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Looking for drums in all the wrong places
Social networking is used for nearly everything these days; there are general sites like Facebook and MySpace, but there are also niche sites like LinkedIn, which is for professionals, and Flickr, for people with cameras. And while every niche is likely covered these days, I wonder how much room there is to explore your interests in a completely different social networking context.
That is, can you form a band using online dating sites?
I'm willing to bet there are loopholes in the Terms of Use that would let you get away with it; if you're allowed to be just looking for "friendship", why not be able to look for "jam sessions"? Instead of clicking your preferences for smoking, religion and interests, why not click your preferences for rock, blues and country? It must be possible. But can it work? Check it out, this is how I'd do it.
"Solo male guitarist seeking like-minded musicians to form a band. All styles of music welcome. Drummers encouraged to apply. Owning a van is preferred, but not required. Emo rockers welcome, but only if they don't write lyrics.
If you're not a musician and you're on here looking for love, if this whole band thing works out we'll be looking for groupies."
The possibilities are endless. If you have any social network-jamming ideas, send them to me at JW at SaturatedMarket dot Net. Better yet, if you pull this one off, let me know (and can you get me backstage passes?)!
Until next time,
JW
Posted by JW on November 1, 2008 12:12 PM | Permalink
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