{"id":675,"date":"2009-08-25T17:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2009-08-25T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:39:53","slug":"why-is-everyone-so-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/675","title":{"rendered":"Why is everyone so friendly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had received three friend requests on Jamendo. This, in and of itself, is not unusual; however, there are a couple of things that confuse me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First, I really haven&#8217;t been in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamendo.com\">Jamendo<\/a> account since I created it so I am not an active community member.  And, as near as I can tell, I do not know these people in real life.  Therefore, why did they send me a friend request. Since I am not active on the site, it is unlikely that I will be that valuable of an online &quot;friend&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Also, people on social networking sites in general (if &quot;Jamendo&quot; can even be loosely lumped into this group) who friend request others whome they have<br \/>\nnever talked to confuse me.  Why would you want a friend that you have never talked to?  What possible benefit would that have?  In the one case, I think<br \/>\nthe reason that the requester send me the message is that he has a group and I assume is trying to spread the word.  This is probably not the best way to do<br \/>\nthis, but at least he is being pro-active.<\/p>\n<p>Along those same lines, I accepted both requests as I hope to have the six songs that I started production on ready by this time next year.  If so, I will release the album \/ EP to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamendo.com\">Jamendo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnatune.com\">Magnatune<\/a> and, hopefully, my new &quot;friends&quot; will will check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if you would like to hear a demo of one of the tracks, here is a link to &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/17\">Eff-Bahm<\/a>&quot;.  Please feel free to leave a comment; I take all criticism as constructive.  However, if you want to leave a message telling me that it is a steaming pile, please let me know specifics on what makes it so intolerable.  Of course, comments along the lines of &quot;This is the best song I have ever heard!&quot; are also appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had received three friend requests on Jamendo. This, in and of itself, is not unusual; however, there are a couple of things that confuse me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,14,61],"tags":[123,90,358],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-sites","category-online","category-trend","tag-eff-bahm","tag-jamendo","tag-magnatune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}