Most peo­ple find their favorite social net­work­ing spots for their per­sonal needs quite eas­ily. The socialites go to Face­book and the busi­ness net­work­ers go to LinkedIn. But the search for the musician’s per­fect online home is becom­ing just a lit­tle bit harder these days.

While MySpace was once the hottest place for bands to set­tle, pro­mote their music and even cre­ate a name and fan base for them­selves, it is slowly becom­ing more and more dif­fi­cult, sim­ply because the real peo­ple (ie, the fans) are find­ing a new home for them­selves on Face­book. That’s not to say MySpace has com­pletely dimin­ished. Although it is quickly becom­ing less and less active by many, it still pro­vides the best tools and fea­tures for musi­cians such as the abil­ity to upload mp3s to a respectable and promi­nent music player, post­ing tour sched­ules and cre­at­ing per­son­al­ized band banners/logos by cus­tomiz­ing your pro­file page.

So while nearly every­one is shift­ing over to Face­book, bands feel the need to fol­low. But the prob­lem is, Face­book is not shift­ing with them, or even mak­ing the musi­cians’ needs much of a thought. Face­book does not yet offer per­son­al­ized and user-friendly fea­tures for bands apart from being able to cre­ate a “page” and gather “fans.” Sure, you can upload a few mp3s using iLike’s appli­ca­tion, but the process is clumsy and looks much less slick than MySpace’s music player.

As MySpace con­tin­ues to decline, there will be more and more home­less bands. Face­book could eas­ily pick this one up and fill the gap, but will they?

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Ayelet Noff is founder and CEO of Blonde 2.0, a con­sul­tancy spe­cial­iz­ing in help­ing brands use social media tools such as social net­works, the blo­gos­phere and social soft­ware to cre­ate brand aware­ness, recruit employ­ees or achieve any other goal. See her busi­ness pro­file, con­tact Ayelet, fol­low her on Twit­ter or leave a com­ment below.

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