Was your MySpace Account “Deleted”?
I couldn’t find this more amusing knowing my hatred for MySpace, the popular (although God knows why) social networking site among teens and radio DJ’s, it seems.
My account was deleted last night for some reason, as was some other accounts. Why you might ask? No reason from MySpace and no warning whatsoever. Am I upset? Not a bit when I had a paid hosting account that doesn’t rely on MySpace’s shoddy network that often fails. What’s more amusing is that the site randomly deletes users on a regular basis for no apparent reason most of the time.
As an example, take a look at a few threads on the internet about people having their MySpace accounts deleted.
MySpace Deletes 200K ‘Objectionable’ Profiles
The one thing I find amusing is in the last link that they can ban you and delete your account for your horrible HTML skills as well as their crappy web design team, dare I even call them web designers since their site defies ALL RULES OF USABILITY AND APPROPRIATE WEB DESIGN STANDARDS. As noted, “covering our banner ads with HTML” can get you banned. Keep in mind this is the same company that last week had an advertisement on their site hijacked and server 1 million people or so with malware on their Windows computers.
And people really wonder why I don’t use MySpace…I’ve got a million reasons, including a site devoted to why it’s dangerous for younger children.
Edit: Well, what do you know. They put up the wrong error message apparently or the account really was deleted and was recovered from a backup server (not that 95% of people with a MySpace account can’t recreate their eye-sore of a site in 5 minutes using some predefined template). I’m willing to bet MySpace won’t make any announcement about what happened. That’d be typical of a company that’s just in it for the money and doesn’t care about its users. They likely also won’t tell you that their site was compromised last night, or so it seems. See attached images. [Image 1] [Image 2] [Image 3] [Image 4]