Online Friends Are Not Whores
If you invite someone onto your page and just leave the automated message “Xyz wants to be your friend” then you’re treating your prospective new friend like a whore.
If you invite someone onto your page and just leave the automated message “Xyz wants to be your friend” then you’re treating your prospective new friend like a whore.
Andrea Leonelli, the founder of the Digital Music Trends podcast, gave us an interview at this year’s WORD! Conference (which is a part of Berlin Music Week), where he hosted a panel with Eric Mackay from VEVO.
Music triggers the same happiness chemical (dopamine) as sex, drugs, gambling and food. Music creates emotional arousal and causes changes in a person’s heart rate, pulse and breathing rate.
So should you treat all your online friends as potential fans? Depends.
The proliferation in the number of solo piano artists in the last 15 years has been quite significant. Additionally, with the development of internet radio, avenues for access to the music, created by these solo piano artists, has also proliferated.
To be a successful freelance music journalist you have to love writing about music so much that you would keep doing it forever regardless of whether or not anyone ever paid you to do it.