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J. of Coppell TX (06/21/08)
I have had the same experiences as many have already documented on this website. Perhaps these complaints should go to the California Attorney Generals Office and Los Angeles Prosecutors Office. Anyone have the links to these jurisdications?
Andrew of South Elgin IL (06/09/08)
I uploaded one of my favorite pictures, the vitruvian(the Da Vinci drawing of a man with his arms and legs outstretched) into my Myspace pictures folder. The next day I found that it was deleted because it violated the terms of use of Myspace. I can only guess it is because in the drawing the man's genitalia is visible. I find this completely perplexing. Art and science are not pornography no matter how an argument could be staged. Would they kick me off if I were to have a photograph of Michaelangelo's David? That is what I asked them already, yet to recieve an answer.
What makes the matter worse and more offensive is the prevalence of lewd advertisements on the Myspace website. Every time I log in, I see some pretty young girl portrayed in an objectified and sexual manner. Now they think that a work of art or a scientific study into the nature of the human body falls into their catagory of pornographic nudity or offensive subject matter. Well I am offended!
There has been no economic or physical damage. I am, however, confused and I question what Myspace hopes to accomplish by such contradictory rules.
Donald of Arlington TN (05/24/08)
I deleted my account over a week ago. After four tries, my account was finally deactivated, but the profile remains. I went to customer service, who refuse to delete the profile. According to them, the issue is resolved. It is not, and will not be until that profile is removed completely.
Very annoyed. I was harassed repeatedly when a member of MySpace, and they ignore any pleas for help in that regard. Now, they refuse to delete the profile so they can pump their membership numbers up.
Lisette of Banquete TX (05/23/08)
All i want is my 2 accounts to be deleted. I requested 1st time to be deleted thinking it was deleted i used same email and password to create another one, i find out they never delete first one i requested to delete 2nd and i cannot get in, but they are still up, i keep getting autoreplys not fixing the problem im so annoyed i jsut want them deleted, never again wil i use it!!
Just the thought of not being able to delete ur own profile not knowing what comments r being post about u in ur own profile, i cannot even delete my own pics. im frustrated and annoyed, it is violating my privacy
Aaron of Alexandria VA (05/20/08)
MySpace offers a feature called custom URL, which allows a user to have a permanent URL for their profile at myspace.com. I selected the profile myspace.com/irons and had this set as my permanent URL until last December 2007, when one day I noticed it was no longer linked to my profile. When I went to see what appeared at that URL, it was linked to a band called Irons.
I contacted MySpace support on several occasions and received no reply. I don't want to appear paranoid but I suspect that a MySpace employee who was friends with the band removed my URL and linked it to the bands, even though it is falsely advertised as a permanent feature.
Melanie of Houston TX (05/18/08)
I thought that I had successfully deleted my account at MySpace. Boy, was I wrong, it is still up and wonder of wonders I cannot access it, and MySpace refuses in any real way to help me get back in to delete it. I have been ignored and treated as if I were stupid. All of the replies I have been given by their support staff have been for an issue that i don't have or simply referring me to FAQ or FYI information. I have had to take a picture of myself holding a stupid sign now 2x supposedly to prove my identity, and the demands are just getting worse and even more random. Who holds these morons responsible for thier behavior and business practices??
I may not be able to get a job because of the stupid things my friends are writing to each other that are appearing on my page. I cannot even log in to make it private.
Tamera of Moore OK (05/05/08)
I sent an e-mail to MySpace Customer Service informing them about my 10 year old niece having a MySpace page. I provided them with as much information as I could to have her page deleted. I was first told that they couldn't find her page. After responding and copying the FCC they responded saying that they would delete her page within a certain number of hours.
She has since re-created another page. I again sent them as much information as I could and suggested that they block her IP Address since her mother, to my shock, sees nothing wrong with her 10 year old daughter having access to a website that is a haven for child predators. They responded saying that they would not be able to block the IP Address.
I feel that MySpace should be obligated to make sure that children are not exploited on their website. When MySpace receives valid complaints alerting them about underage users -- those complaints should be taken more seriously. Children are being targeted via internet by sexual predators now more than ever. Something has got to be done to keep children from becoming potential victims. Companies that provide communication tools such as MySpace must be more proactive -- even if parents are too lazy or ignorant to be concerned.
Angela of Seattle WA (04/15/08)
How many complaints or incidences will it take, and these here are mere drops in the bucket, before someone does something about MySpace?
I created a MySpace for my son to use for famly and school friends. He is under 17 years of age. His account was compromised and we cannot access it any longer. I advised MySpace that as his parent and the creator of his account, I need the password that was changed without my knowledge or permission. I need to be able to monitor my child and if an account has been compromised, I need the abilty to delete it or take back control. They advised me they can do nothing. Informed me I would have to call Law Enforcement, file a report, then contact an attorney and have an attorney request information which they may or may not be required to comply with!!!!
I am stunned.
They told me to set my teen down and discuss online safety. That was their recommedation!! This is incredulous.
These blanket responses to parents who do care about their child's safety and make every effort to monitor their child's on-line activity, are useless and display that MySpace has little regard for safety. The ability to insure our children's online safety at MySpace has been taken out of our hands. And it is in the hands of an entity that does not provide customer support, remedy, useable information, parental support for it's market and apparantly uneducated IT Securtity for it's business. I think it is time an outside agency come in and demand these issues are corrected with MySpace.
This will continue on, until something quite horrific perhaps takes place because of the lack of all of the above I have mentioned.
We are not speaking of censorship here. We are speaking of ASSISTING parents with every aspect of monitoring the safety of their children, in good faith. I believe there should be penalty and repurcussion for MySpace if they do not implement better service for parents. We are all aware of the issues and incidences that have already taken place due to the lack of concerted effort between the creators, ceo's and staff and management at MySpace.
If there is any remedy to be had, include me in this. I am done speaking to MySpace and banging my head on the wall. I am planning on taking this as far as I can.
Geniene of Whyalla Norrie OTHER (04/05/08)
My son died in a car accident in August 2007. He had a myspace profile that is now the target of spammers. I would like the profile deleted. I have tried to get help from myspace but none is forthcoming. Who do I contact to get it deleted? Preferably a contact that is actually human.
Nancy of Southington CT (04/05/08)
I have tried on numerous occasions to cancel my myspace account. All I receive is a generic message telling me what to do. This makes no sense to me as a parent to not get a response to canceling an account! God forbid my teenager creates an account and is unable to cancel it! It takes 5 minutes to create an account and weeks to delete it. I really believe no one works at customer service. Thank you in advance for any cooperation in this matter.
One of the many emails I have sent to customer service: I have attempted to cancel this account for a week now. I have done everything you told me to. It takes a few minutes to open an account and a week of trying numerous times to delete it? I am not understanding this at all as I have been more then patient! Please cancel my account! 8th request to cancel!
Veronica of Boston MA (03/19/08)
Someone is acting like they are me. Harassing me and putting degrading content about me on it. I contacted Myspace customer service and never received a response, every time. I use Myspace for networking and marketing my music. The person is requesting my friends and messing up my career.
My reputation and picture of me is on the page. People will not want to work with me in music.
Justin of Glen Head NY (03/19/08)
To make a very long and frustrating story short, I have been unable to get into my profile and retrieve valuable pictures and information that is on there for the general public to see. I have been trying for weeks to contact someone from this company to no avail. It's obvious they don't have anyone doing customer service. I have received about a dozen replies that are clearly computer generated and have not gotten one single person live on the phone or even got one single call back after calling and leaving messages dozens of times in their voice mail. There are personal pictures I no longer want posted without putting a copyright which I can't do because I can't get to my site to do it. They should NOT be allowed to treat people in this regard and to be allowed to freeze people out of their own personal profiles with no option to even cancel their accounts. It's wrong and someone should do something about it who has the means to do so.
