Not Especially Fond of MySpace Spammers

The ones who invite you to be a friend and when you click on their profile that they look interesting or innocent so you accept them. Then once they’re accepted, they put a comment on your page with a link to a cell phone provider or some shit like that. What I am even less fond of is when I try to block them as a user, their default picture no longer links to their profile page.

Well lucky me I used to write code for a living and have a solution for any of you who would like to stop them. Here are the 3 simple steps to do this:

1. If some undesirable left a comment on your page, simply hover over the user’s default photo with your mouse and while hovering there look to the lower-left-hand corner of your browser/screen. You will see a string of code with an account number of that profile in it. It will look something like this:
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=123456789

2. Write down that number on the end of the string of code on a piece of paper. That is the spammer’s user number on MySpace.

3. Copy this string of code into your browser address bar:
myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=block.blockUser&userID=123456789
and replace the number 123456788 with the number you wrote down and click ENTER/RETURN on your keyboard.

You will be taken to a screen that asks you if you are sure you want to block that user. Approve it and you’re done.

But please do me a favor, do not write me and ask me tech questions about these steps. Ask Tom, he’s the man to ask anything further about this.

Yay! No more spammers!
Love you, mean it!
Ian