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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: The Purple Champ on January 30, 2008, 07:32:13 PM
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Fed Up With MySpace? Join the Club and Delete Your Account
By Jenna Wortham January 30, 2008 | 2:33:25 PMCategories: Behind the Scenes, Current Affairs, DIY, Events, Hack, Social Networking
MySpace users fed up with glitchy pages, annoying banner ads and an abundance of spam may finally have the motivation to take the plunge and delete their accounts.
Wednesday is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day, an online protest geared at uniting users eager to ditch the popular social networking site.
Tired of juggling both a Facebook and MySpace account, blogger Simon Owens instigated the movement Jan. 20, laying out 10 reasons to ditch the News Corp.-owned site.
"After months of only visiting my myspace (sic) profile in order to delete spam friend requests from half-nude women, I’ve reached the end of the line," wrote Owens in his original declaration.
Rather than delete his profile immediately, Owens decided to recruit as many participants as possible for his self-declared coup.
"I’d love to see a large number of people delete their accounts all at once in order to send MySpace a message: Your website sucks," he continued.
Owens' supporters have posted their votes of solidarity in the comments section of his blog.
One user, Rachael, elected to delete her account before the designated day, writing: "I jumped the gun and I already deleted mine.... SUCK IT, MYSPACE!"
Another user, Cope, offered simple thanks for the movement: "Great idea. Thanks for pushing me to get the monkey off my back."
Other fans of the silent protest eagerly hopped on the bandwagon, creating a Facebook group to spread the word. Nearly 1,800 group members have confirmed attendance, indicating their participation in deleting their MySpace accounts.
One Facebook user, Tom, based in London, posted a message indicating his support to the group board: "Mine's gone. Solong MySpace, you were shit."
Another user, Smelly Jen, posted her support of the movement, writing: "I did it! So refreshing! Like ripping off a band aid! It's gone forever!"
The online protest hasn't gone unnoticed by MySpace officials.
According to an article on News.com.au, Rebekah Horne, vice president of Fox Interactive Media and MySpace in Australia and New Zealand, bit back at the international event, saying: "This Delete-Your-MySpace day is just about being controversial. MySpace is still the biggest social networking site in the world."
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/01/fed-up-with-mys.html
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My space is good, for promoting your Music!
Anything else is kinda a 'grey area'
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Myspace had its day. Now Facebook has come along and soon something will takes its place too.
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I will not be deleting any of my myspace accounts or facebook for that matter :(
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i like facebook! who's on facebook?
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I've never had a MySpace account anyway. I have a Facebook account, so I've never seen the need for a MySpace account. Not to mention that Facebook lets you post music and videos and all kinds of other stuff now (thru the apps, of course), so what's the point? Can anyone explain to me why you need one if you have the other?
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I've never had a MySpace account anyway. I have a Facebook account, so I've never seen the need for a MySpace account. Not to mention that Facebook lets you post music and videos and all kinds of other stuff now (thru the apps, of course), so what's the point? Can anyone explain to me why you need one if you have the other?
I am American, where myspace is more popular, I am currently studying in Canada where facebook has a larger demographic. I use myspace to keep up with my old friends from the neighborhood who aren't all necessarily in college, and my school people up north here in vancouver.
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Do any non-Americas have a MySpace? I seriously don't know one person that is on MySpace but everyone and their mother is on Facebook.
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Do any non-Americas have a MySpace? I seriously don't know one person that is on MySpace but everyone and their mother is on Facebook.
trust me some of my friends slut moms have a myspace in the states.
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I am American, where myspace is more popular, I am currently studying in Canada where facebook has a larger demographic. I use myspace to keep up with my old friends from the neighborhood who aren't all necessarily in college, and my school people up north here in vancouver.
I'm not in college, but I'm on Facebook.
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I am American, where myspace is more popular, I am currently studying in Canada where facebook has a larger demographic. I use myspace to keep up with my old friends from the neighborhood who aren't all necessarily in college, and my school people up north here in vancouver.
I'm not in college, but I'm on Facebook.
great, what do you want me to say? youre a nerd who's more left brained than the myspace crowd.