Bob of La CA (03/12/08)
Want to complain to My Space? Headquarters: FIM Corporate, 407 N. Maple Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; (310) 969-7200.
Julie of Omaha NE (02/29/08)
In the beginning of Jan. 2008, I had requested to change my email address because the email I was using did not exist anymore. So after 3 emails later I finally received a reply on Jan. 15 saying my request was fulfilled. I was able to log in and do whatever I was able to do before. The very next day I attempted to log in; it was telling me my email is invalid. I contacted the customer service again, and they did not reply. After several emails I finally get a reply. They tell me in order to prove I am a real person, I need to send a picture of myself with a stupid sign showing myspace.com and my friend ID. I replied telling them the information I provided before to change my email should be sufficient to fix my account. I got an automated email basically telling me how to fix the problem for dummies. I am not stupid. I sent 5 emails now and still no replies. I now sent them an email asking them to cancel my account since their poor customer service won't fix my problem.
I have pictures, comments and videos I no longer have on my computer, stored on that account. I am very upset because they have horrible customer service. I believe Tom should handle issues since his own agents who deal with issues like this are incompetent.
Consuelo of Grayson GA (02/26/08)
There is a woman on myspace.com who has a private account. That's fine. My complaint is that her default picture is of my 5-year-old son. I have written to the myspace complaint dept., and they send me emails stating that the problem has been taken care of...when in fact it has not. I do not think it is right for anyone to post any pictures of my 5-year-old son on myspace. Let's face it folks. There are some pretty sick individuals out there on myspace, and I do not want his image on there. I am at my wits end trying to get his image off of her profile. Is there anything else I can do?
By this woman putting my son's image on her myspace account, it is allowing everyone and anyone to view my 5-year-old. It is not right. I am his mother, and I think myspace should listen to me and remove my son's picture from this woman's profile.
Amy of Summerfield FL (02/11/08)
I am contacting you because Myspace has done nothing about this. This person has posted my phone number and made slanderous comments about me on Myspace. I have received phone calls from people seeing my phone number. I am at a loss as what to do. Help!
I am getting phone calls now due to this person posting my phone number online. I'm going to have to change my phone number which is very inconvenient because now I will have a charge for this and also have to give it out to family and friends again.
Lenny of Apache Junction AZ (02/11/08)
I was phished about 2.5 weeks back. I had my pass word changed and some html codes sneaked in. NOW I can't log on change the pass word or see if I have any friends left. I use my page as a contact base for artists. I wrote to myspace's so called CS. BUT I was re-directed to a page that GAVE no answers much less helped me. I sent letters to my space cs. They said to try this and that. NOTHING HELPED; I still cant get in. MY space HAS yet to LOOK INTO THIS.. I did receive a "we are having a error with OUR system pls wait." It doesn't take 2.5 weeks to fix. THEY are the administrator; they can go into my account and FIX THIS since I was phished, not of my doing.
To date, NOTHING has been done. I've searched the 1-800 numbers to get a LIVE person to look into this and FIX it. StillNOTHING. I'M LIVID. The last time I was phished I lost over 200 art contacts. I may not have any recourse to this, but ALL the bad press will effect myspace at some point. They seem more in favor of concerts. movies, and sex more than fixing problems and getting back to inquiries-- and instead of fixing, repairing and stopping phishers. NO LOGIC in them and it shows!
I have many art contacts. Since I can't get into it I'm not aware if any one else got deleted or hacked into, or what spam was sent out in my name falsely. IT'S annoying that My Space is only concerned for their own PROFITS rather than a well done CS based company that gets to a problem ASAP, not just IGNORE YOU!
Megan of Brisbane OTHER (02/09/08)
Romance Scam by website user.
Loss of approx AUD $19,500.00 and medical treatment.
Michelle of Widnes OTHER (01/17/08)
A person has used my deatils and photo to create a page on Myspace. They have been sending abusive comments to others and sending disgusting, threatening and abusive comments to the page which has been set up as me with my details. I know who the person is who has set this up. I have now emailed Myspace four times over the last 3 days requesting that they remove the webpage and look into who set this up and they have done nothing yet. I have reported it to the police and they are looking into it. But I cannot understand why Myspace hasn't acted on the complaint. Somebody is impersonating me and they haven't done anything to stop this!
The wegpage and profile which they have created as me is awful and the comments which they have left are disgusting and abusive. Not only have they stolen my identity but they are damaging my reputation, and as the days go by, this is only getting worse. This is classified as cyberbullying, which you think Myspace would react to ASAP! Myspace is responsable for regulating their site and this is a bad example of them keeping the site secure and safe.
Celia of Handsworth OTHER (01/16/08)
Someone has made a Myspace blog on my 14-year-old daughter; they managed to doctor her picture and left her indecently dressed and wrote allot of obscenities. We have tried emailing myspace to get this site shut down, but no joy at the moment. It's also in the hands of the West Midlands Police.
This has had an emotional strain on my daughter, and the kids at school are teasing her. She is an emotional wreck, as an I. Would appreciate your help.
Sally of Mexborough OTHER (01/09/08)
I have a Myspace account that I have tried to cancel because a comment was sent to another user's profile that I didn't send, but it was sent from my myspace details. I have sent a number of requests to cancel myspace; but this has been going on for about 3 or 4 weeks, and have not received any email to cancel like the the site promises when you request to cancel.
All they have sent me is 2 emails to change my account settings, but that isn't good enough. I am really unhappy with the service, and all I want to do is cancel. I seem to be getting nowhere, and its making me ill.
Ceil of Cleveland OH (01/04/08)
I created a profile page on Dec.13, 2007 on MySpace for the first time with a link to my email account. I never had a problem until Jan. 3, 2008. Earlier on that day I logged on to check invites and comments, then logged out. Then between 10pm and 12midnight the same day, I checked my yahoo email account for mail. I received a notice Jan. 3, 2008 in my yahoo email account that I had a comment posted on my Myspace profile from a friend and to click the link under the notice to acces my comment. I did and proceeded to log on with my Myspace email and password. A message comes up that there was no account on file with that email or password account. I tried again and another notice appeared saying the profile has been delected by the user or cancelled.
I tried many times to log on after that, then got an account verification line to type in which I did complete and the same invalid user and password notice appeared. I followed their help page instructions to search for comments to friends. I found two friends listed on the search page with my name and comment. I entered their url page name and checked their pages for my comment and my picture and my photo was no longer on their page and the spot listed with the date and time I posted a comment only showed a no photo marque with the comment. I sent Myspace a notice concerning my account. Then I decided to make another profile page the same day but got disgusted about all the friends I had to reestablish and the time I lost. So I cancelled the second account personally. Again my first account vanished and I did not cancel nor deleted my first profile page. There was nothing offensive on my page...no porn, no nudity, and every friend was over the age of 24 years old. I followed every privacy policy offered by Myspace, changed passwords many times while I had the first profile. How in the heck did my first profile vanish, and where is it and who has it?
I had two family member pictures and my defalut picture in my Myspace photo page. Thank goodness I didn't tag their names, but mine is tagged. My concern is the pictures may have fallen in the hands of a sick minded person. I hope my attorney isn't necessary, but if comes to that so be it.
