MySpace For Dummies [Paperback]

Ryan Hupfer (Author), Mitch Maxson (Author), Ryan C. Williams (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470275553 | ISBN-13: 978-0470275559 | Publication Date: August 4, 2008 | Edition: 2

MySpace has more than 100 million active users. For many of them, MySpace is their central hub for connecting and communicating. They come to meet new people, keep up to date with family members, learn about new products and services, or catch up on the latest news. They come to check out blogs or to share their music. Don’t you just love the MySpace community?

What — you don’t have a MySpace page yet? Well, we can fix that!

Whether you’ve just decided to join MySpace, need to give your profile more pizzazz, or simply want to find out as much about MySpace as your teenager already knows, MySpace For Dummies, Second Edition has what you’re looking for. Find out how to get started, use MySpace safely, customize your page, start a blog, showcase your skills, and lots more. This friendly guide will help you:

• Open an account and set up your profile
• Turn on and use the MySpace safety and security tools
• Find and add friends to your profile
• Stay in touch by e-mail, bulletins, and profile comments
• Sell, buy, and market on MySpace
• Show off your talents as a filmmaker, author, comic, or musician
• Upgrade your profile with photos, music, and a whole new look

Everything’s arranged to help you quickly find what you’re looking for. With MySpace For Dummies, Second Edition, you can easily make your MySpace experience truly exceptional!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I mentioned earlier the phenomenon that is Dummies and here is an example of just what it does best." (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)

From the Back Cover

Maximize MySpace for meeting or marketing

Get your account going, trick out your profile, and start connecting

Whether you've just decided to join MySpace, need to give your profile more pizzazz, or simply want to connect with the 200+ million member MySpace community, this book gets you started. Find out how to set up a profile, set privacy and security settings to your liking, customize your profile, start a blog, showcase your skills, and lots more.

Discover how to:

• Open an account and set up your profile

• Use MySpace safety tools

• Find friends and stay in touch

• Show off your talents

• Personalize the look of your MySpace profile

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (August 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470275553
• ISBN-13: 978-0470275559
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,087,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old Dudes Can MySpace, January 10, 2007

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K Potter (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MySpace For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) (Paperback)

What is this mysterious place that my children visit daily? Is it safe? Does it have any value to my family or business? This book has provided me with the tools to understand and appreciate the power of MySpace. It is an easy and fascinating read and after completion serves as an excellent user friendly referance manual. Last week I was a technology challenged dork. After reading 'MySPace for Dummies' I am now proud to be a MySpace geek. Thank you Ryan Hupfer.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are not using MySpace, this book has your name all over it!, July 5, 2007

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Chris Forbes "gmnonprofits.com" (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MySpace For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) (Paperback)

I work with a lot of faith-based nonprofits and the current debate among them is should they use MySpace. This book helps answer the question. With more than 115 million people on the site who need to be touched with your message and moved to join your cause, why wouldn't you want to reach out to them? This book walks though the basics in the usual great "Dummies" fashion. I was able to read it quickly and afterward set up my profile in just a few minutes. It wasn't long until I customized my profile and started looking like a pro. Now I am building a network of people and exploring a space that helps me connect with all kinds of people. MySpace seems made to order for nonprofit outreach.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant introduction for 'Silver Surfers' everywhere., March 17, 2009

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John Joyce "Author - The Virtual Trilogy" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

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As someone in their late fifties who can't tell his HTML from his elbow, but wanted to catch the wave of the e-revolution on such sites as MySpace, Blogger and the like, I found this book a brilliant introduction to the world of MySpace.

OK, so it doesn't plunge into the intricacies of HTML, but what it does do (and this is really AWESOME!) is allow you to casually mention to your children that they can always check out your MySpace page if they want to know what you've been doing lately.

It does this through the tried and tested 'For Dummies' approach of assuming that their reader knows absolutely nothing about the subject (in my case this was literally true) and start building from there. The opening chapters explain what MySpace is (how many people over 55 can honestly say that they know?)and then proceeds to explain in simple cook-book language how to set up your own page.

There is also a very interesting chapter on "Marketing the MySpace Way" which I found worth its weight in gold since I unashamedly joined MySpace to plug my own books.

This is a book that delivers exactly what it promises on the cover - a simple manual to get any "Dummy" that reads it up onto MySpace with the minimum of effort. You may not have the best MySpace page in the world once you're done - but you will have one, and for that I am very grateful to the "For Dummies" publishers for making this possible.