Comments on: Main Reasons People Delete Their Myspace Accounts

By: Caity Lynne

Caity Lynne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:49:51 +0000

Lol in a creepy is-he-being-weird-on-purpose? way.

By: lishie

lishie — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:52:33 +0000

i think you missed the really obvious just found out my ex is a freaky stalker category.

By: Cafwen

Cafwen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:38:10 +0000

Even spelt wrong! ;-> {I’m just being difficult}

By: Finn

Finn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:19:36 +0000

Erm no, it’s spelled wrong. Correct spelling is paedo.

By: Skif

Skif — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:25:50 +0000

Did you know that “spelt” is a kind of wheat?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:40:59 +0000

Damn, it is SO true, that Facebook is the number one reason.

By: Erm

Erm — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:38:23 +0000

No, peado is not an alternate spelling. It’s either pedohpile or paedophile. There’s no peadophile.

By: W. J. Pressurising

W. J. Pressurising — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:32:36 +0000

Unlike my spelling of Marenwin.

By: W. J. Pressurising

W. J. Pressurising — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:31:56 +0000

Merenwin’s grammar is fine.

By: Alc

Alc — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:30:01 +0000

The main one missing is “realised the site was nothing more than a playground for vapid, self-obsessed cretins”, although admittedly the share would be imperceptibly small since nobody on MySpace ever thinks twice about it.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:17:57 +0000

Oh crap, I guess I am one then…

By: Diablconcarne

Diablconcarne — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:48:08 +0000

facebook=FAIL

By: It Is A Very Serious Matter

It Is A Very Serious Matter — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:34:19 +0000

A peado is someone who has sex with under-aged peas.

By: laura

laura — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:24:32 +0000

u forgot “causing drama in current relationship”… thats like #2

By: marenwin

marenwin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:34:10 +0000

TehShay, I am a teacher; a high school teacher, a setting in which the generally liberal mindset present at most universities in America is not so common.
In my interview prior to being placed for student teaching and several of my interviews after graduation I was commended for my lack of presence on both MySpace and Facebook.
One potential employer went so far as to say that one of the reasons I made it to the interview stage was that he was unable to FIND ME on any social networking sites. Not that my information was private, because that didn’t matter. What counted was that I was showing my “maturity and respect for the requirements of the profession” by refraining from using those sites.
My experience isn’t universal, I know that, but neither is yours. Teaching at a university is very different from teaching in a public school; I’ve done both. Though I will say that I was warned by my university professors about the possible effects that using any social networking site could have on my employability as a public school teacher…

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:13:44 +0000

yes. but, you see, the wrong spelling was part of the joke…. :-/

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:12:45 +0000

Yes, Facebook is “the great beyond.”

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:11:31 +0000

marenwin: are you a teacher? i hope not, cuz ur grammar’s terrible! but I catch your drift.

but…. are you saying that NOT all teachers want to molest their students?? Huh. That’s weird.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:10:07 +0000

thanks for the explanation, amanda! And, yeah, if you had made it “reasons whyp people stop using myspace” and included death in there, it would have been so morbid it would have been hilarious! but good graph anyway!

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:08:06 +0000

yes, it would be exactly like that. that’s her point.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:07:40 +0000

she forgot “boredom with the site.”

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:07:18 +0000

I’m just gonna haunt the internet and cause all sorts of weird things to pop up. I think I’ll be a cyberstalker for some cyberbully and let them know what it really feels like to have someone IN YOUR FACE — ghost-style! yeah.

By: TehShay

TehShay — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:11:53 +0000

I would like to comment that I am a teacher at a university, and that this is my first post-graduation job, and that my employers were very unlikely to have looked at my myspace.

Because I have it private.

In addition to this, I am not stupid enough to put pictures of me drunk off my ass on my profile because I think they are funny. I know that despite of my best efforts to keep my “space” private, someone will inevitably get around it.

By: Cap'n Amaranth

Cap'n Amaranth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:32:10 +0000

No, that’s correct – just a different way of spelling.

By: thatgirlmay

thatgirlmay — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:25:54 +0000

um, facebook is still a networking site. that’s like saying “i quit eating donuts” but still ate cake.

By: 216

216 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:01:16 +0000

Ok, Miss More Mature than Most.

By: 216

216 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:59:30 +0000

Second WIN

By: El oh el

El oh el — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:58:24 +0000

Lol, Facebook is soo n00b.

By: Kyler

Kyler — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:47:27 +0000

Spam was definitely my reason.

By: Blarg

Blarg — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:35:08 +0000

Paedophile

By: Carolyn J.

Carolyn J. — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:53:46 +0000

Amber has captured my reasons nicely!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:50:59 +0000

Yeah my bad I missed a fair few off, although if I’d included the many many reasons for deleting your myspace then it would be a bit of an overcrowded graph.
With the high amount for death I was more hinting at how they’re all emos on there a lot of them will be killing themselves. Perhaps I should have titled it “Main reasons why people stop using myspace”.

By: HollyS

HollyS — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:50:58 +0000

You forgot “graduated from high school.”

By: Don

Don — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:45:54 +0000

When I first joined Myspace 3 years ago, there was a MySpace related murder about once a month. Probably still is like that.

By: Gwailonuy

Gwailonuy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:37:31 +0000

pedophile

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:15:01 +0000

Win.

By: marenwin

marenwin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:06:05 +0000

You forgot “Becoming a Teacher,” when all your professors and potential employers are sure that access to social networking sites will make you want to molest your students.

By: jack mehoff

jack mehoff — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:38 +0000

I thought on death people turned their myspace profile into a memorial profile.

I wonder if myspace should set up a cemetary.myspace.com site…

And yes, significant other discovering profile should be #1.

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:47:29 +0000

Ditto Mike and:
Harassment from old boyfriends / people you hated in high school, completely random people friending you and sending messages, job search and not wanting your employer to see all the stupid crap people have written about you on your profile, the complete inefficiency of the website design.

By: Chairman Meow

Chairman Meow — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:11:38 +0000

HAHAHA!!! She said moving to Facebook was the biggest reason. Oooh snap!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:09:47 +0000

How about:
Tired of phishing, spam, stalkers, and inability to focus on anything in people’s pages because they can’t help but to put 10 animated gifs throughout their page along with an annoying background and poor selection of a stylesheet.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:57:58 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-7-ni4JNj4

By: Angryhatter

Angryhatter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:57:07 +0000

also it spelled Failbook wrong, its clearly not spelt “Facebook”

By: Zababa

Zababa — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:55:36 +0000

When I die I fully intend to come back from the dead and delete my presence from the Internet. Doesn’t everyone?

By: Tehshay

Tehshay — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:49:09 +0000

… speedo?

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:47:09 +0000

Now here’s an interesting thing. The second biggest reason people delete their MySpace accounts is because of death. What, in their reasons for deleting it, they write, “Moving on from this world”? I didn’t know there were so many ghosts deleting their MySpace accounts!

And this graph forgot an important one: Girlfriend found out I was using it to meet other chicks.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:45:06 +0000

It’s like a speado, only for middle-aged guys….

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:08:48 +0000

serious spell FAIL.

By: KoS

KoS — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:07:40 +0000

What’s a “peado”?