Yesterday I asked what happened at last.fm. I think the answer is clear. Someone did delete my account. Which is sad, but let's face it, not all together surprising. When I discovered that the account was deleted, I attempted to sign up again and was successful for about 15 minutes or so before the account was deleted again. I think that the second deletion had more to do with mirrored servers synchronizing but I could be wrong. The difference that I noted between the first time the account was deleted and the second time is that the first time, the iameveryone friend disappeared from other users accounts, but the second time, it didn't. Also, the second time, iameveryone could still scrobble and would show up in the friend's dashboard. Strange. I sent a note to last.fm support but haven't heard anything. Yesterday another iameveryone was registered and is still operating so hopefully we'll be able to keep it open for a while longer anyway.
Today I went through the gmail account and re-added all the old friends that I could find e-mails from there. Surely there were many more. At some point on the old last.fm account the e-mail address had been changed to coco@denver.com. I do not know who that e-mail address belongs to. But, when I tried to send a message there, it bounced back anyway, so I doubt that it matters much.
I subscribed to last.fm again. And I'm sending a message to see if I can get the subscription from the old account applied to the new one.
Right now, I'm listening to doctor_dee's Radio and it is delightful!
I hope that I will continue to post in the blog as my personality changes in the coming days.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
Today . . .
What happened to the old account at last.fm? Did someone intentionally delete it?
Here's what I've done. There was no avatar so I did a google image search for "I am everyone" and the first image that came up was the one I've chosen. Came from this here website:
http://www.doukhobordugouthouse.com/events_current.html
Interesting!
I've visited some pages, I've joined a few groups based on randomness. I added a silly name and an old age (that keeps changing) to add to the mystery of being everyone.
I've put in some comments, also rather random. (In efforts to humanize ourselves.)
I chose a member's radio to listen to randomly but loosely based in their eclectic tastes.
Loved a few songs that I thought were just down right good.
Nobody's biting on the friendship. I didn't add anyone but it's clear that people know I'm around and with a statement like "Please add me!", well, they must know I mean them!
Today I am a woman. Middle-aged and a bit silly. I'm doing things randomly, just as anyone new to a community would. But since I am in actuality a subscriber who has been around for awhile I am finding the anonymity rather exhilarating! I happened upon this experiment by chance. I didn't think much of it at first, maybe I thought it was pointless? But I was just sitting there today and thinking, "I wonder about that account!" So I looked it up only to find that someone had deleted the old account. Fortunately there was already a new one up and running. But now everyone must start over, new friends, new groups. Oh well, we can handle it. But like I was saying, I didn't really like the idea in the beginning. But not only is it an experiment in how last.fm works, (I'm not positive about what we're really trying to prove anyway) it's psychological. How we act when we are everyone. There really is something about being everyone! I've been anonymous before, but this is different. Maybe I am crazy but when I am browsing around I really do feel like I could be ANYONE! Very unlike in my own account where everything is based on my personal library. The people that pop up are different, the groups are different! I am moved to listen to things I wouldn't normally try. In my own profile, I really have to work hard to find new interesting people. But with this new frame of mind and complete randomness I am finding much that is of interest. I truly hope I get to come back and do this again. I really wouldn't mind doing it often.
Here's what I've done. There was no avatar so I did a google image search for "I am everyone" and the first image that came up was the one I've chosen. Came from this here website:
http://www.doukhobordugouthouse.com/events_current.html
Interesting!
I've visited some pages, I've joined a few groups based on randomness. I added a silly name and an old age (that keeps changing) to add to the mystery of being everyone.
I've put in some comments, also rather random. (In efforts to humanize ourselves.)
I chose a member's radio to listen to randomly but loosely based in their eclectic tastes.
Loved a few songs that I thought were just down right good.
Nobody's biting on the friendship. I didn't add anyone but it's clear that people know I'm around and with a statement like "Please add me!", well, they must know I mean them!
Today I am a woman. Middle-aged and a bit silly. I'm doing things randomly, just as anyone new to a community would. But since I am in actuality a subscriber who has been around for awhile I am finding the anonymity rather exhilarating! I happened upon this experiment by chance. I didn't think much of it at first, maybe I thought it was pointless? But I was just sitting there today and thinking, "I wonder about that account!" So I looked it up only to find that someone had deleted the old account. Fortunately there was already a new one up and running. But now everyone must start over, new friends, new groups. Oh well, we can handle it. But like I was saying, I didn't really like the idea in the beginning. But not only is it an experiment in how last.fm works, (I'm not positive about what we're really trying to prove anyway) it's psychological. How we act when we are everyone. There really is something about being everyone! I've been anonymous before, but this is different. Maybe I am crazy but when I am browsing around I really do feel like I could be ANYONE! Very unlike in my own account where everything is based on my personal library. The people that pop up are different, the groups are different! I am moved to listen to things I wouldn't normally try. In my own profile, I really have to work hard to find new interesting people. But with this new frame of mind and complete randomness I am finding much that is of interest. I truly hope I get to come back and do this again. I really wouldn't mind doing it often.
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