I’ve been slowly cleaning up both my apartment and online profiles and sites. Just like apartments, there can be a lot of maintenance that personal and social networking sites need. The quick-key, efficiency, GTD, productivity nerd in me (that also hates doing chores and likes bright things) would rather blow something up and build it over again then to clean it up. That’s why I just redesign my website every year and why I can only clean the apartment while supervised by at least one roommate to make sure I don’t just dump everything into a furnace.

MySpace as most will agree has become that neglected closet that you keep old camping gear and ex-roommate baggage in. The pristine organized storage center you once envisioned is now full of clutter that you no longer need but think you’ll fix someday. It’s kind of lost it’s charm once it started piling up with unclaimed sweaters and messages from hot girls who are lonely and want you to see their new modeling pics!!!!!!”

There’s nothing people hate more than unclaimed sweaters and advances from attractive young women who turn out to be robots. Many of my friends have gone outright and shut down their accounts. I would say that’s probably along the lines of dumping gasoline on a storage shed and throwing a block of C4 into it. I don’t know if that’s how C4 works. I’m just an illustrator who watched a lot of MacGuyver in the 80s.

The reason I don’t consider dumping a MySpace account the same as “emptying” a closet is that an empty closet has become useful. I still have some friends on MySpace and as has been suggested by many freelancers, PR agents, and all around wise folks, the more places an artist can be contacted the better. Even if that place is a dungeon full of lies and emo music*

“But MySpace is full of 14 year old kids and soccer moms who are just about ready to switch to Facebook right as it is getting outdated” you say. Well, you’re probably right, but I had to go in and delete all my drunk pics old artwork anyways.

And just in case you’re a soccer mom here’s the link: http://www.myspace.com/hoabert

*fact, I kinda like emo music.