Promotion- Facebook Killed The Myspace Store.

Facebook is most defiantly becoming the first port of call for an artists repertoire and event advertisement. For the last 5 years Myspace has dominated the market because of its ability to combine social networking with platform for artists and capitalist company's to feed the consumers.
But it was Myspace's ability to network with anyone in vast amount that finaly caused its collapse. Artits could use auto-friend adders and auto-messengers to send out 100's of spam emails every day, then came the captcha code which was attempt to stop the vast amount of spam, but this still didn't work so people choose to move to a network where there wasn't any spam 'Facebook' and with a much more defined networking system.
Like Myspace there are ways to create large group followings but these have to be achichieved ethier through nostagligic refrecnes or single handly inviting personal friends.
Facebook does give you the abiility once you have a group to message and update all the users at once which is something Myspace never really had.
Facebook also allows a soundcloud player to be added to an artists page which is a full 320kbp MP3, this compared to Myspaces's low quality upload is maybe another reason for the lack of artists joining Myspace.