MySpace Blocked the Letter “I”

On Friday, Mashable! reported that MySpace mysteriously started blocking the letter "i" on MySpace blogs. How bizzare. Although obviously a glitch, it wouldn’t have come about if MySpace wasn’t so into censorship. Sites like Vidlife, Stickam, Revver, and Photobucket have all felt the effects of a MySpace ban. Additionally, Pyzam.com, Glitter-graphics.com and MrDoe have all found links to their sites disabled this past week. Sure, MySpace just wanted to show these companies who’s boss, but it’s the users that suffer. You can’t permit thousands of users to post content from a site onto their profiles one day, then block that same content the next. C’mon. Top off this random censorship with busy, slow-loading, ugly, & loud personal pages, tons of spam friend requests, and unorganized lists of "friends" that really aren’t, I think it’s safe to say that MySpace has jumped the shark for most people. Although still strong in numbers for now, as more and more people get fed up with the lack of concern MySpace shows for its own users, the more people will dump MySpace for friendlier, cleaner sites like Facebook.