| We live in the age of social networking. Every | | | | MySpace profile is a place entirely dedicated to you; it |
| computer-savvy person has heard, at least a hundred | | | | represents you and expresses your thoughts, feeling, |
| times, of popular social networking sites such as | | | | beliefs and ideas. |
| MySpace, Yahoo! 360, or Classmates, and almost | | | | So, If you want that great noticeable MySpace profile, |
| everybody uses online messaging services.If you want | | | | start looking for the best icons to use. Keep them |
| to get noticed on MySpace you need to create an | | | | simple and meaningful and in line with the overall theme |
| impressive MySpace profile. This means using good | | | | of your profile. For instance, if you want a romantically |
| content and attention to the graphics that MySpace | | | | themed site then make sure you use a love icon. (For |
| allows you display - in particular your own image and a | | | | starters do a Google search of "love icon") |
| variety of other icons such as love icons. | | | | Icons are great tools for self-expression, especially in |
| Every one of today's applications uses icons. It is the | | | | instant messaging, and they are used to represent |
| easiest, simplest and most efficient way to create | | | | emotions and identities. Emotion icons (generally known |
| user-friendly interfaces. So, developers have come up | | | | as emoticons) make it so much easy to express a |
| with self-explanatory icons for their applications in | | | | feeling with a click of the mouse, than typing God |
| order to catch the user's attention. They reasoned that | | | | knows how many words. |
| the more users love icons, the more they would use | | | | If you are a teenager and love MySpace, then you |
| those particular applications. | | | | probably already love icons. And if you love icons, you |
| But people came to love icons so much that they | | | | will find simply irresistible. Be cool and have your own |
| began to use them all over the place. Not only do | | | | island (homepage) that you can access from any |
| computer users keep their computer desktop full of | | | | computer. Here, you can save your favorites and |
| colorful dazzling icons, but websites, buttons used for | | | | bookmark lists as… icons, of course. When you |
| navigation or instant messaging services are also very | | | | choose to create your homepage with icon links, it's |
| much reliant on various types of icons. MySpace | | | | like having a desktop for web. So, show off to your |
| profiles contain lots of these graphical icon | | | | friends. Start your own "love icon" mania and your |
| representations, because they enhance aesthetics. | | | | friends will follow you. And if they don't share your |
| Instant messaging users can customize their list of | | | | enthusiasm and they don't love icons as much as you |
| contacts by using "buddy icons" or "away icons". | | | | do, don't worry. You can make new friends online, who |
| Buddy icons act as identities of the people under a | | | | love icons and choose to design their MySpace profile |
| contact list. Some people love icons representing their | | | | by means of icons. |
| personal photos, others wish to display an artistic | | | | There is no wonder why people love icons since these |
| image, while others prefer arbitrary icons chosen to be | | | | small elements are of prime importance in the |
| unique. Away icons are intended to convey a | | | | understanding and quick identification of a concept or in |
| message when you are unavailable, so you inform the | | | | displaying emotions during instant messaging. Without |
| others that you have "stepped out", or you are "busy", | | | | them we wouldn't be able to express ourselves quickly |
| "away from the desk" or "on the phone". These are | | | | in this day and age. So it's quite impossible to imagine a |
| default messages but everyone can create specific | | | | Myspace profile without a love icon, a sad icon or |
| ones if they wish to let their friends know what they | | | | smiley icon. |
| are exactly up to, like "I'm out to lunch". After all, a | | | | |