Reader Julian can’t figure out how to cancel his MySpace account.
He’s been trying for days with disappointing results:
I have tried 5-6 times in the last 3 days to cancel my MySpace account, and they don’t appear to be allowing me to do so. Are they that worried about losing people to Facebook?
On their website, I was able to go through the “cancel account” rigmarole, only to be told that they would send me an email in which I there would be a URL I had to click on, in order to confirm my desire to cancel. I have not received any such emails from them, despite repeated attempts — not in my In Box, not in my Spam folder, nowhere.
I have sent two messages to customer service; the first one I got back an automated message telling me to follow the steps on their website that I had already done, and the second time I got an automated message saying someone would get back to me. That was a couple days ago.
You know, Consumerist itself had this problem once. The solution? We (actually, it was Ben,) uploaded porn to our profile over and over again until MySpace finally deleted it. We win.
How Do I Delete My Account? [MySpace]
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I canceled my myspace account about an hour after Ben’s post all that time ago. And I’m glad now I never tried facebook.
Certain friends still ask me what my myspace/facebook user names are. It baffles me. We’re grownups! Facebook is/was for students; I haven’t been a student in fifteen years. Myspace is/was for musicians and teenagers; I’ve never been a musician, and teenagerhood is long gone. Plus, I own a domain and have a privately hosted blog. I have email. I have many IM accounts. What on EARTH would I need these sites for?
VERY glad I canceled and never got tempted to go back.
@suburbancowboy: Amen
MySpace, isn’t that a Rupert Murdoch owned place?
I jut canceled my MySpace account, took no more than 2 minutes. The system didn’t ignore your request and not send out an email, check your address in your settings and make sure it’s not being filtered some where else along the line.
Yeah, I found canceling Myspace very easy. I would check again to make sure you didn’t miss the email — make sure it’s the right email address, double check the spam folder, the whole nine yards.
I also second the post about canceling Facebook. You really do have to delete EVERYTHING — every wall post, every message, leave every group, everything out of your profile, every newsfeed item, every single item you have the power to delete — deactivate it, and then email them asking for your account to be deleted. I did that and they deleted it right away.
I had two different strangers sign up for Myspace accounts using one of my email addresses. At the time, the Myspace help or FAQ or whatever said that in such a situation, the only thing I could do was log in (“forgot password” emails the password) and delete the accounts.
Nice person that I am, the first time it happened, I left messages for the person, explaining the situation and how to change the account email address, so she wouldn’t lose all the time she spent decking out her profile with godawful glitter graphics.
She and someone claiming to be her troglodyte boyfriend both emailed me angrily and accused me of “hacking.”
I deleted her profile and it was a cinch. Easy the second time around, too… they must have made things more complicated/broken since then.
Are you retarded? The F.A.Q for myspace specifically has the question “How do I cancel my myspace account?”.
I canceled my account and my sisters accound last week. I just tried to log into my previous account and it’s gone.
So I’d like to know why you wern’t able to find this option when it’s clearly stated on the web site.
Some people need to stop blaming the industry for their own stupidity.
I just had the same problem. I thought the account was deleted months ago. I just found out it wasn’t. So after like 5 attempts to cancel it.. I uploaded a porn vid. They deleted the vid but not the account! So I started firing porn after porn to em. It took 6 porn vids before they canceled it. With each vid I mentioned what my lawyers gonna think when I violated their terms without getting canceled. Myspace is just pathetic. My original reason for canceling was cause my account got hacked. Good riddance myspace.
The best way to do this is to simply erase everything on the profile. And for any required infoL make shit up.
If they want to store an empty MySpace profile filled with fake profile data forever, no sweat off your back.
I went through the same thing. It took me about 5 or 6 tries but I finally did it.