Kathy of Farmington MN (12/26/07)
I am being called names and things that are untrue on a woman's memorial web site for her son who died last year. My son is being targeted, too, with her making false claims and accusations.I have complained to myspace customer service, and I have not gotten a response back. We live in a small town, and a lot of people who I know, as well as and my son's friends, frequent this womans web sit. All of it is untrue, and she knows it. I asked her to stop. Please help me. I have asked them to delete content about me and my son, or delete her website altogether. Still no response from Myspace. My reputation, and my son's, are being ruined in our small town.
B of Miami FL (12/21/07)
My 12 year old daughter has a myspace and I'm unable to contact Customer Service to have her myspace discontinued. She is under age and even though most of the photos I see on her site are appropriate, she does have access to other sites that are not appropriate for age. There needs to be a way to verify age in application for a site.
Gina of Port Jervis NY (12/18/07)
I check my 13 year old daughter's my space periodically and one Sunday evening, something inside told me to check her mail. What I read from an unknown male, was dispicable and I feel my daughter has been violated. I reported this incident to the State Troopers and its being investigated. I want more done. I want charges pressed on this person. I want him in JAIL!!! My daughter has been raped over the internet. I will do whatever in takes to shut my space down forever.
Babak of Garnerville NY (12/13/07)
Our band profile of 4 years was deleted on a whim by myspace. No regard to explaining why and to this day no replies were sent back to us with an explanation. I've started a petition online as a result. I wrote an editorial of this matter here.
We've lost 14,000+ fans, which affected our cd sales. We lost our overall momentum and not to mention the band's morale is completely shot.
Betty of Dana Point CA (12/11/07)
Myspace has been fun, but I feel that in the short time I have been up the security issues make this a bad idea. Weird hacker schemes abound. And there is no customer service, no oversite, nothing. I don't mean their customer service department is inefficient. I mean that no oversight exists. My computer, a tool which I rely on for school and business has been attacked a few times. Weird ads which attach themselves to your blog or which force themselves to be posted in the form of comments. The worst part is that a message which claims to be from Tom a fictitious Myspace employee is opened to unleash a series of stubborn unwanted pop up ads. Ads which force themselves through all of your pop up protection. One such ad is for a website called rond.stardoor.com. Other of these vandal ads are for some very established online businesses. On such ad was for E-bay.
The situation is obvious. No one is monitoring Myspace in the least. I have never recieved a reply to any complaint. Furthermore, teams of violent pirates are steadily hacking away at every account they can. I am sure that someone is paying these guys to ruin my computer. I feel that this situation is becomming progressively worse. I fear for the security of my online financial information.
Pop up ads have interrupted my usage of the internet a five minute intervals. Pop up ads now appear everytime I go online. My pop up blocking is on the highest setting. I have spent hours deleting any and all suspicious programming from my computer.
Worst of all Myspace is making huge profits on this principle...Put your ideas on the web. Bounce them off of your friends. In turn you get to check out all sorts of new ideas in all forums of business and the arts. They are in fact offering the potential to make a real name for yourself in your chosen arena. In retur, Myspace is chock full of good old fashioned advertising. What would happen if a TV station simply forgot to oversee it's operations? What if advertisements popped up in the middle of Monday Night Football? Would there be damages? What about your telephone? What if unwanted blurbs just bust into the average phone call? In my personal experience, had this latest incident happened during finals, or while applying for internship, then there would be damages, big time.
Karen of Danville CA (12/01/07)
Someone purporting to be Renee, a 15 year old girl in New Philadelphia, Ohio opened a MySpace profile using my email address. 6 angry emails to myspace have gone unanswered. I was able to get the password and cancel the account, but why should I have to take care of this fraud? MySpace should be shut down immediately. I don't believe anyone monitors it.
Having been the victim of identity theft once, this was scary, at the least. It seems ANYONE can open a MySpace account. Shame on them.
Wendy of Oldsmar FL (11/17/07)
My 16 yr old had her account hacked into by an unknown source that wiped out her information - on the same day she rec'd an email from myspace that informed her that her password was being changed when she had not requested a password change. I sent an email to myspace as her mother requesting they contact me with my email address and a phone number and rec'd nothing from myspace.
My child is very frigtened and suspects another child at her school hacked into her account. I wanted myspace to investigate before I tried to go to her school - I'm not even sure the school can do anything about this especially since we do not know who actually did this.
Steve of San Diego CA (11/17/07)
Some one constructed a web page using my daughters personal information including her pictures, phone number, etc. They portrayed her as someone soliciting sex of different types. She has been hurt very bad because it has defamed her and violated her privacy. We have contacted MySpace via email numerous times but no one has replied. I contacted the local police, local department of the FBI to try to find out who did this to my daughter. MySpace needs to be shut down immediately. Thay do not care about who or what goes up on the site.
My daughter was so upset that she missed one and a half day of work. She has to change her phone number. She is personnaly embarrassed because the page is still up and she has no access to it and can't remove it. She is emotionally distraught and angry.She is a victim of defamation of character and libel.
Steve of San Diego CA (11/17/07)
Someone constructed a web page on myspace.com using my daughter's personal information including her pictures, phone number, etc. They portrayed her as someone soliciting sex of different types. She has been hurt very badly because it has defamed her and violated her privacy. We have contacted MySpace via email numerous times but no one has replied. I contacted the local police and local department of the FBI to try to find out who did this to my daughter. MySpace needs to be shut down immediately. They do not care about who or what goes up on the site.
My daughter was so upset that she missed one and a half day of work. She has to change her phone number. She is personally embarrassed because the page is still up, and she has no access to it and can't remove it. She is emotionally distraught and angry. She is a victim of defamation of character and libel.
Donna of Phoenix AZ (11/13/07)
My 14 year old stepson had a myspace account against our advice which we found by accident. He was told to sign on and leave. After reading the horrible content of not only his Profile (including his full name, school and disgusting data), we reviewed his email correspondence. It was scary and included admitting to using drugs, cussing like a chld we never knew, alcohol, being sexually active and we asked for help from Myspace to close this account. Their response was they are allowed to have an account at 14 and there was nothing we could do.
He did assist in getting it closed; whereas he moved to his mother's because we invaded his privacy (including degrading him with a drug test in our home) and refuses to come back. We are in the midst of child support, etc. legal procedings from his mother who seemed to feel this was fine (we were out of line). He is now 15, has a new myspace which is private again and only open to those he lets in. He has been failing since he started 9th grade and, he and his father can't do anything about the myspace access.
Colin of Pittsburgh PA (10/31/07)
I have had consistent problems with Myspace. Someone has been able to get onto my account and change everything, including the password, so that I can't get on and change it. I have sent numerous emails, but Myspace does nothing.
Leann of Tacoma WA (10/12/07)
My child interacted with an adult male between May 2007 and October 2007 on MYSPACE. After investigating, I discovered he was a registered sex offender and had FOUR MYSPACE accounts, all with different sexual orientations, different page set ups, etc. I contacted MYSPACE repeatedly, and all I got was a bot response stating they needed more information, even though I had sent his name, link to the sexual predator page he was on, address to his web page, name of the city the molestations were occurring in, case number, and detective name. Finally, after writing one VERY angry email and telling them what I thought of them, they pulled ONE of his FOUR profiles. The man is charged with 2 counts child rape, one count child molestation, and one count for contacting a minor for immoral purposes (through MYSPACE)... and the emails were VIVID. and his previous molestation charge was against a 12 year old girl (mine was 13 and 14 at the time.)
