MySpace Instant Messaging - Facts and Features
Have you tried the new MySpace instant messaging application? As the most popular social networking site in the history of the Internet, MySpace has changed a lot about how people meet new friends and chat with each other online.
Now, with their new IM application, there is even more reason to be happy to be a MySpace user.
No more chatting with people on your Friends list via MySpace mail.
Finally, you can talk to them in real time! The features on MySpace Instant Messaging are just super.
The application takes nothing away from your free MySpace layout.
It doesn't take up too much screen real estate, or clutter the screen.
Instead, it is a neat little app that will surprise you with its talent! Not only are you able to send and receive instant messages, you can also view someone's profile, send photos to your friends as easily as dragging and dropping, stream any music that catches your attention from a profile you've been browsing right to your IM application, view your MySpace E-mails and Bulletins, Friend Requests, get an alert when you have new Comments and new Messages, and more.
And, perhaps best of all, this amazing application that can do so much is absolutely free! All you have to do to get your hands on this new IM is download it.
As of this writing, it does not "play well" with Windows Vista, but works like a charm with Windows XP, 2000, and 98.
You must also be using a PC, as there is no Mac version just yet.
You can download from within the MySpace web site.
Once it is downloaded, just follow the directions that come with the file to open and get MySpace IM up and running.
First, you will need to sign in to the application.
You'll use the same email account and password that you use to sign in to your MySpace account.
You'll have three options to choose from here.
MySpace IM can save your password, automatically log in for you, or allow you to sign in as Hidden, so that just in case you want to quickly check something and then sign out, your friends won't think you are ignoring them! Next, you will need to decide which of your friends you want to add to MySpace IM.
There are options to add your Top Friends only, add all of your Friends up to 200 only, or search for Friends to add.
You should really only add the people who you want to talk to on a regular basis.
If by chance some of these people do not have MySpace IM installed on their machine, you will be given the option to send them an invitation.
Now that you have your Friends listed on the application, what's next? This is where the fun starts! Everyone that you have added to MySpace Instant Messaging can be contacted by means of the application.
You can tell when they are online (unless they chose the Hidden option) share photos with them, and hear music that they may have included with their MySpace layout.
You can also see their profile picture! MySpace IM is skinnable, which means you can change how it looks.
You can also look forward to more options for this application in the near future.
Now, with their new IM application, there is even more reason to be happy to be a MySpace user.
No more chatting with people on your Friends list via MySpace mail.
Finally, you can talk to them in real time! The features on MySpace Instant Messaging are just super.
The application takes nothing away from your free MySpace layout.
It doesn't take up too much screen real estate, or clutter the screen.
Instead, it is a neat little app that will surprise you with its talent! Not only are you able to send and receive instant messages, you can also view someone's profile, send photos to your friends as easily as dragging and dropping, stream any music that catches your attention from a profile you've been browsing right to your IM application, view your MySpace E-mails and Bulletins, Friend Requests, get an alert when you have new Comments and new Messages, and more.
And, perhaps best of all, this amazing application that can do so much is absolutely free! All you have to do to get your hands on this new IM is download it.
As of this writing, it does not "play well" with Windows Vista, but works like a charm with Windows XP, 2000, and 98.
You must also be using a PC, as there is no Mac version just yet.
You can download from within the MySpace web site.
Once it is downloaded, just follow the directions that come with the file to open and get MySpace IM up and running.
First, you will need to sign in to the application.
You'll use the same email account and password that you use to sign in to your MySpace account.
You'll have three options to choose from here.
MySpace IM can save your password, automatically log in for you, or allow you to sign in as Hidden, so that just in case you want to quickly check something and then sign out, your friends won't think you are ignoring them! Next, you will need to decide which of your friends you want to add to MySpace IM.
There are options to add your Top Friends only, add all of your Friends up to 200 only, or search for Friends to add.
You should really only add the people who you want to talk to on a regular basis.
If by chance some of these people do not have MySpace IM installed on their machine, you will be given the option to send them an invitation.
Now that you have your Friends listed on the application, what's next? This is where the fun starts! Everyone that you have added to MySpace Instant Messaging can be contacted by means of the application.
You can tell when they are online (unless they chose the Hidden option) share photos with them, and hear music that they may have included with their MySpace layout.
You can also see their profile picture! MySpace IM is skinnable, which means you can change how it looks.
You can also look forward to more options for this application in the near future.
