Enough, I’ve had enough. I just deleted my old Friendster and Tribe.net accounts. I deleted a bunch of “friends” who I’ve never met in my Myspace life. I was close to deleting my whole Myspace account, that poor excuse for ad dispersal. Myspace will go in the next couple of months if [Rupert] doesn’t clean up [Rupert]’s act.
Thought I had more to say, but I really don’t. Less is more.
[Edit: Plaxo now gone, too.]
[Another Edit: MySpace = gone.]
[Edit 18.December.2007: Just deleted my 43things account. Less is still more.]
Comments (6)
I never picked up Plaxo. Why did you get rid of it? It seems like a service that might *actually* be useful.
You’re right, Plaxo was actually a great service for keeping contact information updated. Sometime recently Plaxo got on the social network bandwagon and created Plaxo Pulse, their version of MySpace. Plaxo used to be a wonderful silent service, and now floods my inbox with “yet more friend requests.” I couldn’t find a way out of Plaxo Pulse and still keep Plaxo, so I nuked the whole thing.
PS. I decided to stick with LinkedIn for my contact manager. LinkedIn and Plaxo offer almost the same service, so I figured I only needed one, and LinkedIn won.
I hear you man. Most of these social networks are useless…I have signed up for several mainly just for “education” so I know whats up. Right now I like LinkedIn and Facebook seems like the latest fad…but that’s about it.
I understand your sentiments, although as you know it makes me sad to not be able to have my husband on my top friends anymore. If I could find another way to have a website of myself as a musician that was as EASY as myspace is (perhaps the only thing they do right), I’d delete mine too. But for now, it stays, sans husband.
Congratulations for having the courage to do this.
I’ve had myspace, facebook and linkin accounts mainly because other writers I know had them. But I’m beginning to wonder what the point is - the same writers are moving round - I met them on Zoetrope (a writer’s and artists workshopping site, so at least there’s a valid reason for it to exist). They’ve moved to myspace and now hang out on facebook.
So now the people I already know through other sites are making me their friend and sending me hugs and requests to compare movie taste (no one has the same taste in films as me, I already know this), and posting messages on facebook that i don’t reply to because I don’t have time to go to the site and log in to see what they’ve said.
I can’t help wondering why they don’t cut out the middle man and contact me the old fashioned way, by email.
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