Understanding And Using Myspace Privacy Settings

There are moments that each person needs an amount of privacy. This is applicable to online privacy and also to MySpace profile. The next section will talk about several privacy options with your free MySpace account and on how to apply these certain features.

You must be logged into your own MySpace account first in order to modify the privacy option of you profile and to make sure that all features will be available for you. Do this by choosing “Sign In” from www.myspace.com or check your MySpace profile then click “Home” at the top the page. This will bring you to MySpace log in page and let you have a full access of your account and you can now have a look at possible privacy options for you.

You will notice a list of links on the right side of the profile picture of your MySpace home page.
These links include:

• edit profile
• account settings
• add/edit photos
• add/change videos
• manage blog

There are more links also. Click the link that says “Account Settings” to check your privacy options. You will be directed to a page where there will be more choices including explore/change your privacy settings.

While looking around your MySpace settings, you will notice a part marked “privacy setting”.
You must see a red colored linked next to it that says “Change Settings”, you may need to click this link.

You are now set to explore and change your MySpace privacy settings. You will find the things needed for you to change your privacy settings. Selections include:

• require email address or last name in order for other members to make an add friend request
• require approval before other members' comments post on your profile
• check to hide your online status from other users.
• block users who are not added to my friends
• set your profile to private

Setting your profile to private is one of the most used privacy option used in MySpace. This means nobody can check you profile without your approval. Since other members won’t be able to view your profile, you may have less add friend request as a result.

Finding And Adding A Cool Profile Layout

MySpace comes with the same basic profile layout on all of its free accounts. There is nothing striking about it, and be able to fail to express your individual personality. Custom and pre-made layouts are available in order to assist you in customizing the profile that best fits you. The next section will touch on locating and using the custom and pre-made layouts for your MySpace profile

Although newbie to Myspace will primarily begin with a basis profile design provided, usually members choose to modify their profiles by exploring one that suits their taste. A large number of websites offers customized design codes that extremely transform the appearance of your MySpace profile, customize it to better fit you!

Using your preferred search engine, you can produce a list of websites which offers a range selection of layouts. Enter the words “MySpace Layouts” on your search engine to seek. With that, it will produce a list of links to provide you potential sites that offer layouts of your choice.

The moment you decide which layout to use for your MySpace profile, that’s the point where you set the code in its proper place. Every layout normally has a code related to it, and you need to copy the code. Paste the code on your wordpad and minimize the window.

Now it's time to set the code into your MySpace profile. To do that, you need to be logged into your MySpace account. Once you’re in, you must see a link to click, in order to "Edit Profile”. The link can be found beside your picture at the top of the list. When you click this link, you will be set to add your new layout code.

You will notice a part that says "About Me" on the "Edit Profile" page of your MySpace account. Now you have to copy again the profile code from the wordpad where you saved it earlier. Paste the saved code into the top of your "About Me" part, before any text or graphics you may have previously place in this area. Click "Save All Changes", at the top the page, and it is all set. Once you view your profile, you will now see the new layout.

Accepting Or Denying New Friend Requests

Since one of the great benefits of having a MySpace account is making friends, it is important to know how to accept or deny an add new friend request. There are factors to consider in making a decision whether to accept or reject a possible friend. The next section will talk about some of these factors, and also on how to accept or reject a new possible friend. You must be logged into your own MySpace account first in order to check for new add requests. You need to decide to receive email notice when you got a new friend requests, it’s a smart feature. You still need to be logged into your Myspace account to accept or reject the request. Enter the page by: • clicking the "Home" link of your profile • type www.myspace.com into your web browser, and then click log in. Check for a new friend requests the moment your into your MySpace account. From your homepage, about half way down on the left side of the page, you will find a box with a mark “My Mail”. Here you will find links to guide you to execute four tasks. Tasks include: • viewing your inbox • viewing your sent mail • posting a bulletin • viewing your friend requests When you enter “Friend Request”, you can check for any new add requests and also add request with pending approval. The moment you enter, you will to find a request from another MySpace member to be your friend. You may also view pending request you made from this page. On the “Friend Request” page, at the left side of the menu you will find a link that says “Pending Request”. Entering here and you will see friends request you created and are still pending for approval. Check the MySpace profile of a new friend request before accepting. This will help you in making judgment. These include: • allowing you to compare likes and dislikes • allowing you to see if you know the person from your real life • allowing you to see that this request isn't really Spam It’s better to check who you are accepting as MySpace friends.

