Did you know that lots of people will post about their pets on MySpace? It’s a great way to network with fellow pet owners. For example, look at:

Parakeets chirping to Greek Music

Parakeets taking a bath

As a matter of fact, there’s lots of animal goodies posted around MySpace! Check out all of this neat vids at

Animal Vids!.

Did you know that folks are getting most entrepreneurial with MySpace on eBay?  Just check out some of the things people are auctioning off!

There are several ways you can find your kids’ MySpace profile if they have hidden online online.  Here are some techniques for your consideration.

Step 1.)   Get your own MySpace account…and set your area code to be where the school is located.

Step 2.)   Next, click on Search.

Step 3.)   Type in the name of the school your child attends and peruse the results.  Remember, if kids want to hide their MySpace.com participation, they’ll use fake names or avatars.  There’s a good chance you’ll find who you are seeking.

Another way to find your child’s MySpace.com account is:

Step 1.)  Search for your kids’ friends’ names.

Step 2.)  Once found, look who their friends are.  Your kid might have put a false profile there.

I firmly believe in monitoring one’s children online.   Your kid might not do MySpace at home, but that doesn’t mean she or he won’t log in when at the public library!  Always be proactive.

Cute and to the point - did you know that the css style for your friends network is defined by:

.redbtext

Thus, you add:

.redbtext:after {
content: " billion";
}

to your Myspace profile and instead of showing 93 friends, say, it will show, 93 billion.

Neat, eh? I found that goodie over at Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace. You can see another usage of it at the Rich Hermit’s profile too.

Keeping track of your children on MySpace…it’s truly a hero’s journey!

As your children get older, it’s only natural they’ll start gravitating over to MySpace to network with their friends.  You can’t protect them from it!  If you don’t allow Myspace at your home, they’ll simply log on via public libraries.

MySpace is a fact of life for kids….it’s your job as a parent to ensure it’s as safe as possible.  Thus, here are some useful resources for you regarding teaching your child smart Cyberspace surfing.

Internet Safety: Internet 101 - Blog and Diary Web sites - this site gives a great description of MySpace, its dangers to unwary kids, and how to protect against them.

Parenting in ‘MySpace’ Era Challenging - As social networking Internet sites like MySpace.com continue to grow in popularity, parents need to take steps to ensure their children’s safety, experts said Thursday at a media briefing sponsored by the National Parent and Teachers Association (PTA).

MySpace.com Safety Tips for parents - For teens, MySpace is a popular online hangout because the site makes it easy for them to express themselves and keep in touch with their friends.   As a parent, please consider the following guidelines to help your children make safe decisions about using online communities.

It’s astonishingly easy for anyone to masquarade as anyone on MySpace.com - thousands of people have thriving fantasy lives in which reality hardly ever visits.  Children need to realize that surfing on the Internet is a priviledge, much like driving…and they need to get educated on the best way to navigate this territory.  Your kids will thank you for it.

If you’ve ever had a chance to meander by a MySpace profile or perhaps 45 zillion of them, you’ll notice they all (for the most part) have this lovely button or graphics that lets you add them as a friend to your network.

Now…why would you want to do this?

Well, several reasons actually.  If you’re part of a clique in school, you can network together and send each other cool messages about the music you’ve heard, the 764 page essay you need to write, the 43 college applications you have to fill out etc.

If instead you absolutely adore American Idol, you can add people whose profile indicates their day just isn’t successful unless they’ve had the latest in AI updates.

If you’re try to build a business online, you can search for other MySpacers who have hobbies or passions in the same niche and ask to be included in their network too!  Then once you have a product or service developed, you can post a bulletin to alert your friends.

MySpace Friends can truly be a powerful resource.

Of course, there are difficulties and dangers for which you must be aware.  Lots of people will post false information for one.  Never ever give out your true identity or personal information!  You never know who is reading your profile.

This Tips category will give you lots of ideas on how to get the kids of friends you deserve.

