Wow. I am just speechless right now. I’ll let you read the response that MySpace’s technical support gave me regarding the cancellation of my account:

Hello,

If you wish to terminate your MySpace Account, start by clicking on "Home" in the top navigation menu from any MySpace web page. Once on your personal home page, click on "Account Settings," appearing in the upper left portion of the page, next to your picture. Click on the "Cancel Account" link. You can find it above the "My Account Settings" box. This will link you to the "Cancel My Account" page. There click on the "Cancel My Account" button. Your MySpace Account has now been deleted. Keep in mind, canceling your MySpace account will permanently remove all of your profile information from MySpace, including your photographs, comments, journals, and your personal network of friends. This information cannot be restored. You may re-register your current email address after canceling, but you will need to rebuild your personal network from scratch.

If for some reason you should be unable to delete the account, provide the email plus password for your profile and we will cancel it for you. If you don't remember the password or it has been changed, please send us a salute as verification and we can remove the account.

To send a salute, please do the following:

Create a hand written sign that says MySpace.com and your friend ID. Your friend ID is the number between ID= and &mytoken in your profile's URL.

Get an image, or digital picture of yourself with this hand written sign.

This is image is a salute. Next, reply to this e-mail with the salute as an e-mail attachment, or as an e-mail link to where it is uploaded.

If this does not answer your question, please click:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.contact

Thank you,
MySpace.com

What the.. so let me get this straight. I can’t use the automatic function to cancel my account, which is what I e-mailed support in the first place with; indicating that this is a standard response letter. Okay, no biggie. They say I need to e-mail them my password and e-mail address, and they’ll delete it. Okay, I already e-mailed you from that specific e-mail address, asking to be deleted. Why do you need my password too? Ugh.

Furthermore, if you forgot your password, you’re supposed to take a picture of yourself, holding up a sign with “MySpace.Com” and your profile ID? Wow. That just blows my mind. I won’t even get into privacy implications.. why they need a picture of yourself.. and who recieves/views/stores these photos.

I’m reminded of Vinny’s fun time at trying to cancel his father’s AOL account. JUST CANCEL MY ACCOUNT.

MySpace is scum. Block it from your computers, especially if you have young children. If you’re running the network at a business and haven’t blocked it yet, shame on you.