Private Profiles

Myspace users have the choice to make their profile private from prying eyes. You no longer have to be a certain age to have that private profile.

A lot of the profiles I see that are private, should be private. What's happening though, is that these profiles are violating the TOS agreement with trackers, material not suited for non-adults and invariably, they will end up deleted.

Private profile or public profile, you know you've spent a lot of time getting your page just right. It looks wonderful and you get all kinds of comments from your friends praising you for the new look.

Then, suddenly, your myspace profile has been deleted. Or, someone gained access to it and changed your complete profile.

All of your code is gone. Now what?

If you had backed up all the code from each of your sections, it would be no problem. Simply start fresh and copy all the code into each section area and in no time, you are up and running again.

But what about your friends? Taking time one day to copy over the friendid's of your friends will make this task a much easier one. Unless of course you are one of the many profiles that have over a thousand friends......well then, you have your work cut out for you.

Passwords

It seems that here lately, Myspace is back to having more and more security problems. Countless times I have gone to log in and I end up at a fake log in page. Or, at least it looks fake to me. There is a music background instead of the normal one I am used to seeing.

What I do, instead of logging in through this page, is type the first letter of my login username and hit 'Enter'. It then takes me to a login page that I feel comfortable logging into. I also look at the url to be sure it says ' login.myspace'.

Next, when I go to type in my username and password, I make sure that the background is white and not a funny beige color. Looks safe to me, so I log in and I'm good.

Here is the important part. I go to my Account Settings and I change my password, just to be safe. I've probably changed my password 10 times in the last month.

Myspace

With all the enthusiasm over Myspace, new and old users alike find themselves needing help with how to use Myspace. Their profiles get old after awhile and they'd like to change their myspace, but they aren't sure how to do it. There is a myspace forum at GrownUpGeek.com that can help. If you need help from some experienced myspacers, take a look, someone will be sure to answer any question you may have. LynnH