(
verb) Abstaining from checking one'
s Myspace; much like religious fasting from meals. Can last anywhere from a few hours to a few months, depending upon the strength of the one fasting. It is a technique / method used to recover after certain events including:
1) Strong addiction to myspace, networking, and an unusual obsession with browsing through friends' profiles, pictures, comments, bulletins etc.
2) MyspaceSTDS from constant w4w (whore-for-whore), pc4pc (picture-comment-for-picture-comment), c4c (comment-for-comment), and other
access to private territory i.e. private profile.
3) Avoiding contact with/seeing someone that you no longer want any affiliation with. Especially
seen after breakups; the victim no longer wishes to read the bulletins and comments between the ex & the new
girl/guy.
4)
Poor/deteriorating performance within
school or the workplace.
Example 1: "My grades are starting to go down and I can't focus at
work because I'm always on Myspace! I think I'm going to
go Myspace fasting for awhile, at least until I can straighten my life out."
Example 2: Tina: "Hey, your last login on Myspace was 2 weeks ago! Why haven't you been on?"
Allie: "Yea, I'm Myspace Fasting for awhile. I'm sick of seeing all the annoying, lovey comments between
Noah and his new
girl. And he moved me down on his top friends!"
