S4S (Sign for Sign) -
Making a myspace fan sign for someone with the expectation that he or she will reciprocate by making you a fan sign.

The purpose of a fan sign is to make you appear as though you have fans. Typically someone who wants to make you a sign for a sign will ask you in a comment. It should look something like this:
“Hey baby ur so fkkin sexxee.. S4S?”

The most important advice for S4S is this:
When someone invites you to do a sign for a sign, make sure they do their sign first or make sure you talk to them a while and trust them enough to make you a sign.

Typical Paper / Cardboard Signs

A “fan sign” on myspace is usually a piece of paper held up next to your face in the mirror with “I love (some person’s screen name and myspace ID)” or something like “(some person) is sexy/hawt/etc”.

Here’s an example of a regular paper sign:

It’s kind of boring, so you probably want to spruce things up a bit with colors at least.

This is how a paper sign should probably look. Notice how it’s easy to read the sign and all the personal touches that say “this would have been a pain to do in photoshop”:

This person took the shortcut and held up a piece of white paper so he could photoshop on the writing later. We don’t recommend the lazy way because it looks cheap and fake:

If you’re going to photoshop your signs, they should look creative like this one:

Make sure you hold your sign up properly and that your camera is focused correctly on the sign (and maybe also your face if you have a nice one). Don’t do this:

Try to be creative with your myspace signs, there are a lot of things you can do. Here are some S4S ideas:

Body Signs and Hand Signs

Some people prefer a “body sign” or “hand sign” which is the same as a fan sign, except instead of using paper, you use a marker on your skin (such as your fingers or the palm of your hand, or your boobs / tummy / etc). Remember that Myspace doesn’t allow females to show nipples or anyone to show butt cracks or genitals. Tom will delete you or make you brake yo’self. Oh yeah for body signs - if you don’t got it, don’t flaunt it.

Here’s an example of a nice, quick, simple hand sign done with a marker:

This guy has a decent body, but the sign was kinda quick and dirty. I suppose he wanted Hollie to stare at his body while she tried to figure out what the sign says:

This skinny emo kid made a pretty good sign for Raine a.k.a. Nintendoll. He turned up his contrast really high in order to make the sign easier to read (or maybe to hide chest hairs, who knows.) I think it’s a success. A body sign should probably look something like this:

Fan art isn’t really a sign, but I thought it was worth mentioning here. If you have fan art, it means you have some actual real fans who are extremely dedicated. Drawing a picture of someone (or tastefully photoshopping it) takes a lot of work. Train whores have lots of signs on their myspace profile page, but scene queens and real celebrities have fan art instead.

Here’s an example of what Fan Art is supposed to Look like (Artwork drawn by Callowlily for Anita. K.):

More Advice on Myspace Signs

• Beware of betches on myspace who hit u up and fkkin lie and don’t do their sign after u do ur sign.
• When you put signs up on your page, create a separate album and label it “signs” or “fansigns” or even better “signs - add these ppl” (with their short myspace URL or friend ID next to their signs)
• Always give credit to the person making you a sign unless they perfer to remain anyonymous (like anyone does?)
• Most people prefer that you put their short myspace URL ( www.myspace.com/somegirl ) as the caption of their photo. You should prefer this too if you want lots of people to see that you’re down for S4S and you want lots of people to add you.
• If you’re going to be lazy and photoshop your signs instead of making a real sign by hand, then at least be creative in photoshop and make sure people know you aren’t a fake.

ok…..I’m pretty sure there is a much easier way of doing this but…being me and using both
sides of my brain to accomplish something..I came up with this horrible method. Normally i just upload about 4 seconds of video to GIFNINJA.com and they do there stuff and out pops a video converted into a gif….but for some reason lately they havent been doing anything at all….just errors….so screw you gifninja lol……plus they make the gif picture itself really small and they only use a few frames per second….instead of my usual 16 or so frames….which makes for a crappy gif in my opinion so….

1. Take a video of what you want and upload it to your computer. I don’t use mac…..(I absolutely hate editing on MAC computers) sorry….and load your video into windows movie maker.
2. edit your video how you want it (remember theres no sound in GIF’s…it’s a picture file not a movie)
3. I suggest you speed up your video using the video effects options. And seriously….only use about 4 seconds of video total…or your gunna hate doing this.
4. SAVE SAVE SAVE!
5. now for the fun part. Remember how i told you to speed up your video…if you didnt do so your gunna hate this part…..Go to where you preview the movie….should be on the right side…looks like a regular old video player….on the bottom of the right corner there should be a picture of a camera. This will be your best friend for the next hour or so.

   Then Locate the little blue slider thingy on the video timeline.

   

   You are going to pause the video and move the slider verrryyyyy slowwwly to the next frame…at each frame click the picture button and save the picture to a folder in your “MY PICTURES” ******Make sure you number each picture in sequencial order….this will help later on.

   So…..do that for EVERY FRAME….just a heads up there are usually 12-16 frames per second….so remember when I told you to only use about 4 seconds? This is why

6. Ok so yay! you finished taking pictures of every frame and you should have over 50 new pictures all numbered and put in there own little picture folder.
7. Now….you need some sort of GIF editing software.I use Jasc Animation Shop 3 You can download the trial version of it here
8. When you have downloaded the program open each picture starting with number one and work your way up…..copy and paste the pictures into the boxes of the 1st picture…..all in order.Then save your animation

   Ta Da…..:)

   Mine took an hour.

pc4pc (short for Picture Comment for Picture Comment)
A bartering of services in which comments are exchanged, usually regarding photographs or pictures on a myspace page.

pc4pc is not just limited to the practice of soliciting attention, but rather considered a policy of common courtesy when engaging in online social networking. In other words, it is advisable to reciprocate comments any time comments are given.

