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    I've had an account there since February of last year. My cousin kept telling me how it was such a great website.

    I've been on it maybe ten times since, if that, and don't even remember my password now. But it's easy enough to have it emailed back to you.

    My one friend is still Tom, and I have to admit, I just don't "get it" as far as the popularity. I can understand people who actually know each other out in RL before joining, or those rare souls who are responsible about meeting others via the site(or any social website).

    My cousin has something on the order of 2500-plus friends now. Why? It's not like anyone has time to actually have 2500 friends. The last time I had lunch with his sister and asked her, she just said, "You're two totally different personalities."

    Maybe it's just an indication of how high I would score on the "antisocial" scale.

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    I honestly don't understand why people have thousands of friends. How can you keep track of all of them? Makes no sense. Well, unless you're a celebrity that everyone wants to be a friend of (example: Rikki Rockett of Poison, who is on my list). But for a normal person, having that many friends would irritate me.

    I have 121 friends currently, and honestly I hate going over 100. I clean out my list every-so-often to get back down to 100. I also don't add anyone that I don't know from somewhere (Real life, or forums like SW and a few others). Ok, I do have Cthulhu and Pennywise ("IT") on my list, but those are for fun. Heh.

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    You get out of MySpace what you put into it.

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    Who the fuck is 'Tom' anyway? And why does myspace think he's my friend?

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    LOL dlab!

    Tom's the founder. He's added to everyone by default when they sign up. I've deleted him a bunch of times, then I add him back because some of his bulletins are funny, like the ones that squash all the other bulletins claiming he died, and all that. They crack me up.. Sometimes they'll just say "Hi. I'm not dead."

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    i used to like it more then i do now, but i have most of my real life friends on there, and its easier to just post a bullitin on whats going on for an evening then actually calling everyone.

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    I like it cuz all my friends from high school have all moved in different directions, and it gives me a way to catch up with them without spending hours and hours on the phone.

    My 'fake' myspace however, has shit loads of friends. I use it to post my schedules for the week and such. I figure, the more people that add me and see it, the higher my chance for someone showing up and giving me money
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    I only joined a short while ago, and i love it. Its kind of a home base for me cause i'm always travelling.

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    I joined myspace a while ago. Its a pretty decent and free way to advertise yourself if you want, I currently have about 30 something friends. Big friend lists are stupid. I put my fiancee on it too and sent out friend requests to every hot chick I could find for fun!!
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    I network a lot on MySpace, between models, agents, photographers, clothing companies, Playboy reps, fetish folks, clients... I have over 1200 friends, but yeah... some of them ARE friends. I make time to bop about and check up on folks.
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    I got "sucked in" to Myspace. My friends and family are scattered all over the world, so it's a nice way to keep up with people.

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    i'm not really all about my space, but i do use it to post my poetry and get feedback. so i guess it's useful for that.

    oh, and it's a great way to keep up on bands' touring schedules and find new and obscure music.

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    I don't get it either, but I'm 39 and not a lot of people over 30 use it all that much. I guess if everyone you know is using it, it's more useful. Still, I'd rather just, you know, talk with my friends than use Myspace to communicate with them.

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    For all of you who set your profiles to underaged so they'll be private.. You don't need to do that anymore. MySpace just added that feature for adults as well. I guess they're cracking down on people setting their ages that way, because of pedophiles.

    Just go into your account settings... Then Privacy Settings... Then check the "Friends Only" box. No one else can view your full profile that way.

    I just did it because I don't want anymore people I don't know trying to add me. It does work. I'm not one of those who set my age to 14, but I'm glad they added this option for us adults.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah
    You get out of MySpace what you put into it.
    Exactly when did I put Psychos, Porn, Spam, and Bulletin abuse into myspace?!
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    I've only had my profile up for a couple of days. I haven't changed the look from the default yet either.

    I don't know how useful it's going to be, but I'm all for trying new stuff, so I'll give it a whirl!

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    It gives me a chance to talk to people that either live far away or wouldn't call on a regular basis. And people from here.
    I can't stand how people collect friends. But I just deny requests from those people, so who cares!



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    Quote Originally Posted by NoCoverLover
    I've only had my profile up for a couple of days. I haven't changed the look from the default yet either.

    I don't know how useful it's going to be, but I'm all for trying new stuff, so I'll give it a whirl!
    I actually started a Myspace page on the encouragement of a SW member. Its not the most inviting-friendlly page around, but I guess its a nice little occasional personal outlet, so far anyway. I did screw up a few times and mess a few things up in my intial experimentation though.

    I was able to hook up with a few family members, and keep in touch with them easier then I could before, so In that its pretty cool.

    I think Tom is hitting on me, though.

