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Everyone and their mother has a MySpace page these days. And I am not kidding about their mothers, either. For the most part there is nothing wrong with MySpace, but there are a few things that are especially irritating about MySpace pages and some can haunt you forever. For example, being drunk, locking yourself in the bathroom, and leaving your digital camera out with your roommate equals in an embarrassing video of you puking posted for your friends and the other five billion people on MySpace to enjoy.

Besides posted videos, there is the enormous amount of space for people to post pictures of themselves and the “fun” shit they like to do. Here is my issue, I dislike the people who post new pics and then post a bulletin saying they posted new pics and demand you comment on their newly posted pix from ten minutes ago. First of all, you shouldn’t have to tell your friends to look at your shit, if they really were your friends they would have looked already. Secondly, don’t post that same threatening “look & comment or die” bulletin six times. I may have just missed a good bulletin from someone else while I was reading your bitching. I know there are tons of you out there that do this, but there are just as many people out there that find it irritating.

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News Corp.'s MySpace and Viacom's MTV are partnering again, and this time it's on a weekly TV show. But the program, a countdown show called MySpace Chart, will only air on the U.K. network MTV Two (the equivalent of the U.S. MTV2 channel) and there are no plans yet to bring the show stateside, an MTV Networks representative told CNET News.com.

Members of the social network, which initially gained traction as a way for independent music artists to gain buzz, will vote on select music videos each week that will then be showcased in the hour-long MTV Two show. MySpace Chart premieres on the evening of March 16; a week earlier, pages on MySpace and MTV Two will go live to kick off voting.

MTV parent company Viacom does have its own social-networking project, the "distributed" service called Flux. But partnering with MySpace can give them access to the massive site's audience. "The audience for MTV Two and MySpace are incredibly similar," Philip O'Ferrall, vice president of digital media for MTV Networks' U.K. and Ireland region, said in a statement. "Not only are they both incredibly passionate about their music tastes but they are powerful advocates for the latest upcoming artists, which both MTV and MySpace have a history of showcasing."

Additionally, for MTV, it's a way to bolster the company's new-media credibility; for MySpace, it helps to solidify its role as a pop-culture hub as the market for social networking grows increasingly crowded. In the U.K., MySpace not only competes with Facebook but also with the more youth-oriented Bebo--which syndicates some MTV video content as part of its "Open Media" platform.

MySpace's U.K. arm already had collaborated with MTV in order to find a new anchor for its MTV News show. In the U.S., the two partnered for a series of "presidential dialogue" events leading up to the Super Tuesday primaries.

This spring's Internet Safety Event in Macomb will feature as its keynote speaker the mother of a Missouri teen who committed suicide after an adult neighbor harassed her on the Web.

Tina Meier became a nationally recognized speaker after her daughter, Megan Meier, took her life just days before her 14th birthday in 2006. She will speak at 6:30 p.m. at the April 1 Internet Safety Event sponsored by the Macomb Online Safety Team (MOST) and the Hancock-McDonough Regional Office of Education.

Meier's daughter's death has been attributed to cyberbullying through an account on the social networking Web site MySpace.com. The account, purportedly belonging to a 16-year-old boy, was created and monitored by a friend of the Meier family.

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There's now one more reason to be security-conscious while using MySpace.com: fake Microsoft updates.
Using a hacked MySpace profile, online criminals are trying to trick victims into downloading a malicious Trojan Horse program by disguising it as a Microsoft update, according to researchers at security vendor McAfee.

The attack is certainly not widespread -- McAfee has seen it used on only one MySpace profile -- but it does show how sites like MySpace can be abused by criminals.

Web surfers are presented with what appears to be a popup window advising them to download the latest version of Microsoft's Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, which was just released this Tuesday. This software is distributed by Microsoft to help Windows users rid their systems of malware.

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eerflux Inc. launched their MySpace accessory site, UGotbling (ugotbling.com), offering free MySpace layouts, backgrounds, graphics, comments, and other cool profile accessories.Designed to become the # 1 source of MySpace accessories, UGotBling offers bling themes that include layout themes for skin, background, contact table, and extended network banner; bling graphics that include text and image comments; and bling customizer or the various code tweaks used for customizing a profile page.UGotBling differs from the thousands of accessory sites on the Internet with its “profile makeover” feature, a real-time preview full-layout generator for MySpace profiles, allowing users to preview the page they are making even without inserting codes on their profile yet. With this feature, there will be no more trial and errors in customizing a MySpace profile.“MySpace users want their profile page to be as perfect as possible, because this is an expression of their thoughts and description of their personality,” shares Ricky Sy, CEO of Peerflux. “And we at UGotBling want to make it easy for them to design their pages the way they want it to be.”For an organized and easy selection, UGotBling contents are arranged according to several categories, including goth, romance, sexy, sports, and animals to name a few.UGotBling will offer a lot more features for MySpace users in the coming months, such as personalized survey maker, falling objects generator, avatar creator, and smileys, which are all being currently worked on. Soon, videos will be available on the site, too, allowing users to embed videos on their MySpace profile page, personal web sites, and blog sites.

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and they say that MySpace users are off the charts - compared to the rest of the online population -- when it comes to checking out political news online. And they're more likely to be independent than most Americans, more likely to switch parties from 2004 and vote for a Democrat, think that the "war on terror" is the most important election issue and very likely to vote. The average age of the survey respondent: 25.The point of the study to be released Thursday -- the first of monthly MySpace Impact Presidential Polls released by the online goliath -- is to "alert the campaigns and the politicians that MySpace users are politically active and that they're going to vote," Lee Brenner, Director of MySpace IMPACT/Public Affairs tells us.Oh, the suits already know that. Every candidate worth their forked tongue has tapped the 18-year-old in their office to create them a MySpace page, which they've used to milk the wallets of the site's 70 million active U.S. users...and uh, of course provide them valuable information about the candidate's policy positions.Instead, consider this poll as another warning shot to campaigns to think about listening to people who traditional polls don't reach. Like young people -- who frequently don't use land phone lines that pollsters call.

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