Mail
Mail at MySpace is used to communicate with other members. You cannot send a message to people outside of MySpace. You can send anyone a message by going to their profile and selecting “email” or message. Other features of MySpace mail include:
Saved Mail: This is mail that you have received from another member that you have chosen to save.
Sent Mail: This is mail that you have sent. You can check to see if the person you sent the mail to has read the mail, deleted it or replied.
Trash: This is mail that you have deleted but has not yet been discarded.
Bulletin: A bulletin is a bulk message to everyone in your group. It is set up just like an email but you don’t input any addresses because it is sent out to everyone in the group.
Address Book: You can keep a personal address book of the people you mail most often.
Friend Requests: Whenever a MySpace user views your profile and wants to be your friend, they send you a friend request. These friend requests are kept in this special folder.
Pending Requests: When you view a new friend request you don’t have to accept or deny it right away. If you’d like to wait and grant or deny permission at a later time tht friend request will move over to this folder. At a later time you can come here and either grant or deny the friend request.
Event Invites: These are personal invites you have received to events. If a friend is holding a birthday party and wants you to come they can send you an invite.
Blog
This is where you post information about yourself. It’s an online journal for you and others to view. You can write your daily thoughts here and subscribe to others’ online journals as well.
Blog Home: This is the main page of your blog. Here you have access to all of your blogs, both your own and those you are subscribed to.
My Subscriptions: These are blogs that you came across that you have chosen to subscribe too. When the owner of the blog changes or writes a new blog they will be updated here.
My Readers: These are MySpace users who have subscribed to your blogs. You can choose to remove a reader as well.
My Preferred List: This is a private blog where only members can view. You have to invite users otherwise they are hidden from view.
If you have uploaded a photograph it will be displayed in the space provided. You can also view statistics on your blog as well. Whenever a MySpace user leaves a comment or gives you the thumbs up (Kudos) it will increase the counter.
Post New Blog:
Here you can post a new blog. You can choose to use the basic editor and just input text. If you know a little bit about HTML you can use the advanced editor. Select the Post Date if you want to delay the post of your blog. When you are finished writing what you want, tell your readers what you are reading, listening to or playing. Basically tell them what you’re doing. Tell your readers your current mood. If you don’t want people leaving comments or Kudos just check the box. Choose the privacy, whether you want only friends to view, private etc. When you are finished, click preview and post to preview your blog.
View Blog: Here is a view of your blog as others will see it. If you don’t like the way it looks you can go in and edit it.
Customize Blog: Here you can customize every aspect of your Blog page.
General Page Settings: Here you can adjust the Background color, alignment, Width length, default font, Normal Link color, Visited Link Color, active link color, and how many blogs per page.
Page Header: You can define a custom header here, if you choose, by selecting the header site, font, tag line, border color, interior color. You may also choose to do your header in HTML.
Side Module: The side module is the information that is displayed about you and your blog. You can define where it is positioned, the font color, the font alignment, the border color, and interior color. You can also choose whether or not to display personal information about yourself such as gender, status, age, sign, city, state, country, signup date, subscriptions, and blog groups.
Blog Post Settings: These are the settings actually in your blog message. If you use HTML in your blog, when posting those settings will override the settings you define here. You can set the blog background color, spacer color, Date background color, date format, date alignment, subject font, make the subject boldface, time format, time position, and the text indent.
Comment Settings: Here you can set the colors for your comments by choosing the profile background color, the comment background color, the spacer color.
Background Settings: If you like you can set up the background of your blogs. You can put a background image, choose whether you have a fixed background or a scrolling background, whether or not the background repeats, a link to music, if you want music to play in the background, and whether the music will loop or not.
Your own Additional Style Sheet: A custom style sheet (CSS) overrides all settings on this page. If you know CSS you can define the exact layout of your blog page by inserting your CSS here.
My Blog Groups: Here you can view blogs posted by other members in your group. You can choose to view any one of these groups, Arts and Humanities, business & finance, Computers & Internet, Entertainment, Family & Home, Games, Health & Medicine, Hobbies & Crafts, People, Regional, Religion & Beliefs, Schools & Educations, Science & Nature, Society & Culture, and Sports & Recreation.
Create a Blog Group: This is where you will go if you wish to start your own blog group. You need to choose a name for your new group, give a short description so others will want to join your group and then select a category for your newly created group. Choose whether you want users to acquire your permission to join the group or leave it open so anyone can join at any given time.
