MySpace Profiling from Start to Finish

MySpace has become the virtual place to be-a place where people hang out, meet new friends, share videos and photos with family and friends, and interact with business colleagues. The connections you form with old and new friends, colleagues and potential colleagues, and your family members start with your personal profile. This article will take a look at MySpace profiling from start to finish.

Before we begin discussing how to set up a MySpace personal profile, let’s look into the MySpace phenomenon. Founded in Santa Monica, California, and currently owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, also owner of Fox Network, MySpace is a free service that requires only access to the Internet. It makes its money via advertising seen throughout the website’s many pages. It has become the place to be for many chic twenty-somethings as well as musicians, comedians, and filmmakers looking for a new way to share their work. Once you get involved, you’ll find many, many opportunities to become connected to many, many different types of people. And, you personal profile is the place you’ll start. Don’t worry about doing too much to start-you’ll get plenty of ideas for your profile by visiting others’ profiles.

Your MySpace profile consists of a number of different sections. Your profile will start with two standard “blurbs.” One is titled “About Me” and the other is called “Who I’d Like to Meet.” There is also a section for you to write about or list your interests as well as specific details about you. You need not fill in all of these sections; any fields that you do not fill in will not be displayed. Your profile will also contain a “blog.” In your blog, you will find default fields for content, emotion, and media. Here, you can also upload photographs. You will choose one of your photos to be your default image, which will appear on your profile’s main page, the site’s search page, and next to your name on comments you make and messages you send. You can also upload video to your profile.

Once you’ve set up your personal profile, your next step is to spend some time on your Friend Space. Your Friend Space contains a count of your friends, a special “Top Friends” section, and a link to view all of your friends. You can choose to display a certain number of friends on your own profile, in the Top Friends area. You can choose to display 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 or 24 friends in your Top Friends area.

Below your Friend Space, you will find a Comments section. Here, your friends can leave comments for all MySpace viewers to read. You have the ability to delete any comments posted to your Comments section, or you may opt to approve all comments before they are posted to your profile.

You can also personalize your personal profile if you know how to use HTML/XTML or CSS. Just about anything on the profile page can be modified. You can also add embedded music to your profile using MySpace Music, a service that many bands use to post their songs onto their profiles. Video and other flash-based media can also be added. If you don’t know how to write code in HTML/XTML or CSS, a number of websites are available to do it for you.

Your MySpace profiling from start to finish can take as much or as little time as you are prepared to put in. A simple profile can be set up easily in minutes. You can then add to your profile as you become more comfortable with the service.