When And How To Send A Private Message On Myspace

Having a free MySpace account will give you vast connections of friend. MySpace is a best way to have new friends, aside from adding existing friends on your “Friends List”; you can also join up with your past friends. There will come a time that you need to send a private message. The next section will talk on how and when to send private message to another MySpace member. Sending a private message is essential in many situations. Usually you need to send a private message if there are definite information to be passed. Some of this information needs to be placed in a private message may include: • phone numbers • addresses • full names If you get the possibility to share information like this kind, you must do this in private message. Adding a comment on your friend’s profile will shown to everyone and this is not usually secure. Make use of the “Send Message” feature of Myspace to avoid showing personal information. You must be logged into your own MySpace account first in order to send a private message to a friend or a possible MySpace friend. Once in, check on the profile of a member you want to send a private message. Click “Show All Friends” to view a friend who is already listed on your home page. Find the “Contact Table” of the person from their profile if you want to send a private message. If the layout is customized, you may find this any where but this is usually placed below the profile picture. You may find the following links on a typical MySpace profile. • Send Message • Add to Friends • Instant Message • Add to Group • Forward to a Friend • Add to Favorites • Block User • Rank User Pick “Send Message” if you want to send a private message to a person. Click the top link on the left side of the list in the contact box to send a private message to someone with a customized layout since the links will not be marked the usual way. No matter how it's tagged, there will always be a "Send Message Link",

Title: Searching For New Myspace Friends Word Count: 337 Summary: Most MySpace members have a need of discovering new friends to be included in the list. This is perhaps the main reason of MySpace, to aid people in making new connections. The next section touches on how to search for new MySpace friends and several search options. Searching for MySpace friends has two ways of different options. These are through browsing, or by performing a search. But to be able to do either of these options, you need to log into your MySpace account fi... Keywords: myspace markeing and social networking Article Body: Most MySpace members have a need of discovering new friends to be included in the list. This is perhaps the main reason of MySpace, to aid people in making new connections. The next section touches on how to search for new MySpace friends and several search options. Searching for MySpace friends has two ways of different options. These are through browsing, or by performing a search. But to be able to do either of these options, you need to log into your MySpace account first. From your web browser enter www.MySpace.com then choose the “Sign In” option. Or log in by choosing the "Home" link on your profile page. Once in, you will be able to start searching for new MySpace friends. But first you need to choose an option to apply. A few factors to help you decide: • to search or not to search by name • to search not to search by email address • to search or not to search by profile details It is much helpful to use the search option when looking for a particular friend than to browse. Search Option Better use the search option in looking for new MySpace friends with same interests. With this option, you can search for friends by using: • keyword terms • specific names • specific email addresses Use search option as well to locate new friends by their schools, or by the networks they are connected. Browse Option Using browse option to search new MySpace friends is much accepted. However, using this option will not allow you to search for keyword terms. Here are the ranges of options you can have: • searching by geographic locations • searching by provided personal information • searching by provided background and lifestyle information A good number of people discovered that through browse option, this will give a more personalized search. But if you wish to search by name, you have to use the search option. Finding new friends is a sure bet regardless of the option you prefer searching for new MySpace friend.

myspace markeing and social networking Most MySpace members have a need of discovering new friends to be included in the list. This is perhaps the main reason of MySpace, to aid people in making new connections. The next section touches on how to search for new MySpace friends and several search options. Searching for MySpace friends has two ways of different options. These are through browsing, or by performing a search. But to be able to do either of these options, you need to log into your MySpace account first. From your web browser enter www.MySpace.com then choose the “Sign In” option. Or log in by choosing the "Home" link on your profile page. Once in, you will be able to start searching for new MySpace friends. But first you need to choose an option to apply. A few factors to help you decide: • to search or not to search by name • to search not to search by email address • to search or not to search by profile details It is much helpful to use the search option when looking for a particular friend than to browse. Search Option Better use the search option in looking for new MySpace friends with same interests. With this option, you can search for friends by using: • keyword terms • specific names • specific email addresses Use search option as well to locate new friends by their schools, or by the networks they are connected. Browse Option Using browse option to search new MySpace friends is much accepted. However, using this option will not allow you to search for keyword terms. Here are the ranges of options you can have: • searching by geographic locations • searching by provided personal information • searching by provided background and lifestyle information A good number of people discovered that through browse option, this will give a more personalized search. But if you wish to search by name, you have to use the search option. Finding new friends is a sure bet regardless of the option you prefer searching for new MySpace friend.

