MySpace Poll

BIZILL

as demi stated, it's basically business vs entertainment. myspace to me is about entertainment only.

PolkThug

from Jay Mohr

03/04/06
I have been a member of MySpace now for about two months and feel strongly that the name should be changed to MYCRACK. Holy mother of God! I never thought at thirty five years old I would be in the grips of addiction. I never thought at thirty five years old I would be in the grips of an addiction to something that does not get me high and is FREE.

MYCRACK has ruined me. The house has water damage and I probably should hire a contractor to come up and fix them but that would involve me removing myself from my computer screen long enough to make a phone call.

My kids meals consist of things that I can make fast enough to get back to my messages and comment pages as quickly as possible. Yogurt, bread and grapes have become my sons' only food options. They are quick enough to make so I don't miss any more quality time typing messages to **** stars (they NEVER reply by the way). If my son has a problem with his new diet he will have to go live with his mother. At least temporarily because I see that she (California's newest millionaire) is on MySpace too and it will only be a matter of time before the addiction puts a stranglehold on her too!

Nothing has ever so completely dominated my life before. Not sports, not booze, not drugs or ****. MYCRACK has become my only true friend. Where else can I get random pictures sent to me from strange girls in their bras? Where else but MYCRACK can I rush home from a long day on a movie set to see if Perry Farrell approved me as his friend?

I LOVE MYCRACK!

Many of you have messaged me on MYCRACK asking me about stand up and club dates and my si.com articles. The answer to all of your questions is I DON'T **** KNOW! Go ask someone else! I have 3,000 friends to entertain!

I am supposed to get married in the winter to my lovely and beautiful fianc

ohskigod

cfrizz wrote:

I equate Myspace.com with pedophilia! We had 2 reports on the news in as many months of arrests being made of these grown old dogs who convinced these teenage girls to meet them in big parking lots to go do god knows what! Fortunately the girls were cops!!!

there's pedophiles in real life too, but I dont equate life with pedophilia

point is, some reports of this type of activity is just like the rest of the stuff happenning we see on the news everyday. Whn you have any online community thats so large, its going to represent a crossection of many different type of people. unfortunatly, that means pedophiles too.

me and my friends use myspace. it doesnt make us letches, or sick lunatics (well....maybe a little, but myspace didnt make us that way )
its a large group of people, just like TV watchers, just like newspaper readers, just like anything else.

ohskigod

BIZILL wrote:

club polk and polk's website is 'classy' and myspace is rather, at times, 'trashy'.

ummmmm. I dont now if were allways classy....LOL

BIZILL

ohskigod wrote:

there's pedophiles in real life too, but I dont equate life with pedophilia

point is, some reports of this type of activity is just like the rest of the stuff happenning we see on the news everyday. Whn you have any online community thats so large, its going to represent a crossection of many different type of people. unfortunatly, that means pedophiles too.

me and my friends use myspace. it doesnt make us letches, or sick lunatics (well....maybe a little, but myspace didnt make us that way )
its a large group of people, just like TV watchers, just like newspaper readers, just like anything else.

good point lou. again, for 'entertainment' and not 'business' is your motive to congregate there, correct?

TroyD

Not my cup o' tea but, as I've said many times, I'm not the consumer Polk should be trying to target.

I think to get brand recognition within a younger demographic group (not to pick on the CA guys, but it's right up thier alley)...it would make sense.

I would assume that Polk would handle it in thier normal classy way.

Jeeze, Paul trying to reinvent the wheel after vacation or what??

BDT

BIZILL

somehow seems like a tactic BOSE would utilize.

ohskigod

BIZILL wrote:

good point lou. again, for 'entertainment' and not 'business' is your motive to congregate there, correct?

sure, actually, I'm probably one of the few people that does NOT use myspace to meet friends. I just got my circle of friends and loved ones, and we all keep tabs on eachother. blogs, pictures and whatever.