Our lives are filled with hiding now. It took them weeks to arrest him because of other girls now surfacing that were involved with him and them getting their case together. My daughter missed 2 weeks of school, cant go to the library or out with her friends or to the local store. Her MYSPACE page is full of suicide thoughts, admissions of cutting herself, and complete devastation. She can't think, can't function... This man promised her marriage, and a lifetime. I was afraid to leave her home as he knew where we lived and afraid to go to work for fear he would come to my home. There were many nights she just came and sat at my work for hours and hours and waited for me to get off work late at night. This man has torn my daughter apart. Our lives are now filled with suspicion of EVERYONE, fear of going anywhere (until he was arrested, but now we fear they will let him out). I have to monitor her constantly as Im afraid she may take her life.
Andrea of Norman OK (09/30/07)
I've been a regular poster in the Myspace religion forum for over two years now and I would just like to bring to light some of the things that are allowed to go on in Myspace forums.
To the best of my knowledge, Myspace has only had voluntary moderators to look over its forums. Recently, the consequence of voluntary moderators has come to a climax in the religion forum.
Lately, the place has become utter chaos when the moderator started allowing his friends to use his moderating powers. I suppose by letting them sign into his account or doing personal favors for them. The result was countless numbers of good forum members being banned on sight everytime they would come into the forum with a new account, due to nothing other than personal vendettas. Any of these people who vocalize their thoughts on the issue are verbally abused and banned again. During all my time at Myspace, never are warnings given for bannings, not even those who deserved to be banned and never are people told why they are banned so that at least they can assess their behavior before returning to the forum.
But that is not the most horrible part of the problem. Along with the wrong people being forced out of the forum, the verbally abusive and obscene are allowed to stay. They never get banned or even warned. I also witnessed real photos of necrophelia, a young boy cut in half, a dead girl with a cross shoved into her throat, and a girl raped and murdered with a broom stick. I watched to see how long these images were allowed to stay in the threads of the Myspace religion forum. Days, to even weeks and it's more than likely that many of those are still there.
In addition to these most horrible images that remain up lately in the religion forum, for the entire two years I have been there, I have noticed that mild porn is allowed to stay up. Some of these posters who post these items are personal friends of the moderator and they simply get away with whatever they want.
All to the expense of those people who come to the RELIGION forum to hopefully find refuge or solice. Instead, many underage children are coming face to face with profanity, necrophelia, murder, porn and you name it. It's really bad.
There is much more to complain about concerning the moderation in the myspace forums, but that's basically the worst part and you can imagine why.
I've tried contacting Myspace with this issue countless times over the course of two years. Hundreds of other Myspace members have done the same. I've tried every avenue. I even called Myspace and the receptionist just directed me to write Myspace about it. I tried to report this through the abuse section of Myspace. What did I get in return? Mostly nothing except for the one time I actually did get a reply, I got a question/answers memo about Myspace blogs. That just goes to show, it was probably an automated response, or someone is too lazy to deal with the problem. The bottom line is, Myspace has proven to myself and everyone else abused in the forums that they don't care.
The root of the problem is that Myspace isn't concerned with the atmosphere of their forums. They have lately undergone a face lift with the appearance and functions of the forum, but they haven't done anything about the moderators. If Myspace ever cared about it, they would taken some of that revenue and actually paid a staff of professional moderators who are not involved personally with forumers. This would have avoided so much over the years that Myspace has been in business.
Danny of Scarborough OTHER (09/27/07)
MySpace currently has rules in place that forbid bands, artists or individuals to send out mass messages, or spam messages, to other MySpace users, and will delete any account found guilty of this. However, MySpace Records itself sends out mass messages to every user about the bands on its label - surely this is one rule for one, one rule for another and stops free and fair competition between MySpace and its users.
After all, if MySpace can send out one mass message to all its users (150 million and counting) to promote its own bands, yet other people and bands cannot, how is that fair? On top of that, how is it fair that their messages can't be stopped as spam either?
Rebecca of Buffalo NY (08/23/07)
Yesterday we found out someone set up a fraudulent account in our 17 yr old son's name. This was done in Nov 2005. The account was done out of spite to my husband and son. My husband is a principal at my son's school in which some of the kids don't like him because he is strict. we believe the account was set up by a student at the school. The contents of the accout are rude, disgusting, and defamatory. Not to mention damaging to his character. we would like to find out who did this and take legal action against them.
my son has been humiliated, hurt, and embarrased by this. He is devastated and cannot understand why someone would do this to him. He is a quiet, shy kid who mostly keeps to himself at school and has never been in any trouble.
Larry of Derry NH (07/25/07)
Earlier this Spring our 15 year old daughter became involved on-line with a 20 year old guy in Everett WA.
We saw extreme behavior shifts, dropping grades, and investigated via Spector Pro software on our computer. We found out about the relationship, and also discovered very alarming chat sessions discussing his heavy drinking, thoughts of suicide, very violent sessions of S&M chat sex, wanting our daughter run away with him to Mexico to make babies and wait for her to turn 18, and even talk of putting out a hit on us or killing us if we tried to stop them from seeing each other.
We immediately took away the phone, her cell phone, and computer access, and told her she was to never contact him again. We also talked to him on the phone and told him the same thing.
She skipped some of her finals the following week, and called him collect from a pay phone at the school. She had him activate an old cell phone she found in the house on one of his cell numbers, gave him phone numbers for all her friends to try to pass messages, and gave him the passwords to all her accounts so he could change them and lock us out.
We then got the Derry NH Police Department involved, and they contacted both the Everett WA police department and this guy. They told the guy he had in fact broken laws and could be prosecuted, and instructed him to have no further contact with our daughter. Instead, he continues to call her friends, making many of their parents angry with our daughter. They don't want some 20 year old guy from Washington calling their 15-16 year old daughters either.
We now have our daughter in both family and individual counseling. We hope the damage can be undone, but it is not looking at all likely so far. She has gone from an A-B college bound student to a C-D "who cares?" student who now says she wants nothing but to finish high school, move to Washington, and marry this guy. Mind you, she has never even met him but for telephone conversations and a few emailed .jpg photos.
Our daughter has a MySpace account ********. That is one of the many accounts that this guy in Washington now controls.
We contacted MySpace, explained the situation, gave them the officer's name at the Derry PD, and requested that they return control over our daughter's account to us.
They talked to the Derry Police, and know the seriousness of the situation. However, they REFUSED to give us control over our daughter's account. They claimed that there is an Internet Privacy Act that provides protection to minors age 14 and older, and unless my daughter gave them permission by emailing them her picture holding up a hand drawn sign with MySpace.Com and her ID number printed on it, they could not release the account back to us. She obviously refuses to do this voluntarily.
We researched this further on the internet as well as through CyberAngels.Org and find that the Internet Privacy Act is an internet myth that does not even exist. There have been several such acts proposed, but none have been signed into law. There is no law protecting the account information of minors on MySpace. The only protection is the policy of the individual sites.
We communicated that information back to MySpace and they continue to REFUSE to give us back our daughter's MySpace account. Apparently they think protecting the accounts of their underage members from their parents is better for business than trying to assist parents in stopping internet predators and pedophiles from preying on those underage members.
We are amazed that considering the amount of bad press MySpace has already gotten as a safe haven for pedophiles and internet predators, they continue to behave in this manner. Perhaps more bad press would help. If not, it would at least make that many more parents aware of just how out of control MySpace really is.
