myspace, facebook
Some of you may have noticed that I no longer have a facebook page and that my myspace profile is mangled.
No, I was not hacked. I have been trying to cancel myspace for a few weeks and was having trouble, so I destroyed what was there. I have now reached someone there who is promising me that they will let me leave. I have no grudge against myspace or facebook. It's hard to explain. I just don't want to do these things anymore and I started to feel like I had to. So I stopped. That's all.
People will tell me that that kind of networking is vital for my career. Well, I guess I'm willing to go ahead and find out that no one is coming to my shows because I don't have a myspace or a facebook account. I wish all of you in the social network world a terrific whatever you're doing. If you still want to reach me, you can come here to my website. I will try to use the time I have freed up by killing those things to update this page more often.
A good life, or a hard life lived well to all of you.
Louis C.K.
ps. I still have twitter.
Posted by Louie in on October 13, 2009 | Comments [ 10 ]
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What's your name on twitter? I assume it's not this: http://twitter.com/louis_ck
Ah, well, it's good to know that the Twitter account is really yours after all ... otherwise, I wouldn't know who it is I've been proposing to all this time ... :P
I don't know if you got my @reply or if you didn't already know this, but the Twitter page LouisCK no longer exists, so if you wanted to go to the trouble of adopting it, you're free to do so now! :)
So Louis, i will say this. You are doing your self a service by deleting your myspace, because thats my Turf, im cornering the comedy market on myspace, so back offsies, no go backsies, alrightsies? Shit now im sies on the end of everything, well honestly im glad you are moving on, because only no talent hacks and double douche baggers use myspace as a serious medium for self propoltion. Anyway i bid fare the well, i will be adding this site to a list of my favorites, and i hope to see you in Houston sometime soon(oh if you do can you give me like 200 free tickets, i swear ill pay you back)
-Sincerly guy you've never met.
Loved your show in Austin.
It took me a while to find your Twitter account (cklouis). Maybe it would be a good idea to replace the "LOUIS C.K. ON MYSPACE" link (at the bottom of this page) with a link to your Twitter.
Just "discovered" you via a post on that Time Suck that is Facebook (social networking has been very very good to me, but I totally get needing to step away). Turns out the clip I saw is rather old, but I've been watching more clips of you as I find them online and just wanted to tell you how much I'm enjoying laughing this hard. Brilliantly funny stuff. Thanks.
Dear Mister Ck,
Twitter is blocked at work. but your site is not. ;)
The clip everything is amazing and nobody is happy has been making the rounds at work. The clip makes me so HAPPY!
I work for a cable company doing tech support for internet, tv, and phone. and after the 20th time of explaining the way wireless works and that it is unrealistic to think that it will always just stay on and etc etc etc, sometimes i just really want to quit, or stab them.
but then i think of your clip and i keep my job, the murder rate doesnt get higher, and i laugh.
infact right now I have a man sighing in my ear, because his crappy third party router, is not working, and its unreasonable to think a modem and a router would need to be reset After 72 days of uptime.
So thank you. Thank you. All of my coworkers fell in love with you, and we are going to have a shameless/chewed up night soon.
P.S. who is going to send me random messages on myspace now? SAD.
P.S.S. are you still going to tour with the upcoming production of FX? i keep missing you. its been years. way to long my friend. way to long.
you were in a war?
Louis, it's good to see you remaining true to yourself. Welcome back to the land of the "Web 1.0" curmudgeons. We've missed you. Look, what do you need a myspace.com account when you already have YOUR OWN SPACE RIGHT HERE. You have more of it and you can do whatever the fuck you want with it! As for facebook, I really don't want to see your face either. Basically, I put up with it because that's where your mouth is and that's where the funny comes from. So, another good move!
I'm with you on this, you have a solid fan base, MySpace and Facebook are more for the beginners or the half-way talented that don't wish to try harder.
Looking forward to your show in Norway, thanks for coming over. :)
Hahaha. Good lord. For years now I've found myself laughing at your standup and thinking and/or gasping for the breath to say "aaaaaah! that's totally what i've been thinking!! This dude thinks like me but expresses it sooooo much better!!" This blog post is just another strange uncanny example of that. I'm an artist and a musician and I've been feeling the exact same way about maintaining my own website and myspace/youtube/etc. In fact, just last night I condemned my myspace page with a post telling people I will never use it and that they should go to my website which is better and has dinosaurs. Now today, I read this from you. Weird.
Anyway, I'm with you Louis. Fuck all this social networking hype. Let's focus on making good shit. I feel like so many artists are so focused on harnessing the easy promotional power of the web that they do less of the hard work to create something really worthwhile. What's worse is that marketing and advertising are totally buying into it and (for the time being) managing to make it profitable to simply amass a fan-base of people who are willing to click on your shit. I think it's empty though. It's pretty damn easy to get people to click on shit. It's much harder to make shit for them to click on that will resonate with them, and stand the test of time.
Personally, I don't think you will ever be rid of your core of avid fans, no matter how many pages you take down. Your material is too honest and too goddamn funny for that to happen.
Keep up the good work.
B!