Officially A 50Cent Fan…

Today, I became a member of www.thisis50.com, and I’m dang-proud of that.

I wasn’t much of a 50cent fan, but I am now.

“The thing that separates Thisis50 from MySpace is we control the e-mail database,” said Chris “Broadway” Romero, director for new media at G-Unit Records.

 All hail the 50.

As of my membership signup, I was member 171,532 (I’m assuming that this number represents the running total of members that have signed up). Given this number, I don’t think that 50Cent is out to compete with MySpace or Facebook just yet, but I am all for the toppling of the cultural hegemony that both of those social networking leaders have produced.

I’m not going out and purchasing every 50Cent record he has made just yet (although, “This Is How We Do” is still one-bangin’ track), and I’m certainly not supporting his gangster past-life. I do think, though, that the most gangster thing that he has ever done is the creation of ThisIs50.com.

Now, 50Cent is fighting the biggest fight of his life. No, not with 9mm “gats” or by taking bullets to his face. Instead, he is up against some of the biggest “gangs” on our cyberplanet: MySpace and Facebook.

For the sake of an online community where every demographic has a voice and a space, I say to 50, “you’ve got my back.”

 

Tags: 50cent, facebook, gangster 2.0, myspace, social networking