Who Can Help Me Customize My New MySpace Page?

[hypatia]

Moonbear Smith? Naa no one will ever know.

 

[marlon]

FaceBook

Guys,

I just signed up to Facebook and i joined the Physics Forums Group. I would say : let the "poking" begin :)

If anybody want to know my profile just let me know !

ciao

marlon

 

[Cyrus]

Added marlon.

 

[Pyrrhus]

Cool! PF hits Facebook then, hehe

 

[Moonbear]

Okay, I created a Moon Bear account on Facebook, and FINALLY found the PF group on there, but now what? I don't know who's who on there either other than the few people I already know. Blech, I don't think I like that site at all. What are you supposed to do with it?

 

[Kurdt]

What are you supposed to do with it?

I think its mainly used for poking people.

 

[Moonbear]

Is there a way to block pokes? I mean, what's the point of setting all the privacy settings if someone can still see everything in your profile by poking you?

 

[Kurdt]

Is there a way to block pokes? I mean, what's the point of setting all the privacy settings if someone can still see everything in your profile by poking you?

Don't know. Never really used facebook.

 

[Ms Music]

I've just started a MySpace account, and I was wondering if you technically savvy people wanted to help me. Here's the URL:

I made a tiling background for mine, see if you like it. You can't have my pic, but you could put a cool physics related photo (or anything else). Let me know if you are interested.

http://http://www.myspace.com/cindertomatopaste"

 

[binzing]

Make sure you don't get just any layouts and change your password every once in a while. Some arsehole hacked my account and put a keylogger on it. It's sent out at least on meassage advertising ringtones. Off to change my pass (fixes the problem)

 

[cristo]

Is there a way to block pokes? I mean, what's the point of setting all the privacy settings if someone can still see everything in your profile by poking you?

I don't think you can block pokes, but you can limit the amount of your profile someone can see when they poke you. Click on "privacy" in the top right, then click on the "edit settings" button next to "poke, message and friend request."

 

[quantumdude]

Alright you Facebookers, go on and git! This is about my MySpace page!

OK, what I want to do now is:

1.) Get some music on there. I want a player with a songlist.

2.) Set up some wallpaper.

Little help?

 

[Moonbear]

Alright you Facebookers, go on and git! This is about my MySpace page!

OK, what I want to do now is:

1.) Get some music on there. I want a player with a songlist.

I don't know how to help with this, because I don't know how to do that either. I've only seen a single song playing. I'd love to have it automatically shuffle through a selection of songs.

2.) Set up some wallpaper.

Little help?

I know I changed mine, so it can't be too hard, but I don't remember what I did. Nothing seems very easy to navigate, and when I stumble across a way to do something, I can't always find it a second time. I think it was something on the homepage that let you change the background (I don't have actual wallpaper so much as I've changed all the color schemes...I think wallpaper itself you need to add code to do, and the best way to get that is to google for Myspace wallpaper or themes or something like that, and choose something someone else made already if you don't know how to write the code yourself).

 

[Moonbear]

I don't think you can block pokes, but you can limit the amount of your profile someone can see when they poke you. Click on "privacy" in the top right, then click on the "edit settings" button next to "poke, message and friend request."

Oh, I played with that already, but you can't limit enough for my taste. I think I'll stick with Myspace. I don't like the way Facebook works. I don't have enough control over what is visible and who sees it. For example, EVERYTHING is visible to friends. On Myspace, I can write blog entries that aren't visible to anyone but me if I want to (I don't really want to, but it's just an example).

 

[ranger]

Oh, I played with that already, but you can't limit enough for my taste. I think I'll stick with Myspace. I don't like the way Facebook works. I don't have enough control over what is visible and who sees it. For example, EVERYTHING is visible to friends. On Myspace, I can write blog entries that aren't visible to anyone but me if I want to (I don't really want to, but it's just an example).

Actually Moonbear, you can make a limited profile in your facebook privacy settings and select who would see your limited profile. The limited profile is a special profile where you select what is visible.

 

[Moonbear]

Actually Moonbear, you can make a limited profile in your facebook privacy settings and select who would see your limited profile. The limited profile is a special profile where you select what is visible.

I looked at that, and not everything is changeable. I still don't like the way they display names. So, now I have a Moon Bear account there, which means the PFers will know who I am (I looked through the PF Group there, and what good does it do? Everyone has their real names here, and I have no clue which of those match the nicknames I know here.), but then the people who know me in real life won't have a clue who this Moon Bear person is contacting them. I'd prefer to be able to just use my first name only for display purposes, but there's no option at all for that. So, create two accounts for two different groups of contacts? On MySpace, those who don't know my real name know my cat's name, and I used her name as my URL, so whether I know someone in real life or online, they all know who I am when I request adding them as a friend. So, yeah, I'm not thrilled with Facebook and think I'll just forget it.

