Facebook as a way to doom your career

It's utterly inane how much 'spam' and 'self promotion' stuff I receive from people on facebook. I mean, there's even been times when I've thought 'is it me ? Should I be whoring my every activity out for all to see/read/hear? IS THIS THE DONE THING?' but I've decided that silence is the best option.

I think it's partly TEH INTERNETS to blame but also there's a pervading air of arrogance about all this stuff that kinda brings me down. Music and art shouldn't be about self promotion and validation. If you're looking for that then you should probably fuck off. HOWEVER, there now seem to be so many people on that particular 'tip' that it's making such behaviour perfectly acceptable.

THIS IS HOW I FEEL MOST DAYS WHEN I CHECK FACEBOOK
BUT THERE ARE ALSO BEAMS COMING OUT MY EYES

Imagine you got mail every day from the same person. It's not anything regarding YOU personally and is clearly a generic mailout featuring nothing but trumpet blowing on the authors part. It'd get annoying. At the very least you'd be questioning why it kept arriving. Well, the internet facilitates this on a far more grandiose level. With the postman taken out of the equation you can receive as many mailings as your tormentor can produce mouse clicks.

I've recently culled yet another load of people who endlessly send me the same crap mailout about their music or whatever it is that they do, clearly under the illusion that having more 'fans' on facebook will somehow make a world of difference to them. To be honest, it probably does. Oh, the irony.

Wouldn't you rather people actually BECAME your fans as opposed to asking them "so, um, do you think I'm good ? Do you want to say you're a FAN of me ?". It's all so pathetic and unlolzy. Anyone who fires me more than a few requests about the same thing is BINNED and a black mark goes against their name. Am I the ONLY ONE who behaves in such a manner, I'll warrant not. So, try just letting whatever it is that you do speak for itself - don't shove it in peoples faces a billion times a day just because you CAN.

I should probably confine my 'efforts' to a place such as this over facebook. Facebook does nothing these days but rile me. "Empty vessels make the most noise". My page is full of people being very noisy, most days. Plus, people can come here to read my opinion if they feel like it. They can't, however, complain about it really - it's my party (here) and I'll menstruate heavily if I so desire :-) Facebook encourages some kind of insidious social micro climate where everyone seems to feel it's their god given right to make their opinions known on absolutely EVERYTHING.

ONE FINAL MOAN: I wish people would QUIT posting tracks and videos with 'ooh check me out playing my classic track here' or whatever. That's for OTHER people to do. You don't decide your own work is classic. Especially when it's holding on for dear life to the edge of AVERAGE. I think this is a major problem these days, I've always found in interesting artists they mostly feel their work is poor/could be better. THIS provides artistic drive, as there's always more to be done to reach unattainable perfection. It would seem there's an awful lot of people out there labouring under the illusion that they're already there.

"here's my new release on x*, gonna be a stormer it's BIG". With this attitude can the music in question ever be presumed to be anything but complete bollocks ? Discuss.

*insert meaningless label, desperately trying all avenues to justify its existence.