| There are thousands upon thousands of people who | | | | to view it. If you figure, why bother because they can |
| are on MySpace, each day even more are signing up | | | | just ask to be a friend, then start carefully checking the |
| but what are they all looking for? Most people can | | | | profile of anyone who is asking to be your friend. Most |
| agree that they are there looking to help make friends | | | | people who SPAM tend to have some hateful |
| and some are even looking to help promote their | | | | messages in the comments section of their page from |
| business. You may wonder what exactly is the | | | | people who are upset about receiving SPAM. Read |
| purpose of businesses being on MySpace. Stop and | | | | over that a little bit and see if you see these |
| think, have you browsed through the music and | | | | complaints. If you spot any of the complaints then it is |
| movies sections lately? | | | | a good idea to deny the request. |
| There are literally thousands of starving movie | | | | Second, set it to only allow people who know your last |
| producers and musicians who are trying to further their | | | | name or e-mail address to request friendship. This |
| careers by hoping to build a good following on | | | | helps really reduce the amount of SPAM because |
| MySpace. These people often post samples of their | | | | bots and spammers are not going to have this |
| work and even entire pieces of their work for people | | | | information. By requiring this, you save yourself a lot of |
| to listen, watch and sample. The great news is that | | | | hassle and still can keep in close contact with your |
| these samples are free to watch and listen to. The | | | | friends and family. |
| bad news is that many of the people who are | | | | Third, in your profile security options you can tick a box |
| promoting their businesses on MySpace are now | | | | that allows you to refuse friend requests from bands, |
| turning it into a huge website full of SPAM. | | | | and other types of businesses. This is great if you |
| Therefore, if you are only looking for friends and | | | | have no interest in being friends with the bands that |
| keeping in touch with others, without ending up with | | | | are trying to increase their friends list in the hopes of |
| tons of SPAM on your page there are some things | | | | promoting themselves. |
| you can do to keep your page safe. You do not have | | | | Fourth, set all of your comments to need approval |
| to follow all of these options, they are only suggestions | | | | before they are posted. This is the single best way to |
| and you can use any of these options either | | | | avoid SPAM because you are the only one who sees |
| separately or combined together to ensure that your | | | | it before it goes to your profile. Delete anything that is |
| page is SPAM free. | | | | questionable or flat out SPAM and you are sure to |
| First thing you can really do is set your profile to | | | | keep your page SPAM free for a very long time. |
| private. This keeps just random people from being able | | | | |