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How do I change my lifestyle profile on MySpace?

How do you change the drink/smoke detail on your myspace?? It's impossible to find and change it.

Dave's Answer:

I'm surprised you're finding this tough. Here's how you can make those changes, hopefully because you're cleaning up your act, not because you're drinking and smoking more than when you signed up (yeah, yeah, I'm a Dad, I have to say this sort of thing!)

Anyway, log in to MySpace, then click on Edit Profile. Now you'll see the following set of options:

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What you'll want is to click on the Background & Lifestyle link, that has the information settings you seek. First you'll see options for Marital Status, Sexual Orientation, Hometown, etc., but lower down on that page you'll find:

Make the changes you desire, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click on the Save Changes button.

Done!

Now, while we're talking about MySpace, perhaps you'd like to check out my profile on MySpace or if you still seek answers, I have lots of MySpace Help here too.

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Comments

I recently added a friend, now they have promoted themselves to "My top friends"...how is this possible

Posted by: Michael at March 2, 2007 3:07 AM

ok this guy has a point!! its not there like u said it was! u cant change ur drinking and smoking options once there made. its not there in the lifestyles menu! help!!

Posted by: kara at March 4, 2007 7:05 PM

Hey, Um. For the Drink/Smoke its not there anymore.
Do you no where it is?

Posted by: Courtney at March 5, 2007 3:07 PM

I have no idea where it could have gone. Do you have an under-18 profile, Courtney??

Posted by: Dave Taylor at March 5, 2007 3:15 PM

You have to change your birthday year to something over 21 and then go to the backround and lifestyle link and it will have the smoker/drinker questions

Posted by: Kate at March 8, 2007 7:39 PM

yeah you have to go and change you age to over 21.
then the smoke/drink part will apear. after that you can go and change your age back to your real age and it wont show up again.

Posted by: matt at March 14, 2007 9:00 PM

Does anyone know how to change the marital status to something like 'Wouldn't you like to know?' or 'n/a' or something of your choosing instead of the usual married/single/divorced/in a relationship?

Posted by: rawr at April 3, 2007 7:09 PM

I want to change my Marital Status to Dead.
is there a possible way to do so?
Thank you.

Posted by: Jamie at May 11, 2007 10:30 AM

looking at a lot of myspace profiles, i found that some people have set their marital status to different phrases, such as i'm getting hitched...how do i do that myself? is there a way?

Posted by: Lynda at May 13, 2007 3:03 PM

i think what the person who originally asked about the lifestyle stuff is how do you change for example, your marital status to "wouldnt you like to know" or change it to something other than what the options are

Posted by: aly at June 4, 2007 7:40 PM

How do i change the colour of writing on my profile page. Its black n i need it white to be read due to my background being black

Posted by: Garf at June 5, 2007 7:42 PM

hi, how do change your myspace online now picture to another one.

Posted by: jennie at June 9, 2007 8:13 AM

How do you change your age on myspace?

Posted by: Solomon at September 10, 2007 12:06 AM

Ok how would I customize what it says on my Smoke Drink PArt. I don't want it to just say yes. For example for the Drink I want it to say yes Sonny D. How do I do this

Posted by: Amras at October 25, 2007 11:25 PM

hey how do you chage myspace age

Posted by: jenny at January 12, 2008 10:39 AM

I have a lot to say, but ...

I have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but most of all I'd like to say thank you for all your efforts on this Web site by buying you a chai!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!