Posted March 11, 2016 I have nothing useful to add to this thread. But I give it up a big thumbs up because of the number of times Mya's profile picture shows up. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, pejo said: I have nothing useful to add to this thread. But I give it up a big thumbs up because of the number of times Mya's profile picture shows up. I will actually add value to this thread... I created an instigram account to follow and see more of Mya! Not quite sure what following means and I haven't quite figured out how to log into my new account, but the fact I have said account makes this post relevant to the thread... Edited March 12, 2016 by Riggo 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 12, 2016 23 hours ago, SpiceInCo said: Oh gosh these are awesome memories. I remember going to Radio shack and getting cheap walkie talkies, and when they first came out with portable landlines phones, you could sit in your neighbors yard and listen to their calls from your walkie talking. Or when *69 came out and pranking your friends no longer worked as well. Or 3 way calls, oh God I miss how simple and fun things were. When we actually called our friends every night and fought over the landlines to access the Internet. That awful modem connect sound. I love how the next generation is going to be getting all nostalgic about smart phones and self driving cars... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 12, 2016 8 hours ago, Mya Midnight said: I love how the next generation is going to be getting all nostalgic about smart phones and self driving cars... ...and video games where you actually had to use a controller and not just think about moving. ...and the times before the likelike sex robots where real men and real women were needed for sex to occur! Also, I would like to report that Instagram is broken! I create an account to follow Mya and its' suggestions for other people to follow are the two human train wrecks Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian! That is an insult to the lovely Mya!!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 13, 2016 What an appropriate thread for me to get my 1,000th TOB post! I am now a millennial or a millennium poster, not sure which... I was going to post something very profound on my 1,000 post here, but opted instead to just grab another beer... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 13, 2016 Woohoo! I am now an Instagram expert! I posted a comment on Mya's picture! OK... Been there, done that! Time to move on to the next social media challenge. Anyone know how to create a Myspace account? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 13, 2016 20 hours ago, Riggo said: Also, I would like to report that Instagram is broken! Instagram isn't broken, we've just "broken the internet" as they say. I might not know how to balance a champagne flute on my caboose (Kim Kardashian reference if y'all missed that) but I'm breaking the internet with the quality, not quantity, of my one instagram follower... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 14, 2016 Social media is lame. I got on Twitter when it first came out and then found out big brother was listening in so I dumped it. Never had a Facebook, and by the looks of it my head would hurt trying to figure it out. My smartphone, is smarter than me technology wise. Nah these days, I'm much more interested in maps etc. In fact, I'm dreading having to take GPS classes because I'm old school and still like info to be on actual paper. All you guys and your talk of rotary phones, makes me think of the days when you went outside and rode your bike and didn't come home til the street lights came on. To the op, be careful on there. Put too much info out into the interwebs, people will find you. Pintrest on the other hand, addictive. I need a 12 step program. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 14, 2016 21 minutes ago, Melissa Sterling said: Social media is lame. I got on Twitter when it first came out and then found out big brother was listening in so I dumped it. Never had a Facebook, and by the looks of it my head would hurt trying to figure it out. My smartphone, is smarter than me technology wise. Nah these days, I'm much more interested in maps etc. In fact, I'm dreading having to take GPS classes because I'm old school and still like info to be on actual paper. All you guys and your talk of rotary phones, makes me think of the days when you went outside and rode your bike and didn't come home til the street lights came on. To the op, be careful on there. Put too much info out into the interwebs, people will find you. Pintrest on the other hand, addictive. I need a 12 step program. I am not on FB, IG, Twitter, Tumbler, SnapChat, LinkedIn....or any other Social Media buzz. This is probably the closest to "social media" that I get. However, I am beyond addicted to Pinterest and now feel instantly better about myself. I'm not sure what having a board dedicated to eye makeup and the fact that I typically don't wear makeup says about me..... "lazy & not trainable" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 14, 2016 1 hour ago, Madame Web said: I am not on FB, IG, Twitter, Tumbler, SnapChat, LinkedIn....or any other Social Media buzz. This is probably the closest to "social media" that I get. However, I am beyond addicted to Pinterest and now feel instantly better about myself. I'm not sure what having a board dedicated to eye makeup and the fact that I typically don't wear makeup says about me..... "lazy & not trainable" I am on Linked In. Partly because the industry I am in is very fond of laying off large batches of people, but mostly because a drunken invitation SPAM fest is fun! I also want to congratulate you Madame Web! You appear to be the only one to have caught the significance of that phone number. