Dear Myspace - Because you claim over 200 million accounts and don't report on actual active users like Facebook (60 million), we are grouping together to delete all our empty, dead, double, and never-been-used profiles on your ad filled site so that you true numbers can shine. Don't get too excited when you see a big spike in logins on Jan 30th, it is just so we can delete our dead accounts. Cheers! *** NEWS UPDATE 1/29/08 The St. Louis Dispatch has done a story on International Delete Your Myspace Account Day. MSNBC's website linked to it. I've appeared on several radio shows and will appear on a news TV show the actual day of the event. Keep spreading the word. NEWS UPDATE 1/23/08: Today, in a news article on news.com titled “Myspace signs deal to screen BBC show,” Rebekah Horne, vice president of Fox Interactive Media and MySpace in Australia and New Zealand, had this to say about International Delete Your Myspace Account Day: One blogger has declared January 30th “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day”. But MySpace doubts that this will have a great impact on their network. “This Delete-Your-MySpace day is just about being controversial,” Ms Horne said. “MySpace is still the biggest social networking site in the world.” In the words of BBC comedian Catherine Tate, MySpace does not look bothered. *** For more information about this event visit: http://tinyurl.com/2xa6yw This is for anyone who - - already deleted their Myspace account, - has a Myspace account but yet to delete it, - never had an account but is annoyed by Myspace The movement was started by blogger Simon Owens as a reaction to the increasing worthlessness of his Myspace account. If you’re reading this and you’ve experienced any of the things on the list below, your account may be in need of deletion: 1. You rarely log in to Myspace except to delete spam friend requests from nude webcam girls. 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. 3. You’re a girl who constantly gets marriage proposals from random men 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. 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. 6. You visit someone’s profile only to have your eyes bleed because of terrible page layout with non-matching designs and font colors. 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. 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. 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. 10. You’re tired of seeing Tom stare out at you from millions of friends lists and just wish he would change his f**king profile picture.