Aug 28 2008
MySpace Helpful Hints on How to Delete Comments on Someone Else’s Profile
For many MySpace users, comments are a difficult part of the game. Especially where younger people are concerned (middle school and high school users) commenting can sometimes get way out of hand. Posting comments on MySpace is as easy as pie, and people post comments at every flip of a button. This is good in the sense that MySpace profiles have a very fun and very communicative flavor; the downside is that these comments, once made, become part of the profile space. If you find yourself in a comment war, going back and forth with insults, you might say some things that you regret.
In some instances, MySpace users post comments that they, three weeks later, upon seeing the comment after a long lapse of time, don’t like to think of as their own personal post. Another possibility is that, as soon as you’ve posted the submit button and your comment is flying through cyberspace to every computer in the land, the gravity of the contents of your comment hits you. For some people, the desire to delete a comment comes immediately, whereas for others the desire to delete old comments only comes with 20/20 hindsight. Either way, fortunately, on MySpace, users have the option of deleted comments on their own profiles and they also have the option of deleting comments that they have made on other people’s profiles. This last feature is not possible on all websites that allow commenting; in this way, MySpace is well-designed for its audience.
Of course, you can delete comments that other users have left on your own profile simply by clicking on the ‘delete comment’ button; however, there’s a common myth that it is not possible for users to delete comments that they have made on other user’s profiles. This myth is a dangerous one because all human beings say things that they don’t mean and the opportunity to make it right is a good website feature. Additionally, on the technical side of things, it frequently occurs that a user gets a MySpace error message while posting a comment. In this event, one usually hits the back button and then hits post again, this time receiving a success message. While only one successful post message was received, a closer look at the user’s profile will show that the comment was posted, not once but twice, even though it didn’t appear that way.
If this happens to you, don’t despair! The fix is very simple although not widely known. Rest assured, it involves no html encoding! Simply go to the user’s profile and go to the comments section. You’ll see your comment there, and look for the link that says display all comments. Once you press this button, all of the comments to that user’s profile will pop up on a new screen. You will no longer be on the profile of that friend, but on a page with all of the comments posted for that friend. As long as you are properly logged in to MySpace, you should see an icon for deleting your comment(s). Of course, there is no such icon on the comments left by others; only the person who is logged in can delete their own comments, not the comments left by others. All you have to do is press delete and your duplicate comment or your comment that you regretted will disappear. The helpfulness of this feature is obvious, although it leaves friends powerless to delete hurtful comments about their friends. The only way to delete a comment is to be the maker, or the receiver of the comment.