Deleting A MySpace Account

A time will come for some MySpace members to longer use their account. Perhaps a bad experience turned them off, or parent wants to let their child stop using the account. When this happens. The next section will talk about deleting a MySpace account and give instructions on how to do it.

When your child sets up an account with out your permission, you can immediately delete the account. Parents always have the right for their child. Working with your child on deleting the account is advisable. Procedure is easy, once logged into their account, go to “Account Settings” page and click “Cancel Account”. There will be an email notification to confirm the cancellation.
If you fail to receive an email conformation, please delete all the contents from your child's MySpace profile and add the words "Remove Profile" into the "About Me" section. Inform MySpace with the URL of your child's profile and they will act on it.

There will be a time that you decide to delete your own account. Even though MySpace can be a great place to collect, and meet new friends, problems do occur sometimes. Perhaps you were harassed by another member, and the issue cannot be resolve. Or maybe you got married and your other half needs you to remove your account. So many factors can cause you to consider having a MySpace profile. This is normal.

Deleting your MySpace account needs you to be logged into your homepage. Locate the link labeled "Account Settings" and enter. On "Account Settings" page, you will see a horizontal list of red links which includes a link marked "Cancel Account", click this. You will receive an email confirmation about account deletion. If not, you need to do the same as what you did with your child's profile. Remove all information from your profile, including pictures, and add the words "Delete Profile" into the "About Me" section. Once MySpace administrators discovers this, they will automatically delete your account

Understanding And Obeying Myspace Terms Of Service

Everyone is encouraged to read and agree to certain terms of service policies before registering for a free MySpace account. You noticed the box next to a blue colored link you checked when you register where you could click and read the current terms of service policies? Check this to agree. You cannot continue with the registration process without agreeing to these terms of service policies. The next section will talk about the terms of service policies and its significance.

You must first find where the current terms of service policies so you can enthusiastically check it out. Locating the terms of service is quite easy. Once logged into your MySpace account go to the bottom of the page then you must click the link marked “Terms” when you find it. Then you will be forwarded to MySpace current terms of service. The administrators will send you a copy of the current terms of service through email when you contact them at: privacy@MySpace.com with the subject line labeled: Terms of Use Agreement.

Knowing the Terms of Service Agreement is encouraged by MySpace. This includes a range of information such as:

•policies for acceptable use
•member rights
•member obligations

You will clearly know what to expect on MySpace by reading and understanding the terms of service policies. You will be able to recognize what is acceptable and not acceptable when posting and also your rights being a member. Failure to recognize this information might result in sanctions like postponement of your MySpace account or removal of your profile page.

Understanding MySpace Terms of Service is just as important as knowing that this can be changed at anytime. You agreed to the Terms of Service when you registered for a free MySpace account and understand that you are bounded when the terms changed. So it is so important to study the Terms of Service frequently to be updated on any changes the administrators may do.

Understanding And Dealing With Myspace Stalkers

Considering the perils concerning MySpace stalkers is so important as well as having the idea on how to best deal with it. Most grown up fairly knew how to deal with online stalkers, since a few of this stalkers are sexual predators or rapists in searching for their next prey. The next section will talk on Myspace stalkers, and give a few guidelines on how to lessen the threats.

Know who you are chatting with is a primary way to protect yourself from MySpace stalkers. Spending more time talking with someone will give you enough foundation to know who they really are and judge if they are revealing their real identity or not. Your best solution if you receive uncomfortable comments or feel that someone is not telling you factual stuff is by removing them from the list of your MySpace friends and blocking the messages they are sending you. They can still view your profile if you set this in public but they can’t place their comments. Setting your profile in private for a moment will guarantee that nobody except friends you approved can only view your full profile.

