<![CDATA[Consumerist: Fuck Myspace]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/consumerist.com.png <![CDATA[Consumerist: Fuck Myspace]]> http://consumerist.com/tag/fuck myspace http://consumerist.com/tag/fuck myspace <![CDATA[ Tom's Second Profile, Revealed! ]]>

For no other reason than we loathe Myspace, this is a link to the comments space on Tom Andersen's private profile. Through the power of hate, all things are possible. If the link goes down, use the magic of the google cache.

Note the profusion of comments from Tom's pocky stick on the arm, Tiffany Chao.

Valleywag has a funnier take on it, go read them.

(Thanks to Justin!)

]]>
Consumerist-179327 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:10:56 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=179327&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Porn Wins, Myspace Removes Our Profile ]]> Ahh, has there ever been a sight more beauteous?

As of around 10:15 PM EST last night, according to reader ModerateSnark, our Myspace profile was removed. Victory.

RickDobbs IMd to say he requested a removal on Monday and never got any reply. He then he uploaded lots of porn, including an old lady with pierced nipples, and had his friends post porn in the comments. This morning Rick asked Myspace for a removal and got his instructions moments later.

Could Myspace be seeking to stave off the porn invasion we so desperately wished to unleash?

Previously: Fuck Myspace tag.

]]>
Consumerist-179116 Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:49:20 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=179116&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Myspace is a Loser, So We're Resorting to Porn ]]> So we've just replaced our Myspace profile photo with shemale porn.

We're also uploading a lesbian strapon movie.

We also sent out a bulletin to all our friends, telling them to check out our new pic and movie. It's 4:27pm EST, let's see how long it takes for our profile [NSFW] to finally get deleted.

Previously:

UPDATE: It's still up there, so obviously we need to put up more porn.

UPDATE: The shemale pic got deleted, but the profile is still there. Maybe Myspace just has a no shemale policy? We shall see and upload a variety.

UPDATE: Sometime before 10:15 PM EST, our profile was deteled. Yay, we win.

]]>
Consumerist-178829 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:39:11 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=178829&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Myspace Unwilling to Accept Breakup ]]> myspacesuxxxxxx.jpgJust like us, radnauseum is sick of myspace and wants off the Similac merry-go-round. He's being trying to cancel for three days now, with no success. Which is odd because we too, after clicking all the right cancellation buttons, never got that email in our inbox to let us remove our profile. He pursued further and emailed asking to please please let him leave. They said sure, but first you have to send us an arts & crafts project, like so:

    Create a hand written sign that says MySpace.com and your friend ID. Your friend ID is the number between ID= and &mytoken in your profile's URL.

    Get an image, or digital picture of yourself with this hand written sign.

    This is image is a salute. Next, reply to this e-mail with the salute as an e-mail attachment, or as an e-mail link to where it is uploaded.

Which seems really bizarre, unnecessary, and bad customer service, almost like Tom's fixation with Asian schoolgirls.

Previously: Fuck Myspace, We're Deleting Our Profile

UPDATE: The complaint letter radnauseum wrote Tom and Myspace customer service, after the jump...

Rad wrote:

    "Dear Tom or Rupert or whoever:

    Are you insane? I'm supposed to do arts and crafts, take a picture, upload it to a website, email you the picture and go through a lengthy URL to find my acct. number just to cancel my account?

    Why can't I just go through the usual "click to confirm" program that most normal websites have. This is just one more reason why myspace sucks.

    I really do think you are insane. Imagine if Amazon.com suggested this for closing an account with them? Imagine any reputable website asking their users to take a picture of themselves to cancel an account? Even better! Imagine trying to return a book at Barnes and Noble and getting your picture taken with the book and piece of paper where you have hand written why you don't want the book? The possibilities are endless. I just don't have the time or patience to go through them all right now. Please be sure though that I will try to make this insane system you have as public as possible.

    You are insane.

    Best,

    Robin Adams
    user number: 42067501 (if that's even correct... in my profile page some of the stuff I am looking for in the URL isn't even there, nutjob.)"

]]>
Consumerist-178692 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:00:35 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=178692&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The News is Tasty Like a Taser ]]> taser.jpg• Health Insurance is sick: their refusal/lassitude in paying claims can add 20% to physician's overhead. [NYT]
• How Safe is Your Taser? [NYT]
• 2 Teens try to extort Myspace for $150,000. Last words before getting arrested by undercover cops: Hey, you looked different in your profile... [Tribune]
• MPAA may have hired a hacker to steal information from a file-sharing company, which pales in comparison to their use of slaves as a distribution channel. [CNet]
• School doesn't like student complaining on Xanga that the school is a bully, proves him wrong with a 10 day suspension. [Sun Times]

]]>
Consumerist-176233 Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:03 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=176233&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Illinois Highschool Will Monitor Myspace ]]> Myspace is quickly becoming Theirspace. In so-called "Libertyville" Illinois:

    "The board of Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.

    Mary Greenberg of Lake Bluff, who has a son at Libertyville High School, argued the district is overstepping its bounds. "I don't think they need to police what students are doing online," she said. "That's my job."

    Associate Superintendent Prentiss Lea rebuffed that criticism, saying, "The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron," he said. "It is called the World Wide Web."

No, it's called a logical fallacy and you sir, committed one. Searching a blog or "blog site" may not be an invasion of privacy, as the item is public, but then holding an individual responsible within a delineated area, school, is. Go back to preventing peroxide substitutes from having sex with minors. And while you're at it, look up a little thing called the Peace of Augsburg.

"School District to Monitor Student Blogs" [AP]

]]>
Consumerist-175818 Tue, 23 May 2006 18:45:08 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175818&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Fuck Myspace, We're Deleting Our Profile ]]> badspace.jpgTom is not our friend anymore. Neither is MAGIC CYCLOPS, ElectroBOOBIES, Larry TEE or Mr. Pacman.

We just canceled our Myspace profile. Or at least, initialized the proceedings. We are scheduled to receive an email shortly containing instructions we must follow to complete the cancellation. Thank you.

We don't even use Myspace anymore, really. It was cool two years ago when we promoted parties. It helped get the word out and we could "monitor the scene." Now that we have a real job *cough cough,* it sits as an internet artifact to a life we once led, a vestigial ligament, and a catch basin for the odd acquaintance who decides to send us a message through it, arriving with the charm of a telegram.

But mainly it's a way for crappy bands and stupid people we've never heard of to market themselves to us. Which we were relatively okay with, we just set it so we don't get notifications anymore. But then Myspace got creepy.

Our little brother and sister are on it. It got sold to Murdoch and the renovations began. Currently, the homepage is swathed in X-men. We hate X-men. And recent reports that schools are using Myspace to spy on their students, and even punish them for things said and done there have made us furious. Raging. Party's over, kids.

We refuse to support this system, even as a passive "friendship" node.

Goodbye, Myspace. You are a loser.

After the jump, the step by step screenshots of cancelling one's profile....

Step 1

thefirststep.jpg

Step 2

2.jpg

Step 3

3.jpg

Step 4

4.jpg

Step 5

5.jpg

]]>
Consumerist-174723 Thu, 18 May 2006 13:20:44 EDT popkin http://consumerist.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=174723&view=rss&microfeed=true