No, MySpace is not just a place for you to waste countless hours looking at really ugly designs. It is not just a place for perverts to pretend they are thirteen year old girls or for thirteen year old girls to pretend that are perverts. MySpace is a great place to build a little more publicity for yourself and your Web projects.

Sure there are some good things and some bad things about MySpace. I will give you your points on that no matter which side of the fence you are on. If you are not using MySpace to pimp out your products though, you are missing a really big audience.

I setup my own MySpace profile so that I could have yet another place to plug my podcast and Web sites. Some other good examples of this would be Chris Pirillo’s MySpace. Look at that bLaugh cartoon there, nice product placement. Another example would be Roy from ReviewMe.

Like it or not, you have to go with what is popular, and right now having a profile on MySpace is just that. Don’t feel like you are selling out though, because honestly it is not that bad at all. I have met a lot of people via MySpace that I might have not of met before. It is a good tool to reach an audience that might not visit your Web site or listen to your podcast without it.

In my opinion, you need all the help you can get when it comes to publicity, so no rock should be left unturned.

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