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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Reader Comments To Date: 21

Michael said, on March 2, 2007 3:07 AM:

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

kara said, on March 4, 2007 7:05 PM:

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!!

Courtney said, on March 5, 2007 3:07 PM:

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

Dave Taylor said, on March 5, 2007 3:15 PM:

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

Kate said, on March 8, 2007 7:39 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

matt said, on March 14, 2007 9:00 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.

rawr said, on April 3, 2007 7:09 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?

Jamie said, on May 11, 2007 10:30 AM:

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

Lynda said, on May 13, 2007 3:03 PM:

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?

aly said, on June 4, 2007 7:40 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

Garf said, on June 5, 2007 7:42 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

jennie said, on June 9, 2007 8:13 AM:

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

Solomon said, on September 10, 2007 12:06 AM:

How do you change your age on myspace?

Amras said, on October 25, 2007 11:25 PM:

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

jenny said, on January 12, 2008 10:39 AM:

hey how do you chage myspace age

Stewart said, on July 3, 2008 8:45 PM:

Add URL link to image(Myspace)
All the info I have found and tried just won't work. I'm trying to add a link to the image below(UPPERCASE)
..either the image disapears, or msplink takes over.
CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE
Stewart
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Kelly said, on August 9, 2008 8:04 PM:

how do i change my marital status to something other than the listed options

tracey said, on June 4, 2009 3:18 PM:

How do you change your relationship status on myspace from an iPhone?

Dave Taylor said, on June 4, 2009 4:18 PM:

Kelly, I think you're out of luck. They have a few options defined and that's all they got.

Tracey, I dug around in the iPhone MySpace app and can't see that they let you change any of your major status settings. I'm a tiny bit curious why you can't just use a Web browser to make this important change, but that's probably not my business. :-)

Asim said, on September 27, 2010 7:45 AM:

change my yahoo profile

Mdaslamka said, on December 14, 2011 12:01 PM:

How do i chance my lifestyle?

I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

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

How do I change my lifestyle profile on MySpace?

Reader Comments To Date: 21

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