I’m routinely met with a barrage of e-mails from fake MySpace profiles requesting I add them as friends. These profiles are usually fronts for “camgirl” operations that are - ahem - “less than work safe” - and yet they continue to exist on MySpace. Things that also exist on MySpace: ugly layouts, pages that crash my browser, songs that play automatically (and loudly), and so on. In short, MySpace is annoying, and particularly so in light of the far better alternatives that are out there.
The most apt description for MySpace I’ve ever heard is that it’s like a terrible club with gaudy decorations, expensive drinks and awful music - but your friends hang out there, so you find yourself hanging out there, too.
Today was “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.” I understand the reasoning here, but for me, it’s hindered by one important fact: MySpace is the most popular social network in the world. It’s important to understand MySpace because of its size and popularity. Like it or not, MySpace isn’t going anywhere, a fact that becomes especially evident when you compare it to the technically-superior competitors that have come and gone as MySpace has thrived.
So, although I was tempted to delete that rarely-visited, poorly-maintained private profile of mine, I ultimately decided to keep it. I’ll endure the drawbacks and hope MySpace gets its act together as other networks catch fire.
I haven’t deleted my account, but only because some of my friends post things there as private, so I wouldn’t otherwise be able to access their blogs, etc. But this is my profile: http://www.myspace.com/candicetaylor
I still have my account, but I haven’t updated it in years. I basically just keep it around just to have it, pretty much the same as you.