One of the best things about the Internet is the ability to share and network with folks who have the same interests and passions!

Add career networking to that, and you can concoct one rather massive career-power for your own personal growth as well.

It makes sense, after all.  With 90+million people on MySpace, it’s pretty obvious that virtually every career must be represented somehow.   But merely existing doesn’t quite help you by itself…to really benefit your career growth from the powers of MySpace, you need to have a tailored game plan in place.

What good does it do if you find a supervisor who is dying to hire you…only to realize that you’d have to move 3,000 miles in a northeasternly direction?  Or what if you discover that perfect career within 20 miles of your home, but 24×7 coverage is one key requirement (and you have a 2 year old child at home you couldn’t leave)?

This Tips section of GainFriends.com will help you turn your MySpace profile into a powerhouse attracting magnet….getting yourself known to fellow colleagues and offered opportunities from the hidden job market.  Stay tuned!

Enjoy.

If you want to really make your MySpace.com profile outshine the rest of the worlds’, you should consider adding these valuable resources to your overall plan.

1.) Host your own images via free webspace.

People add their own personality and images to their MySpace.com profile by including images from other sites like Photobucket, ImageShack and the like. The challenge you run into here is if your account exceeds its bandwidth, your images might become unaccessible. Therefore, I like to use my own webspace for my images.

Free webspace can be found:

Free Web Space

Yahoo Geocities

That will help you for hosting images.

But what if you want to run a free ezine, build a fan-based list or grow a business list?

You can also consider:

2.) Add an optin autoresponder.

An autoresponder is what all the huge and teeny businesses alike use to stay in touch with their customers. If you have your own domain, your ISP probably already offers a free autoresponder or two. But if you want to market or run a business, you really should have the power of followup autoresponders (that allows you to send a series of messages to people who have requested them).

You can see my optin autoresponder on the right - it allows people to sign up for my free ezine.

You can use free autoresponders from companies…but your messages will then have their advertisements on them. I firmly believe in spending the $20/month or so to ensure my autoresponders focus on one thing only…my own business.

Popular autoresponders include:

aWeber

GetResponse

ProAutoresponder

3.) Add cool scripts

Many sites will offer you scripts you can include in your profiles that allow for cool actions. but you MUST be aware that some scripts will try to embed spyware or other ickies into your profile - ask around and investigate first before adding anything you don’t understand yourself!

That being said, here are some great MySpace script and code sites:

MySpaceScripts

CreateBlog.com / Scripts / Myspace scripts

MySpace Codes

Ever see those nifty neat glitter text animations on MySpace.com profiles like

Ever wonder how they’re done?

Generally it’s quite simple.  You can type a few words into a text field and click Go….you’ll then receive the code you can include in your MySpace page to showcase the glitter text.  In this case, the images will be hosted on the generator site.

Places like

Glitter Graphics

Nacx Vision

will let you specify individual and unique letters, while others will simply present you with the whole graphic once you’ve finished typing out the word.

If you have a knack for Photoshop or PaintShopPro, you can follow tutorials like

Fifth house

Easy Glitter

Once you have glittered text, you can edit your profile and add it to whatever category you’d like (ie, your about me spot, who I’d like to meet, and more)

The best way to use this site is to ask yourself, what do you want to get most out of MySpace?  Begun in August of 2006, this site is ever growing and expanding to meet your particular MySpace.com needs.
Do you want to make your space and profile look so awesome that American Idol would want it for a backdrop? If so, check out the MySpace Profile category.

Do you want to learn how to network to find a better job via MySpace? If so, go to the Career Power and MySpace category.

Want to make more and more and more friends via MySpace? The MySpace Friends category will get you on the right path.

Have kids and you want to make sure MySpace is safe for them? Turn left and check out the Parenting and MySpace category.

What about getting your band signed up with tons of gigs? Band Promotion and MySpace is your goal.

And if you want to make money with MySpace, visit Make Money and Myspace right now. You’ll love what I’ve found for you.