 

[Kurdt]

I think you have to be registered as a band to have more than one song. But to add a song you go to your bands web page and click on the add link next to the song.

 

[ranger]

I looked at that, and not everything is changeable. I still don't like the way they display names. So, now I have a Moon Bear account there, which means the PFers will know who I am (I looked through the PF Group there, and what good does it do? Everyone has their real names here, and I have no clue which of those match the nicknames I know here.), but then the people who know me in real life won't have a clue who this Moon Bear person is contacting them. I'd prefer to be able to just use my first name only for display purposes, but there's no option at all for that. So, create two accounts for two different groups of contacts? On MySpace, those who don't know my real name know my cat's name, and I used her name as my URL, so whether I know someone in real life or online, they all know who I am when I request adding them as a friend. So, yeah, I'm not thrilled with Facebook and think I'll just forget it.

Yea it is hard to match names on the facebook PF user group. But when I add someone, I usually send them a PM to let them know who I am. This is of course assuming that I know who I'm trying to add in the first place.

I'm not sure I understand your dilemma about the name thing. Facebook does allow the option to change your name, but this changes both your profile and display name. Hey, you don't even have to use your real name.

 

[Moonbear]

Y
I'm not sure I understand your dilemma about the name thing. Facebook does allow the option to change your name, but this changes both your profile and display name. Hey, you don't even have to use your real name.

You can't just leave out a last name. I had tried it that way, just using my first name only, and it was rejected, telling me I had to use a full name. That's when I resorted to Moon Bear on a different account. So, if I use Moon Bear and sign up for local networks, nobody there has a clue who this strange person is named Moon. But, if I use my real name, then any wack job on one of those networks who likes something in my profile need do nothing more than pick up the whitepages to have my home phone number and address. I'm only giving my full name to people I trust, and the way those sites are set up, you can add people as friends who you might not trust so well (there's no option to add someone as an "acquaintance" rather than "friend").

I guess that's just not for me. I mean, I just tested it out to see, and was able to find several of my students on Facebook and all the people they have listed as friends, and what networks they've joined, etc. That's just plain stupid to have your full real name listed like that where anyone could find you and look up so much about you. I don't exactly want my students to have access to who I'm friends with outside the workplace or what I do with my free time.

 

[binzing]

OK, to get music here's what you do. Click on Music in the top row of links. Then type in a keyword (i.e. Nirvana) then pick out of the list the musician. It'll take you to their page and then their player will show up with songs beneath it. There will be links like "comment" "add" "download" and I think "rate". Click add and it will be pretty straight forward. You can only have one song at a time. Also, artists don't always put all of there songs, and often its less than 5 or so.

 

[quantumdude]

I think you have to be registered as a band to have more than one song.

Nope! Go to projectplaylist.com. You can set up a music player and playlists up to 100 songs (as many lists as you like though!) It's really easy.

My page is now all tuned up.

http://www.myspace.com/quantumdude

 

[Moonbear]

Nope! Go to projectplaylist.com. You can set up a music player and playlists up to 100 songs (as many lists as you like though!) It's really easy.

My page is now all tuned up.

http://www.myspace.com/quantumdude

Neat! If I can't figure it out, I'll be back to ask for details on how to set it up.

 

[quantumdude]

OK, next question. How do you get pictures to show up on your profile page? For the images and videos I have up there now, there was embedding code that I could copy and paste. What do you do when the code isn't provided to you? Oh, and how do you change your avatar?

 

[Evo]

OK, next question. How do you get pictures to show up on your profile page? For the images and videos I have up there now, there was embedding code that I could copy and paste. What do you do when the code isn't provided to you? Oh, and how do you change your avatar?

Heheh, you sound like a newbie here.

 

[quantumdude]

I really don't know!

 

[quantumdude]

Oh, and how do you change your avatar?

OK, I figured this one out. I now look like the Sears Tower.

 

[Astronuc]

Great playlist Tom!

 

[Moonbear]

Great playlist Tom!

I agree...I had Tom's page open yesterday while I was in chat, just for the great tunes!

 

[Evo]

OK, I figured this one out. I now look like the Sears Tower.

Thank gawd I wasn't drinking anything!