Maintain a Professional Profile on MySpace

Part of the way MySpace was designed includes the opportunity to share what some people consider very personal details, such as age, height, sexual orientation, and family status. If you believe that posting information may hurt you professionally, you can choose to leave it off.

MySpace also allows you to list hobbies and interests, such as your favorite music, books, TV shows, and entertainment. If you don't think that posting anything here will help your image, you can choose to leave it blank. Another option is to use this to further promote yourself. If you are an author, post images with links to your favorite books or books you have published. If you are an artist, post pictures and links of your work.

For code that will allow you to hide this information, visit MySpace Made Easy.

MySpace provides the average person a great way to share photos, video clips, and media sources with their integrated media tools. As a business owner or independent contractor, you can use these to your advantage! Create mini-commercials for your product, before-and-after galleries for your contracting projects, or post comics about your industry. Don't let how teens often use these tools deter you from making them work for you.

Aren't sure about this? Take some ideas from Russ Feingold, Democratic Senator from WI, who has used his MySpace page to share video clips, political comics, and other media resources.

If you've ever visited the MySpace page of someone famous - Kenny Chesney for example - you may notice that their comments are packed full of huge, glittery images and messages that flow in at 100 comments per hour. For people like this who have fan clubs, allowing those images and messages to rush in isn't necessarily a bad thing. It allows people to express their appreciation and connect with the artist.

On your MySpace page it may be a different story. Such comments and off-color images might not be as welcome. If you have a lot of personal friends on your page as well as professional contacts, this can get even trickier. After all, it's fun to tease your friends with such comments!

One simple way to keep your comments clean is to simply delete any that are inappropriate. You can do this by logging in to your account, viewing your comments, and editing them to delete the ones you wish. A note to the sender with a gentle message about the content can help deter future issues.

If HUGE comment images is your problem, visit MySpace Made Easy for a few lines of code that will keep them from stretching out your profile dimensions.