You may have also found your teen using the above technique. But what if theirs or their friends profile is set to private, allowing you to see only a small piece of information? The next two sections will help you get around this situation. You will first need to fully understand the Advanced Searching techniques that were taught in the first section of this book.

Lets say you found someone of interest (your teen or a known friend of your teen) but their profile is set to private. Here is the first approach you want to take to try and gleam a bit more information out of MySpace. The profile below is private:

But as you can see below, without being a MySpace “friend”, anyone can view this unprotected page:

 

 

This is the same profile as above (jenna712).

Why might have jenna712 made her profile private? Maybe it’s because she states “LeTs Go HoMe N gEt Stoned” above her info to the right of the photo.

It could also be because she says “My two favorite leisure activities are blazing and getting crunked” …all references to drug use.

Oh, wait, no….maybe it’s because she has photos of herself blatantly smoking something out of a glass pipe:

 

OK, so you can understand why jenna712 wanted to make her profile private. But what you might not understand is how to view it without being a MySpace “friend” of jenna712.

Here’s how, step-by-step, using our first strategy: