While I organize my photos of Banna, allow me a quick whine about MySpace. Over a year ago, I deleted my account because I was hardly using it anymore and besides, everyone I needed to interact with online was already connected to me through Facebook.
Yesterday, I received an e-mail from MySpace notifying me what my ‘friends’ were up to. Evidently, they failed to delete my account properly and decided that, perhaps, after one year I might be persuaded to begin using their service again.
Needless to say, I was pretty peeved. I logged in and cancelled my account again, this time leaving a scathing note expressing my displeasure with their failure to adhere to my deletion request. Let’s hope this time they get the message.
I’m not a conspiratorial or paranoid fellow when it comes to technology, but more incidents like this might turn me into one.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
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Yes, absolutely. Some sites just continue to spam you after you’ve deleted the utterly worthless account you had with them. Browbeating, of course, is the most effective form of marketing. I would say: The less email you get from a site, the more valuable its service is.
Posted 06 May 2009 at 6:59 pm ¶Hi Matt,
Actually, this happened to me too. I haven’t actually deleted my MySpace account, just haven’t logged into it for ages. I remember opting-out of receiving updates into my email about when I got a new friend request and stuff like that, but about two weeks ago they started coming again just randomly.
I haven’t bothered to log in and delete my account and leave scathing remarks yet, but I think that’s definitely on the cards for the next few days!
Hayley
Posted 06 May 2009 at 9:32 pm ¶It just shows that giving so much information to a website, your contact details, your friends, all the details about what you and your friends are doing may come back to bite us all one day.
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