Historically speaking, PiercingMetal.com which was launched back in 2005, has gone through what I feel are many interesting changes. Initially, this was a pure HTML website that only did reviews and somewhere around 2008 we launched a connected Blog for it called “PiercingMetal Musings” which used WordPress. That blog expanded the ideas of the brand and all along the way we used whatever social networking tools available to help make this voice a bit louder. There was a PiercingMetal MySpace and while I had a personal Friendster account, I talked about my journalistic adventures on it all the time. In 2010 we learned of Tumblr which was a micro-blogging medium and connected it to our branded Twitter and would occasionally share our website posts to the network. For the most part I left it alone and when I merged the HTML based PiercingMetal and its Musings Blog into one bigger voice completely under WordPress, I always tried to remember to check the box that allowed sharing to the Tumblrverse of Followers that we had. This brings us to where we are today in web-journalism and the new announcement.
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The VampireFreaks Social Networking Site Has Ended (1999-2020)
Back in September, I helped share the news that the Goth Subculture website VampireFreaks.com would be facing an inevitable sunset (discussed HERE). Today, that dawn has come and the popular social network has ended. Below the grim graphic you can find the official statement from management.
The Statement:
The Vampirefreaks Social Network is officially laid to rest.
We had an amazing 20+ year run and I’ll be forever grateful for the experience. To the many people who have reached out to us and expressed their gratitude and shared their VF stories – it really means a lot.
I’ll always remember the VF social network as a community for freaks and outcasts to be themselves and support eachother and being weirdos together. These past few days have been really emotional and i’ve shed quite a few tears about it. It’s been so great seeing everyone come together the final days for one last hurrah. VF touched so many people’s lives and I know I can’t take credit what it became, it was an accumulation of all the members worldwide who made this place their home.
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Tweet This: Today Marks PiercingMetal’s 10th Twitterversary
I am not lying to you when I say that I cannot believe that I have been using Twitter for “10” years as of this point in time. Frankly speaking, I don’t think I have even touched upon the social network here on the website outside of suggesting that our readers follow us in an occasional post. We signed up in 2009 for PiercingMetal and were told that it was “the hot thing to do” at the time. I discussed this move as a part of a series of social networking narratives and you can find the thoughts on this course of action by clicking HERE. The link will bring you to the focused Twitter thoughts of the time and that is way back in early 2010. Below you will find a screen captured JPG of that profile’s very first tweet.
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Presenting PiercingMetal’s “Best 9” Instagrams For 2015
I’ve been enjoying using the Official Instagram for PiercingMetal.com since I first created it back in 2012 when Nightwish was performing for the very first time at The Beacon Theatre. If memory serves me correctly, I actually did it right on the spot as I walked into that show since I wanted to do something different on the social networking side for my outlet. According to its overall tally, at the time of this narrative I’ve posted 1868 photos over those few years and I think the largest amount was this past 2015 where I posted 812 images of 100% original content all care of one of our real cameras or mobile devices. Thanks to the fun website link which you will find at the end of this narrative, I was able to learn what my “9” most popular posted images were in 2015 and I wanted to share that with you below. Here is the graphic of those nine images.
I chuckled at the winning selections since I remember each and every instance that they came from as they reminded me of some thrilling concerts such as Slipknot and Vamps along with the bunch of them being from NY Comic Con with some incredible Cosplayers that I met around the event. Thanks to those parties for being a part of this little toast. If you click this image above you will be brought to our official account and I hope you choose to give it a follow and start perusing the images that have come before. Your click will help decide the ones that win this sort of thing when we get to the end of this year in another 362 days. We always appreciate the support, now back to the regularly scheduled music and comic posts.
Get Your Best Nine HERE.
You can see PiercingKen’s “Best 9” Instagrams via THIS LINK.
Click the website below to be brought to our site Instagram and come follow us. I’ll keep striving to make as much interesting and original contest as possible for you. Feel free to “like bomb” the entries as well. We don’t mind.
Official Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/piercingmetalnyc
PiercingMetal & Social Networking: SnapChat
I’ve been on the fence about doing a post about this particular medium in the online realm because like some of the others we have briefly discussed, it is NOT a social network per se. Snapchat is a blend of Instant Messenger and a Photo Sharing kind of application and once you add your friends or those who most interest you, messages can be sent to them – and remain for a duration of a matter of seconds. What!!!
You have not read that incorrectly, the messages and images are only visible to you for a set amount of seconds before being deleted from your device and the Snapchat servers. Strangely enough I know some people who absolutely love it and feel its perfect for their own attention span. Seconds? Gosh I need a little more time than that I am afraid. I created my account at first to lock out the brand and to see what it was all about but since I am all about longevity here at the PiercingMetal Command HQ, I don’t think that I will be keeping it on my phone all that much longer. If you happen to find me please keep anything you send relevant to the music scene and nothing too bizarre 🙂 I would appreciate that.
What are your own thoughts on this kind of application? Do you think it serves any kind of purpose or do you want no part of it. Let me know what you think in the comments since that is what they are there for.
Official Wikipedia Entry = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat