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As with any community, MySpace needs a good set of rules to make sure everyone plays nice. Without rules, there is chaos. Considering that MySpace is a community with over 100 million user profiles ranging from 14 year olds to adults to bands, filmmakers, and comedians, you begin to understand why they need a clearly stated set of rules to make sure everything operates smoothly.
Verifying that you've read MySpace's Terms of Service is part of the sign up process. Before you get started on MySpace, we highly recommend you actually read through the Terms of Service to make sure you understand what you can and cannot do with your MySpace profile. Among the things prohibited by MySpace are:
- Content posted to your profile that you own or hold copyright on.
- Commercial use of a MySpace profile, including collecting users' names or e-mail addresses for the purposes of sending unsolicited business messages.
- Content deemed offensive, racist, harassing, or exploitative is prohibited.
- Content showing nudity or linking to an adult-themed Web site is prohibited.
- Content listing individuals' telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or street addresses.
- Content deemed false or libelous.
- Impersonating another person.
Protecting members from people sending unwanted business solicitation and junk mail is serious to MySpace. In fact, their Terms of Service even outline a means by which they can fine users $50 per incident when those users are in violation of the site's anti-junk-mail rules.
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