Jammed: Full into Capacity

Mashable.com blogged about the growing disgust of a MySpace user to several anonymous friend requests, birthday notifications, etc. where he came to a point of deleting his MySpace account. He wanted to invite other users to join him on January 30, 2008, which he dubbed as the “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.”

He stated 10 reasons that warrants MySpace account deletion:

1. You rarely log in to Myspace except to delete spam friend requests from nude webcam girls.

2. You spend five minutes writing a wall post only to hit an error message when you try to post it because of all the website glitches.

3. You’re a girl who constantly gets marriage proposals from random men in the middle east.

4. You visit someone’s Myspace profile only to suddenly have music start blasting out of your speakers. Bonus points if it happens to you while you’re at work.

5. You have to make redundant clicks to perform simple tasks because Myspace keeps taking you to advertisement pages where you have to click on “return to myspace profile” in order to continue what you’re doing.

6. You visit someone’s profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors.

7. Your experience is hindered because of intrusive banner ads that either talk to you or try to reach out and block your view of what you’re trying to look at.

8. You read yet another news account about how some child predator using Myspace has abducted a little girl or that some hoax myspace account has caused a teenager to commit suicide.

9. You’re frustrated with the fact that Myspace doesn’t allow you to post your contact info, meaning to contact someone you can only use Myspace’s glitchy Instant Messenger, message/email system, or wall commenting.

10. You’re tired of seeing Tom stare out at you from millions of friends lists and just wish he would change his f*****g profile picture.

When social networking was still the “hottest trend”, I was one of those who joined several social networking sites, including MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, etc. My reason for joining then was to connect with my high school and college buddies, to blog (I didn’t know the power of WordPress at that time), to share memories through photos. Getting more friends and, err, dates was never my reason of joining these programs. After two months, I got tired of it. I was receiving several invitations from known and unknown people, spamming my inbox. I thought that MySpace was no longer an user-friendly hangout since it was already invaded by pornographic materials - profiles, downloads, nude cams, etc. so I decided to delete my account.

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