"Brock built my website and next thing I knew there were pictures of me all over the internet." - Kyla Sandulak, Singer/songwriter

MySpace unfulfilled · 31 August 06

I have been a member since October 28, 2005. Since then I have had 1874 profile views, my songs have been played between 440 and 608 times each, I have had 83 comments added to my page (more, but I deleted some due to vulgarity), but most of all I have 1088 friends. If you don’t believe me look at this:

MySpace friend bar that says I have 1088 friends

Ok ok, the Waynefest one is actually me… so I have 1087 friends. But you know what? I am still sad at night. I still weep myself to sleep. I still have 300 copies of my cd getting dusty in my sister’s basement and I still do not know what the heck MySpace is actually for! Maybe I am not doing it right. You’d think if I have 1088 (fine – 1087) friends I must be doing something right… right? If I am, I sure don’t know what it is.

I am tempted to ask for help or advice from someone younger and hipper than me, though I can’t help but think that this is all there is. A desperate attempt to collect a ton of “friends”, have them make inane comments on your page, go home, eat dinner and go to bed. Well, call me old fashioned but I want need more from my online experience. I want something more than just blurby messages from people I could just as easily email. I want more than just 4 songs (that I can’t purchase or steal) from a band I really like. I want more substance and less nudity, more creativity and less vulgarity, less sidescrolling and much less bad css integration. I also want my browser not to crash constantly. Yeah, I am using firefox, but it doesn’t crash at cbc.ca.

Anyways, thanks Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, thanks you 1088 (1087) people who called me your “friend” (thanx 4 the ad!), and thank you Tom. Thanks for nothing… virtually. I am about to commit MySpacecide!

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  1. I had one last “friend” waiting to be added while I was deleting myself. Alas, I was unable to approve her as “an unexpected error has occured”. Then, once I figured out how to cancel my account, this is what it told me – “WARNING: Cancelling your MySpace account will PERMANENTLY REMOVE all of your profile information from MySpace, including your photographs, comments, journals, and yo”. Yes, it said “yo”. It continued 2 screens later with instructions that read “You must follow the instructions in that email to c”. To “c” you say? Yeah… Yo to the c. I am still outta here!
    — BrockSky    31 August, 03:03 pm   

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