Comments on: January 30th is International Delete Your Myspace Account Day http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Leah http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-76333 Leah Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:53:58 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-76333 Well, if you don't really use myspace, then it's reasonable to want to delete it, but if you have friends on it and want to talk to them but hate the problems that you mentioned, a few things that you can do to stop it are these, and yes I understand some may think it's unreasonable to have to go through this trouble to stop all of those problems, if it really bothers you that much it shouldn't be too much to worry about ;). For music playing when you go to others pages- Go to 'account settings' then 'Miscellaneous' lower it will say 'Music Players' under my profile, it'll say other profiles, just un-check that box and save all changes under that section, that way music won't be able to play automatically when you go to other profiles. The spam messages from half naked webcam girls- Go to Account settings- Spam- Messages- And check where it says 'Require CAPTCHA for non-friends to send me messages' OR just un-check where it says allow non friends to send me messages :) If you do the above option of un-checking where it says allow non-friends to message me, then go to the option under that and check the box that says 'require CAPTCHA for friend requests' that will disable people using programs to add you and definitely stop the spam of the annoying webcam girls. The error with comments- There isn't really much you can do to stop myspace's constant errors.. however copying your comments before hitting enter will help you from wasting time trying to write a comment and losing it because of the error message. Girl that gets constant marriage proposals from middle eastern men- Try going to Account Settings, Privacy, then Online now, and un-checking the box that says Show people when I am online.. That way you won't show up in the browsing online now users section, and less likely chance of those men finding your profile, or you can do as I said above and disable non friends to send you messages, and maybe require last name for friend requests if you only want good friends on your profile. The background problems you can't really fix, no matter what networking site you go to if they enable custom backgrounds you're going to have a problem like that somewhere, there are ways to contact friends without having to go to their profile, so if their background is that big of a problem then just try and option like that.. While yes there are many accounts like that.. speaking as a girl who had a previous experience with a man from a social networking site getting in contact with me in real life and trying to take me home.. If I had been safer about my privacy settings that wouldn't have happened, myspace offers the chances to fix most of the problems you have named here, and they offer pretty good privacy settings, but it's an offer, they make it convenient for you but it's also your responsibility to remain safe on the internet. I also noticed in one persons comment about the religious choices.. The religions they name are not related. There are some religions that you can't fit into a certain category with others. If someone were to ask you are you a christian, you would say yes, if someone were to ask a Wiccan or a Buddhist if they were christian, they would say no. Myspace tries to fit the website to match everyone. But they can't be perfect, perhaps you can suggest to myspace to allow us to type in our specific religion in that section instead of having to pick from a certain category? Without suggestions the site won't know what to improve on :) And my last suggestion, You mentioned the ads, if you go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and download firefox web browser (assuming you don't already have it) then go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=adblock+plus&cat=all and download Adblock plus and Adblock Filterset.G Updater that will disable advertisements on all sites that you browse using firefox :) Myspace can't take ads off altogether, Myspace is free to everyone, but making that website isn't free. They have to pay for the website somehow, and advertisements are the only way they can do that, with that downloaded onto firefox though it will make your web browsing for any site much easier considering there won't be numerous ads everywhere. That should help a considerable amount, once you know what you're doing on the website myspace can be safe and a lot of fun :) Anybody reading this can feel free to add my myspace. Well, if you don’t really use myspace, then it’s reasonable to want to delete it, but if you have friends on it and want to talk to them but hate the problems that you mentioned, a few things that you can do to stop it are these, and yes I understand some may think it’s unreasonable to have to go through this trouble to stop all of those problems, if it really bothers you that much it shouldn’t be too much to worry about ;) .

For music playing when you go to others pages- Go to ‘account settings’ then ‘Miscellaneous’ lower it will say ‘Music Players’ under my profile, it’ll say other profiles, just un-check that box and save all changes under that section, that way music won’t be able to play automatically when you go to other profiles.

