Facebook calling for bands to create pages, and any picture is a profile picture

Facebook just dropped some news onto their what’s new page: you can now set any picture you are tagged in to be your profile picture just by clicking a link below the picture, and more interestingly, they are calling on bands to create pages for themselves.

This is definitely MySpace territory. Remember when Rupert Murdoch said he wasn’t worried about Facebook? He should start thinking about it.

Rumors of Facebook Music as reported by TechCrunch don’t seem to have been too far off base. In the flurry of excitement about being able to create pages for companies, it seems to have escaped everyone’s attention that you can also create pages—wait, you’re encouraged to create pages—for bands.

The killer part of this is that Facebook doesn’t even need to expand page functionality to support the specialized needs of bands, the developer community can provide that service themselves by creating apps, and in many cases, will probably profit from it. Once again, everybody wins but Myspace.

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