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How To: Stop Getting Added By MySpace Bots

Do you enjoy getting added by bands, comedians, directors, models or just random people trying to advertise a product or just want thousands of friends on myspace? If so thats fine but for the ones that don’t want to have adds from these types of spamming accounts there is a few tricks you can use to make your profile hard to “spider” (myspace bots collect accounts by using the browse feature or through friends).

STEP ONE: Changing your profile information.

When Myspace “Spider” bots collect accounts as I mentioned before they go to the Browse section and do a search of the type of people they want to target.The easiest way to avoid being indexed in the Browse section is by changing you age (haven’t you seen profiles of adults who have their age set to 14?).

1) Change you age to anything under 18 or over 68.

STEP 2: Changing privacy and spam settings.

Myspace has been improving their privacy and spam settings after a few unfortunate pedophile incidents, you can pretty much make your profile spam proof if you choose the right settings.

1) Go to Settings: Privacy and do the following:

» Show people when I am online – UNCHECKED

» Profile Viewable By: – My friends only. (this will make your profile private)

Now click Save All Changes.

2) For the second part go to Settings: Spam and do the following:

Messages:

» Allow non-friends to send me messages – CHECKED

» Require CAPTCHA for non-friends to send me messages – CHECKED

Friend Requests :

» Require last name or email address – CHECKED

» Require CAPTCHA – CHECKED

» Allow bands to send friend requests – UNCHECKED

» Allow filmmakers to send friend requests – UNCHECKED

» Allow comedians to send friend requests – UNCHECKED

Comments :

» Require approval before comments are posted – CHECKED

» Require CAPTCHA to add comments – CHECKED

» Only friends can add comments to my blog – CHECKED

Group Invitations :

» Allow only my friends and: – CHECKED don’t tick Regular MySpace Users, Bands, Filmmakers, Comedians.

Event Invitations :

Same settings as Group Invitations.

IM Invitations :

This is optional and depends if you use MySpaceIM or not.

Now click Save All Changes and viola! thats it.

Also Read:

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• How To Get 613 More Friends A Day On MySpace
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• Optimal BitComet Settings

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