Cancel Myspace Account

How to Delete a Myspace Account

It's pretty easy to cancel and remove a Myspace account, IF you have access to login to the account. To do so, just click on Account Settings, then click Cancel Account. A warning page will tell you that cancelling your MySpace account will PERMANENTLY REMOVE all of your profile information, including photographs, comments, and your list of Myspace Friends. If that's what you really want, click the red Cancel My Account button and your account will go poof! (A small cloud of greasy black smoke sometimes appears over your computer. Don't be alarmed, this is normal.)

If you DON'T have the password to the account, you can send a password retrieval request to Myspace. You provide the email address on file for your account, and Myspace will email your password to that address. Then you can login and cancel the Myspace account as described above.

Myspace doesn't allow you to cancel an account unless you can prove that you own the account. Otherwise, malicious people would be asking Myspace to delete the accounts of their enemies or competitors.

But I Don't Have the Password or Access to the Email Address!

If you don't have the account password or access to the email address associated with the account, there IS another way to prove that you are the rightful owner of the account. (This method can also be used if someone has created a fake profile that claims to be you.) It's called a Salute.

A Salute is a photo of yourself holding a handwritten sign with the word "MySpace.com" and your FriendID on it. You can find your Friend ID number after "friendID=" in the web address when viewing your profile. This is the FriendID of the profile you want to keep, not the fake or undesired profile. If you do not have a profile on MySpace, put your email address on the sign instead of the Friend ID.

After taking the Salute photo, you will need to upload that photo to the Web. You cannot post your Salute in a public place, so if you don't have your own website, I recommend that you open a free account at Geocities and upload it there.

Next, contact Myspace via this form, provide the web address (URL) of the Salute photo, and the web address of the undesired profile. Explain the situation, and why you want the profile removed. With a bit of luck, Myspace will soon cancel the account and remove the undesired profile.

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