Dana of Lake Geneva WI (07/11/07)
My son is incarcerated in prison and has no access to the internet or email. Someone has created a myspace page for him that is digusting and vile. He is so upset about it and I don't know how to get it removed. I have tried repeatedly to contact myspace.com but to no avail. People who do not know he does not have access to the internet, think it is his page.
He has received letters from friends who think it is his page and want to know why his page is so vile and disgusting. His sister also receives many calls asking the same question. As much as she tries to tell them it is a fake page, the embarrassment continues. She constantly has to defend her brother.
Donald of Arlington TN (07/09/07)
I have had a Myspace page for around a year and a half. In that time, I have been harassed, and had a hooker try to break up my marriage. It took two months of complaining to get rid of her; and I ended up blocking most of the people on my friends list as well as setting my profile to private. About a month ago, I started having a weird link appear on every video, picture, and piece of HTML code on my page; linking to MSPLINKS.com. I deleted them repeatedly, to no avail; and finally gutted my profile.
Charles of Fremont NC (07/01/07)
I sent a email requesting a update in my email address as I have changed it. After I sent the email I then got a message saying I would hear something back by email within 24 hours and never did. Well the day after sending the email I tried to sign into the account I have on myspace and I could not sign in because I got a message saying sign in has failed. How can that be. So I have not been able to sign in and I have not heard from myspace.
I think myspace needs to be shut down. We don't need all the hate and crime that myspace causes. Something needs to be done about all this. There is a lot of things on the site that children don't need to see or hear.
Nancy of Clermont FL (06/30/07)
Someone made 2 different accounts on my daughter, using her pictures that they must have copied from her myspace page. After 4 attempts to myspace, and sending nasty messages to the 2 people who created these pages on my daughter, only the first one created deleted the page on their own. The second page however which shows my daughter in an unfavorable manner is still on there. Myspace refuses to contact me or my daughter, via email to assist with helping a minor child, my daughter.
Dana of Zephyrhills FL (06/22/07)
My daughter who is 10 years old was allowed to make two myspace accounts by a 15 year old who did not have the authority to allow her to do this. My daughter is the only one in this town with her last name, which would make it very easy for a preditor of any kind to find her. I have contacted myspace.com through thier contact us link, and throught the report abuse link all I have recieved was a message that I will recieve an email after my complaint has been so called reviewed by myspace. I have recieved nothing!
I want these profiles removed and after a week of sending them several complaints a night I want to see myspace.com off the internet. I think it is ridiculous that someone that is 15 could make a profile for a child that is 10 years old and make that 10 year old child 26 years old on one profile and 20 years old on another profile. Myspace. com is not a safe place at all.
Monika of Mesa AZ (06/21/07)
I have been hacked four times now and I am not changing my login information again because every time I do, whoever this person(s) is finds a way to get into my account. There is no one to get straight answers from their customer service department only an automated response. My sister tried unsuccessfully to delete her account, but the site provides no options to do so.
The creator of Myspace , this Tom needs to go back to school to learn how to create A SAFE AND SECURE WEBSITE. Myspace already has a bad image in the media and you can see why. I will investigate this company and find out where they are located, contact that states Attorney General's Office.
Jennifer of Bronx NY (06/20/07)
Someone has created a false account with all my personal information/pictures. They are also making false accusations causing unknown people to try and contact with me. They have provided strangers with my phone numbers and job/home address. I am fearful for my life an would like for this situation to be addressed immediately!
Heather of Duson LA (06/15/07)
Myspace is sorley lacking in age verification. I have discovered that my 13 year old daughter has an account with them. I have sent several e mails and submitted many letters to them to remove her site, but they have yet to even respond.
She has been able to have access to many profiles that are unsuitable, and has used it to maintain and set up meetings with the 16 year old boy that she has met.
Heather of Duson LA (06/15/07)
My 13 year old daughter has a myspace account. She has been using it to maintain contact with her friends. I found recently that herfriends were a 16 year old boy that she has been sneaking around with. I attempted to contact myspace.com numerous times but no answer, and her profile is still there. She has her age posted as 97 that she is from Zimbawbe and is posting things that no 13 year old should post. I cannot get into her site, I have no access whatsoever. I am her mother and have proof and yet they do nothing. I need help.
My daughter is in extreme danger because she does not pay attention to the threaat of preditors. She feels that if they have a picture then they are really that age and they are not lying.
Jennifer of Santa Cruz CA (06/14/07)
My complaint is that the advertising on MySpace is false. While it is advertised and supposedly for teens over 14, there are no means of enforcing this. In reality, this is a teen/young adult website that is available to ALL.
There are over 50 young girls at my daughters school who are under 13! who have MySpace pages. While on these sites, they often see and have access to pornographic text, journalism and photographs. Who is checking these websites?
Monique of Fayetteville GA (06/12/07)
I am an actress in atlanta and I found out my now EX FIANCE' was still dealing with his childs mother well this is relevant to my complaint because once she stole his phone there were explicit photos of me in there that were for him only he is now incarcerated for violation for 7 days and now my pictures have been posted on myspace under MY NAME.
I have contacted myspace a total of 100X and NO ONE has responded I have filed a police report and would llike totake them to court along with the crazy woman who did this to me.
Christine of Levittown PA (05/31/07)
Someone created an account with my 16 year old son's picture which was doctored to be pornographic. The site created in my sons name has discusting sexual content. I'm going to need to see a doctor for help myself if it isn't removed soon. I am sitting here crying. I can't imagine the damage it will do to my son if he sees it.
Charles of Irving TX (05/10/07)
My 12 yr old daughter has a MySpace page. The page states that she is 15, which was never verified in any way. There have already been numerous men and older teen boys contacting her. Someone was able to change her password and we cannot access or delete the page. I have contacted MySpace to have this page removed with no response.
Molly Skerjance of Eagan MN (05/04/07)
I have tried several times to get my sons name and information off of myspace.com, sent emails, etc and it has not come off. The email address that was set up for him is a fraudulant email that was set up by someone else. How do I get him off of myspace????
I would like to see legal advice.
Randy of Brighton TN (05/03/07)
Myspace will not delete my daughters account despite my pleadings. I have submitted proof of porn being sent to my daughter among other issues. Parents have no control if the child is getting on somewhere other than home.
Carol of Stickney IL (04/14/07)
I have tried for 3 days to delete account it won't delete, my 11yr old was able to see some of her classmates posing like playboy models I had no idea it was this bad now i cant delete the account.
Andromeda of Cincinnati OH (04/10/07)
There is a huge problem happening on myspace. Hackers.
By now, I'm sure all of you have got a comment, or even a msg from people you dont know, or even your best friend. Did you think they lost their mind when they sent you a comment about a free i-pod, or free coach bag, or ways to see whos been looking at your profile? Your friend hasn't lost their mind. They have become victims to a random act of violence which is spreading through myspace.
This is a problem which could and can be fixed. Only thing is, Myspace is not trying to fix the issue. Ever sit down and wonder why your regular email address hasnt been hacked so easily, and people email out all your friends saying dumb shit or trying to sell something or give out free stuff. Thats because people like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc, all have their good hackers team, which sit down and try hacking their own sites to see if there are any problems. If they find a problem (loophole, backdoor to get in) then they fix. Thats to avoid people from hacking in.
So, how come myspace isnt doing this? Are they not making enough money? They are getting paid for advertising these big theater movie releases. They are getting paid by big musicians. Getting paid by comedians. Can they not afford to hire a team to better secure this site? Or do they just don't care? They even claim to be sueing some hackers. Once again they are trying to get more money, but not sitting down to fix the issue for future hackers! And believe me there are A LOT.
