For the past three or four months I’ve been getting a TON of hits on my blog from folks searching for a tutorial on how to delete their MySpace account. Since I haven’t seen many good tutorials out there on how to accomplish this seemingly impossible task I figured I’d take a minute to provide a good write-up — complete with pictures — on how to delete a MySpace account.
Step #1: Log in to your MySpace Account
Yes, I’m stating the obvious here but I don’t want to leave any stone unturned 
. Note the provocatively dressed girl. This is but one reason I wanted to delete my MySpace account in the first place.
Step #2: Click on “Account Settings”
(view screenshot) You’re going to want to change the settings to your account. Namely, that you want your account to cease to exist.
Step #3: Click on “Cancel Account”
(view screenshot) Now we’re getting down to it! Finally! Your days of MySpace Hell are almost at an end! Click that beautiful “cancel account” link! This is but the first hurdle though, be prepared to tell MySpace over and over again that you REALLY DO want to delete your account.
Step #4: Confirm that you want to delete your account
(view screenshot) I’m sure MySpace is just being kind here. I mean, I suppose there’s a chance that someone could have gotten this far BY ACCIDENT.
Step #5: Confirm AGAIN that you want to delete your account
(view screenshot) Tenacious, aren’t they? Well, at least they recognize that MySpace sends out TONS of crappy email notifications and they give us a chance to stop those notifications from being sent. But that’s not why we’re deleting our account, we’re deleting our MySpace account because we can only take Emo Kids for so long before our brains begin to sizzle like eggs on a hot skillet. Click — again — “cancel my account.”
Step #6: Wait for the email
(view screenshot) What!? we’ve told them twice that we want to delete our MySpace account. We’re pretty sure we really do want this. Still, in the mind of MySpace this is but a “request” on our part. We’re not requesting here you dummies, we’re freakin’ DEMANDING! Nevertheless, we must wait for a confirmation email.
Step #7: This is the REAL confirmation
What a crock! You mean to tell me that all that previous confirmation stuff was for naught!? Even though we’ve told you at least 3 million times that we really do want to delete our account you are going to ignore those if we don’t tell you yet AGAIN? OK, whatever, click on the link to confirm my cancellation “request.” This should be the last time we have to tell you that we want to delete my account.
Step #8: Confirm — AGAIN — that you want to delete your account
This is getting ridiculous. Yes, for the last time, we REALLY DO want to delete our account. Sheesh! On a side note, if you’ve ever had a credit card and tried to cancel it the experience is very similar. They run you through hoops hoping you’ll just get tired of the rigmarole and decide to keep your blasted credit card because it’s easier than canceling. But we’re more persevering than that! MySpace will not succeed in keeping us!
Step #9: Wait up to 48 hours
Evidently MySpace servers have a lot of requests to delete accounts because there’s a backlog that can be as long as two days worth of requests. Oh well, this is the last screen on MySpace you will ever need to see again. The process was so simple, yet so complicated at the same time, wasn’t it?
22 Comments
how do i find account settings
hi ive tried deleting it but i dont think its sending me the confirmation email - ive checked in my inbox and spambox and cant delete it
thanks
Hey wut do i do? my old email (which my account was set up on) doesn\’t work anymore, I deleted that account. And the only way to delete it is to get a confirmation from my old one. and the only way to change it is to go on your old one and confirm the change to the new email address. Is there anyway to just delete the whole account?
Same here. Myspace are not sending out the delete confirmation e-mails!!!
I have requested my account to be closed over 20 times the CONFIRMATION E-MAIL NEVER ARRIVES, EVEN MANY DAYS LATER! No, I am not dumb, I have checked all my mail folders including Spam.
Its still not deleted!
I think myspace won\’t let you delete or something, but one of my friends has deleted their account, I don\’t know which one, and it tells me so on the message thingy. So it must be possible, right?
Yeah.. it\’s not sending me the confirmation email to delete my account. It\’s really pissing me off.
how do i delete a fake myspace of me that really isnt me
Same problem as some of the other people here! Have requested to delete my Myspace account several times, but the supposed confirmation email from Myspace never arrives!!! There is absolutely no way, the email is being blocked or filtered in any way by my email address. Anyone have any suggestions??
Gosh. I have the same problem. I\’ve deleted myspace accounts before, but this time around the confirmation isn\’t showing up. It\’s not just one myspace either, because I\’m trying to delete two and a friend of mine has been trying to delete hers.
Yeah, I\’m trying to delete another Myspace as well, Wendy, and I\’ve not received the confirmation email either.
same here, days have gone by and i\’m still waiting for the conformation email..
That sucks because I forgot my e-mail password. Stupid myspace.
I accidentally (well. not really…) accepted to cancel my account and they will make me wait for 48 hours! Can I keep my account back?
PLEASE ANSWER QUICKLY!
my email no longer exsisited for my myspace and i want to delete my account what do i do?
If you\’ve deleted the email account you used when you signed up for MySpace then I\’m not sure what you can do :/
I create a myspace account with an invalid e-mail address
now I want to get rid off the account
how do I do it?
@Berny: That was a dumb thing to do.
hello I use to have a myspace account but not anymore. anyways straight to the point there has been a fake myspace account of me for past a year and I have reported it to myspace millions of times but they don’t get rid of it. i’m really tired of this they are making me look really bad. I just want to hack in to it and get rid of it please help me the user name is jst me!!!!!!!
why
i hate myspace
If I close myspace, will my msn add be deleted as well? Because I don’t want to change my msn adress…
I dont know how I got two my space accounts but I do The onr that it logging into isnt the right one I have two different url numbers its not letting me delete the fake one I know how to delete a account but Its not sending me the confirmation email my friends still see the corract profile just when I log in its not the right one so now what do I do