I’ll likely let my profile sit there, but those days are over. The only comments I get anymore are from my “friends”, but are really bots that have hacked my friends’ accounts, and have posted comments on my page on behalf of my friends. I wonder how many people on MySpace realize they’ve been caught in a phishing scam — and thus, how many don’t have a private email anymore. I bet the number is high — like at least 5%.
It’s easy to get caught by the phishing scams — they are very deceptive on MySpace. You click a link that looks like a myspace URL, but really that’s just the sub-sub-sub-sub domain of some phishing site, then it shows a page that looks like MySpace and asks you to login [again], which isn’t a rare occurrence given that MySpace does that quite a bit. Then the user just gave their login credentials over to some hacker.
Literally the last 6 of 7 comments in the past 3 months have been hacked comments not by my friends. MySpace needs to do something to earn credibility… fast. (One idea: assign a few people to be finding all the spam, hacks, phishing activities going on — and erase all of those comment posts / links).