Using Bulletins


Bulletins are an easy way to contact or send news to several MySpace friends all at once.

To post a bulletin, follow these steps:

1.

In My Mail (on your home page), click Post Bulletin. The Post Bulletin page appears.

2.

Enter a Subject line, and write your message in the Body text box.

3.

Click the Post button at the bottom of the page. A confirmation screen appears.

4.

Verify the posting, edit it, or cancel it (Figure 4.11).

Figure 4.11. Confirm that you want to send this message to all your friends.


Key Parenting Point

Mass bulletin posts are fairly common in MySpace culture. What MySpace users should rememberparticularly those with numerous friendsis that these posts go out to everyone. For privacy and self-protection, remind kids not to reveal personal information, such as their email address, phone number, street address, or where they plan to hang out that night. It's also thoughtful to avoid spamming friends with too many messages.


Reading Bulletins

Because of the frequency of bulletin posts, MySpace doesn't notify users when a new one has been posted, unlike mail messages, comments, and new invites.

To check the latest bulletin posts, go to the My Bulletin Space on your MySpace home page. Bulletins are listed sequentially, starting with the most current posting.

To open and read a message, click the subject link in the Bulletin column (Figure 4.12).

Figure 4.12. Click the subject link in the Bulletin column to read that message.


Blocking Bulletins

Bulletins are great communication tools, but they can easily become annoying and spamlike. If you are receiving unwanted or excessive bulletins, the only way to block them is to delete the sender as a friend. To do this, open the bulletin, and click the Delete from Friends button on the bottom-right side of the screen.




MySpace Unraveled. A Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking from the Directors of BlogSafety. com
MySpace Unraveled: A Parents Guide to Teen Social Networking
ISBN: 032148018X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 91

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