WUSA has the story of Newport News, Va.-based reporter Simon Owens, who has started a movement to make today, January 30, International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. The idea, which appears to have gained quite a bit of traction all over the internet, was born out of frustration with the amount of spam Owens has been receiving thanks to his account on the popular social networking site.

MySpace, despite its impressively ugly design and clunky architecture, certainly still has its uses, being a platform for independent bands to get their music out into the wider world chief among them. But we couldn’t help thinking when we first read about this story: people still have MySpace accounts? It’s long appeared that Facebook.com, which lately has been the source of far too many virus-style spam-generating quizzes and games itself, has supplanted MySpace, as the supreme social networking platform. Before MySpace it was Friendster, and surely something else will eventually come along to knock Facebook down a peg. So maybe Owens is on to something here: is it time for a formal, mass exodus from MySpace?