MySpace Unraveled: A Parent’s Guide to Teen Social Networking from the Directors of BlogSafety.com

Chapter 3. MySpace for Parents

NOW IT’S TIME TO actually try out MySpace. We don’t expect most parents to become diehard MySpace fanatics (though some might), but we do hope that you’ll at least sign up (it’s free), create a profile, and check out a few of the features so you can see what’s going on.

This chapter takes a hands-on, “cookbook” approach to using MySpace. We hope it will help you understand what the different features do and why people use them, while injecting some cautionary notes. Some of the things we’ll show you include basics like how to set up a MySpace account, how to build and edit a profile, how to integrate music and video into your profile, and how to use MySpace’s privacy features.

The idea, here, is for parents to get ...