How To Reduce Spam on MySpace
These days there are more people that are signed up to MySpace, in many respects, than there are people that are signed up to their local gyms. According to Nielsen online the number of unique visitors have increased 190 percent from September 2008 to June 2009 “growing from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million ”
Every single day there are new people joining the MySpace community it just simply keeps expanding.
A lot of people make the decision to join the community in order to reconnect with old friends and create relationships with some new friends as well. Some people are even seeking out an avenue to be able to promote their business through utilizing MySpace.
There are a lot of people that question the point behind using MySpace to promote different things that they are involved in, however if you ever perused the music and movies section you will quickly begin to understand why so many people are taking the opportunity to promote themselves as well as their companies through MySpace.
There are so many people that claim to be staring movie producers or up and coming musicians that are trying to further their careers. Most of these people will actually begin posting samples of their work to various profiles and even entire pieces for people to listen to, watch or simply overhear. The samples are traditionally free, however the bad news is there are so many people who are promoting themselves through MySpace that spam is becoming an excessive problem for the social media network.
If your purpose for your MySpace page is to talk with your friends as well as reconnect with old friends than you definitely can do without the excess spam, that is beginning to take over MySpace. There are a few things that you can do in order to eliminate the amount of spam that your page receives.
The first thing you will need to do in order to eliminate spam is set your MySpace profile to private. This will eliminate a bunch of random people from trying to get in contact with you. A lot of people that are addressed about their spamming activities will often times be extremely angry when confronted about this problem. So, it’s better to set your page to private to eliminate having to deal with people that you do not know.
Another thing that you can do to help eliminate spam is request that only people that know your last name or your email address may request you as a friend. This will help reduce the amount of spam that you receive and also bots from asking you to be a friend. Inadvertently, only people who actually know you will have this information.
You can also set your profile to where it states that all comments posted to your account will need to be approved by you before it can be posted on your page. This way you don’t have an excessive amount of spam comments scattered throughout your MySpace page.
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Spam is a real nightmare of mySpace really drives me insane. It seems everyone wants to be a star and does not realize their spammy ways.
I spam folks all the time on MySpace, I do not ever care!
lol, you can’t be serious, really?
Great site! Keep it up!