They have a partnership with Snocap, for musicians to sell their music. Of course not all of that money being made by selling songs is going straight to the musician. This is yet another way they are making money. But why would they be so quick to delete an account , which has close to 50,000 friends, and are registered with Snocap to sell their music? It doesn't make any sense. Its ridiculous!
Amy of Mold U.K. (03/31/07)
I needed to change my E-mail on myspace, I put in a request and they sent me a verification number which I used and it claimed the switch was succesful. Now Myspace will not let me sign in whichever e-mail adfdress i use. My ex-boyfriend has posted my bank details on the site. No matter how many times I've contacted myspace they will not give me access or delete the account with my bank details on.
Anyone who looks at the sight will see all of my bank details and it's going to take some effort to change them all, I don't have time.
Liz of Raleigh NC (03/21/07)
Despite the claims by the website owners they are cleaning up any problems and do not promote teens hooking up, they run ads on pages that almost everyone who uses MySpace would access for advice information. As many problems as this site has experienced, you would think they had the sense to not use such photos to promote their own site!
Lynn of Colorado Springs CO (03/17/07)
I'm going crazy trying to get my son's account deleted.
Iya of Houston TX (03/14/07)
I have a 14 and 11-year daughters who have created MYSPACE accounts, and I cannot contact anyone about canceling the accounts. There is nudity, gane members, pictures of adults, and ETC... listed on this site. There is no parent control whatsoever about this site. I need to find out a contact number or address so this company can be contacted. I have canceled two of my 14-year-old daughters account and she just creates another one, if the company can corporate with parents with helping them control access to this account then it needs to close down.
Lisa of Mckinney TX (03/12/07)
My husband and I created a myspace account to keep up with some family and friends..share pictures etc. We are clearly a family page and listed as married, yet..we continually get friend requests intended to drive or lure you to an outside PORN site! It is offensive. They put up provactive pictures and are VERY SUGGESTIVE. I don't know how to stop it...obviously we do not accept but I hate that this stuff is sent to me. I have also had an old man email me asking me what type of panties I was wearing and when I looked at his site he clearly defines himself as pany fettish freak and has an apparent whole group for that on myspace. I just think it's a vehicle that people with bad motives have to much access to peoples personal lives. What should or could be a great tool to connect and share pictures and events with your friends and family has turned into a place for perverts and porn stars to stalk people.
Lisa of Owensboro KY (03/05/07)
My son and I both have sent numerous requests to have a Myspace page deleted that someone else created pretending to be him. We have had no response from anyone from their customer service dept. My son's racing career could be at risk due to the info a potential sponsor could see and take a negative outlook on him.
Johnda of St Louis MO (02/24/07)
I have two accounts on myspace.com -- one is a personal page and the other is a music page but they are both promoting my business and product. On February 20, 2007 I discovered someone has apparently stolen all of my pictures and is pretending to be me. This person's page has lewd and obscene images and comments posted with my picture as the person who is sending it. I have contacted myspace using the proper method they request of you to prove your identity but still no response and the form does not provide you with proof of receipt. The fictitious page is damaging to myself and my company and I feel myspace should promptly respond to fraud, which so far they have not.
This has resulted in defecation of my character which will follow me for years to come since I am an up and coming artist and business woman. The fraudulent page promotes homosexuality, promiscuity, is overtly lewd and obscene. These are all things that I am not and do not wish to have myself nor my company affiliated with.
Charissa of Boston MA (02/12/07)
Someone has created a My Space account including my name and false information. I consider this web page as defamation of character. I have submitted a complaint to MySpace customer service and no one has responded. This Myspace page that has been created has really damaged my reputation.
Kristen of Sandy UT (01/21/07)
A person I do not know has a myspace.com profile with my e-mail address on it. I have had this same e-mail address for nearly 10 years. I've made repeated attempts to contact myspace and they do nothing about it.
Meanwhile, I get up to 50 messages a day flooding my inbox from all sorts of weirdos. I'm very reluctant to change my e-mail address because I've had it so long and it's on file everywhere, but I'm almost to that point.
Dee of West Baden Springs IN (01/18/07)
Parents MUST take responsibility for their children's safety, both online and off. When MySpace came into being I predicted that precisely what HAS happened would be what WOULD happen. Parents no longer monitor their children's actions and activities, and in fact rarely have a clue what their children are doing. My last, an adopted grandchild, is now in college. When I went back online ten years ago after not having been online since we were waiting for the 286's to roll off the production line the woman from the phone company told me to put my then 9 y/o on the phone to set up our service because it would be faster, and it was.
That day I decided that my child would NEVER know more about something that could put her this close to harm than I did and set out to learn computers and the web. To this day, ten years later, I STILL know more than she does, and can trace her every step without a keylogger. Turning a child loose with something that gives them access to all that is good and all that is bad as well in the world with no way to know what they are doing much less a way to protect them is child abuse and neglect in its purest form and, IMO, should be punished accordingly.
Dillon E. of Oak Park CA (01/17/07)
Myspace wont let me delete my account. I have been trying for months to cancel it. I request to cancel my account and then they are supposed to send me an email to confirm the cancelation, but I still haven't recieved that email. This is absolutely rediculous and I am extrememely frustrated.
Heather of Los Angeles CA (01/17/07)
I am being harassed. It all started as a result of a relationship that I had with a man. During and after the breakup I started getting emails on myspace from fictious people. These people continued to email my friends and family. These emails are horrible and full of slander. In addition, the people are calling my office and threatening me at my job. It is getting out of control. I personally have not responded to all of this. I would file against these people, but they are not real!!
As a result I have changed my number, deleted my myspace account (which was used as a singing-networking web site), blocked the addresses from my work server and hired a PI to call and ask them to stop harassing me. The phone numbers lead nowhere. I do not think that myspace should allow false names, etc. They should not allow people to be stalked by crazy people.
My job is at stake due to the phone calls. My life has been threatened. I can't market myself as a singer because they will continue to email me. I have moved to an unlocatable address. I changed my number and I will need to contact the LAPD regarding emails, phone calls and libel. I just want this to stop. It would be nice to not live in constant worry and fear.
Deborah of Forsyth GA (01/07/07)
There are several people with profiles on myspace that have been saying my name, my sons name, my underage grandchildrens names and other personal things about our family -- this site should be monitered better then this. Everyone talks about not putting personal info on the net due to idenity theft but what about someone else doing this and myspace allowing it. We have even had to involve our local law enforcement on several occasions. Someone needs to stop this site or have them stop the users that are violating others privacy.
Trying to have something done before there is damage done.
Violapb of Corpus Christi TX (12/27/06)
How in the world can someone else set up an ID for another with a whole different identity and the innocent not know until afterwards? That happened to my child. I am outraged! My daughter is 11 and had a profile of being 28 years old and another girl did this to her. It got passed around at school and of course it got around and she got wind of it and did not tell her father and me. The language that we read was not just sad but difficult.
I have all of the proof that this other child did this and there needs to be consequences to this other individual that started this. We have filed a police report with this individual and it breaks my heart when we see her photos and chats at 11 years old and you know this is going on. We will file formal complaints with the city and call all our friends with the news stations all over and we will be heard.
Our daughter has been bullied by this individual and we had to send our child to a psychologist. Someone is going to be responsible for this. Isn't MySpace monitored? Isn't this checked out by phone numbers? Why is this not checked out by a copy of ID? Why is this not by a parents consent? This is a predators dream.