I think, if done right, it can be a HUGE marketing tool. Polk has enough fans to dedicate a large part of there worday typing stuff all day, I certainly think that would translate well to the Myspace community. pedophiles and sycophants notwithstanding fortunatly, there are alot of normal people on yspace too, they just dont generate news and exposure.

bobman1235

I don't knock people for not liking MySpace, it can be a deplorable place, and it's obviously not for everyone. I'm just knocking some of the more ignorant comments out there, that's all. You don't like it, doesn't mean that Polk couldn't possibly make some money off of it. It's very popular, even amongst people of a demographic that can afford Polk products.

And saying it reminds you of pedophelia or whatever is just called paying too much attention to the news.

I got all the **** to stop requesting to be my friend by making it so only people who knew my last name or... something else (I forget) could invite me as a friend.

ohskigod

BIZILL wrote:

somehow seems like a tactic BOSE would utilize.

your right, and they are the kings of audio marketing. think about it, they sell equipment I equate to the leaky asscrack of the audio spectrum, yet, to the uninitiated, they are reverred as a top notch audio brand.

God forbid Polk taps that. in this day and age, aggresive marketing rules the day. I would love to see Polk become as big as Bose, as long as they make **** I like, I'll continue to support them. If they make all there stuff like Bose, (like that would ever happen) then I just wouldnt buy it.

hey, Myspace might not be the answer, i'm not guaranteeing it is, but if Polk is looking for innovative ways to market well, I say god bless.

BIZILL

i suppose if there is money to be made...

but i am just one of those who doesn't want the polk name to become degraded in any way whatsoever. not saying it would, but i fear it may, by going this route.

PhantomOG

myspace is a place where "people" can go, and easily create a website about themselves and allows others to see and join lists of "friends"

Polk audio already has a website, and a damn good one at that. Polk creating an account at Myspace only benefits Myspace in my opinion. Polk having a list of "friends" is irrelevant and only opens Polk up to liability.

I just don't see it as a worthwhile marketing tool. Are people so idiotic that they think myspace.com is the only valid internet url? Do people really think "Hmm... I want some speakers, let me see what's on Myspace today??"

In the end, yes, Polk might end up selling one or two pair of speakers because someone falls so in love with a Polk myspace page, but I just don't think its worth the liability of being associated with such a highly scrutenized "people" meeting place.

Yes, myspace.com is a website that is probably accessed by MILLIONS of people everyday, that doesn't necessarily make it a valuable marketing tool. Hell, everyone takes a dump everyday, but I don't see any Polk branded toilet seats or toilet paper.

ND13

F1nut wrote:

How about concentrating on building up the Polk name, not pulling it down by being associated with the latest internet fad.

Just hit the nail on the head. Must be from all those woodworking skills you have.

PolkThug

Zero wrote:

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aaharvel

bobman1235 wrote:

I love all the comments to the tune of "I don't need an online community to find people with simliar interests, I can just go out like a normal person and find them...." ... uhh, you do realize you're posting on an online community right?

b i n g o.

Look it may improve sales, it may not. And granted, the majority here do make a fine point that it's almost a guarantee to pull Polk's reputation down.

Still, it seems to me that Polk's latest mantra is business before quality as of late anyway. If they want to live up to that, if they want to become the next Bose, let 'em do whatever they like. MySpace or not.

BIZILL

aaharvel wrote:

b i n g o.

Look it may improve sales, it may not. And granted, the majority here do make a fine point that it's almost a guarantee to pull Polk's reputation down.

Still, it seems to me that Polk's latest mantra is business before quality as of late anyway. If they want to live up to that, if they want to become the next Bose, let 'em do whatever they like. MySpace or not.

again, bingo.

ohskigod

I guess building a bigger customer base, and keeping a quality product isnt synonomous? the more Polk markets, its a given that Quality HAS to suffer?

guess that will never make sense to me. oh well, agree to disagree.

PhantomOG

bobman1235 wrote:

I love al the comments to the tune of "I don't need an online community to find people with simliar interests, I can just go out like a normal person and find them...." ... uhh, you do realize you're posting on an online community right? What a bunch of hypocrites.

Since I made the comment about MY personal preferences as far as friends and meeting people I assume you are talking about me. In what way am I a hypocrite? Did I criticize those who use it? No. I just simply stated it wasn't for me, and even alluded to the fact that that might make me "old-fashioned."

