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Using Myspace can be incredibly frustrating at times. If you’re like me, you’re getting sick of the banner ads, “Cool New People” who are neither cool or new, vomitus custom profiles and awful tastes in music. While nothing I can show you will get rid of the crappy bands, strippers and emo kids who friend-whore constantly, if you follow these three steps you get rid of the annoyances that are fixable so you can spend more time dealing with those that aren’t.

Step one: Use Firefox

If you’re already using Firefox, good for you. If not, you’ll need it. Not only is it a better browser all around but the ability to add plug-ins and user scripts is what will make the rest of this work. So, if you don’t already have it go install Firefox now and come back when you’re ready.

Step two: Install Greasemonkey

No, Greasemonkey isn’t dirty. Get your mind out of the gutter. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows to you to add custom scripts to change the behavior of all your favorite sites. Once it’s installed you can find TONS of useful scripts for most popular websites, including Myspace. You’ll find it here.

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

You’ll have to close you’re browser and re-open it before Greasemonkey takes effect. So, do that and come right back.

Step three: Grease the Monkey

You’re almost there. Now I’ll show you where you can find Greasemonkey scripts for Myspace that will yank the crappy music right off the page, kick those “Cool New People” to the curb and chuck the banner adverts in the trash where they belong.

Head on over to http://www.userscripts.org/tag/myspace

You’ll find a big list of scripts with descriptions on what they do. When you find one you like click the name and it’ll take you to the page. You’ll see in the corner “Install this Script or click here to find out how.” If you click the link to find out how, it’ll give you quick and easy instructions on installing the script. You can choose the scripts you want, but I recommend the Myspace Annoyance Removal one to start. When you’re done, restart your browser head over to Myspace and check out the difference.

Then come back here and leave a comment!

When filling out your Myspace profile, if you find yourself limited by the blurb choices of “about me” and “who I’d like to meet” you can add as many extra blurbs as you’d like by following this tutorial.

In the end your myspace profile could look something like this.

First, here’s the code for you copy and pasters. Customizing it to suit your myspace profile is pretty easy and I will describe it later on.

I’ve made a website. You should check it out.</td> </tr> <td valign="top" align="left" width="435" bgcolor="ffffff" style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="orangetext15">My website:</span><br /> my blog for tutorials can be found <a href="http://www.bpweiss.com" mce_href="http://www.bpweiss.com">here</a> .

Heres another example, this one is going in my “I’d like to meet” section 

People who are well read, intellectual and who have a great sense of humor … and sluts. I luv sluts.</td> </tr> <td valign="top" align="left" width="435" bgcolor="ffffff" style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="orangetext15">Who I’d Like to Avoid:</span><br /> People who’s only friend is Tom. People who have awful layouts that make the text hard to read. Bands that suck.

In each example the first line of text is what is shown in the box you’ve pasted it into. You change that to whatever you want in the origional box. The following code just closes that box and opens a new one.

 The text between the span class is going to look like the blurb header, so make your changes to what you want the blurb to be named. the br tag is a line break and then you write whatever you’d like to appear as text under that.

You can add as many new blurbs as you like by repeating this process.

Leave any comments, questions or shoutouts either in the comments section or the shoutbox.

So, you’ve found a picture you like and want to share it with your friends on myspace. If it’s on your computer already, great. If it’s from a website, right click it and select “Save picture as” to save it to your computer.

To host the image go to: http://www.imageshack.us/

There is no need to sign up for an account if you plan to use the image only once, but if you’d like access to it later an ImageShack account will keep track off all of your uploads for you.

If the picture is on your computer make sure the “file” button is selected and click “browse”. In the box that pops up find your picture and click it.

click “host it”

Imageshack generates a lot of different codes you can just copy and past depending on what you want to do with the picture.

For example, If you wanted to show the whole image in a comment on someone’s Myspace profile you would choose the code from “Hotlink for Websites”.

Find the one you need. Copy the code by highlighting it, right-clicking and selecting “copy,”

Then, when you go to add the comment you would right-click again, select “paste” and the code would show up. You can also paste the code into you’re “about me” section of your profile if you’d rather do that.

If everything worked you could see the image in the preview of your comment, but sometimes it takes a minute before the image is available from Imageshack.

If Imageshack isn’t working for you a simular website can be found here: http://www.pictiger.com

If this helped you, or you have any questions, comments or other tips post a comment.