Kenny of Goose Creek SC (12/12/06)
My 14 year old son made a myspace page with a fake email address so it could not be deleted. He has a problem with internet porn and does role playing with people on line and it makes his addiction worse. I have repeated asked my space to remove the his site and they have not done anything about it. They haven't even attempted to return my complaints. I need this to stop.
Laurie of Galt CA (12/12/06)
My son got a death threat from a high school student on MySpace. Nothing has been done about it. I contacted MySpace ... no results. I called police and again no results. My son was told the individual would go to his school and kill him.
My son is scared to go to school and when he is there he cannot contentrate. He is scared to walk home. Special arrangements have been made to ensure his safety.
Lesha of Sachse, TX (11/27/06)
Pornography is more and more common. I was under the impression this was a site that was closely monitoried but it is apparently not. They don't even respond to complaint emails. The links on the offensive sites that are suppose to allow you to report the pornography do not work, you click and click and they go nowhere. They will not even respond to my complaint and it has been over 24 hrs.
I was just browsing on a friend's web pages, seeing different layouts and songs and all of a sudden I was in a VERY GRAPHIC porno site. Kids can get access to this!
Stacie of Stockton CA (11/15/06)
I am shocked about myspace.com trying to act like they are monitoring their web in any way i have a twelve year old boy who HAD a myspace until i saw what was on it.then he left the pc one day and i started looking around all his friends myspace web sites! I was shocked -- there is nothing but vulgar language, talk of sex, drugs, GANGS.
I assumed my son knew these people but he did not know 98% of the adults that were on his friends list. Myspace is a bad place for our kids to get together.
George of Sayreville NJ (11/07/06)
Harrassing comment made to my wife, by account that was created accusing me of information that is false.
Seperation, possibly divorce unless I can clear my name and trace back who created this account. Account was created and deleted next day after the message was sent. Need myspace to release records of who created this account, personal info, etc.
Patrice of Norfolk VA (11/01/06)
Two weeks ago I started receiving vulgor messages on myspace from an anonymos profile. They started out just calling me names. Then they start referring to me by my first, middel, and last name. I notified myspace via the report abuse link. They never contatced me back. Then the person created another profile and created a blog with the details of a rape that I was a victim of in 1999. The profile has my picture on their, my entire name, and vulgor comments about me. They also created a blog with sexual remarks about my 7 year old niece. I contacted my local police, but nothing has really been done.
This has brought back so many horrible memories about the night I was raped. These are feeling that I had been able to forget for over almost 7 years now. I'm not sure how many people have viewed this site. It has done alot of damage with my picture and name on there. I am so paranoid and can't sleep at night thinking about it.
Joshua of Northern Cambria PA (10/20/06)
Someone created a myspace account and put that I was Single and that I DON't want kids. I am a married man and have three beautiful children. My wife came upon this and now is moving out. This is an issue i would like to resolve immediately. This type of stuff I feel falls under Identity Theft and Slander.
Ariella of Las Vegas NV (10/19/06)
Seriously, you people need to get lives and stop complaining about myspace. im a teenage girl, and i have NEVER received any kind of message involving a 40 something year old man saying he wants to do anything sexual with me. I have a question for you folks. how many of your kids hve computers in their rooms? first off, if this applies to you, your really just asking for trouble. What your kids put up their myspace is up to them, so dont blame the makers of myspace because of something YOUR KIDS put up.
If you are so concened with the things they will see in the world, then DONT GET A COMPUTER. Second, if you are one of those parnents who are so concerned with what your kids will see, then blindfold them. But if you do this, realize that when they are out on their own in the world and dont have the slightest clue what drugs, sex, and homosexuality etc. is, its your fault. you didnt open them up into the world and they know know nothing, good job mom and dad.
Maybe your kids aren't so innocent after all.You can't protect them forever...
David of Joliet IL (10/08/06)
My 11 year old son has a profile on MySpace. I have requested his page be deleted on several occasions. I have given them his date of birth and even offered to send a copy of his birth certificate. I have not heard back from anyone at MySpace.com and my sons page still remains.
Marcia of Colorado Springs CO (10/08/06)
My 21 year old son had a page set up on that foul myspace.com by his narcissistic soon-to-be ex-wife. He is incarcerated (not spousal abuse) and has NO access to any computer. (That is another story. Court systems, in many cases, are biased and out of line.) Meanwhile, his 'wife' has set up a page that has plenty of fabrications that puts his precarious situation in question. This 21 year-old girl lies about him, but makes herself appear 'good'. My son has asked her to remove the information she put on this page; the page that makes it look like HE set it up!
I have attempted to contact myspace.com using the *abuse* and *contact* and whatever else there is, to NO AVAIL. This myspace.com is a danger in more ways than one. It is extremely dangerous for minors, and those susceptible to negative influences. My son's experience of identity theft and fraud is apparently NOT uncommon.
This hideous myspace.com refuses to acknowledge my requests. I am left to believe they encourage any and all kinds of perversity, including but not limited to identity theft and fraud. It is of no concern to them. At this point, I suggest we develop a group forum on that site where parents can band together by the multitudes and express their grievances. Slam THEM! Obviously, if they will not respond and maintain any professional behavior, WE should start our own site that will, inevitably, gather thousands to complain and expose THEM. Bookmark this site and spread the word if you believe this would apply much needed pressure toward their callous arrogance.
At present, the damage is emotional. The lies against my son could be used in a negative manner.
Michele of Conneaut OH (10/05/06)
someone took my son's picture from school and opened a website using his picture and a porno profile. There are porno links on the site. I can not get any help from myspace.com to have the site removed. I can not find a DBA of myspace.com to file a complaint with the company.
My son has high functioning autism and has been upset and disfunctional since viewing the site. This site can be viewed my colleges, employers and after seeing the site this has caused my son to be discredited and slandered.
Ruth of Greenbrier AR (09/29/06)
I constantly have had problems with my profile being monitored, my e/mails gone thru and deleted my access blocked and some of the friends on my friends list, sent messages by this Tom telling them that my profile is blocked and to NOT contact me. I have done nothing wrong, I am a 46 y/o mother of 2 and a nurse, yet my teenage kids CONSTANTLY BATTLE PEDOPHILES AND PERVERTS EVERY DAY ON HERE AND THIS SITE DOES NOTHING ABOUT IT. I deleted my first profile because this site blocked my access, I made another profile and it was blocked as well. like I said I am a 46 y/o mother of two, and cannot send an ordinary e/mail, yet my daughter has been caught THREE TIMES by me e/mailing a pervert who was 46 years old, my daughter being only fourteen!!!! The site does nothing about it!
Pinkpariskitty of Paris TX (09/06/06)
Greetings, I have had a female former-friend who has been harassing me via the internet, and in person for two years now. I have a myspace page, and she recently joined, but is using multiple email addresses and profiles to send me harassing messages accusing me of stalking her. It is bizarre because she tells me to get on with my life and stop obsessing about what she is doing with her life! The reality of the situation is that she is using multiple means of internet contact to continue the harassment all the while complaining that I am the stalker.
She claims that I am the one with the problem. She has taken great pains to copy me ever since high school and continues to assert that she has done the exact same things in her life (same clubs, classes, and even tried to get into same university!) only better than me and that I should stop trying to be richer/prettier/smarter/as successful as she is. She also claims that my IP gives away my address and that she can get said information off of the internet pages (like my myspace profile) I would like to know if it is possible to get IP address information by just visiting a webpage?
