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   JohnA1nut
   Member

   Brock, you tried to add me to your FaceBook. I don't use FaceBook. I use MySpace. I know MJ has it, I know Adam has it. Anyone else? I've been wanting to set up a MySpace Multiverser forum for years. Thoughts?

   (Doing Therapy)

   Thu Jul 15 2010 1:05 am #
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   Brock
   Member

   Ah. K. Just ignore the invite, then.

   I don't use Myspace; I only use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family who use it but live some distance away, or who move frequently.

   Thu Jul 15 2010 5:12 am #
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   JohnA1nut
   Member

   Well, would you be willing to set up a MySpace account to do the Multiverser forum?

   (Doing Therapy)

   Thu Jul 15 2010 5:40 am #
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   Brock
   Member

   I don't think so....we have one right her.

   Thu Jul 15 2010 7:27 pm #
5. 

   JohnA1nut
   Member

   Yeah, but a forum on MySpace could attract millions of fans and followers. Who knows?

   (Doing Therapy)

   Thu Jul 15 2010 7:57 pm #
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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   You've suggested this before.

   Let me suggest that MySpace has become somewhat passe--everyone I know who has a MySpace account also has a Facebook account (except, I think, you), and most of them will tell you that they never check their MySpace accounts, which they think is really for junior high kids mostly now.

   Let me also suggest that if you put a Multiverser forum on MySpace I probably would not be able to visit it more often than once a week, and maybe not at all.

   --M. J. Young

   Fri Jul 16 2010 12:04 am #
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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   Let me tackle this again.

   Ten years ago we were doing everything we could to expand our presence on the Internet so that people who played role playing games would hear about us.

   Now we've hit a point at which whenever we do anything to reach more people we reach the same people over again. Then, if someone asked me to write for their site or e-zine I always did. Now, I rarely do--the time invested in the writing does not usually give a return in new customers.

   If you opened a MySpace Multiverser forum, you'd get people who already know about Multiverser. I wouldn't have more time to deal with them there, and there's no reason why those who are interested can't find this forum through our MySpace site.

   I'd love to have ways to reach millions. I don't think a forum on MySpace is it, and I don't think you'd get anyone there who isn't already either here or in Multiverser games set up by Eric on RPOL.

   --M. J. Young

   Fri Jul 16 2010 12:07 am #
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   Brock
   Member

   The best way to reach people is not through new forums-it's to tell people about THIS forum. Spreading our presence out over 'teh interwebs' increases moderation necessities by a vast amount. It also increases small talk unrelated to the game.

   The best way is simply to tell your friends, get them interested in it-then they tell their friends, and so on.

   Fri Jul 16 2010 3:10 am #
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   JohnA1nut
   Member

   So it's one of those ideas that looks good on paper, but not in the real world. I see.

   (Doing Therapy)

   Fri Jul 16 2010 3:55 am #

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