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 20, 2016 On 3/9/2016 at 10:34 AM, Bit Banger said: Hell, I remember my grade school phone number 35240. Yes, it was only 5 digits! At that time my grandmother had even less. crank, crank, "Mabel, would you please connect me with ..." Of course dating myself with several others here, I remember when the prefix for phone #'s was some sort of noun i.e. ORange-45128. You had to dial the first 2 letters that corresponded with the numbers and then the last 5 #'s, this was on rotary phone's. When touch tone phones came out my parents and I thought it was a godsend, Lol. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 20, 2016 35 minutes ago, amcbl1 said: Of course dating myself with several others here, I remember when the prefix for phone #'s was some sort of noun i.e. ORange-45128. You had to dial the first 2 letters that corresponded with the numbers and then the last 5 #'s, this was on rotary phone's. When touch tone phones came out my parents and I thought it was a godsend, Lol. Yes, when the 5 digit number was introduced there was a noun proceeding the numbers. It wasn't until a few years later that you needed to dial the first two letters. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 20, 2016 12 minutes ago, Bit Banger said: Yes, when the 5 digit number was introduced there was a noun proceeding the numbers. It wasn't until a few years later that you needed to dial the first two letters. When we first got a phone, my parents neglected to tell me the key was to use the 1st 2 letters that corresponded and I dialed ORange in its entirety. Needless to say all I got were wrong numbers. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 22, 2016 I firmly believe that providers even if they don't use it should be on Twitter. It is currently our biggest resource and does wonders keeping us all informed. I have befriended providers from all over the country and outside of it as well. It doesn't get the same amount of business as a specific ad site but it is free and the reach is global. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 22, 2016 On 3/8/2016 at 11:36 AM, Laplace said: F*c*b**k is the devil. I don't have an account. I never will. Avoid at all costs. Linkedin is the devil's pimp. The creator of this supposedly helpful networking site could serve us all best by dying noisily in a grease fire. Maybe someone could post photos of this event to Instagram. Twitter is the devil's stepchild. I DO have a twitter account that I only use to follow the random.....and very entertaining....thoughts of some of our TOB celebrities like Laci French or Lucy K. It is linked to an otherwise useless email account, and I never post. You know the ladies that were the focus of American Courtesans are on Twitter? I chat with Hilary Holiday now and then. So if you actually participated you could chat with someone you've seen on TV! There's also a handful of libertarian providers that I think you would get a kick out of. It gets even more ineresting when you engage. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted April 24, 2016 This is a trickier (cough) topic than you may realize. First off, I'd suggest tumblr because porn. You have more freedom on that platform, plus it's fun in a kind of curatorial, collage-y way. As a hardened (cough) ad exec, the first thing I normally do is ask you what your goals are. Social media is bad for acquisition -- getting new clients. It's okay for retention. Or, maybe , building mystique. You could use it to sell naughty videos or used panties, too, and expand an audience to creepy Belgians, for example. But that will all take time, and if it isn't fun for you, I wouldn't mess with it. You gotta ask ourself if you want to be Mya!!! the Brand, like a porn star, or simply Mya. Social is good for building a tribe. Is that what you want? Next: where's you audience live online? I'm guessing most of them are here and not on tumblr or crafting filtered images of Converse shoes to share on Instagram. Maybe. Who knows? Instead of horny lawyers and tech dudes, maybe there's a viable market of Millenial fellows with lots of time and money to spend on rendezvous when they're not craving validation or stressing about school loans. It's a bit like a session, too-- how much of yourself are you willing to give up? To do social right, it has to be sort of authentic. It can go wrong. If you are the kind of woman who creates obsession, and, whew, judging from your pictures you totally could be, then you run the risk of feeding that inadvertently. Could be profitable. Could be hard to manage, I don't know. It is something to consider. One last point: Do you want to be Lou Reed or Amanda Palmer? I like them both, but one was mysterious, legendary, unknown; the other is kind of like a big sister-- I know her yoga routines, what she ate for breakfast, what the thinks about every little thing...kinda like a wife. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
