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Since there are several blogs which I subscribe to on MySpace, my original thought was to just to go through my entire MySpace profile and clean it out. I deleted 100+ comments, deleted all but a handful of friends, and wiped out all personal information in my profile. In fact, I put “Lorem Ipsum Doler” as my profile title. My intention was to try and eliminate as many targeted ads and spam as I could to at least make signing into MySpace bearable. And then when all was said and done, I breathed a big sigh of relief and went back to the home page only to find a huge 400 by 500 pixel video advertisement of a “19-year-old” girl sitting on a couch pretending to chat with some guy on a laptop. Then she jumped off the couch and began doing a fucking strip dance.

And that was the last straw. I canceled my MySpace account. To hell with it.

When you cancel a MySpace account, you’re allowed to write a little comment to explain why you’re canceling. I wrote:

“I’m tired of broken functionality, horrible usability, sexually-themed ads, and spam.”