MySpace Pisses Me Off

Ok, I am pretty freakin' annoyed today with the wonderful free of charge online community called myspace. I have had a myspace account for awhile and have enjoyed the people, friends and family I have connected with using their service. About 9 months ago I decided to venture off and create a group that focused on a topic that I have interest in: Crime and Criminals. It discusses crimes of today and of yore, the legal system, the infamous serial killers and such that have come to be known, and the psychology of crimes and criminals. It was, to me, a great little group in which I had about 2,000 members which isn't that bad in my opinion for a little group without solicitation or SPAM invitations to join. It was full of mature people, lawyers, prison guards, social workers and even a few forensic psychologists. We had missing children organizations and many family of victims looking for help, answers or even just support. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussions we had there.

I put together daily news posts along with weekly information articles, sparked debate and discussion as often as possible, basically I actually cared and enjoyed the conversation and the work that I had to endure to keep it running. It was part of my daily routine and a joyful one too boot. I even created little banners and actually starting this group was what got me to learn html and simple text editing.





Well, I went to pop into my group and I noticed it wasn't there. PooF! It be gone! I frantically searched around the site, poked around everywhere and it was just - literally - gone. I had no emails, messages or anything of the sort to explain why or how come. What emails, messages and bulletins I did have was from many confused members asking me what happened and why the group link was returning as "invalid group id".

I, of course, frantically contacted the twinkies at myspace 'help' and to make a long story short I have basically been told that my group either a> never existed or b> violated "some" terms of service....but since they keep no records of deletes or reasons, for that matter, they can't tell me anything.

Huh?

Ok, let me soak this crap in for a moment. So, either I and about 2,000 other people all had the same off-the-wall dream and/or fantasy about this named forum...or I did something naughty but no one would know anyway so who gives a flying fig newton?

Oh man, this pisses me off. Because myspace is a free service, the jack-offs know that we, as the users of this free service, have absolutely no repercussions in any matter pertaining to content or anything for that matter regarding groups, etc. So, the great Tom Doucheries of myspace can ooopsie and delete your account, profile or group and who can do anything about it? They can notice that a server is getting a weeee bit too overloaded and dump about 1.2 million users data so they can housekeep and keep everything in free and super duper order. Well, isn't that special?

I know that many may feel that this is something so petty to be angry about, it just pisses me off that I feel that to get any respect or be treated with dignity that you have to have legal hold over some companies or service providers. I mean, if there is no way to be able to hold legal action over some businesses, they truly don't give a crap. Why? Why is it that we can't just respect and treat each other as if we all were paying customers? In actuality we are - we all feed and provide for each other. We all have a hand in each other's fate and survival. Why should myspace take advantage of the fact that I am a free user, that has no way to prove, disprove or force them into being courteous and just screw me and millions of others at will? To actually suggest that I envisioned this group and was delusional or something to the fact that it existed, to me, is just infuriating. How difficult would it have been to email me, if in fact, I was violating a term of service? Send me a note that the account was in jeopardy? Yeah, nothing - because you just made either an 'ooopsie' and deleted it or didn't want to buy another server to handle your network, you cheap bastard.



So, you know what? F*#@ myspace. Screw them.

Tom can go f*#@ a duck for all I care.