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Do any non-Americas have a MySpace? I seriously don't know one person that is on MySpace but everyone and their mother is on Facebook.
nah my mom deleated her account :P
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I am American, where myspace is more popular, I am currently studying in Canada where facebook has a larger demographic. I use myspace to keep up with my old friends from the neighborhood who aren't all necessarily in college, and my school people up north here in vancouver.
I'm not in college, but I'm on Facebook.
great, what do you want me to say? youre a nerd who's more left brained than the myspace crowd.
The point is, you don't have to be in college to be on Facebook anymore. Since you said you use Myspace to keep up with people who aren't in college, I'm saying, what's the point?
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I am American, where myspace is more popular, I am currently studying in Canada where facebook has a larger demographic. I use myspace to keep up with my old friends from the neighborhood who aren't all necessarily in college, and my school people up north here in vancouver.
I'm not in college, but I'm on Facebook.
great, what do you want me to say? youre a nerd who's more left brained than the myspace crowd.
The point is, you don't have to be in college to be on Facebook anymore. Since you said you use Myspace to keep up with people who aren't in college, I'm saying, what's the point?
I'm not trying to change people's viewpoints on what social network they choose to use. I keep my friends close, and I don't wanna lose touch just so I can save 10 minutes online. If iwanted to do that, I wouldn't use dubcc, feel me?
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I'm not trying to change people's viewpoints on what social network they choose to use. I keep my friends close, and I don't wanna lose touch just so I can save 10 minutes online. If iwanted to do that, I wouldn't use dubcc, feel me?
Ah. Well, too bad your friends won't go to Facebook despite its superiority, then.
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I'm not trying to change people's viewpoints on what social network they choose to use. I keep my friends close, and I don't wanna lose touch just so I can save 10 minutes online. If iwanted to do that, I wouldn't use dubcc, feel me?
Ah. Well, too bad your friends won't go to Facebook despite its superiority, then.
yes, too bad your trampled uneducated black race won't pull itself up by it's bootstraps and join the ranks of the Caucasians, despite their financial and power superiority
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yes, too bad your trampled uneducated black race won't pull itself up by it's bootstraps and join the ranks of the Caucasians, despite their financial and power superiority
Why do that when we can make you surrender everything by armed force and establish a Pan-African Socialist Republic? I think that's a better idea, personally.
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yes, too bad your trampled uneducated black race won't pull itself up by it's bootstraps and join the ranks of the Caucasians, despite their financial and power superiority
Why do that when we can make you surrender everything by armed force and establish a Pan-African Socialist Republic? I think that's a better idea, personally.
yeah, better, thats why your people are still driving around 15 deep in a shitty toyota pickup with 40 year old machine guns, sorry eihtball, even if you were black and you were fighting for them i'd still be smarter than you.
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yeah, better, thats why your people are still driving around 15 deep in a shitty toyota pickup with 40 year old machine guns, sorry eihtball, even if you were black and you were fighting for them i'd still be smarter than you.
That's what makes a guerilla army so effective...low-tech, huge numbers, brush-war combat. You think that's not effective? The Iraqis are using the same approach, and they've been slaughtering Caucasians over there and making the pussy Americans cry for withdrawal.
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yeah, better, thats why your people are still driving around 15 deep in a shitty toyota pickup with 40 year old machine guns, sorry eihtball, even if you were black and you were fighting for them i'd still be smarter than you.
That's what makes a guerilla army so effective...low-tech, huge numbers, brush-war combat. You think that's not effective? The Iraqis are using the same approach, and they've been slaughtering Caucasians over there and making the pussy Americans cry for withdrawal.
you and george bush are on the same level just for different sides.
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Dubcc <thats all im ever going to be on.
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www.myspace.com/miclordzmusic for the illest hiphop/funk-rock group around. Check us out if you have the time,
chill
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Do any non-Americas have a MySpace? I seriously don't know one person that is on MySpace but everyone and their mother is on Facebook.
I know a lot of music people on myspace such as myself tho, its great for music
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I'm getting tired of Facebook and all those fucking application requests.
And there's some fools who doesn't take no for an answer, they keep sending me friendrequests.
I hardly ever use myspace
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i use myspace every day