The Wonders of, uh, Modern (?) Technology

Earlier today, Meg informed me that Jess 2.0, the MySpace version, had been having herself quite a time spamming people. So I logged on, and sure enough, I'd posted this bulletin:

Subject: Hi-Deff Movies super modles --www.sxhb.info--- no kids please
Body: Hi, 32cCool stuff. Thanks

Not that anyone would really mistake that for a bulletin by yours truly. I'm much funnier, after all, and bad grammar makes me itchy. I changed my password tout de suite and then checked out the "Help" section on MySpace to see if there was any further action Tom would like me to take.

I shit you not, folks. This is what MySpace calls a "solution":

Someone is pretending to be me - what do I do?

In order to verify your identity, please send us a "salute". This means we will need an image of yourself holding a handwritten sign with the word "MySpace.com" and your Friend ID (your Friend ID number appears immediately after "friendID=" in the web address/URL when viewing your profile). We can then remove the profile that uses your identity without your permission.

Please be sure to include the web address/URL to the profile in question when you send your salute.

If you do not have a profile on MySpace please write in the email address that you are emailing us from instead of your Friend ID.

If the profile is an extremely obvious attempt to be cruel/false, you may not need to send a salute. Sending a salute will help expediate things, though!

So let me get this straight. Now that we're living in the age of the Internets, and billions of people are using social networking sites, and we otherwise have the ability to create cool shit like AIM WeeMes, that act out what you're typing on AIM (and also fall in holes and get struck by lighting for no apparent reason, but that's neither here nor there) but we can't do better than TAKING A PICTURE OF OURSELVES HOLDING UP A PIECE OF PAPER THAT SAYS MYSPACE.COM AND OUR FRIEND ID ON IT WRITTEN WITH A PEN, PENCIL OR CRAYON? I mean, what?! Stupid MySpace. And I bet The Other Jess didn't even sell any Hi-Deff Movies super modles anyway.