Polling Without Context

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1018696]

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

No, I think you are pretty much bang on. Much more so than the Lex, anyway: these people aren't really music geeks, at least not to the extent that yr average poptimist-poster is.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

They're a subset of "regular music users" - they're into music to the extent that they'll sign up to last.fm and then leave it on their PCs. (which is quite a large extent).

The question is - how big a subset are they? I DON'T think they're the 'mode' current internet user - the m.c.i.u. is certainly older than this suggests. Unlike some other social networking things I don't get the sense last.FM has much penetration in the 30something and up market.

[cis.livejournal.com]

yeah, you're probably right - my internet use is very skewed toward twentysomething lifestyle, so much so that I don't really remember about the rest of the internet.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

they're into music to the extent that they'll sign up to last.fm and then leave it on their PCs. (which is quite a large extent).

Is it though? It takes under a minute and you never have to do anything with it again - I was just thinking "I should put it on my work PC" and I looked at the task bar, and there it is, scrobbling away.

I don't neccesarily agree it's a "fear my mighty music taste" thing either - several of my friends use it as an internet radio station that plays the kind of stuff that their friends who are really into music like.