A blog post caught my attention recently. It was called “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day!” How sweet sounding is that? Here I am trying to improve my members’ experience and the heavens sent down a gift. How much is the impact of this movement, we will never tell. Since I’m quite certain MySpace will pretend like nothing happened, like they always do.
But what really intrigued me was the list of reasons listed by Simon Owens, the man behind this movement, about why he wants to delete his MySpace profile off cyberspace. Many reasons will strike a cord with many of you who are using MySpace as your social network of choice, but after reading this you too will realize that MySpace is nothing but a junkyard of poorly managed collection of web pages.
I want to go through the reasons of why people are deleting their MySpace profile and see if here at MilitaryDatingOnline (MDO) we are guilty of the same crime! Let’s begin.
1. You rarely log in to Myspace except to delete spam friend requests from nude webcam girls. - I’ll be damned if we have this going on in our messaging system. Actually I did find one earlier this week of a profile that was using the messaging system to send images for hotels in some weird places. What did I do? Zapped! KILLED IT!
2. You spend five minutes writing a wall post only to hit an error message when you try to post it because of all the website glitches. - Don’t have a wall post. So I couldn’t care less about this error 
3. You’re a girl who constantly gets marriage proposals from random men in the middle east. - Damn! This couldn’t be more true of any social networking site. I’m sure our members get proposals too. This is something not MySpace or any social site can control! UNFAIR!
4. You visit someone’s Myspace profile only to suddenly have music start blasting out of your speakers. Bonus points if it happens to you while you’re at work. - Ok guilty at first. There used to be a feature to let you upload your “profile music.” So I uploaded one and when I loaded my profile, the damn song blasted so loud - so much so I disabled the feature! Whew - thank god we’re not like MySpace.
5. You have to make redundant clicks to perform simple tasks because Myspace keeps taking you to advertisement pages where you have to click on “return to myspace profile” in order to continue what you’re doing. - MySpace makes money that way. Without forcing their users to look at ads, they cannot sell “pageviews” to advertisers. I have to say, this is something I am most proud off for MDO. Our site is not supported by advertisers. As a matter of fact, so far, this site has been supported by google adwords and some affiliate links only.
6. You visit someone’s profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors. - We do allow customizing background, font color, background color for profiles. But not to the extent of have each profile look awkward. Is that what Fox paid millions of dollars for? Geeze…what a waste. There’s a limit to customization and personalizing your profile, and MySpace just went off the extreme with that feature.
7. Your experience is hindered because of intrusive banner ads that either talk to you or try to reach out and block your view of what you’re trying to look at. - This sucks. Period.
8. You read yet another news account about how some child predator using Myspace has abducted a little girl or that some hoax myspace account has caused a teenager to commit suicide. - I’m surprised MySpace has not be shut down yet. MySpace is neither a adult site or a teen site. It’s really in between and for the life of the MySpace team - they don’t have a clue as to what direction they want to go. Don’t even talk about age verification - cause we know that crap doesn’t work. So if they went full speed ahead with adult-only, then they will lose 60% of their page views (or more). If they went teens only, then well, then who are they going to market ads to? A little SNAFU there.
9. You’re frustrated with the fact that Myspace doesn’t allow you to post your contact info, meaning to contact someone you can only use Myspace’s glitchy Instant Messenger, message/email system, or wall commenting. - They got to sell those ads. You would think that with the hundreds of millions invested into that site, they would have a kickass messenger system in place.
10. You’re tired of seeing Tom stare out at you from millions of friends lists and just wish he would change his fucking profile picture. - OUCH! I thought that was actually a “decent” item. I guess I should change up the pictures once in a while huh
So there you have it. How MySpace stacks up to Military Dating Online. It appears we’re not doing as bad as MySpace, and compared to the resource they have versus what we have here at MDO, I’d say we’re kicking ass! Now, if we can only get 8 Million users!!
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