According to Johnny, he has been receiving alarming amount of hateful threatening letters through his myspace.
He had opened it as a way to be closer to his fans and friends about a year and a half ago.
It’s also hard to continue in his limited time to personally log on to MySpace so he decided to close his myspace.
It’s so sad and a shame to hear about it.
I joined my myspace because Johnny started it.
I’m trying not to get angry for people who has been bothering him, sending such a threatening letters.
In internet, people can be mean when they have no responsibility for their ID. So many idiots get behind a computer screen and get brave and think it's funny to threaten and insult people.
I don’t know what kind of threaten messages he has been receiving. But it’s a crime. I wonder if he told Police about it with all those proof of threats he received ?
But he also need to focus on his goal, and he may not want to think about it anymore.
Even though he closed his myspace, those people may keep sending him through his official site.
I’m thinking about how can he avoid that problem ?
I suggest that it may be better to have someone check all the messages for him, and he should not read all the messages directly so that he doesn’t have to worry to read negative messages.
Of course I prefer that my message to him would not be read by someone except Johnny.
But, it doesn’t matter, if it can protect him.
I think most skaters are doing that way, and they don’t read messages to them directly.
Johnny is a world class athlete who is very successful, so talented, besides beautiful looking and popular.
I am not surprised he gets many jealousy from unproductive people.
I still don’t understand the psychology for those people. One sure thing is they are not satisfied with their life.
Also, there is bias based on their beliefs and people want to control others.
If someone is doing things that don’t fit with what they believe, they start bashing the person.
Popular actor Johnny Depp also was running his myspace, but soon he canceled it ( or he was hacked, not sure ) I’m sure he was also receiving hateful mails. The main actress in Pirates of Caribbean sounded like she also was receiving negative messages in her myspace.
Music rock groups also experience it. I suppose many famous people, musicians, actors, actress, writers, etc.. are experiencing those things.
In figure skating, Japanese lady skater Miki Ando also had problems with similar things, and she had to close all her websites because of it.
Seems like Miki also like to communicate with her fans. She looks heartfelt person to me.
When I visited Japanese FS message boards, there are always several Anti-Miki threads as well as Miki fan‘s thread.
Those haters sound unstable and unbalanced. The key of success is always, not to be influenced by negativities. I believe Johnny is smart enough and has strong mind and already learned from his experience he had in the past.
I think his coaches Galina and Petrenko are also great mentors of him and will always give him a great advice.
Go Johnny !!
You are loved by your many fans !