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Music is an important part of the whole MySpace experience. And, MySpace ever-so-kindly designed their site so that you can add a song to your profile. There are quite a few songs to choose from; a visit to the Music section of MySpace makes that painfully obvious.

I say “painfully” because if you visit a lot of profiles on MySpace, your ears just might go on strike because of the cacophony of voices and musical instruments they will be subjected to.

You probably are already well aware of what I am speaking of here. The music on some people’s pages can make a sane person go nuts! People usually place a song which has some sort of meaning for them on their profile, or one which they have chosen to be the “theme song” of their life.

But it’s terribly annoying… and rude, according to some… to be subjected to that music in order to check out someone’s profile. It also seems to make the page load slower than it should, as it seems the song has to start up before the profile page will fully load.

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace, MySpace Layouts, MySpace Music, MySpace Profiles, MySpaceRecommends.com

There are a lot of reasons for wanting to have your MySpace profile set to private. Some are more important than others, but all of them are valid reasons. The number one reason most people consider setting their profile to Private is because of just that – it will be private!

When you think about how many millions of people are members of MySpace, and have the potential to look at your profile, it can make you stop and think, because there is a lot of personal information included on the normal MySpace profile! You will always have a few naysayers that will refuse to make their profile private. Either they are proud of their profile and how it looks, or they are prideful and want the world to see their photos, maybe a poem or two they have written, and how many people are on their Friends list. You get the idea! They never stop to think that a cyber stalker could take that information and really do some major damage with it.

Just think – not just your name, maybe even your full name, plus the names of any of your family members would be right up there for the entire MySpace world to look at if you don’t have your profile set to private. All your photos are exposed for anyone who accesses your profile to see. And how about those rants and raves you may have left in your MySpace blog? It could be kind of embarrassing if say, your boss just happened to be surfing the Web and came across your profile on MySpace.

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace, MySpace Layouts, MySpace profile, MySpace themes, MySpaceRecommends.com, Private MySpace profile

So, you have been working on your MySpace profile page, and you think you have it just about the way you want it – except for one thing. All that personal information that you included so that your profile would sort of match the profiles of your friends as far as content is making you a little bit nervous. You aren’t sure that you really want to reveal so many things about yourself.

There are rumours floating around your circle of friends that someone’s cousin’s sister’s boyfriend’s little sister was contacted by someone she didn’t know via the telephone. This person claimed that he had found her telephone number because of the information on her MySpace profile. You aren’t sure whether to believe this particular story or not, although you do know that things like this really have happened.

You are in a quandary now – what to do? One friend suggested you just make your profile private like hers is, so that only those people who you have chosen to be on your Friends List can see the profile. But, you aren’t too sure about that. How will you ever make new friends on MySpace if they have to be on your Friends list in order to view your profile? Your friend admitted she had never thought of that, and the two of you discussed how you wished there was a way to hide the section of your profile that has your details listed – or any other profile section, for that matter!

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written by Jess \\ tags: Hide MySpace Details, MySpace, MySpace Layouts, MySpace profile, MySpace themes, MySpaceRecommends.com

Have you heard about bulletin spam? You may not call it that, though. There’s a really good chance that you just call it a bother. Another name for this annoyance is phishing. But, enough with all the different monikers! Let’s find out what we are dealing with here!

It all starts out innocently enough. You log on to your MySpace account, and notice that you have some new bulletins. The subject line will be similar to this -

q6r9986  This Is Great! Take A Look!

Curious, you open the bulletin and begin to read. Hmm. It’s asking you to click on a link, and says that when you do, you will get a nice free gift. Knowing better, but unable to resist the lure of something for nothing, you click on the link, and then stare at the screen, puzzled. “Why, that must have been the wrong link in that bulletin,” you think to yourself. “It has taken me back to the MySpace log-in page! Something must have logged me out of MySpace!” You hasten to log in again with your user name and your password. That’s where you innocently went wrong.

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace, MySpace Bulletins, MySpace Comments, MySpace Layouts, MySpace Profiles, MySpaceRecommends.com

Everyone has the same problem on MySpace at one time or another. You’re on the site checking out other people’s profiles, and you wonder if maybe something is wrong with your computer because it’s going so slowly. You glance over at your cable modem lights – yep, they’re on. You quickly open another tab and check to see if another page will load. Yes – Google’s home page loads up just fine. So, you figure it must be MySpace.

You’re right. MySpace users are all too well aware of the lag time they experience sometimes when attempting to navigate through the web site. Even on a fast computer with a cable modem, sometimes it seems as if you will be waiting forever for someone’s profile page to load. MySpace has issues at time, for sure! Also, the web site will occasionally experience downtimes when maintenance and other fixes are taking place.

To be fair, MySpace is not always the problem. Some people do so much customization to their profile page that it can cause their servers to balk at the load. This can cause a wait of several minutes for you before the page comes up. This can slow your computer down as well! So, what can you do about this? Is there any way to make these MySpace pages come up faster?

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace profile, photos, widgets

Almost everyone who has a MySpace profile has at least one widget in place to customize their profile – probably more than one. Widgets are practically indispensible when it comes to tricking out your page. There’s a widget for every taste and every personality out there. Why are MySpace widgets so wonderful, you may ask?

