On my personal calendar, I've got Wednesday, January 30th more or less open - nothing of importance is happening. But for one social network, Wednesday might get a little interesting, as a user has decided to make it International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.
Simon Owens lists ten reasons to leave for LinkedIn, Bebo, or pretty much anything else. My favorites were numbers one and six: "You rarely log in to Myspace except to delete spam friend requests from nude webcam girls," and "You visit someone's profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors."
Owens's list seems to have struck a chord with many other MySpace users, as well - seven pat-on-the-back-type comments follow his original post. Also, a number of nods take place following a Mashable article, and a Facebook group supporting the event has 25 confirmed guests.
At this rate, International Delete Your MySpace Account Day won't bring News Corp. to its knees. Still, there's the possibility that some serious momentum will accumulate between now and then, and it'll be interesting to see if there is much of a surge in traffic on January 30th (or a drop in the weeks following).
Your humble author will leave his MySpace profile alone, however; it's pretty bare and 97 percent dead, but doesn't seem to be doing much harm.
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Simon does not list any
Simon does not list any alternatives to MySpace, nor does he give "ten reasons to leave for" any other site.
He merely states ten pet peeves of his and says that people should delete their MySpace accounts.
In the future please read an article before misquoting it. At eight paragraphs, a picture a list it would doubtlessly have taken you all night.
"is run amuck"? WTF is that supposed to mean?
Please castrate yourself.
Eh...
I'll leave my Myspace pagES alone. =) I use both everyday and I help run a 3rd page.
Tom's put up the CAPTCHA thingy, so if you're too lazy to turn it on in your settings, then by all means, delete your Myspace. That means it'll run a lot better on my end. The CAPTCHA stops spam and porn bots from messaging/adding you. That's why Tom created it.
And I do agree with you on the bleeding eyes while looking at some profiles, but that's because those idiots think it's awesome to include every blinding color under the sun on their profile. I mean, you can send them a message and let them think you're psycho for yelling at them because your eyes can no longer see normal colors anymore, but that's not going to help anything. You can't control other people's profiles.
I use Myspace for networking. I work for a promotions company, and all our business is done on Myspace. I'm branching from that company to do photography, and I upload my pictures on my new page. Myspace is great networking. If you use it properly.
So go ahead, delete your page! It's not really going to affect anything. There's so many people on that site that it's not going to affect the creator(s). Depending on how many people delete their page along with you, Myspace may run a tad bit quicker. =D
WOW 25 people are behind
WOW 25 people are behind this movement? I guess the millions of other people are just seconds behind. I could get 25 people to say we're going to the moon on a cat-shaped balloon too, if this is what passes for news at WPN, I think this will be my last trip here.
Update
Cool! MySpace is run amuck
Cool! MySpace is run amuck anyway. Teenagers can find better things to do than goof-of on the internet at MySpace.
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