Unless you have spent the last five years or so living off the grid in a remote location, it is a virtual certainty that you are aware of the popular social networking website MySpace. It seems that just about everyone everywhere is on the site, it’s been around for a few years now, but the site seemed as if it took over the world overnight. It is now one of the most popular sites in the world.

It’s incredibly easy to join and totally free. In just a couple of minutes you could have your own MySpace page and start keeping in touch with all of your friends and family who are on the site. You can look at a lot of MySpace pages with having to sign up for an account, but there are also plenty of MySpace pages which are viewable only by members, so you may as well take the plunge and sign up for an account, which will let you start using all of the features of the site.

Once you finish signing up for your free account on the site, you’ll want to make your profile page. There are premade profile templates which you can use to customize your page; these will generally include graphics to use for the background of your page as well as fonts. If you are familiar with HTML, you can also make your own designs to use on your profile page.

MySpace pages usually have an area where members give a little information such as age and city, along with some of their likes and dislikes. You can add to this section and include any additional information that you want. A lot of MySpace users also add music and video clips to their pages. There are some rules on what you cannot put on your page; this is listed in the terms of service agreement for the site.

After building your MySpace page, you can search through the other users by using keywords for location, interests and more. Once you find other users you’d like to be friends with, you can then invite them to your network, and you will more than likely be invited to other users’ networks as well.

MySpace has received a lot of press, not all of it so welcome. This social networking giant has become a concern for many parents, who fear for the privacy and safety of their children. Parents can choose to set their child’s MySpace profile to a non-public one, so that only those who have been invited may view their profiles. There are a number of other features which MySpace offers for security and privacy.

MySpace has many more features than do the older types of social networking websites. Obviously, you can use the site to keep in touch with friends and family as well as making new friends, there is much more to see here, such as chat rooms, horoscopes, even instant messaging! If you want to start using all of these features which MySpace has to offer, you’ll have to start by going to www.myspace.com and building a profile for yourself.