has.   The Facebook thing, hmm... well what's the harm?   Personally I stopped updating the MySpace because FB is far easier to edit with and it's readable without having an account.

Fuck yes! You just summed up my views on Facebook to a T.

Well, we sometimes forget that what we deal with is MUSIC not VIDEOGAMES / VINTAGE COMPUTERS MAKING BLEEPS

Reading this thread made me remind that, and that I need to promote my music in electronic music sites, but then maybe promoting in retro games sites. And so on... Maybe the thing is getting off the same routes so it expand the approach to potential listeners of your music.