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ehuber:Myspace is great if you like dumping vast amounts of time into watching web pages load. Man I hate that site... and I'm SO SICK of getting invitations from porn vendors and solicitors that I rarely --if ever-- check my site.
Oh, it's a little different when your HS graduating class had 38 students, now live back in that hamlet of 2,000. So I list the nearest city of 20,000+I don't see how not having your school on there makes you that much less of a target.
Yeah, if you're irritated by Spam adds that'll work. I enjoy busting the Spam profiles.frankc420:Set it to a verification account, if someone wants to add you they have to know your email address or last name.
ehuber:Myspace is great if you like dumping vast amounts of time into watching web pages load.
DandyDon:The legal ads are irritating, but it's a free site - got to expect that. If you load codes that cover up the ads, the account will be deleted.
I don't know that that's against their Tos - for a small, local store?lucybuykx:Its the "illegal ones" that are the problem. I checked out a range of scuba people on MySpace yesterday - more than half of them were punting their local dive store. (Not links from this thread, I did a search).
DandyDon:I don't know that that's against their Tos - for a small, local store?
Yeah I think they're okay to list their businesses on their pages without links or phone numbers, as long as they don't send spam messages. There is even a standard box where ms encourages networking info.lucybuykx:5. Non-commercial Use by Members.
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for "endorsed or approved" read "paid for"
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