You can lessen the risk of meeting a potential MySpace stalker if you will be very careful and use extra precaution, if you decide to meet someone after knowing them well. It is always best that you should agree to meet in public to avoid know spotting your exact location and bringing a friend will also keep you safe. If you accidentally meet a stalker, they will act uncomfortably in public or being around with a number of people.

Finally, never post any private information on your MySpace profile. Posting private information on your profile like addresses and phone numbers will only attract stalkers which will probably bring great threats in your life.

Identifying a MySpace stalker and dealing with it properly is extremely important. Neglecting this may place you in great risk of being the next victim of a MySpace stalker.

Adding Photos To Your Myspace Site

During the registration process on free MySpace, you are encouraged to upload a photo from your computer. But when you already set up your account, you can add pictures for other members may be able to view it when check your profile. The next section will talk about adding more pictures to your MySpace account, as also explain how to do it.

As mentioned, you will automatically be encouraged to post a profile picture during the registration process. This will be your “default photo”, this will be shown in your profile and to your friends’ page next to the messages you sent and comments. Make sure to have your best and latest picture posted for this reason

If you frequently update your pictures, the procedure is easy to learn. First, you have to put in pictures in the provided space to change your default picture. After changing your default picture, it will still be visible to any member who checks your pictures. Now the new picture you post will be considered as your "default picture", this will be shown in all the areas your previous default picture was displayed.

Simple steps to follow in adding pictures to your MySpace account:

1. Log into your MySpace account.
2. Look for the link marked "Add/Edit" photos, which is directly under the "account settings" link.
3. Click the link.

Locate the "Upload Photo" box at the page. You can browse pictures from your computer to add on your MySpace Site. Click “Upload” to the selected picture from your computer. After the page refreshes, change the default picture with the new one if you wish to do so. Click the box underneath the picture you want as your default that says "set as default".

To let the members view your photos, they have to click “pics” underneath your default picture on your profile page. They can view all your pictures at your photo page and leave comments about the pictures if wish to.

Be Aware Of Myspace Tracker Scams

It is in nature to majority of people to be very curios when there is an occurrence. And this applies to other MySpace members. For instance, a lot of members are interested in knowing who checks on their profile which will rapidly increase tracker scams. In the next section, we will talk on how to recognize MySpace tracker scams and offers some practical information on how to reduce the risk of falling into the scam artists’ trap.

Scam artist will do anything to scam members and in order to hack different MySpace accounts. New Tracker scammers are starting to grow with a lot of curious MySpace members. We often fall to these types of scams, “We want to know who is viewing our MySpace profiles”.

One thing to consider when registering to a MySpace Tracker site is NEVER post your personal email and MySpace password to any site if you’re not sure, or they will have a full access on your account. They can alter everything to the point that you can no longer access your own account. If this happened, MySpace administrator can’t do anything to retrieve your account. In that case, the excellent solution is to delete the account, if you can prove that you are really the owner of the said account.

Setting a dummy account to test a new MySpace tracker site is also a good idea. If the tracker works fine, you can soon delete that account and apply it into your real profile. Being very cautious will always keep you from any further trouble.

Always keep your password in private. Sharing this to anyone will provide full access of your MySpace account. They can temp your friends with their advertisements using your bulletin. They can also make the same request by spamming your MySpace email account. And lastly, they can place their advertisements anywhere using your MySpace profile. Do they really even work? Usually, the answer is no.

Myspace Groups - General

MySpace groups is a means of letting people with same interest keep in touch, communicate and make new friends. Every member of MySpace may wish to join on any MySpace group, however this depends to the group leader to either accept you or not. You can also create a group of your own, and search for more groups other members created. The next section will talk on information regarding MySpace groups and show few useful information associated to searching these groups.

Many MySpace groups can be found conveniently in every category you could possibly think of. If you enjoy a particular show, movie or soap opera, it is much possible that there are existing groups that meet and discuss on this particular topic. You can make and control your own MySpace group under a particular topic if you cannot find any related topic after searching.

From your MySpace home page, it is easy to search for a particular subject. Look for the link marked "Groups "in the horizontal menu at the top of the page and click it.

After clicking the link “Groups”, a page with all the list of categories will appear. At the right side of each category, inside the parenthesis you will find number of groups which are present for every category. Clicking on a particular category name you your choice will allow you to browse or search a MySpace group. This will produce list of all the groups with in this category, along with a short description of each group. You’ll have a choice to join each group from this page.

