Simon Owen of Bloggasm has proposed that we all delete our MySpace accounts on January 30th. As a MySpace account holder, albeit much unused, I can sympathize with many of Simon’s points. He lists 10 reasons that pretty much hit home for most of us who dread visiting MySpace.

My only reason for having a MySpace account to begin with is to get pictures of bands and musicians to go along with my music. It is a requirement to have an account to see other details such as pictures or videos, which seems odd considering everyone seems to already be within my extended network. To this day I have no idea what the extended network is or how it benefits me.

I may join up with Simon and finally get rid of it. I may never have to see another useless email from them. My only fear will be that the frequent request emails I now receive will be replaced by pleas to return once the account is deleted. Maybe we’ll see some PSAs from Tom.