MySpace suckage

[vakkotaur]

I'm sure there are plenty of reasons to dislike MySpace. A couple years ago I actually got an account on MySpace and didn't do much of anything with it. In the last few months I have been getting e-mail notices that I have messages on MySpace. The e-mail only tells me I have messages, not what the messages are. I don't know if they're just spam, or something actually worthwhile. I'd have to log in to read them. And to log in, I need my password. Alas, I do not recall what password I used.

No big deal, just use the Forgot your password? link, right? Wrong! Evidently MySpace can send me e-mail just fine if it's a message notice, but not if I request password information. Even though it's going to the exact same e-mail address in both cases. I've tried that link on and off for a few months now. I've asked jmaynard to check the mail logs to see if the spam-rejecter rejected anything. In four tries to use that link, one e-mail was sent. It didn't get through, but any retry would have. I have used the link since, in an attempt for force said retry. I've waited. For several hours days.

If I could log in, I'm not sure I wouldn't just delete the account. It would be the same, except I wouldn't get e-mail alerting me to messages I can't read.

I have tried using their alleged help system. Said system is about as helpful as those damnable automated telephone systems. It doesn't let you give it a real subject, only choose among its own subjects, none of which is quite right. I went for the one for log-in trouble and got a form letter that told me do exactly what hasn't been working all along. Or, if that fails, I can take a picture of myself holding a sign with my account number, and send that and some other information in reply to the form letter.

I jumped through those hoops. I made the sign. The picture was taken. The e-mail was sent. It's been a few more days. I haven't heard a blasted thing. Not even a "you did it wrong" or "we can't verify that" message. Just... silence. I'd say it's like talking to a brick, but a brick doesn't give the pretense of perhaps being responsive, so it's even less satisfying than that. At least I can see a use for a brick.

Comments

[babsbunny.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I concur. To me, MySpace is the Big Online Trashy Trailer Park. -.-

[mightyix.livejournal.com]

I'd check your spam box. Myspace type messages often end up in my junkmail.

[haystack.livejournal.com]

MySpace makes my graphic-design bone ache something awful. The theme of most pages seems to be "cram as much flashy, noisy junk as is possible into a single web page, and then hide most of the text by using a garish background that almost, but doesn't quite, match the color of the text."

I've also had issues with the password-retrieval. Eventually, I ran across the password I used, and promptly used it to cancel the account entirely.

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

Which is why I'll never get an account there (and rarely visit). I thought web design circa 1995 was universally reviled? So why is it still popular in MySpace? And, lacking an account, what is it about the account page setup that makes creating these monstrosities so easy? Is it harder to make a proper page on MySpace?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

It's been a couple years since I was able to look at all and what I recall is that the defaults were rotten and yes, it was fairly easy to make things worse. It's meant to be kewl. Yuck. It has kid-appeal that way and a lot of people flocked to it for that, and didn't learn proper design. Or if they did, they did that elsewhere.

My Space

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to hear of your frustration I guess I'm too old but I just don't get the whole My Space thing

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I don't either. I got the account as one or two people I know (knew?) were there. That I haven't logged in for well over a year says something.