Busy Bee Paul
As a folk club and festival organiser and folk music fan, I find MySpace an excellent way of finding information and soundbites on performers, plus a quick look at their gig list will show if they are already booked for when I might want them.

I can't abide Facebook though.

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Maryrrf
As someone who books acts, I find MySpace is a really good, concise "press kit" that can tell me just about everything I need to know if it's well done, and it's all on one page.

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I also book acts for my club & agree with these comments. I'm not a member of Facebook & don't find it in any way appealing, & don't intend to join. Nor did I take up an offer to follow another act on Twitter - I don't have a mobile (cell) phone (ps. I also don't see the point of Twitter - do the receivers of these messages have to pay for them?)

One artist didn't get a booking partly because of their MySpace page - bold black writing on top of lots of pictures! - bloody unreadable, and the music was way outside our genre. Another recent applicant has a beautiful B&W drawing of themselves under the text - also difficult to read.

Give me a simple or well designed elaborate MySpace page - good pic or pics, several tracks to listen to, easy to read text, a page that is pleasant to the eye & I'll read it.

And if the team likes them, we'll book them.

sandra