For quite a while I have had people tell me that I need to get a myspace.com page. My first question to them has always been, "why?" The answers I get are usually things like, "cause you need one," "everyone has one," or "because people can find you and your music." To which I would reply that I already have website, www.mattwahl.com that I pay for and work on keeping up to date.

When MP3's first came out, all musicians were supposed to get a page on www.mp3.com. This was the latest, greatest tool for networking and exposure. You could post a picture, your tour dates and have song samples. So I followed along and got my mp3.com page only to get a message not long after that www.mp3.com was going out of business and closing the site. It has since come back but I haven't paid much attention to it. So I have always compared myspace.com to mp3.com but people assure me that myspace is so huge that it isn't ever going to close and it's the greatest thing.

So I started looking at myspace pages to figure out what the big deal is. It seems that just about every musician I know has a page and some people have completely given up their own web pages (www.theirname.com) for myspace pages. I'm not really sure I understand why. I guess the main goal of myspace.com is to gather friends. If I have a page and you have a page I am supposed to invite you to be my friend or vice versa and the more friends you have the cooler you are or something. The other thing that seems to be popular is for people to leave comments. Again this is only something you can do if you are registered on myspace and have a page. I guess this is a way for fans to stay in touch with musicians and vice versa. That part sounds pretty cool.

Anyway, I finally decided that the only way for me to understand all of this is to jump on the band wagon so now I have a myspace page! It's www.myspace.com/mattwahlmusic

I don't really know what I'm supposed to do now. All I do know is that it took me a few hours to get things up and going and the only thing I'm really sure of is that now, instead of having one website to update, I have two. I think I'm supposed to bother everyone I know and get them to add me as a friend. Right now it says "Matt Wahl has 0 Friends" which is kind of depressing. I'm kind of a laid back guy and I'm worried that if I start bothering people to add me as friends I might have 0 friends for real! :-)

To me, "More Time On-Line = Less Time Outside" But for what it's worth, I now have an ultra-hip myspace.com page!