Example of a typical pc4pc scenario:

1. “Girl A” announces a “pc4pc on default” offer in her status and bulletins.
2. “Boy B” sees that “Girl A” is attractive and submits a comment on “Girl A’s” default photo. He writes, “Damn qirl U teh sex.”
3. “Boy B” now expects that “Girl A” will reciprocate with her own comment.
4. “Girl A”, in the process of approving hundreds of comments sees the comment “Boy B”, but “Boy B” is embarassingly unattractive. “Girl A” will most likely:
   1. Ignore “Boy B” and not comment back
   2. Comment back under the general comments (rather than the picture comments) with a message like “Thanks.”
   3. Courteously comment back on the easiest picture to access with a message like “Thanks.”

A Video of a young girl soliciting Picture Comments for Picture Comments (for those of you who don’t read):

A Video of kids with braces explaining the importance of PC4PC etiquitte:

The well organized, experienced myspace whore will rotate one or two photos into an album in the upper left corner called “Comment these, Bitches” and move older images to a different album which may be called “Old - Don’t comment.”

Question:
I keep getting this “piggy bank / dollar bill” or “I bought you as my PET, click here to see how much you’re worth” spam in my comments. This problem started ever since Myspace launched their new applications. Is there any way to block this spam?

Answer:
You can easily block all comment spam from myspace applications in just 3 easy steps.

1. Click here to go to “applications” under your account settings page (you may have to log in.)
2. Un-check “Allow applications to send me messages and comments.”
3. Save changes.

Question:
What happened to the “View all friends” link? It disappeared when I made my Top 16 code. Is that normal?

Answer:
This only happens if you forget to fill in the “View All Friends” box when you’re generating the Top 16 code. Don’t worry, you don’t have to re-type everything to fix it. First go to the Top 16+ editor and paste in your Top 16 code. Then just go to your Myspace home page and right click your “view all friends” then click “copy shortcut” (or “save link location” in Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape). Paste this into the Top 16 generator where it says “View All Friends URL”.

Question:
Ok, so I just did the Top 16 thing. My friends’ names all showed up but their pictures are missing! Instead of seeing pix for each of my friends I get “..” How do I fix that?

Answer:
Make sure that you’re putting in the right “Image URLs.” To get an image URL, just view all your friends from your Myspace home page, then right click each of your friends’ pics and go to “properties.” from here you can copy (CTRL +C) and paste (CTRL+V) the urls into the code generator. In some versions of Firefox you can just click “Copy image location” then just paste (CTRL+V) right into the code generator.

Question:
Why does my old Top 8 still show up? I made my Top 16 and it shows up fine, but for some reason I can’t get rid of my old top 8 and now my profile looks all crazy. Is that normal? I’m a superstar and I can’t afford to have a sloppy looking Myspace profile.

Answer:
The Top 16 is supposed to completely replace your top 8. I’ve seen this problem happen with Myspace users who have broken code before the Top 16+ section. There are some bad generators out there (usually quizzes) that leave broken tags and broken <table> tags all over the place. The quick way to fix this problem is to remove these extra codes that come before the “Who I’d like to meet” section one by one until your old top 8 goes away and your profile looks right. Start with quizzes since those are what breaks people’s profile most of the time. As you remove codes, you can paste them into notepad as backups.

Question:
After I make a Top 16, can I go back and edit my code without having to re-type everything all over again? I make changes all the time and I just want to re-generate the code without editing html and style sheet code.

Answer:
No Problem! You can paste your code back into the Top 16+ editor all in one shot and start where you left off without having to re-type all that stuff. Even if you used one of those knock off Top 16 sites to generate your code, The Top 16+ will import your old code and let you edit your friend space as many times as you want.

Question:
Why don’t all of my friends show up when I paste my code into the Top 16+ editor?

Answer:
Go to http://www.locohost.net/myspace_top16 and create a new top12 or top16 or top80 etc. When you make your new one, be sure to use the long urls instead of the short ones… in other words:

The editor can only read friend URLs that start with http://profile.myspace.com…..
The editor will skip short URLs that look like http://www.myspace.com/myfriend

You’ll have to retype the missing friends. This time be sure to copy the long URL instead of the short one. You can do this by right clicking that friend and going to “copy shortcut”.. in Firefox or Netscape “copy link location” instead.

Once you generate this new code using long URLs, you can edit it by pasting it back into the Top 16+ editor.

Question:
I accidentally deleted my friend Tom. I guess he’s too busy to re-add me or something. I think he locks himself in the bathroom for hours and takes pictures of himself in front of the mirror. Isn’t there some way to force-add him without his permission? I heard you could do this with a Top 16 code.

Answer:
Sure! You can list anyone you want in your Top 16, but you’ll have to send your friend an add request and he’ll have to approve it before you can leave comments.

Question:
Where can I ask a question? I need more help from a real person… ideally I’d like help from a good looking person who really knows how to code this stuff.

Answer:
Go to this group and join up! You can ask the creator of the Top 16+ any question you want here. There are a lot of other html and style sheet coders in the group who can help you customize your Myspace profile pretty much any way you want. You should get an answer within a few hours, and everyone in the group is good looking enough to be Top 16 material.

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