Using particular keywords or phrase will also help you locating the groups. Click on the “Groups” link located on the horizontal menu at the top of your home page. After the ‘Group” page loads, go to the bottom of the page. Type a particular keywords/keyword phrase then click the “search” button. Use advance search option for a more specific search.

Your Myspace Top Friends

A lot of members give emphasis on who they want to show on their top friends. This refers to friends you want to be displayed on your profile and this are usually your closest ones. We will talk about MySpace top friends on the next section, and also to give important information on how to modify the top friends on your profile.

To modify your top friends, you need to log on to your MySpace account. If not, you can’t edit your friends. There are two ways to log into MySpace account:

1. Type www.myspace.com into your browser. After the page loads, click "Log In". You will be redirected to "Log In" page.

2. Check your own profile. Click on the link “Home” at the top of the page after it loads. You will be redirected to "Log In" page.

You are now ready to edit your top friends the moment you are into your MySpace account.

Find the “My Friends” box on your home page. This contains:

• photos of your top friends
• option to edit your top friends
• option to view all of your friends
• option to change your top friends

Pick an option to modify your top friends. This is located at the bottom left corner of the box.

A different page will appear after you click to change your top friends. You will find several options from this page. These are:

• Preferred number of friends to be displayed as your top friends
• Edit Your Top Friends!
• Save Top Friends!

With this page, you can do anything related to changing your top friends.

You can modify your top friends once you’re on this page. You must first decide on the number of friends you want to display. Arrange them into the red boxes by dropping and dragging. Click on a friend then hold down your mouse button and drag this friend to a desired spot. When they are already on your preferred spot, click “Save Top Friends” and you are done.

Myspace Blog Feature - General Information

With the exceptional popularity of MySpace.com to keep in touch with friend and make new ones, the additional growing popularity feature is blog. Conventional journal writing was replaced with the modern online blogs. Your free MySpace account offers you to use a free online blog. The next section will talk about some information on how to use the blog feature of MySpace.

All members of MySpace have the choice of to post and when to post their blogs. You will observe in somebody else’s profile that blogs are arranged from the latest to oldest. Clicking “view all blog entries” at the bottom part or the title will let you to view the posted blogs.

You could place an important reaction in somebody’s blog if you need to. You may also have the chance to add kudos after posting your reaction. Others will set their blogs that only friends can give reactions. You won’t be able to give comment and add kudos until this person will accept you as friend.

You can subscribe to a MySpace blog for you to receive an announcement of a new posted blog. Any blog subscriptions will be listed on your blog page, and unread entries will remain marked "New" until you read them. It is easy to identify the blogs that you have read from the ones you haven’t. To subscribe to someone's blog, click the link from their profile. There will be a question you need to reply if you really desire to subscribe to a blog.

Posting your new blog is easy. On your MySpace account, there are two ways to get a blog page.

• Click "Manage Blog" link on home page
• Click "Blog" link in the menu at the top of your profile or home page

To post a new blog entry, click the link labeled "Post New Blog" you will find under "My Controls. Type your entry at the given area and click "preview & post

Deleting A Friend From Your Myspace Friend List

Problems may occur among group of friends in real life. This is also a thing to consider in deleting a MySpace friend from the list. You are not alone in having such similar feelings. The next section will talk on how to delete a MySpace friend.

Friends can usually hurt us more than our enemies. Since we are much concern about our friends compared to those who are not too close to us. What a friend thinks, say, and do really matters to us. But, once they crosses a line, and hurts us, we may consider driving them off our lives. The idea relates to individuals and their MySpace friends. When a MySpace friend caused us pain, we might consider removing them from our friend list. It is completely normal.

Grounds for consideration in removing a friend:

• After resolving conflicts, you can always re-add a deleted friend.

• Comments you've posted on a deleted friend's profile cannot be removed. The owner of the profile has the ability to remove them or not

• A deleted friend can still send you email messages, but cannot leave comments on your profile or blog.

If you still want to remove a MySpace friend after considering these factors, the procedure is pretty easy. To edit and delete a specific friend, log into your MySpace account. Locate the area labeled "My Friend Space" and click the red link marked "edit friends" in the top right hand corner of this area. All of your MySpace friends can be viewed from this page. Click the little box next to the picture of the person you wish to delete and go to the bottom of the page. Click the "Delete Selected" button and it is done. You have successfully deleted your friend. But if things worked well and wanted to re-add the friend, just ask a friend to add you and wait for that request to be accepted.

