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MySpace is a one-stop shop for a lot of services offered on other Web sites. When you begin to peel off the layers of the MySpace site, you quickly discover there's a lot going on at MySpace.com. After you get signed up at MySpace, you have access to many tools — such as these:
 | - Web building: At its foundation, the MySpace service is a basic Web building tool that lets you create your own site and customize it to your liking. Rather than having to start from scratch with HTML or Web building software, you just fill in the blanks at MySpace to create your page.
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- Online photo album: Along with your profile picture that appears on your MySpace profile page, you can upload photos that other MySpace members (or, if you choose, your friends only) can view. Similar to a world-wide yearbook, users first check this photo album more and more to see what you look like.
- Blog: MySpace provides a built-in tool for starting your own Web diary, better known online as a blog. Blogs, short for Web logs, are online journals where users record thoughts or report on events.
 | MySpace allows you to make your blog publicly viewable or viewable only to a select audience. You can even mark individual entries as private if you want. |
- Video hosting: MySpace has a tool for hosting and sharing short video clips.
- Calendar: Tired of carrying around your old calendar book? MySpace provides a fully-customizable calendar tool that allows you to enter plans and appointments. You can then choose to share your calendar with friends or keep it private.
- Address book: Need a place to store the email addresses and MySpace user names of your closest friends? MySpace's Address Book tool keeps track of that important information.
- Send and receive messages: Your MySpace account comes with a mailbox, similar to an email box, in which other MySpace users can send you messages or get replies from you.
- Post a bulletin: You share a bulletin space with all the MySpace friends you add to your profile.
| The bulletin option is a good way to get a message out to all your friends at once. |
- Post an event and invite your friends: You can share information about a happening with the entire MySpace population by entering it as an event. You can filter the events page by location or time frame to find just the events going on in a certain area during a certain time. After you post an event, you can follow up by inviting your MySpace friends or other contacts that don't use MySpace to the event.
- Chat with other users: MySpace provides a forum for posting comments on specific topics to a bulletin board or taking part in live chat in an online chat room.
- Leave comments: MySpace offers the chance for your friends to leave comments on your profile, blog entries, or photos. You can do the same for your friends — the online equivalent of yearbook autographs.
- Post a classified ad: MySpace offers a classified ads forum where you can search for a job, a service, item, or date. You can also offer something for sale if you want. The classifieds pages are divided by geographic region centered around the big cities in the MySpace world.
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