The spam messages from half naked webcam girls- Go to Account settings- Spam- Messages- And check where it says ‘Require CAPTCHA for non-friends to send me messages’ OR just un-check where it says allow non friends to send me messages :)

If you do the above option of un-checking where it says allow non-friends to message me, then go to the option under that and check the box that says ‘require CAPTCHA for friend requests’ that will disable people using programs to add you and definitely stop the spam of the annoying webcam girls.

The error with comments- There isn’t really much you can do to stop myspace’s constant errors.. however copying your comments before hitting enter will help you from wasting time trying to write a comment and losing it because of the error message.

Girl that gets constant marriage proposals from middle eastern men- Try going to Account Settings, Privacy, then Online now, and un-checking the box that says Show people when I am online.. That way you won’t show up in the browsing online now users section, and less likely chance of those men finding your profile, or you can do as I said above and disable non friends to send you messages, and maybe require last name for friend requests if you only want good friends on your profile.

The background problems you can’t really fix, no matter what networking site you go to if they enable custom backgrounds you’re going to have a problem like that somewhere, there are ways to contact friends without having to go to their profile, so if their background is that big of a problem then just try and option like that..

While yes there are many accounts like that.. speaking as a girl who had a previous experience with a man from a social networking site getting in contact with me in real life and trying to take me home.. If I had been safer about my privacy settings that wouldn’t have happened, myspace offers the chances to fix most of the problems you have named here, and they offer pretty good privacy settings, but it’s an offer, they make it convenient for you but it’s also your responsibility to remain safe on the internet.

I also noticed in one persons comment about the religious choices.. The religions they name are not related. There are some religions that you can’t fit into a certain category with others. If someone were to ask you are you a christian, you would say yes, if someone were to ask a Wiccan or a Buddhist if they were christian, they would say no. Myspace tries to fit the website to match everyone. But they can’t be perfect, perhaps you can suggest to myspace to allow us to type in our specific religion in that section instead of having to pick from a certain category? Without suggestions the site won’t know what to improve on :)

And my last suggestion, You mentioned the ads, if you go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ and download firefox web browser (assuming you don’t already have it) then go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=adblock+plus&cat=all and download Adblock plus and Adblock Filterset.G Updater that will disable advertisements on all sites that you browse using firefox :)
Myspace can’t take ads off altogether, Myspace is free to everyone, but making that website isn’t free. They have to pay for the website somehow, and advertisements are the only way they can do that, with that downloaded onto firefox though it will make your web browsing for any site much easier considering there won’t be numerous ads everywhere.

That should help a considerable amount, once you know what you’re doing on the website myspace can be safe and a lot of fun :)

Anybody reading this can feel free to add my myspace.

]]> By: Faye Parker http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-76074 Faye Parker Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:39:14 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-76074 You have had your Myspace account hacked/phished and probably someone kept getting your log-in information thru redirect codes because you probably clicked on one of the infamous phishing sites. No wonder you want to delete your account. I have seen that people that rarely go to their account get all these clickable images. Myspace did find and rid the place of some that were like that Myspace Birthday message, purse buying , all kinds. ..it would click to a legitimate website but had redirect codes that would lead you back to a fake log in page..saying "You must be logged in to do that"..and you never logged out. You put in your log-in information (which they are really phishing for those that use their same password in Myspace as they do their email account.) Myspace would not have sent that "Find out whose birthday it is"...because right there on your "Home" page at the end of top friends...it says "View Friends" ..All, New, Birthdays...It also shows in the Alert space: Messages, Birthdays, etc. so they would have no need to send you such a message in your messages. Whoever designed that hoped you would click on that ...then send you to the same link that is actually on your home page and then it would redirect you to a fake log in page again...because you probably changed your password on them. Every problem you seem to be having looks as if it is all because you got hacked/phished. You have had your Myspace account hacked/phished and probably someone kept getting your log-in information thru redirect codes because you probably clicked on one of the infamous phishing sites. No wonder you want to delete your account. I have seen that people that rarely go to their account get all these clickable images. Myspace did find and rid the place of some that were like that Myspace Birthday message, purse buying , all kinds. ..it would click to a legitimate website but had redirect codes that would lead you back to a fake log in page..saying “You must be logged in to do that”..and you never logged out. You put in your log-in information (which they are really phishing for those that use their same password in Myspace as they do their email account.) Myspace would not have sent that “Find out whose birthday it is”…because right there on your “Home” page at the end of top friends…it says “View Friends” ..All, New, Birthdays…It also shows in the Alert space: Messages, Birthdays, etc. so they would have no need to send you such a message in your messages. Whoever designed that hoped you would click on that …then send you to the same link that is actually on your home page and then it would redirect you to a fake log in page again…because you probably changed your password on them.

