Today is International Delete Your Myspace Account Day

Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:19PM EST

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Myspace: It's the site that everybody loves to hate... and yet, who doesn't have an account there?

In response to Myspace's ugly ubiquity, blogger Simon Owens cheekily declared January 30 to be International Delete Your Myspace Account Day, and the movement has legs. Why, I'm sure dozens of people will log on to formally abandon their stale, heinously ugly Myspace pages today, for a variety of reasons. I find myself agreeing with Owens' assessment of the site in his top 10 reasons to quit the site. Primarily, his first: The only reason I ever login any more is to delete spam friend requests. I use LinkedIn and Facebook pretty much exclusively now.

Of course, Myspace has also been implicated in some pretty nasty news stories of late, too.

While I doubt International Delete Your Myspace Account Day will have much of a profound effect on the behemoth website, which now boasts over 200 million members, it is at least instructive about the dangers and headaches of signing up for every site under the sun, only to later have to undo it all. Getting out of Myspace isn't all that easy, either. Fortunately, Owens offers step by step instructions on how to do it here.

As for me, nah, I'm leaving my page intact. Partly because I need it for periodic stories I write about Myspace. Partly because cancelling the languishing account just isn't worth the trouble. The only thing worse than Myspace, it seems, is trying to leave it. 

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  • 1 Posted by pb_enial on Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:15PM EDT Report Abuse

    Thanks for the tip. Just bought a Canon A480.

  • 2 Posted by alexgannis on Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:45PM EDT Report Abuse

    You're 100% correct thanks, I made some great shot last year on my Canon 40D ISO 100 bulb setting. bulb is not a fla----- s a setting in pro camera manuel mode.

  • 3 Posted by lubbcraig on Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:17AM EDT Report Abuse

    i guess this is a yearly post for you eh? XD

  • 4 Posted by rogueist on Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:20AM EDT Report Abuse

    You forgot the most important tip - dont stand over the fireworks expecting to catch a firecracker (or M80) exploding on the ground, or a bottle rocket or roman candle as they launch.

  • 5 Posted by gullwingdoors on Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:13AM EDT Report Abuse

    Good article. I think I'll try some of this stuff with my A590IS. Another tip for those whose camera does not have those settings, if it is a Cannon, try the CHDK firmware. http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK It adds a ton of extra features including the ones mentioned in this article (rapid fire, long exposures, etc).

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