What should I do about threatening myspace msg?

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Kevin Kelly

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I woke up this morning to a very nasty myspace email from someone that I don't know. From her profile, this person claims to live in a different city not far from me and goes on to say some things about me and how I really did a number on her. She also threatens to "spread the word" about my apparantly bad behavior.

As I said, to my recollection I have never met her in my life. Her profile is set to private so I can't view any particulars or other pics. I've been in relationships over the years as most everyone has but the last one I was in lasted 3 yrs. Even if I did know her/date her, I would never and could never do any of the things that she is claiming that I have done. I have hardly used my professional name (mainly on radio but that was different city and long ago) so I know she has the wrong person. To be honest, it really has shaken me up...

I reported the email to myspace - whatever good that will do. I was considering blocking her but I decided not to just in case she sends other stuff and I might learn more about her if she does. I wrote back to her with a simple email saying that she had the wrong person and to not contact me anymore. I've never had this happen and I know I need to just brush this off but she makes some pretty serious threats and I can just see her shooting off emails to some of my friends. Ugh.....
 
Kev,

It's likely she has you confused with someone else. Since you know in your heart that her allegations are false, don't lose any sleep over it. :)
 
Fred Stewart said:
It's likely she has you confused with someone else.
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...or she is just some psycho...and/or some internet hoaxster...and/or maybe she isn't even a she!...it could even be a little kid!...the possibilities are endless!!

I tried myspace and didn't like it, so I don't know: is there not some way that you can report such behaviours? facebook does! Go there!
 
Fred Stewart said:
Kev,

It's likely she has you confused with someone else. Since you know in your heart that her allegations are false, don't lose any sleep over it. :)
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I agree :)
 
Threating message from someone you don't know = Trash it without a thought

Threating message from someone you know = Think about it then trash it.

The look on the persons face when they realize you could careless = Priceless. :sqlaugh:

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Seriously though, if you don't know her, don't give it a second thought.
 
Myspace is the big thing right now, but I really do think facebook has an overall better product... They are very flexible and adapt easily, they actively work on the code adding features and bug fixes... i have yet to see a facebook "under repair" sign. However I have seen MySpace on the fritz hundreds of times!
 
Bounce said:
Myspace is the big thing right now, but I really do think facebook has an overall better product... They are very flexible and adapt easily, they actively work on the code adding features and bug fixes... i have yet to see a facebook "under repair" sign. However I have seen MySpace on the fritz hundreds of times!
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Bounce, I'm not sure how much I can take advantage of Facebook...you do have to be a student don't you? To have a profile? And I'm assuming that anyone that wants to view your profile must be a student too?

Sorry but I think comparing Facebook to Myspace is like comparing Linux to Windows at this point...my myspace is up for one reason only...to network my karaoke gig.
 
Bounce said:
Myspace is the big thing right now, but I really do think facebook has an overall better product... They are very flexible and adapt easily, they actively work on the code adding features and bug fixes... i have yet to see a facebook "under repair" sign. However I have seen MySpace on the fritz hundreds of times!
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The reason is because Myspace has about 160 million members and facebook does not even have half that. You will start to see Facebook have those issues once their membership numbers grow.
 
djdawg said:
Bounce, I'm not sure how much I can take advantage of Facebook...you do have to be a student don't you? To have a profile? And I'm assuming that anyone that wants to view your profile must be a student too?

Sorry but I think comparing Facebook to Myspace is like comparing Linux to Windows at this point...my myspace is up for one reason only...to network my karaoke gig.
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Not anymore.... I think it is open to everybody now.
 
patrickrlewis said:
The reason is because Myspace has about 160 million members and facebook does not even have half that. You will start to see Facebook have those issues once their membership numbers grow.
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Patrick, you think that would be the issue... However what about google which is by-far the biggest website on the planet right now... How often do you hear about them having problems... NONE!

Google is developed using an unknown language, its under tight lips, but likely proprietary programming, or PHP, some of their projects are... However given is Google uses Linux OS. Go Linux users!

