Posts Tagged ‘Bloggasm’
I Am Jack’s Complete Lack Of Surprise – MySpace Returns
A while back, I wrote a couple of posts in response to a small movement by Simon Owen of Bloggasm for the mass deletion of accounts at MySpace back in January. I took part in the International Delete Your MySpace Account Day, waited for the supposed 48 hours it was to take for my account to be deleted, and verified that it was “gone”.
Now, you’re probably asking why I quoted that last word. Call me a cynic. Call me skeptical. But from what I’ve seen in my lifetime is that no-one’s account is ever, completely, deleted. Sure, my account was not accessible by any means at my disposal. But was my account truly deleted? Well, my answer came today.
The MySpace.com June/July 2008 Newsletter arrived in my inbox today to the delight of no-one at that email address. It was complete with announcements of new features such as MySpace Karaoke, MySpace Polls, MySpace Apps, and MySpace Latino… oh my! And it would not have been MySpace official without everyone’s best friend, Tom, starting off the newsletter.
From Featured Artist, to Featured Comedian, to Featured Videos, I was never so bored with a newsletter packed with so much excitement as I was with this one. Probably so much so because supposedly my account was deleted back at the end of January. Apparently, MySpace never bothered to mention that in some rare cases, my email would be retained for future use through shameless self-promotion in order to lure me back. Nice.
MySpace does offer an opt-out. They go into great detail over it at the bottom of the newsletter:
At MySpace we care about your privacy. We have sent you this notification to facilitate your use as a member of the MySpace.com service. If you don’t want to receive emails like this to your external email account in the future, change your Account Settings to “Do not send me notification emails.” Click here to change your Account Settings. You can also contact us with any questions or concerns regarding your privacy at: [email protected] MySpace, Inc. 8391 Beverly Blvd. #349 Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA © 2003-2008 MySpace.com. All Rights Reserved.
However, considering that I am not a member of the MySpace.com service, because I have no account to go to in order to change the notification emails setting, I guess my only hope is to contact them at the “privacy” address. I’ll be sending them a quaint reply. Stay tuned for any future developments.
International Delete Your Myspace Account Day is here!
Source … Bloggasm
The day is here, yes indeed. International Delete Your MySpace Account. I commented a few days ago about Simon Owen of Bloggasm trying to organize a mass deletion at MySpace and today is the target date. And it’s gaining a bit of national exposure from The Washington Post to a Channel 9 News Now segment. Along with the rest of us trying to spread the word, there should be plenty of ex-MySpace users after today enjoying life without the umbilical cord feeding them useless spam friend requests, other user’s ridiculously formatted pages, and the blaring music coming from a media player hidden somewhere on a nine mile page.
MySpace isn’t necessarily evil, but the site has grown to such a capacity that it seems unmanageable in the terms of moderation to a point where it’s no longer a phenomenon but a failure. Maybe if we can convince enough to leave, the administrators will take notice and find a way to fix the issues.
Simon Owen gives a detailed list of instructions on how to successfully complete the deletion of your account in five (well six) easy steps. After 48 hours of submitting your request to delete your account, your profile should be removed.
My opinion is that there won’t necessarily be a huge exodus today as much as there will be a general fallout over the course of a week or two. If we can keep pushing the issue and convincing users that MySpace isn’t needed, we can keep the ball rolling and the avalanche to continue. In the spirit of the day, I have just deleted my own. We’ll see if it disappears in 48 hours.