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    Yea, Im a myspace fan. But I can careless on the popularity of "how many friends" I have. The order of 2500-plus frinds is rather cheesy. When I see any of my people post things up for popularity, I delete them off my page. But myspace is a great way to stay in contact w/ friends or even get to know other people. Its nice to see people connecting in some sort of way again. It gives me the "80s" vibe when people werent so stuck-up w/ their nose in the air all the time. Its nice to see people connect again. Even though one of my highschool friends started stalking me.. I still like myspace. No matter where you go, you'll run into nutcases.. its the matter of the way you handle it. I went to the police about him and everything is safe. But other than that.. MySpace is pretty cool if youre not AntiSocial. I love the human species.. very interesting at times. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by sxybrat07
    I like it cuz all my friends from high school have all moved in different directions, and it gives me a way to catch up with them without spending hours and hours on the phone.

    My 'fake' myspace however, has shit loads of friends. I use it to post my schedules for the week and such. I figure, the more people that add me and see it, the higher my chance for someone showing up and giving me money
    I'm similiar. Now that the privacy option is available I've made my personal profile private (for friends only) as it is the profile where I blog about me and my real life... and I don't hold back (I'm completely honest). I don't want everyone to have access to that sort of information. I've definately got under 100 people on that profile... and will only add people if I feel I can trust them enough. I must know the person IRL or at least have interacted with them acitvely enough via other online mediums to have them be on my friends list. Once I don't trust you, I will boot you and I will NOT add you (I will block you).

    Whereas for my work profile (aka the fake profile as sxybrat puts it), I am adding friends like crazy (whore-ing it out) for the same exact reason as her: promotion of my work self and thus I may eventually be seen ... and might have a good damn chance of getting money via my wishlist, a private party booking or see-ing them within a strip club.... or even have people purchase the exotic angels nude calendar that I am within (for 2007).

    I definately got rid of Tom off my friends list as soon as I learnt you could without dire consequences.



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    Ohhhh myspace...it's so EVIL. I love it!

    Some people say that it's a bad thing because it causes problems in relationships, but I found out some very useful things about my ex through a little research. It can tell you a lot about a person, actually. I never would have known he wasn't really ready for a committed relationship and was hitting on other women if I hadn't kept my eyes open.

    I have about 1300 "friends" at this point. I don't consider most of them friends at all, but the more people are viewing my profile, there is a greater chance one of them will be a good business connection. Some of them seem interesting to me so I will put in a request. I'm sure the same is true on the other end.
    I don't add people without some information about themselves or a picture of what they look like. Not that it really matters, since a lot of it is just for fun and advertisement anyway.

    Just look at Jeffree Star. Before there was myspace, he was nobody. Now he has a ton of fans and makes more money because he promoted himself on that site. I don't necessarily want or hope to be what Jeffree Star is, but I know that you get more hits to your page when you have more "friends".

    For those who use the site as a way to keep in touch with people, this is not an issue or concern. But if you want to promote yourself or your art or your band or whatever, this is a good venue to do so.

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    It has become a lot easier for me to make plans with my RL friend by myspace than the phone actually. That and I want to keep track of my friends from HS.

    Thanks for the tip on making your profile private; I just did that to mine right now.

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    After reading the replies to my initial question, I'm now in the midst of remodeling my MySpace page. When I had my password emailed and logged in yesterday, the system indicated I'd last logged-in on June 25, 2005 - so I hadn't logged-in for exactly a year.

    Just added a picture, which I've never bothered with before (but hey, it's not like my face is visible in the picture ). I'll have to see how it goes from there, but for the moment -- the page id is only going to be provided to a very few people whom I trust.

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    I like Myspace. I am not a computer expert nor do I know how to create webpages so I have fun changing my page around by plugging in codes for backgrounds, music, videos and images.

    Right now I have a cute Panda background. To that I added some falling panda bear pixels, a pic slide show thingy plus a funny cartoon I got from YouTube and a song from India Arie. I am going to change it at the end of the month to something for 4th of July. In addition I keep a blog there which is sometimes a diary that I keep private, Other times a traditional blog and updated personal photos as a one stop spot for my friends and family to stay updated on what is new with my husband and me.

    I don't accept add on requests from people I don't know and only add or accept people I am already close with to my friends list. I also enjoy checking out my friends pages to see what they have done new to their profiles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhaedrusZ
    After reading the replies to my initial question, I'm now in the midst of remodeling my MySpace page. When I had my password emailed and logged in yesterday, the system indicated I'd last logged-in on June 25, 2005 - so I hadn't logged-in for exactly a year.

    Just added a picture, which I've never bothered with before (but hey, it's not like my face is visible in the picture ). I'll have to see how it goes from there, but for the moment -- the page id is only going to be provided to a very few people whom I trust.
    Unless you've used the new "set your profile to private" featuer as provided by MySpace now then you will still receive random "add me as a friend" requests from those trawling the internet whore-ing their profile out... so just a heads up that if you want to have privacy with your profile.. set it to private. It will stop the random requests and those who you can trust enough with the ID will have to know your last name or email address before you add them (which you can tell them so you can add them).


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