Widgets do it all! They add color and glitter, movement and sound to make an ordinary web page come alive. They can customize and enhance your profile in ways you probably have only imagined. No other MySpace hack is as versatile as a widget created for use on a MySpace profile. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising to discover that some enterprising soul had developed a widget that would allow you to watch cable television while updating your Friends list or changing your Headline! If you make the rounds of all your peep’s profiles, all those cool little gadgets you see are widgets. There are widgets that will –

• Display your photos for you in slideshow format – as many photos as you want in several display sizes which you can specify. Two great widgets that will do this for you are Slide and Rock You. Both are totally online. There’s no need to download anything, just upload your photos and add captions, graphics and even music! If you’re a little timid about changing anything on your profile for fear of messing it up, no need to worry – these two widgets will even upload the finished slideshow to your MySpace page for you!

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace profile, MySpace widgets

Almost everyone has music on their MySpace page. Either they use the music player that is provided by the site, or they add a widget such as the one from Project Playlist.com. Many people have found that there are a couple of problems with using either of these. One is that the MySpace player limits you to one song, and you run the risk of having it deleted by the artist, leaving you with no music at all on your page until you discover what happened. The other is that the widget player sometimes won’t play one or more of the songs you have chosen, stalls, or songs get deleted from the server, leaving you with a silent space in the midst of your playlist.

You really like the music you put on your profile page – it wouldn’t be there if you didn’t! But some of your friend’s choices can kind of get on your nerves, especially if you go to their page often. The same song plays each time, and you are guilty of turning your speakers down! Have you ever thought that maybe your own music choices could have the same effect on someone? Like it or not, no one wants to hear the same song over and over again.

What can you do about this? Is there a solution that will please everyone? Yes, there is – and it’s called Streaming Radio. By adding streaming radio to your profile instead of using a music player, visitors to your page will get the same variety of music that a radio station provides. In essence, you are actually adding a radio station to your MySpace, and here’s how you do it.

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace editor, MySpace profile

It’s kind of a hassle, isn’t it? You’re sitting at your computer typing away, when all of a sudden you hear your cell phone chirping at you. You recognize the tone – it means you have a new text message. You sigh as you reach for the phone. It isn’t that you don’t want to text your friend back. It’s just that you were right in the middle of checking out a few profiles on MySpace. “Wouldn’t it be nice”, you think as your fingers fly across the cell phone keys “If I could text people right here on MySpace? Then I could do everything right here in one place!”

Guess what? Now you can text your friends right from your MySpace profile page! No more texting with one eye on the computer screen to see what’s happening online. You can text back and forth with anyone who has a cell phone once you add this nifty little to your page. The texting is anonymous, meaning that your cell phone number does not show up, so you don’t have to worry about someone on the internet getting hold of it.

Don’t think you can use this widget to prank people with though. Sure, you could, but be aware that your IP address is logged by the service every time you send a text message. If your text prank gets a little nasty, someone might try to turn you in! Don’t take that chance.

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace profile

You’ve probably noticed more and more people are using animated avatars all over the web. They have become especially popular on MySpace, and it’s a lot of fun to browse through the different profiles and see the creative avatars that people have come up with. After seeing several avatars that intrigued you, you have probably decided that you’d like an animated avatar on your own profile.

There are several ways that you can create an animated avatar to place on your MySpace profile. One way is to use a couple of freeware applications which are called Gimp and Movie Snapshot. Movie Snapshot takes a thumbnail sized clip out of any video you may have on your hard drive, and Gimp is used to manipulate the video clip in order to create your avatar. Of course, there’s more to the creation of an avatar with these programs than meets the eye. If you don’t want to spend a whole lot of time fiddling around with a Photoshop clone, trying to get your image exactly the way you want it, then you need a faster and easier solution to get your avatar up and running. There is a much easier way, and it’s called Meez.

Meez is a website which you can use to make an avatar of yourself. This avatar is a rendered, three dimensional figure that is amazingly lifelike and almost infinitely customizable. You will be amazed at what you can do with Meez! And, the avatar you make can be used anywhere on the internet. Some people try to get their Meez avatar to look as much like themselves as possible, while others go for a totally opposite effect. With a huge selection of items such as hair styles and colors, facial expressions, clothing and accessories, and backgrounds to choose from, you can change your look as often as you want.

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written by Jess \\ tags: avatars, MySpace profile

Most MySpace devotees spend a lot of time browsing through the site checking out the profiles of others. This is a great way to find new friends, and also a great way to run across some absolutely killer themes! You’ll see themes that you never dreamed existed! Where did these people find these great themes, and how can you get one of them for yourself?

Themes are definitely the thing that gets you noticed on MySpace. The default theme that you get when you first join MySpace is definitely nothing special. No one is going to give your page much attention with that theme. The more people that notice your profile, the more friend requests you will get. This theory has been tested and proven time and time again. When people see a great theme that they really like, they not only will more than likely send you a Friend Request, they will also probably tell their friends to check it out. Those friends tell some of their friends, who tell some of theirs, and on and on it goes – sort of a domino effect!

Now, let’s get something straight. A killer theme is not necessarily one with all the bright colors, glitter graphics, tons of videos and a dozen widgets. Yes, a theme like that will attract attention, all right – the wrong kind of attention. Think about it this way. When you have lots and lots of different things on your profile, it can take it quite a while to load up. What if the person on the other end has dial up? Not everyone is fortunate enough to have high speed internet. And even if they do, a page full of several different types of streaming content is going to take a little time to load for someone with a fast computer AND a fast connection.

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written by Jess \\ tags: MySpace profile, MySpace themes