What next for Myspace????
I was talking with a friend over at myspace and while we were conversing, it popped up that he was following Meg Ryan, but he had never clicked to follow her. He searched the name and found how to unfollow…but he wouldn’t have even known about it if I hadn’t seen it! I had another friend that hasn’t even signed on for the last year, that suddenly appeared following someone too! So then I asked a few others whose name appeared following and they hadn’t started following anybody either! Now I am wondering how many I am unknowingly following.
It seems that myspace is so desperate these days, that they are playing with our profiles and randomly “assigning” us to follow someone…and there is nowhere to see whom you might be following! That place is on life support and somebody needs to pull the plug!
It is a bit annoying and irritating that they are being so deceitful and assigning our profiles to “follow” someone without our input or knowledge. I don’t know how they can legally do it, as it not only violates our privacy, but is also false and misleading information! I imagine that they have that covered somewhere in the TOS agreement, though.
I would quit over there, but have too many friends that I would like to get over here first…many have come and I am sure lots more will follow! If you still have an account over there, keep spreading the word about this place! Put a link to your blog here…it is public so even it they are not yet members, they can still read them…that may entice them to make the move!
I don’t do any blogs over there anymore, but made a banner to click on and put it on my page and also in my last blog, redirecting everyone to my blogs over here! And of course, I also have the Friendburst banner on my page! 😀
Loving this place and loving you too!
Angel
Update:
Finally heard from myspace…what a joke!
Thanks for contacting Myspace.
To unfollow people, pages, or sections, here’s what you do:
1. click on one of the items you want to stop following (from your Home page stream) or visit the page on Myspace
2. click “Edit”, next to “Following”
3. click “Unfollow” in the pop-up, and your done
After this, new items from this source will not be added to your stream, though items already in your stream won’t be removed. We’ll be updating the “follow” feature soon with even better ways to manage all you can discover on Myspace.
Sincerely,
The Myspace Support team
To which I replied:
Thank you, but I do know how to unfollow…the point IS that I never elected to follow ANYBODY in the first place!
At the present time, it is impossible to figure out how many may have been unknowingly “assigned” for me to follow! After sending this first complaint, I came across many more that I was following without my knowledge or permission! As I stated before, this is a gross misrepresentation of who I am and what my interests are and is a violation of my privacy.
And further, some that I have unfollowed have mysteriously resurrected into following again!
So, the problem persists and the only solution is for you folks to stop “assigning” our profiles to follow people…we should be the ones to make that decision!
I have tried to close my account 3x, but they will not send me the verification required to my Email. I am considering doing something that will automatically close it…hate to.
Love your blogs here, my friend!
RC :love:
Nothing that happens there surprises me at all Angel…they are so proud of the cleaner “following” thread…there might be 700 followers in total, but if they’d kept commenting they’d have kept thousands of ppl…now I at least feel totally lost as for a place to go where all my friends are in one place anymore, but I guess that’s just life…
I like it here but am having trouble acclimatizing…
Just to let people know, Myspace isn’t blocking the link from Friendburst any more so any blogs that you post here can be easily shared direct with myspace, facebook, twitter and other places. If you do this it will encourage more people to join Friendburst. It is a waste of time blogging on myspace. I post a few rescue bulletins on my AR page, with a Friendburst link. When I log in I can’t muster any enthusiasm for the __________ anymore! It echoes too much! Thanks for this post, Angel, much love :love:
I deleted the material, blogs and pictures from my MySpace profile in November and left it a blank profile. Someday I may remember to go back and delete the account if I can.
Otherwise, MySpace is too full of sea water to float much longer.
Well, after discovering that I was assigned to follow some folks, I wrote them this:
This morning, I just happened to notice that i was following Johnny Depp, Adam Sandler and Alec Baldwin, Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep and how I came to be doing this is beyond me, as I have NEVER selected to follow anybody.
This is so unethical and totally deceiving about who I am and what my interests are and is a blatant violation of my privacy.
I would ask that you refrain from “assigning” any more of these profiles to me. If I have an interest to follow anybody, I would like to be the one to make that decision!