I've come to an extremely painful decision.
Don't try to talk me out of it. I've thought it over for a long time and I'm going to go through with it.
I'm getting rid of my Myspace account.
For those of you that haven't heard, January 30th has been designated "Delete Your Myspace Account" Day. Don't ask me who made this day up because I don't know. I have fought doing this for such a long time and now the time has come.
O' Myspace!
You've been so very very good to me! I remember when I first heard about you and your wonderful social networkingness. June 10, 2005. My mom sent me an article in Business Week about a certain website that specialized in music. I checked it out, and immediately signed up. I friend requested Mom that very day. She was my first friend, and I don't think she's looked at Myspace since.
Without Myspace, I would have never gotten into this whole social networking thing, to which I'm now painfully addicted.
Without Myspace, I would have never heard, and subsequently loved, Lily Allen, Gnarls Barkley, M.I.A., or Rachel Fuller.
Without Myspace, "friend request" would never have entered my vocabulary (well, maybe).
It's not that I like Facebook more. Really it's not, and I don't. Like other users, we just found ourselves checking our Myspace accounts less and less. There have been other accounts deleted before you: Plurk, Xanga, Digg, Friend Feed. But I'll miss you most of all MySpace...
There are lots of things that I'll miss:
The music, the blog feature, the pointless surveys that people complete everyday. Not just "surveys," but THE SAME SURVEY. Over and over and over.
Oh sure. Facebook will eventually go away. There will always be something better, but there will never be a first again.
I just finished copying 52 pages of blog entries into a Word document. I had no idea that I wrote so much. I'll probably repost some of these blogs here.
I don't consider myself a follower (even though I am), so I'll be making the ultimate sacrifice today instead of on the 30th. Already going through withdrawal....
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Now playing: Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World
via FoxyTunes
