Bad Dr Who references aside, are any of you planning on participating in International Delete Your MySpace Account Day? Next Wednesday, the 30th, is one of the first large-scale movements (probably of many) to start pounding those nails into the MySpace coffin.
The idea comes from fed-up Bloggasm blogger Simon Owens. Owens feels that there is no real purpose to visit the site anymore with all the Web cam-girl spam and obnoxious banner ads mucking up its original purpose. He lists a number of reasons why he’s deleting his profile and encourages anyone with the same gripes to do the same.
I’ll admit that I agree with him on a lot of his points (the marriage proposals in particular), but I’m still not convinced that MySpace is entirely useless. For one, I have an archive of nearly three years of my life on that site. If I delete my profile, not only am I cut off from that, but others are too. Once you delete your profile, all messages, comments and correspondances are replaced with this:
And who am I to deprive someone of my infinite wall-comment wisdom?
25 January, 2008 at 7:12 pm
This definitely seems to be gaining steam. I wonder if MySpace will make any sort of announcement about it or if they will just go quietly. While I doubt they’ll see too much of a decline in one day, I think they need to respond to this sort of stuff in order to try to reverse the downward spiral.
That said, I may participate. I don’t really like the service and certainly don’t like the constant spam.
27 January, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I hadn’t heard of this before, but will definitely participate – everyone I know uses Facebook now, and I am so sick of receiving spam messages and friend invites from that horrid site.
27 January, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Good luck with deleting your account! I set up a branded account for my newMedia Mike name part of branding myself on all of the social media sites, and when I decided I was sick of the spam and crap I tried to delete the account. I went through the offical motions and nothing happened.
It took me 12 emails to customer service to get hem to delete my account.
So good luck trying to do a mass deletion in one day!