Category Archives: Tips
- June 26, 2008
- Social Networks are not only beneficial, they’re addictive
CBS news reports that more and more students find they may be addicted to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. With a member’s social network literally worldwide, it isn’t uncommon for users to be up all night either connecting with online friends, but also creating content for their own online presence. The [...]
- June 26, 2008
- Ways parents can protect kids in MySpace
While MySpace can have a seriously empowering impact on our kids, there’s also a seedy side of the social networking site that should prompt parents to pay close attention to their children’s presence online. MySpace and Facebook are rather like the wild west of the Internet. And can easily be a mirror image [...]
- June 16, 2008
- How Private are Private MySpace Profiles?
By clicking “Account Settings,” selecting the “Privacy” tab and selecting Profile Viewable By: “My Friends Only,” you can easily make your MySpace profile exclusive to friends only. This proves qiute effective in stopping the casual MySpace user from viewing your profile.
But ever since the advent of this feature, hackers have been finding workarounds and loopholes [...]
- June 13, 2008
- “Code Blue”: Coors Light and Other Advertisers Aggressively Marketing Towards Social Media
Logging on to MySpace and finding a friend request from McDonalds or Coors Light has many MySpacers feeling ambivalent about the growing presence of advertisers on MySpace. On the one hand, product enthusiasts finally have an outlet for their endorsements (see: Coors Light themed MySpace layouts) but on the other hand, most of us signed [...]
- June 11, 2008
- 5 Surefire Ways to Jeopardize Your Career on MySpace
Career-savvy counselors advise against posting anything ribald or questionable on your MySpace profile for one good reason: anyone can stumble across it. The next person to load your profile and see that drunken party picture or risque bathroom mirror pic could be your grandma, a student, a teacher or even a potential employer. While it [...]
- June 9, 2008
- Decision ‘08: Show Your Support on Your MySpace layouts
With the upcoming presidential election, the media is abuzz about the candidates. In spite of this, voter turnout in the United States has historically hovered at just above half. As an individual, it may seem as if there is a little you can do to extend your influence beyond your single vote. Luckily, MySpace provides [...]
- June 8, 2008
- How To: Download MP3s and Videos from MySpace
MySpace is an excellent platform for sharing songs from unsigned and independent bands and user-created videos. But occasionally, you’ll want to listen to a song or watch your favorite MySpace video without being connected to the Internet. Unless the artist has enabled downloadable MP3s, this can be somewhat of a challenge. Luckily, there [...]
- June 7, 2008
- How to Avoid Lawsuits from MySpace– also posted in News
As MySpace gains national notoriety and media recognition, the social network has become less and less a lighthearted “anything goes” playground and more a liability demanding careful discretion. Don’t believe you can get sued for your MySpace activity? Recent national news begs to differ:
Teen hackers were arrested in New York for attempting to steal personal [...]