Every problem you seem to be having looks as if it is all because you got hacked/phished.

]]> By: Jamaican girl http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-75981 Jamaican girl Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:41:11 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-75981 I really like this idea but i dont know how to do it being that my Myspace page is in spanish, i asked someone to fix it for me and they did and in 2 weeks it was right back where in spanish, i dont even know how it got like that because all i go on to do is add friends and check messages. Myspace is weird and Tom is kinda creepy As we say in Jamaica "Facebook to the worlllllllllllld" I really like this idea but i dont know how to do it being that my Myspace page is in spanish, i asked someone to fix it for me and they did and in 2 weeks it was right back where in spanish, i dont even know how it got like that because all i go on to do is add friends and check messages.

Myspace is weird and Tom is kinda creepy

As we say in Jamaica “Facebook to the worlllllllllllld”

]]> By: Remi http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-74960 Remi Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:50:03 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-74960 Check this out. The purpose is different but the mechanism is there to delete your account. http://www.datastronghold.com/security-articles/hacking-articles/how-to-delete-myspace-accounts..html Basically all it says is to send an email to cancelaccount@myspace.com with the subject: delete and body: delete account. That's it. I tried cancelling mine at least 20 times and my confirmation email never came. I hope it works. Check this out. The purpose is different but the mechanism is there to delete your account.

http://www.datastronghold.com/security-articles/hacking-articles/how-to-delete-myspace-accounts..html

Basically all it says is to send an email to cancelaccount@myspace.com with the subject: delete and body: delete account.

That’s it. I tried cancelling mine at least 20 times and my confirmation email never came. I hope it works.

]]> By: Lori http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-72510 Lori Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:58:26 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-72510 I would love to delete my profile,BUT I cannot get into my old e-mail address to receive the link i need to cancel. I have sent my-space numerous e-mails to change my address and still no response. Im at wits end with this! I would love to delete my profile,BUT I cannot get into my old e-mail address to receive the link i need to cancel. I have sent my-space numerous e-mails to change my address and still no response. Im at wits end with this!

]]> By: Mary http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-63392 Mary Mon, 05 May 2008 01:24:15 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-63392 im too late. but i love the idea. and you know what? im not too worried about doing this in a pack of other people. it doesnt matter to me if myspace gets the hint. it wont change a mass amount of people. delete it for yourself. (i hope i have the guts. its my birthday and id rather be doing homework than waste my time on my own profile.) im too late. but i love the idea.
and you know what? im not too worried about doing this in a pack of other people. it doesnt matter to me if myspace gets the hint.
it wont change a mass amount of people.
delete it for yourself.
(i hope i have the guts. its my birthday and id rather be doing homework than waste my time on my own profile.)

]]> By: corrine http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day/comment-page-3#comment-61402 corrine Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:16:20 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day#comment-61402 Ooogh! Just realised it's all over anyway (Jan 30th) ........and Myspace is still going strong......oh well.....on to the next campaign. "International Stop Using Your Left Leg Day?" Ooogh! Just realised it’s all over anyway (Jan 30th) ……..and Myspace is still going strong……oh well…..on to the next campaign. “International Stop Using Your Left Leg Day?”

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