Viewing Friends

You can see you friends two ways from your Dashboard


Or from your Public view.

Editing Your Name

You can edit both your real name and your display name on Myspace.

Using your real first and last name allows friends and associates to locate your myspace account and add you as a friend.

Your display name is just a nickname. You can pick anything you like to display people will still be able to find you using your real first and last names.

If you are concerned about privacy,

• First and Last does not show up anywhere that the public can see it.
• You can put false information in the First and Last name sections.

To edit your name
1. Click "edit profile" from your dashboard.




2. Click on the "name" tab at the top.

3. Enter your information and save changes

Privacy Settings

Myspace offers several different privacy settings to control the level of information you share on your account.

To get to the Privacy Settings from your Dashboard click on "account settings"


From this page click on "privacy settings"

From here you can change a number of settings

1. Who can view my profile
1. Friends only
2. Public - everyone
3. only users over 18
   
2. Privacy settings
1. Friends requests - require users sending you a friend request to know your last name or email address
2. Comments - approve all before they who in public view
3. Hide online now - do not allow other users to know when you're online
4. Show Birthday to friends
5. Photos - no forwarding - do not allow users to forward your photos
6. Blog comments - friends only - only users who are your friends are allowed to comment on blog posts
1. Blog posts also have a setting that allow only friends to be able to read them
7. Friend requests - no bands
8. Block users under 18 from contacting me
   
3. Group invite privacy settings
4. Event invite privacy settings
   

Adding pictures of You

You can upload pictures to Myspace.

• Photos may not contain nudity, violent or offensive material, or copyrighted images. If you violate these terms your account will be deleted.
• Photos must be less than 5MB and in either GIF or JPG format.
• Everyone can see your default photo

From your Dashboard click on "add/edit photos"

From here you can upload photos and create albums

• Your default photo shows up as your avatar and everyone can see it even if your account is set to private. It will show up on your friends page and in an abbreviated version of your pages.
  
• To view other users photo click on the link below their picture.
  

Add a Background

Myspace allows users to add html coding to the profile to change the background on their page.

To change your background
Locate code

• use a search engine to search for free myspace layout, template or background
• On another users page click on the link for their layout, most will say "click here to get a free myspace layout" or "I got this layout from ... get your own here"
• Select the look you like
• copy the html
  

• From your dashboard click "edit profile"
  

Paste the code in one of your profile boxes and click "save all changes"

Tagging - Definition

Definition

A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.

Tags are usually chosen informally and personally by the author/creator or the consumer of the item — i.e. not usually as part of some formally defined classification scheme. Tags are typically used in dynamic, flexible, automatically generated internet taxonomies for online resources such as computer files, web pages, digital images, and internet bookmarks (both in social bookmarking services, and in the current generation of web browsers - see Flock). For this reason, "tagging" has become associated with the Web 2.0 buzz.

Typically, an item will have one or more tags associated with it.

Tagging Example

A web page hosted on a web server or blog server which supports tagging, might have the tags Baseball, Red Sox, Tickets, Away Games, and Discounts. A human reader can probably tell the purpose of the page by quickly scanning the list of tags. Typically, the server would display the tags in a list on that page, with each tag displayed as a web link leading to an index page listing all web pages which use that tag. This allows a reader to locate quickly all pages which have been associated with the term Red Sox. If the server supports tag searching, a reader would be able to find all pages that use a particular set of tags, such as Red Sox and Tickets.

If the page's author wishes to reclassify the page, all that is required is for them to change the list of tags. In this case, the author could add the tags Blue Jays, and Paypal to their page. All connections between pages are automatically tracked and updated by the server software. There is no need to relocate the page within a complex hierarchy of categories.

Tagging - Who

You!
Tagging is an uncontrolled vocabulary that you choose to describe "stuff". This makes it a bottom-up vocabulary, instead of a top-down vocabulary like the Library Of Congress' subject headings.
Pros
You can decide what terms to use to describe things - terms that make sense to you.

Cons

Other people may use different terms, or misspelled terms, to describe the same "stuff".