How many of you have been wanting to cancel your Myspace account but have been hesitant to do so? Wait no longer because tomorrow, January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. So here is your chance to get back at Tom and the folks at News Corp by cancelling your account (only to recreate one within the week). Even though many people have different opinions about the social network, it seems to do a good job in keeping people in touch since no one likes to send e-mail or instant message anymore. Sure it has it’s annoyances. There is no perfect social network. If there is one, it would be the next target of scum, spam, and scammers.

I came across this interesting article earlier this week on mashable.com about International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. In the article there is a list of annoyances we all probably can agree on.

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 fucking profile picture.

This is just a sniplet of the article. If you want to read more, you can find the link here:
http://mashable.com/2008/01/21/delete-your-myspace-account-day/

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