So, I have a couple friends who use this thing called Spotify. I am not an expert on the matter at all, so I might be completely wrong at how it works, but to my understanding - one can listen to any song of choice for free - it just needs to be broadcast on a social network.
This, for me, would be a nightmare. Or at least, not worth it to use, under any circumstances. I don't like being judged on my music choices. Sometimes I am craving the most obscure song. In fact, when I find myself 'craving' a song, if you will, it's usually the pickles and ice cream of songs. I'd have no desire to broadcast that to 800 people I may or may not somewhat know. That, and, well, sometimes when I find a song I really like - it goes on repeat...A LOT.
That, and a friend brought up another point. It was a Friday night. She wanted to hear a song, but, you know, then she'd be broadcasting to all of the fbook community that she's sitting at her computer on a Friday night.
Not to mention, well, I have quite a few facebook friends who use these programs, and, well, I have found quite a few of their choices, well, interesting....
Anyhow. Your thoughts? Do you use these programs? All I know is, for the privacy, I will gladly shell out the dollar for the song on i-tunes or wherever....
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I don't think the sharing is as blatant as you describe. That is, I don't think spotify forces you to broadcast your playlist to the entire facebook community (though certainly you can enable this feature).
Think of it more like pandora, but being able to choose specific songs. Similarly, its a streaming music service, so you have to be online to use it (you have to pay to listen to stuff offline).
MOG is another streaming music service/pandora alternative you might want to check out.
http://www.spotify.com/us/help/faq/social/how-can-i-enable-or-disable-sharing-to-facebook/
I am on it right now. It shows up in the news feed immediately. However, I listen to music so much music and I love being able to control what I want to hear and when (way more then Pandora)that I stick with it. You can hide your playlist, but you can't hide when you are listening. I still love it very much :)
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