Online Flirting On Myspace - Tips And Advice

With online flirting, no eye contact or body language is visible, this appears to be hard. No need to worry since MySpace offers its members some tools to get their point across when flirting. On the next section we will talk about the features on easier flirting and few instructions about successful online flirting.

Most flirting related problems in Myspace are the need for an eye contact and reading body language. With the use of the eyes and body signals, people consider it to be MOST effective. This is not usually true. You can flirt effectively by using language and art.

There are several means to flirt with other registered MySpace members. You will be able to leave comments on other member’s profile, or even flirt with someone by sending your messages privately. Do this by checking on the profile of someone you desire, leave your personal comment by clicking on the link that says “Add Comment”. Click on the top left link in the person's contact box to send them a private message if you choose to flirt privately. Simply paste the code of a flirty graphics you desire into the area where you usually type the comment.

A few things to consider when leaving a private message or comment to someone you wish to flirt on MySpace. Follow some tips and advice.

a) Check your punctuation and grammar before leaving a flirty message or comment.
b) Keep flirty messages comments short and direct to the point.
c) Keep flirty messages and comments light-hearted.
d) Add humor to flirty comments and messages.
e) Hand out compliments when leaving flirty messages and comments.

With MySpace, flirting need not to be hard. But over doing it might turn the person off.
Follow the tips and advice, and you won’t have any problems at all.

Viewing And Posting New Myspace Bulletins

Bulletin posting is pretty popular among registered MySpace members, though there are a lot of features offered. Posting a bulletin opens a chance for the members you have added as friends to check and react on it. The next section will talk about MySpace bulletins, and also how to post and reply to it.

If a friend posts a bulletin, this will appear on your home page the moment you logged into your account but this cannot be viewed on member’s profile. “MY Bulletin Space” can be found at the bottom left side corner of your page.

Click on the bulletin title of your choice to view/read. Clicking the author’s name will get you to their MySpace profile, not the bulletin they post.

If miss a few bulletins since you weren’t able to visit your account for several days. Look and view them by click the link at the bottom of your “MY Bulletin Space” box marked “View All Bulletin Entries” to produce the list of your latest bulletins. There is also an option to view the past bulletins. With a feature like this, there is no way that you will miss a MySpace bulletins even when you are busy.

You might get confuse on how to post a bulletin for the first time, but this is really easy. To let your friends view the bulletins you posted, click the link labeled “post bulletin” at the “My Mail’ section of your page. Here you can write and post your bulletin. There will be an option after for you to either edit or post the bulletin. It will take a moment for the bulletin to show after posting.

Apply the instructions given for you to easily post and view your new MySpace bulletins.
This is a cool and popular way in sharing stuffs with your MySpace friends.

Customizing Your Myspace Blog

Online blogs are rapidly replacing diaries and journals, like emails that lessen the quantity of snail mails over the years. Writing blog appears to be a bit more conservative, yet much faster and convenient. MySpace gives plenty of options for their members to use on their online blog, as well as the ability to modify the appearance that will suit the individual’s character. On the next section we will talk on some of the features offered in modifying your MySpace personal blog.

Modifying online blog has never been simple with MySpace. A lot of options are offered to help you match your blog with your own personality. So many choices available to help you modify your MySpace blog with style change the colors, the fonts, and you can even add a custom header.

From your home page, you simply go to a useful area where you can modify your blog. Next to your profile picture there is a link that says “Manage Blog”, click this.

Along with the other options, look for the box at the left side of the page with a label “My Controls”. Click the link “Customize Blog.” inside this box. You are now set to customize your MySpace Blog.

You can also find different options in “Customize My Blog” page such as color settings for certain sections of your blog. These include:

• General Page Settings
• Page Header
• Side Module
• Blog Post Settings
• Background Settings
• Your Own Additional Style Sheet

To customize your blog page, decide on what colors or font to use and everything you preferred which are applicable. You can preview the page after you customize your blog so you could check on how it looks. You can also set your blog to default if you prefer not to apply the changes you've made.