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Remember MySpace? That site that people used to use as a social networking tool? It's still about, lurking in the shadows of the internet despite being dated and replaced by other sites that are more up to date and more importantly, take your privacy seriously.

It seems MySpace is desperate to keep people coming to it's site though, obviously not happy about being forgotten about as something that was once interesting but now is just an annoyance.

If you have a MySpace account the chances are that even if you don't log in any longer or don't use the site you'll still get those annoying emails about what's going on with MySpace, despite the fact that you don't care. You'll probably get bored of deleting those desperate emails from your inbox and eventually get around to cancelling your MySpace account. After that you'll think you're safe, surely MySpace wouldn't spam you after that? Well you'd be wrong...

Having got fed up of emails from MySpace and realising that even though I had a page on there I didn't use it, probably because it's shockingly dull and causes my inbox to be invaded by unwanted emails, I decided to cancel my membership. I went through the process of having my account removed and was happy, it was done, that should be the end of them pestering me. Unfortunately that wasn't how things were going to happen.

Even though I'm not a member of MySpace any longer they still send me spam. I get regular emails from them containing information and images that I really don't want to read or see. This is despite the fact that I've even contacted their privacy team about this and despite the fact they claim they take privacy so seriously.

For every email MySpace have sent me I've sent one to their privacy team complaining and pointing out that I don't want to be spammed by them. Each time I get a reply that's completely unrelated to what I've written to them about and the spam continues. I really cannot escape!

MySpace have no interest in my privacy and I regret the day I stumbled across their site. Despite their claims to take your online security seriously, they do not. They aren't even dealing with my complaints properly.

So my advice to other internet users is if you value your privacy and don't like spam, DO NOT JOIN MYSPACE.

That is of course unless you want to hear about some block called Tom, that you've never met and don't give a damn about. If you are interested in hearing about some random bloke and get useless images then jump right in, but I must warn you, it may never end!

MySpace or MySpam?