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Advice - Friend Requests
MySpace
has many great features, but what it all comes down to are
your friends. This is important not
only in the sense of simply having the friends, but it is from
your friends that absolutely everything on your MySpace page
comes. Your pictures becomes ten times more interesting once
someone has left a comment on them and your bulletin board
gets filled up with things you actually want to read if your
friends are actual friends. The key to having a good
experience on MySpace is in having and choosing the right friends. This
does not mean that it’s a popularity contest, and that the
more; the better is a fast rule. On the contrary, it’s about
having the right friends, not about having the most friends.
For example, how many users still keep Tom in their friends’
list even though they’ve never even exchanged a single word
with the guy? He’s a name and a face in the friends’ list,
and the more the better, right? Wrong. It’s about having friends
that you want to be kept aware of their life happenings. It’s
about having friends who will post nice comments about you
(or at least comments that are not so nice but that are meant
in good, clean fun). It’s about choosing friends that you have
something to say and that are likely to have something to say
back to you. On the other hand, choosing the friends for your
friends’ list doesn’t have to be limited to the small circle
of people that you were friends with in high school. Beyond
that, there are friends that you knew in college and friends
that you now work with. In addition, there are people who work
in the same field as you do, but in another region with whom
you can network, exchange ideas and strategies. MySpace is
personal, but its limits lie far beyond the personal realm.
You will not be happy with your friends’ list if you simply
add every name that you recognize from your high school. The
result of this kind of friends adding is that you have a large
number of friends, only some of which you are actually interested
in staying friends with. Choose the friends who are actual
friends, or at least the friends that you used to be very close
to and still would be close to today if circumstances were
different. What this means is that you shouldn’t add somebody
if you’re not willing to spend three hours with them on a Friday
night, catching up.
Along with adding old friends, you can search for people with
whom you can network. This can be done through a general search
or through the networking function of the profile. It can also
be done through searching for groups in the field that you
are looking for and then checking out the forums of those groups.
Perhaps there are not forum topics that you want to post in,
but maybe some of the members who have posted in the forum
are people with whom you would like to network or exchange
ideas. The bottom line is that there are many ways to network
with people on MySpace whether your motivation for networking
is to have a virtual version of your closest friends close
by you or if your motivation is to gain professional work contacts.
Either way, think twice before you click ‘Add’ because adding
a friend and then deleting them a few weeks later isn’t such
a nice way to go. A lot is permissible on MySpace, but it is
not ‘anything goes’--fortunately, at least not yet.
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SolveYourProblem.com
: 2008
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