"I Am a MySpace Zombie," or "Read the Fine Print Before You Jump" [Image]
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I recently used http://suicidemachine.org to try to kill my MySpace account. The USA Today quoted me brief in this article - http://bit.ly/joequote - and I went quietly along, MySpaceless and happy.
I wrote it up on here - http://bit.ly/byemyspace - and linked to the memorial page - http://bit.ly/myspacegrave. But, as you can see in the image above, my account lives on.
It probably doesn't hunger for brains, or wail in eerie unison with crowds of other undead, but it lives, after death.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine appeared to have done its job very well. After all, you can watch while its automated magic tears your account down, wrenching friends from YourSpace and leaving nothing but the bones.
Or so I thought.
The truth is, I should have read more closely. The Suicide Machine did what it claims to do, nothing more and nothing less. It merely purports to delete all of your friends, but my photos remain untouched. They don't *actually* delete the photos, or the entire account for that matter.
Now I know that. But don't let it discourage you from taking advantage of the machine to make deleting your account that much easier.