The effects of her cyberstalking, and claiming that I am stealing her identity are extensive. I am afraid of opening my email and essentially new friend requests all have to be screened in minute detail in order to make sure it is not her posing as someone else in order to gain access to my profile. Is there anything that I can do to stop her from spouting off to anyone who will listen and claiming that I am a toxic, manipulative Identity theif?
She constantly bad-mouths me to anyone who has a computer or phone. Terrorizes my friends or aquaintances into blocking me or not corresponding with me because they just want peace and if there is any evidence that I am in contact with them she will call them and yell at them etc. in a truly manic fashion until they have no choice but to block or delete me in order to get rid of her. This whole thing is truly disturbing! I would like some advice (aside from just getting off of myspace because I have tried that and the stuff she does just increases instead of abates).
Kate of Melbourne, Australia (09/05/06)
I am just disgusted with myspace -- there is a diaper pervert profile with 400 friends. Most of the older men have hidden face photos asking young girls and boys to pose in diapers in sexual positions. One of the members has a disclaimer saying this is not pedophile/pervert,behaviour. Tell me how sick is it to get turned on seeing a young girl/boy in diapers? Digusted.
Rhianna of San Antonio TX (08/31/06)
Many parents are complaining about myspace. For one, the site states that no one under 18 is to use it. Second, parents need to educate their children about sites like this. That they are for adults. (over 18) Third, where are the parents while their children are trying to use this site? Does the child have the computer in their room and if so then the parents are just asking for trouble. Parents want to blame sites like this one for what their child does. It is not the sites responsibility!! It is the parents to monitor what their own child is doing on computers. Also, it is easier for your child to go into a chat room and meet a predator and go meet them than it is for that to happen at myspace. If you don't want your child on myspace, then pay attention to what they're doing!!
Theron of Barnstead NH (08/08/06)
My 14 year old daughter registered and placed photos. Her friends then changed her password and altered the webpage and her age which is now listed incorrectly as 16. I have sent Myspace.com at least 40 e-mails demanding the webpage be torn down/deleted. It took 2 weeks to get one e-mail stating there was no proof of her age, so the webpage would remain intact. This is insane! They don't ask for proof, any means of contact- they just hide behind an electronic, cyber place and enjoy the profits at children's expense. This website is just wrong in so many ways. No wonder it is so popular- evil has that appeal.
I have sick, twisted people looking at my daughter, her images, making comments and it cannot even be taken down. Children do not realize what they are doing when they setup an account, which is all too easy.
Barbara of York NE (05/24/06)
Someone posted a MySpace page using my image, name, and position as an administrator at a college. They created a network of current and former students and wrote comments to these students who, in turn, also wrote comments on the page falsely representing me.
When I complained twice to MySpace about the situation, I did not even receive a reply. This irresponsible use of my image and identity is personally insulting and undermines the authority of the college. MySpace does nothing to ensure proper use of identity or respond to such complaints.
Linda of Cle Elum WA (05/23/06)
My 11-year old son has been using this site to email friends in his 6th grade class. I have discovered that there are approximately 35 sixth graders (11-12 year olds) from his schoool that are using this site on a daily basis. My husband and I originally understood that this site is promoted as a safe site for kids to visit on the internet. Tom from MySpace.com sent us an email explaining that he was the moderator and would ensure that everything was kept safe.
This past weekend, I decided to see what my son and his friends have been emailing about on MySpace. I was absolutely shocked to find extremely explicit sexual language and pictures on MySpace.com. Buried in the site guidelines is the requirement that MySpace members must be 14 years of age or older. In my opinion, no one under 18 has any business being on this site! MySpace is absolutely no place for kids (and probably most adults), and there is no moderating to assure that language is kept clean and pornography kept off.
Alex of Miami FL (05/09/06)
There is no telephone number or access to any live person to make a complaint. I have requested removal/deletion of my 15 year old's profile from this vulgar, sex explicit site that is not controlled by anyone.
The danger this site poses is too great and keeping children off the site is as difficult to accomplish. Who else can I call or write to and try to get this site to deal with the reality that they are allowing under aged, inexperienced and vulnerable children to make profiles on this site and endanger the lives of our children.
My 15 year old daughter has been on the site twice without my consent, and twice have I requested removal/deletion. The filth that is available on this site is unimaginable. I want justice, what are the laws that deal with this?
Michael of Tonawanda NY (05/05/06)
I just want to say that us current users of MySpace.com shouldn't need to lie about our ages and lower them to 14 just to get a private profile...we should be able to get a private profile and still stay 16 or whatever...
Patricia of MA (05/03/06)
The website is trying to restrict the age...but the kids are lying about their age. The kids on the site that list their age as 18 are only 15.
Ada of Bethlehem PA (04/25/06)
I recently sent you an email about my daughter's space being copied and sent out to other members of myspace with very nasty messages, which is causing these members to call my daughter with threats. I was told from myspace that I need legal request to find out who is doing this. The person actually went onto my daughter's myspace and copied her screen and stole her pics and all and then went and sent these vulgar messages with her information.
This is a violation of privacy, slander as well as fraud and there has to be something you can do about this! This person is also badgering my daughters name as well as reputation with very explicit accusations on some sort of bulletin and this is totally unacceptable! I cannot understand that you the fact that this can continue to happen and you will not do anything to stop this until I seek legal counsel.
In the mean time with the way teenagers are these days, should my daughter be somewhere where a myspace member received a message and harm my daughter because of something that is out of her control.
My daugter cries day and nite because of this vulgarity....she is being threatened by other myspace members because of this.
Patricia of Greenbrae CA (04/22/06)
My niece has a page on myspace.com. I am appalled by it and have been trying to have it deleted. So far I have emailed them twice and I have received no response. My niece has not been on the site since Nov 2005. My concern is that her name, small town she lives in, and pictures of her are on there. It would be a predators dream to see her profile. This has caused significant problems within our family.
Leslie of Alpharetta GA (03/31/06)
Someone has set up an account with my daughter's picture and is using it as if they are my daughter. My daughter is 10 years old. I have sent emails to have the myspace removed to no avail. Whoever is responding as my daughter is using crude language.
Elaine of Hockessin DE (03/20/06)
I have made multiple requests to have my son's account cancelled/deleted. I have not received a response, nor has the account been deleted.
Augustine of Glen Oaks NY (1/25/06):
I reported to MySpace.com, in accordance to their own site's instructions, regarding the abuse of their site by under-age users. I have a list of 50 kids I wanted to submit and all I received was an auto-generated, form e-mail telling me "how to keep your kid safe". Yeah they really care.
I'm not as concerned about the "predator" aspect as much as their general exploitation of kids and teens. The main issue is that it is EXTREMELY easy for ANY under-age kid to access the site. You don't even have to be a member to access member websites. They're available by just doing a search on Google. They refer to their TOC but naturally it means squat.
Many of the sites posted are sexual in nature and riddled with profanity, which is not allowed according to their TOC, but they're all up there. Their TOC is bogus. Its just posted to cover them legally. They're clearly not monitoring the activity of their "members".
Kids can easily view the very sexually explicit sites of adults ... and there are plenty. One under-age kid talks about his "love of his gun" ... well rememeber Columbine?
Parents are ultimately responsible for their kids activity. However, MySpace.com is a sexually charged atmosphere that is totally inapproriate for children. They're exploiting our kids by providing a forum where abuse and illegal activity occurs easily, which in turn encourages predators.
This is clearly allowed for the sake of profits. If they start clamping down on abusers, their membership will drop drastically, which in turn will directly affect their advertising revenues.
They're clearly not doing enough to keep their site secure from abuse and they need to be brought to the table on this.
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