These days, the world of unsigned music seems to be a huge hit on the social networking giant, Facebook. Pretty much all musicians are promoting their stuff to get heard either on their fan page (or like pages) and even their personal pages.

On my facebook pages, I use my fan page, to promote my music related stuff. I use my facebook fanpage as my official website like a lot of unsigned bands seem to be doing. On my personal page, I use it to talk about whatever, interact with friends, family, supporters & fans.

Thing that bothers me about facebook is that not only that people have weird communicating skills on them, a lot of people on there seem to be getting hurt & upset easily, when you decide to be honest & criticize them about something. A lot of people will mistakenly see it as if you were trying to bash them or trying to put them down, when you are only trying to be nice, and helpful.

When musicians get too upset and pissed off, over a little bit of honesty, are they really this emotional and sensitive? Maybe a little bit, yes, but I truly believe that when musicians get too defensive over certain things you say about them, it is definitely all ego for sure. Some musicians are pretty self centered, period.

I don’t mean to sound like a broken record and repeat myself, but I just go by how bands & musicians socialize with people on facebook and other places online. The fact is, that a lot of musicians have horrible communicating skills.

Some musicians can be easy to get along with and some can take criticism by fans, but most of them can’t take a little bit of truth. I can handle criticism with no problem. I don’t mind a little bit of honesty when people talk about me, but as long as people are not attacking or bashing, I’m okay with that.

When you put up a facebook page for everyone to read and everyone to post on, people are not going to write on it however you want to. Everything is not going to be perfect on your facebook pages. You will run into some positive people and negative people. You will also run into some honest fans that will give you a bit of criticism.

I try my very best to keep my internet world as positive as possible, but no matter what happens, negative and honest people will always come around. That’s just the way the internet is. You put yourself out there for the world to see, people will be honest about you.

If you or your band can’t handle a mixture of responses and emotions on facebook, then you shouldn’t have gotten a facebook page to begin with. What is it with musicians getting emotional over silly stuff? Oh that’s right, they want to think they’re so important and talented all the time, so you don’t deserve to criticize them.

Bands think they can have all the right to criticize the amateurs but when you decide to criticize them, it’s the wrong thing to do. Boo hooo….

This is why I don’t write on band pages too much in facebook, you never know if their tempers will flare. Bands have anger problems around here, and that’s what I’ve been trying to say in my blogs for years.

Kev