I have a theory.. nay, a conspiracy. A conspiracy that rivals the JFK killing or us landing on the moon. It’s a conspiracy of Myspace errors.

Myspace is littered with serious error issues. For the past three-four years of my using Myspace, it has continually had the same errors when you click the same links. No matter how successful the company has become and how many billions of dollars the company has generated, they still have yet to be able to fix these seemingly basic errors.

Now, I realize that operating a social network is no walk in the park, especially on the scale of Myspace, but the error issues that are a daily occurrence on the site are obnoxious and any respectable company should be able to eliminate at least 90% of the issues the site has. Not even a poorly constructed website like Myspace should have that many issues, seeing how the companies staff is not a mere “mom and pop”.

This has really got me thinking, there is absolutely no way that News Corp is that dumb. There is no way that after four years, the website has not been able to fix its database issues to reduce these error messages. I began looking at the errors that I constantly have. The most notable error is the “new photo comments” error. Daily I receive an indication that I have new comments on my photos. Daily I click this link only to find I in fact am still not popular. At times, I would click from photo to photo to try and find if this error was not in vein and people actually have something to say about my photos. This was never the case.

I wonder how many clicks I have given myspace with these faulty indications? I would imagine over four years that I have clicked several thousand times as a result of these untrue indications. The “new photo comments” indication has got to be the most popular indication on all of myspace. When this indication happens, virtually everyone at myspace clicks it, it isn’t something you ignore. All other indications you are more likely to ignore, but this indication still isn’t littered with spam, so people take it more seriously.

Question: Are these “errors” actually planned? I know it sounds bizzare, but if 65 Million unique visitors receive this faulty indication and all of them click, thats a minimum of 65 Million additional page views and hundreds of thousands of additionally dollars of revenue in seconds, which is not even taking into account the additional clicks as people search for photos.

I honestly think the reason these errors continue to happen on myspace is the amount of additional revenue generated off of error clicks far exceeds the worth of “fixing” these issues or “fixing” their reputation of a not so well developed website from a technology standpoint. Myspace would rather have the additional millions of dollars generated from these clicks than have the better reputation… and hell, wouldn’t we all?