Have I ever met in person, or even talked on the phone with someone from these forums? Nope. I come here to alleve my boredom while I wait for the server farms at work to complete my jobs. I don't use a computer unless I absolutely have to outside of work so I really only go here during work hours. Do I criticize people that do more than that? Nope.

This fine Polk forum and its members provide me with much appreciated humor and intelligent discussion on the many 1-3 minute dead times I have at work. I can guarantee you that I won't find that at myspace.com or any other general social networking site. Just because YOU like myspace and I don't, doesn't make me a hypocrite.

shack

aaharvel wrote:

Still, it seems to me that Polk's latest mantra is business before quality as of late anyway.

BIZILL wrote:

again, bingo.

Where do you guys come up with this? The LSi series is as good as anything in it's price range. Same with the monitor and RT series. From what I tell the SurroundBar and RM series seem to be quality gear. Can't speak for CA, but they appear to have good "bang for the buck" attributes as well. Don't confuse high-end and quality. Affordable, inexpensive, mass market, quality...they are not mutually exclusive when it comes to Polk IMO.

ND13

I think for alot of us, this is the only place we socialize online. At least it is for me. I've set up accounts at a couple of other places, but have never posted...except once or twice over at the Klipsch forum poking fun at another Polk member.

PolkThug

thebobman pwnz mycrack

Mazeroth

Eliza McLaren wrote:

Hi --
I'm Eliza McLaren. I started working in the marketing department here at Polk last week. I'm taking a quick poll to see how many of you have MySpace accounts. We're thinking of starting a Polk Audio page on MySpace. What do you think about this?

Thanks!

First off, congrats for landing a killer job at Polk Audio!

Second, you're new title is "Marketing Program Manager". Ummm...yeah.

nadams

shack wrote:

Where do you guys come up with this? The LSi series is as good as anything in it's price range. Same with the monitor and RT series. From what I tell the SurroundBar and RM series seem to be quality gear. Can't speak for CA, but they appear to have good "bang for the buck" attributes as well. Don't confuse high-end and quality. Affordable, inexpensive, mass market, quality...they are not mutually exclusive when it comes to Polk IMO.

I have to agree with your comments here. Hell, even my $50 R15's sound better than a lot of other, much much more expensive speakers.

ohskigod

shack wrote:

Where do you guys come up with this? The LSi series is as good as anything in it's price range. Same with the monitor and RT series. From what I tell the SurroundBar and RM series seem to be quality gear. Can't speak for CA, but they appear to have good "bang for the buck" attributes as well. Don't confuse high-end and quality. Affordable, inexpensive, mass market, quality...they are not mutually exclusive when it comes to Polk IMO.

EXACTLY.


LSi's are part of there current line.

I got em, and have no feelings of quality issues. I guess becasue they dont make a 150,000.00 uberspeaker? They make damn good products for a good price. what is that much better at there price points?

wingnut4772

I think it might be a good idea for a younger demographic...especially car audio.

TroyD

Shack, as usual, nailed it.

BDT

ohskigod

wingnut4772 wrote:

I think it might be a good idea for a younger demographic...especially car audio.

DING DING DING DING!!!!!!!! we have a winnah!!!!!!!!

thats where I would at least start and play around with it, if I had a cool job like Eliza's

Willow

wow never thought this would go as far as it has

BIZILL

aaharvel wrote:

b i n g o.

Look it may improve sales, it may not. And granted, the majority here do make a fine point that it's almost a guarantee to pull Polk's reputation down.

Still, it seems to me that Polk's latest mantra is business before quality as of late anyway. If they want to live up to that, if they want to become the next Bose, let 'em do whatever they like. MySpace or not.

shack wrote:

Where do you guys come up with this? The LSi series is as good as anything in it's price range. Same with the monitor and RT series. From what I tell the SurroundBar and RM series seem to be quality gear. Can't speak for CA, but they appear to have good "bang for the buck" attributes as well. Don't confuse high-end and quality. Affordable, inexpensive, mass market, quality...they are not mutually exclusive when it comes to Polk IMO.

oops, i didn't read his whole post. oops on the last part of it.

PolkThug

There are a lot of people playing bingo in this thread. I want in.