Old MySpace Profile Search: How to Find Your Old Account

MySpace was the first social network for a lot of people, and many of those accounts still exist. If you want to see your old MySpace profile again, find a friend's, or finally delete an account you forgot about, the steps below work in most cases. Expect some gaps: not everything from the classic MySpace years survived.

What is left of old MySpace profiles

MySpace relaunched with a new design in 2013. Profiles carried over, but much of the classic-era content, such as old blogs, did not come along. In 2019 MySpace said that music uploaded between 2003 and 2015 was lost during a server migration, which news reports put at around 50 million songs. The Internet Archive later published a recovered set of roughly half a million of those tracks.

So an old account often still exists at its old address, but the profile you remember (song player, custom layout, comments) may look very different or be mostly empty.

1. Search by your old MySpace username

MySpace profile addresses use the username: myspace.com/yourname. If you remember the name, type that address straight into your browser. That is the fastest check.

If you only half remember it, run a few spellings through a username search. It checks MySpace along with 3,450+ other sites, so you also see where else you used the same handle back then. People who were on MySpace in 2006 usually reused that name on old forums, gaming sites and email, and those accounts are worth finding too.

2. Search by real name

If you don't know the username, try:

• MySpace's own search on myspace.com, using the name shown on the profile.
• A search engine with site:myspace.com "first last", adding a city, school or band name to narrow it down.
• Old photos and messages. Screenshots, old emails from MySpace or friends' comments often contain the profile link.

Our guide to social media search by name or username explains these search operators in more detail.

3. Look it up in the Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine saved copies of many MySpace pages. Go to web.archive.org and enter myspace.com/yourname. If the page was captured, you can pick a date and see how the profile looked at that time. Coverage is patchy: popular profiles were saved often, small personal ones may have no captures at all.

4. Log back in

If the profile is yours, sign in on myspace.com with the email address you used back then and use the password reset if you don't remember the password. If you no longer have access to that email, the reset can't reach you; MySpace's help pages list the current options for account recovery.

5. Delete it or clean it up

Once you are in, you can edit or remove what is still public, or delete the account from its settings. An old account with an old password is a weak spot if you reused that password elsewhere, so change it or close the account either way.

MySpace is rarely the only forgotten account. Our guide to finding your old accounts and the digital footprint checker walk through finding the rest.

Frequently asked questions

Can I still see my old MySpace?

Often yes. Try myspace.com/yourname first, then the Wayback Machine. The account may exist even if much of its old content, especially music from before 2015, is gone.

Can I search MySpace without an account?

Yes. Public profiles open without logging in, and search engines and the Wayback Machine need no MySpace account either.

How do I find an old MySpace if I forgot the username?

Search your real name on MySpace and with site:myspace.com, look through old emails from MySpace, or try the usernames you used elsewhere at that time in a username search.