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Why facebook doesn't have problems and loads fast... They use an implementation called MemCached

Excerpt from their developer page:
  • memcached - a distributed memory object caching system. Memcached was not originally developed at Facebook, but we have become the largest user of memcached and actively contribute modifications back to the project. We have contributed substantial changes back to the project, boosting the software's performance by over 20% and increasing its memory efficiency by over 30% while adding new functionality.
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BTW another reason they are stable is because of their software library Thrift, here's another excerpt.
http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ Thrift - a framework for scalable cross-language services development. Thrift combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP and Ruby.
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Now a language comparison: Myspace uses ASP a microsoft developed product, it is run on Windows Server machines, (more costly than linux hosting) they run their servers off of a California universities' server cluster. They did have an outage one point and their battery backup & generator both malfunctioned... Caused many issues and database errors... (Too much information)

To the point now... ASP (Active Server Pages) is a compiled language, which Microsoft says in theory creates a more optimized webpage, however results show that PHP (Recursive acronym for Hypertext Processor or Personal Home Pages as originally called) is faster in some areas.

ASP is a rather hard language to use as well as debug, I have tried learning it actually, and found PHP which was my first language quite easy as well as able to allow me to move on easily to other languages, I now have in my arsenal PHP, Visual Basic 6, Java, Javascript, and HTML under my belt. (HTML isn't really a language but markup)

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Summary, Facebook started with a great well thought core, it was developed by a ex-harvard computer science major (later got kicked out due to facebook, among other things)... It seemed as if Myspace was originally developed for a "good old boys club", it became too successful and outgrew it's briches and experienced growing pains. Any site that constantly experiences errors should be shot. If ODJT experienced chronic issues I prob would not be here today, it is just because Myspace is on a large scale and in the media, they have their clients right where they want them and its addicting in a sense, to where they have a somewhat monopoly.
 
I signed up for facebook a couple days ago to connect with The Vinyl Spinner. I cannot figure it out all that well, I was kind of POed that it wouldn't let me use my webmaster address, kept saying it was invalid.

MySpace is a mess. All the spam on a regular basis but the worst is the members who insist on putting 3 or 4 videos that autoplay at the same time on their profile. I always think, do people have any brains? Flash Block works well for that. ;)
 
My daughter is only 16.

She deleted her MySpace page last week.

(Allie is somewhat of a trend setter.......when she sours on a fad, you can bet that its only going to be 1-2 years before its passe')
 
So to update...as I mentioned in the first post I replied to this person and am tracking whether she/he will read the msg. They havn't yet nor have they signed on since yesterday. I know I should blow this off and I'm starting to but in the meantime I asked a few of my friends to check out the profile to see if they recognize her/him/whatever it is. Kind of tough as their profile is set to private...I wonder if it's the other karaoke guy in town?
 
Scott Hanna said:
i would bet it's just some kids having a laugh...
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I hope so....it's hard to imagine kids coming up with the things that they are saying though Scott. Seriously, the accusations that are written are felonies in every state that I know of....:sqeek:
 
I just found out one of my fellow dj hosts/competitors also received a nasty msg from this same profile. Whew! Makes me feel better now...someone just doesn't like karaoke! LOL
 
djdawg said:
I hope so....it's hard to imagine kids coming up with the things that they are saying though Scott. Seriously, the accusations that are written are felonies in every state that I know of....:sqeek:
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remember,
kids have access to a lot more stuff nowadays. It's very easy for them to read nasty stuff on the web.

if it happens more than occasionally, i think you could file a police report....,
but just sending it to the admin will probably get them kicked off as i'm sure they are doing it to others.
 
I think I may have approached it a little differently........it definitely sounds like someone has you mixed up with someone else. Is your picture on your "myspace" location? Or is it just a name? Does she have any other info on you...... that is not listed on myspace? Have you heard back from her since you sent your response?

You have to be careful, and make sure you close all open doors....there are a lot of psycho's out there.........by this I mean if She has info or related to any facts available by some other means, other than myspace, I would try and get to the bottom of it. That's just me...on the other hand if you have no further contact She may have realized She had the wrong guy.........I sure as well would not lose any sleep over it.......
 
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