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by Amy Odell, December 21, 2006
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During a rare evening of down time here at the Jewcer I decided to cruise the user profiles. I was hoping to find hotties, hardcore jewies, hardcore non-jewies, half-naked pictures, rambling and/or nonsensical blog entries... But I turned up a whole lot of NOTHING. Why, oh why, dear Jewcers do you leave me and your fellow web crawlers unentertained with blank profile pages and our shin logo where your gorgeous eyes should be twinkling at me?
User acedmb (active for almost 24 hours) writes in his "About" section:
aw, i just did all this stuff on myspace. just look at that, it is a way better profile
acedmb anyways.
(!!) Ok, I know you can't have fancy shmancy wallpaper or a theme song just *yet* on Jewcy (we're still in our infancy, expanding "fuctionality" takes time). But why do users spend so much time "pimping out" their MySpace pages and not their Jewcy pages? And why do people agonize trying to select the hottest/cutest/most clever picture of themselves to post on MySpace when most Jewcy users post no picture at all?
I mean, isn't MySpace, like, played out already? Try something new! Post seductive bikini pictures! Add buddies to your buddylist! Write in your blogs! Shamelessly promote your clubs, organizations, bands, gyms, synagogues, companies, what have you on your profiles or better yet--make individual profiles for them! Please tell us insignificant details about your lives--we really are interested!
Ranting and personal opinions aside, we need "Users of the Week" for our weekly newsletter and we'd just be shit editors if we chose users with blank profiles. Remember, there may not be a blank for it, but we really do want to know what you like on your pizza.
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Amy Odell is a writer living in New York City. She is New York magazine's fashion blogger. Her work has also appeared in the New York Observer, where she got her start in journalsm interviewing celebrities at parties and writing about More... |
Michael Nehora
Jewcy can't and shouldn't compete with MySpace
Seems to me people come here to read and comment on the articles. Be grateful they're doing that, and in droves. I don't think most of us see Jewcy as a dating or self-promotion site. Focus on doing what you already do so well.
(EDIT: By the way, I don't have a MySpace profile either. If I were promoting an album or webcomic or something, sure, but otherwise it's for no.)
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