How to Make Your MySpace Profile More Popular

Everyone has seen over-the-top MySpace layouts with their massive amounts of glitter texts, crazy images of alcohol, an overdose of colorful fonts, and far too many videos and music on the profile page. Not only are these profiles annoying in the sense that they take ages to load, but they also hardly ever look attractive, to be honest.

It seems that a lot of MySpace users have forgotten what MySpace is really for: to find friends and to let everyone get to know you better.

MySpace has recently given its users the opportunity to personalize their MySpace profiles by adding various add-ons as they please. Surveys are nice to add to a profile, in order to provide more information about yourself that viewers might like to know. However, an unnecessary abundance of add-ons has started to make MySpace simply look like nothing but a source of spam.

While glitter texts may be pretty to look at and may seem like a good idea to make a MySpace profile look fancy, it is overused in most cases. Not only does it make the MySpace profile terribly long to load (since not everybody in the world owns high-speed internet yet; most actually only work on a 56k modem), but the basic functions like simply commenting on a profile may also take longer than usual. This completely defeats what MySpace was originally created for in the first place.

Speed aside; all these extra effects will also lessen the credibility of the profile in question by adding so much useless information. With so many added videos, music, images, and special effects, an otherwise clean profile will get lost within all the other things in there. A MySpace profile is to reflect your personality to your friends and colleagues, as well as their friends. Potential new friends may stop visiting your profile if it takes far too long to open or if the important personal information is lost within the craziness of the add-ons.

Although MySpace profiles and layouts have come a long way since its basic profile layouts at the initial sign-up with the website, all the colors, decorations, music, and images have flooded most of the existing millions of MySpace profiles. This may show a person's sense of creativity and make a certain profile more unique, but the overuse of such effects can generally destroy the main purpose of a MySpace profile. So use these add-ons with care.