1. Pictures – To be a Myspace whore you need to have a good picture. In this picture you should pretend to be like a pin up girl. Pamela Anderson is a good example, or Paris Hilton. So, put on skimpy clothing. A short skirt or tight

That is one of the stupidest things I've ever read….
How are Paris Hilton or Pamela Anderson ANYTHING like a pin up girl??

and most myspace user girls that want them selves to look hot do it in an alt/em0 (well mainstrem0), way anyway.

Based on MYSPACE SUPPORT’s idiotic comments he/she/it is yet another fine example of the typical generate qualities of humanity. In fact, I would bet that MYSPACE SUPPORT would finish last among a group of chimps in any kind of intellectual contest. Please, do everyone a favor and remove yourself from the gene pool. kthxbye.

Based on MYSPACE SUPPORT's idiotic comments he/she/it is yet another fine example of the typical generate qualities of humanity. In fact, I would bet that MYSPACE SUPPORT would finish last among a group of chimps in any kind of intellectual contest. Please, do everyone a favor and remove yourself from the gene pool. kthxbye.

Basically they don’t tell you they have done it. Like maybe they don’t want 2 million musicians going elsewhere, but they just allow musicians to continue to happily send out friend requiests and emails, and comments – say an average of 20 a day, for about 3 months, without informing the musician that nothing has happened – like – er – nothing sent, at all.But for the non-computer savvy – it can take a while to figure this out.

In fact, you will find that you cannot even reply to emails sent to you – AT ALL! – if your account has been “flagged” in this way.

Hey I can understand it because there are probably many wannabe, useless musicians out there, really irritating the non-musician users, by spamming thousands of people per day. Trouble is I really did send an average of about 20 mails, comments and friend requests per day – and I never used an auto tool. So, I was essentially mislead for 3 months thinking that I was sending out communications and was actually sending out NOTHING!!!

So I emailed MySpace, about 6 times, and got a “We are working on it” response. RUBBISH!!! Doesn’t anyone think that the MySpace support emails should have INFORMED ME that all communications on my account had been disabled – well most of it – because I got occassional responses – like I said – maybe once per week.

So, I created a new account, and this time I experimented with an auto tool just to verify what I suspected. Because I thought I was wasting my time but thought that 3 days of experimenting would validate my anger at having been MISLEAD. Because the first time I built a fan base it took months. And voila! I now have two accounts which still exist, because they don’t want to lose 2 million musician users, but they don’t want to let those 2 million indie musicians actually make use of the service.Then again, if those 2 million indie musicians go to MySpace competitors – MySpace might lose a substantial portion of its most active population.

If MySpace doesn’t want musicians they should ask the musicians to pay for their service, or delete their accounts, or tell them to get lost – but they prefer to surrepticiously and secretly remove the ability for highly active accounts to communicate – which is really not cool – and WAY off base with the traditions of freedom of speech on the INTERNET!!!

And if this blog is not generally available I will make it generally available by other means. My conclusion is that MySpace is now completely useless to any musician who is not rich and famous. I am more than happy to pay $10 / month for somewhere like iSOUND. Also other sites are not full of BUGS and also use more expesniove softwae, which actualy WORKS!!!

I am totally and absolutely DISGUSTED, that in a democratic nation, trying to spread democracy around the world, that this kind of mass duping of the population should be allowed to occur. And no the Internet cannot be controlled, The global economy is here to stay. And the Internet is the greatest medium for freedom of expression ever invented. Trying to control the way the Internet is used will cause the perpetrator to eventually find their competitors taking all their business. The Internet is NOT a newspaper. Nobody owns all of it. In fact nobody really owns any of it.

I really wonder how many of the 100+ million accounts on MySpace are dormant, dead, useless, not-able-to-communicate – perhaps many more than their user population is lead to believe. And how many of those unable-to-communcate account owners are not aware that their time and effort is wasted.

If I find this blog is disabled or curtailed in any way whatsoever, I will put it elsewhere. And I do have every right to state my case, it’s in the Bill of Rights. The simple rule should be – if MySpace doesn’t like musicians over-using their system then MySpace should send those musicians elsewhere. Instead they choose to LIE by concealing the fact that the over-used musician’s account can longer communicate with a fan base – they could have worked very hard to build.

In my case, I spent 6 months of my spare time sending a few emails and freind requests, in my spare time, on a daily basis. And when I discovered my account was unable to communicate, I had spent at least 3 of those 6 months wondering why the HECK I wasn’t getting anyway answers.

DISHONESTY SUCKS!!! The MySpace terms state this:

“MySpace.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MySpace Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.”

I see “prior notice” up there. What happens when a musician doesn’t get post-notice that their account has secretly been rendered unable to communicate. No it’s not against the law but it cost me 3 months of my precious time. That’s irritating! How many other musicians out there are wondering why they don’t get any responses? And I do get occassional responses – like once per week. Is this intentional as well?

However, I did send, say about an average of about 20 emails, once per day, out to random people on MySpace, for about 6 months. I built up a very modest fan base. If this constitutes spam or abuse then I need to eat my socks!

Initially, around Sep 2006, my account sent emails, friend requests, and comments – and other people got my messages. The trouble is the nessages were all blank, and saying my account was deleted – which it is not – because here I am. That was around the beginning of Sept. Now in Nov I send stuff out, and things just don’t appear at all. My only conclusions can be that MySpace decided to kick me in the goonies, after 6 months of effort (*unts!). Or they just decided to neutralize or Indie musician accounts without telling people.

Or perhaps someone got my password and used my account to use an auto spamming tool. Why is that my responsibility? Well – the only way my password got into someone else’s hands is probably because the MySpace database is insecure. So all you MySpace users out there, your privacy, your address, your phone number, and anything else you have on MySpace – IS NOT SECURE. Hackers must be able to get into the MySpace database. This probably has something to do with Windows and SQL Server being full of holes.

So take heed. And if this blog is deleted, or my account is removed, or other accounts are removed, I will put this little bit of truth all over the Internet. And it is my constitutional right to state my case. I have repeatedly asked MySpace support why these little problems are occuring, and have repeatedly received a response that the problem is being worked on. The message is always the same as well – it has to be automated (computer generated). And as far as the global surfing population is concerned – the Internet really is a free country. Any attempt to control it will likely result in the offending company probably ultimately landing on garbage pile that 99% of other DOT COM companies have landed in! As far as I am concerned – the MySpace name is MUD with respect to musicians!

Predators will just love these details, we are just making their jobs easier, is that really what we want to do?

DOWN WITH MYSPACE! ! !