NYSMF on MySpace.com

Thanks to NYSMF, I may finally use online communities as they were intended. MySpace,Friendster, and Xanga are now actually useful ways of sending NYSMFers information and news about myself and about the camp -- as opposed to being places for lame, shameless, uninteresting self-promotion. (For those of you in the know, just think of how many unsolicited pleas for friendship have come from tiny bands, BS artists, and inappropriate websites disguised as humans? Yuck.)

Friends from NYSMF have tripled the number of "friends" I had at all of these services. The NYSMF group on MySpace has similarly grown -- it will be much easier to stay in touch with everyone with all of this online interest.

What really touches me is the fact that all of these new contacts are completely personal. Everyone who has sent "Friend requests" to me are real people, people that I have actually met and worked with and spoken to about squirrels through NYSMF. People whom I like and respect and who share a love of music.

Thanks to NYSMF, the communities that I belong to on these online networks actually mean something to me. They allow me to stay in touch with people whom I can NOT just phone or hang out with.

It's nice to see the internet being used for something so ... well ... human. I like it.

Stay in touch, all you NYSMFers. I'll be using these sites heavily to keep you up to date with what's happening at our festival during the year!

MySpace
Friendster
Xanga
NYSMF group on MySpace

The Fearless Squirrel Hunter