{"id":4667,"date":"2011-09-23T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2011-11-16T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:07:38","slug":"need-to-unload-your-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/internet-2\/webapps\/need-to-unload-your-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Grooveshark Help Unload Your Emotional Baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Feeling upset? Music can solve all your problems. Or at least that\u2019s what Grooveshark\u2019s<\/a> latest publicity stunt, emotionalbagcheck.com<\/a> would have you think. Grooveshark, a kind of Pandora<\/a>\/Spotify<\/a>-esque all-in-one streaming site, started up in 2009 and is now up to over 35 million users. Grooveshark, trying desperately to stay relevant as Spotify enters the U.S. and other services grow in popularity, created emotionalbagcheck.com as an indirect gateway to the music <\/a>site. Entering the site, you’re presented with two options: \u201cI\u2019ve got baggage\u201d or \u201cTake that for you?\u201d. The former is for you to vent your own issues while the latter is to read someone else\u2019s problems, recommend a song to heal their woes, and write a short reply. Upon first inspection, it seems like a really cute idea. Helping out those in need, healing with music, letting other people know they have help.<\/p>\n But where emotionbagcheck.com and Grooveshark fail is on execution. The site, obviously relatively new, doesn\u2019t have many visitors yet and there doesn\u2019t seem to be a sophisticated system in place to ensure that once someone starts to \u201ctake that for you,\u201d they finish. What this means in practice is if someone leaves the page your response is on, Grooveshark won\u2019t send you any music recommendation or words of comfort, as happened to me in my three attempts to get some comfort for the harsh realities of my life.<\/p>\n