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How can I stop receiving MySpace notifications?

I seem to have a high-profile MySpace account, I guess, because I get a lot of comments and friend requests. Problem is, they all end up in my regular work mailbox, which is bad. I seem to recall there's a way to turn off notifications of MySpace events, but I have no clue how to do so. Help!?


Dave's Answer:

I know just what you mean, as you can see here:

MySpace: New Everything!

That's about 12 hours worth of activity in MySpace, and while it's fun to see what my friends are doing, it does clutter up my regular mailbox. Fortunately it can be fixed, as you suspect!

When you log in to your MySpace account, you doubtless see something like this:

MySpace: Home Menu

Click on "My Settings" and you'll see the desired option three down:

MySpace: Change Account Settings

You can see it's "Notifications" and if you check the box, you've selected "Do not send me notification emails". Sounds likely, but let's double check by clicking on the tiny "help" link adjacent to the description.

Here's what it explains:

MySpace: Help Information for Notifications Setting

Sounds perfect. I'm going to check that box and click "Change" to save my settings. If you do the same, you should be saved from a never-ending flurry of MySpace notification messages!

Hope that helps you out. If you have the time, I have lots of additional MySpace Help on this site too.



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Comments

How do you delete a subscriber from your myspace blog?

Posted by: mirror mirror at March 19, 2007 7:18 AM

HEY

Posted by: NANCY at May 13, 2007 5:36 PM

hey, i have alot of people looking me up and i dont want them to so how do i change my last name so that when they type in my name they cant find me?

Posted by: Tayler at May 21, 2007 5:50 PM

thank you for telling me I neva knew how to do that. come and add me on myspace,ok?

Posted by: Hallee Regal at May 28, 2007 6:35 PM

that's 12hrs of myspace activity?
i get that and more in an hour.

Posted by: Grant at July 20, 2007 10:51 AM

its hard trying go on myspace when you dont have a computer

Posted by: tiffany at July 30, 2007 7:39 PM

hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Evelyn at January 28, 2008 5:40 PM

Thanks! Finnaly someone posted the help I needed. No more stupid annoying Myspace notifications! YAY

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