MySpace For Dummies

by Ryan Hupfer, Ryan Williams

MySpace For Dummies arrives to help individuals that want to set up, customize, and use a MySpace profile to meet and stay in contact with friends, all while staying safe from online bad guys. The book also helps out professionals like musicians, filmmakers, and marketers who want to use the site to build an audience for their works and products. Coverage
Setting up a profile

Using MySpace features to prevent stalkers from bothering you

Making and keeping in touch with friends

Customizing your profile with photos, music, video, and HTML tweaks

Using MySpace to get a gig, show off your film, or sell your product

Genres: Nonfiction

314 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006

Reviews

[Tim O'Hearn · Rating 3 out of 5]

In MySpace's heyday, this book was probably derided as something only for nosey parents or school administrators. Even before social networks had dedicated User Experience designers (and before the title even existed), it was pretty easy to figure things out through frequent usage.

Today, the book still loses a lot of style points for cliche writing but it takes on a new life as an artifact of a bygone era from which very little has been preserved. Replete with instructions on how to modify HTML and CSS code, upload the maximum of 4 MP3 files to your band's page, and edit videos using Windows Movie Maker. Some thought-provoking insights for those interested in the history of social networks and very early Web 2.0. Filled with screenshots.

[Salsabrarian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just trying to understand better what the kids are into these days! If you're not into myspace, you'll be surprised by all the different tools available for maintaining a profile page.