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Updated: How do I change my MySpace profile picture?

I read your earlier article about how to change your default MySpace profile photo, but the suggestions did not help me at all. The way your instructions were explained, they did not flow with the current MySpace screens in either "classic" or "new" mode. Can you post an updated tutorial, please?


Dave's Answer:

Congratulations, you have found one of the biggest challenges of writing about Web sites: they keep changing. Most of the times the changes are fairly subtle and it'snot that big a deal, but sometimes the entire interface is revamped, new features are added, and things change so much that the older tutorial pages are pretty much useless.

I hate it too.

So I'm going to start a series of articles that offer updated instructions on how to accomplish common tasks in MySpace with the hope that it'll help everyone over the "interface improvements" hump, starting with this very article!

Where you can immediately get confused with MySpace is that you can't change your default picture by going to the "edit profile" area. Instead, there's a surprisingly easy shortcut once you know the secret!

Immediately below your picture you'll see a little "Photos: Edit | Upload" link:

Dave Taylor's pirate photo default photograph picture for his MySpace Profile

Click on "Edit" if you already have the picture you want to use uploaded, or "Upload" if you need to upload it first.

Now just click through the albums, etc, to get to the specific photograph or image you want to use as your profile picture and you'll see along the top a row of buttons:

MySpace Photo Options

Click on "Set as Default" and poof! You just changed your default photograph in MySpace. Well done!

:-)

Now, I should say that though a few articles are out of date, the vast majority of MySpace Help is a great place to learn more about how to use this cool social network, and if you want to find my profile there, well, I'm myspace.com/d1taylor.



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Comments

hey how are u i wanted to know how can we get on myspace at school

Posted by: Paris Bias at April 4, 2008 12:55 PM

Hey how are you i wanted to know how can i get on myspace at school we be board when we dont do nothing.

Posted by: Paris Bias at April 4, 2008 12:57 PM

How do i change my link on myspace? Can you tell me please.

Posted by: Kelly L at April 5, 2008 7:59 PM

Your instructions for setting the default photo at MySpace are compeltely wrong as of 4/13/08, with respect to using Firefox. Also, you should put dates with your instructions else nobody will know as of what date something applies. Personally, I am done with MySpace. My small 6-figure a year programming mind is not smart enough to handle such trivial tasks, so I will leave to the 10 year-olds.

Good luck

Posted by: Steve at April 13, 2008 2:35 PM

Odd you'd have that problem, Steve, as I wrote this entry just a few weeks before you commented and, as always, I used Firefox to do the screenshots and test things. Are you using "Classic" view? it's still 95% the same, certainly shouldn't be a big issue for a "six figure a year programming mind" :-)

Posted by: Dave Taylor at April 13, 2008 9:02 PM

This method does not work as described.

Posted by: Loren at April 26, 2008 11:18 PM

Following your instructions does not change my default picture. It used to work. It's been over a month since I changed it. Now it won't change. Perhaps there is a problem with Myspace.

Dave

Posted by: David Fowler at April 29, 2008 2:46 PM

Thank you!!! I have felt like an idiot for months b/c I couldn't figure out how to get rid of my profile pic.

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