How pretty is your profile?

United States
March 9, 2008 4:40pm CST
I've never bothered with my profile page here on mylot. In actuality I find it difficult to manuever or to change. I rarely look at it, preferring to just access everything from my home page. I never get any notification that someone has left a comment on it, so I don't even go there for that reason and am surprised on the few occassions that I have to find that someone actually has. Have you taken the time to personalize your profile page and if you did, did you find it easy to do so? Or are you not bothered with it at all?
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49 responses
• United States
9 Mar 08
I took the time to set up my profile page. I just like designing pages, lol. I didn't find it to difficult, but I'm a person who changes and plays with her profile of many sites often just cause I like to do it so I've kind of had a lot of practice at that sort of thing. I was mad when mylot added that activity sortie because it messed my profile up, lol! But I've gotten it back to my satisfaction now, hehe.
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@icyorchid (2564)
• United States
10 Mar 08
How do you make it transparent? I figured out how to put the layout, just can't see it now. lol Thanks
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• United States
9 Mar 08
Really? I've changed my profile pages alot too, and thought I was pretty good at it, but can't figure this one out for the life of me.
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• United States
11 Mar 08
Ok sorry, I typed the link for coolchaser wrong. It's www.coolchaser.com. There is no (s) on the end of chaser. http://www.coolchaser.com/
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@gemini_rose (16264)
10 Mar 08
I have the basic skills to navigate my way around a computer, but thats about it! I dont go on my profile page at all, I put some photos on, which I keep meaning to take off because I dont see them and thats the only reason I put them on in the first place. I would not know where to start in personalising my profile page, I cant even figure how to change my avatar, and you know I only know it was called an avatar by being on here! Just one of the many things I have learnt along my journey with myLot. So although I would like to think I will change things eventually though.
• United States
10 Mar 08
Perhaps if they make our profiles more user friendly, then you may have more of an inclination to change your profile. I'm sorry you can't change your avatar. I obviously figured mine out, but its been so long ago, I don't know how I did it. LOL
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@gemini_rose (16264)
11 Mar 08
One of these days I will sit and have a play on it when I get the chance, getting the chance is not something that seems to happen very often!
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Mar 08
I would love to change my avatar but really do not know how to do it. Ijust want it to show that Hatley is Mrs hatley not some guy and using my last name has been confusing to others.
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
9 Mar 08
The last thing I did to my profile was put the music player on it, mainly because I promote Mylot and when I promote it, the music is attractive to others and will get people to look at my profile (I hope!) I don't think I've changed the pictures from day one! I do get confused about how you change things and as my comment says if it's not broke don't fix it, I am always frightened that if I muck about with it, I will lose everything so I leave it alone!
• United States
9 Mar 08
I've been thinking about adding a music player too, but I'm just as scared to do that as you are to mess with your profile at all. Did you have a hard time adding to a music player to your profile?
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
10 Mar 08
It wasn't easy I have to admit and it took ages and ages it's much easier to do on Yuwie but for some reason I just couldn't get it to work on Mylot, believe me it was blood sweat and tears that's why I don't want to touch my profile in case I screw it up!
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@icyorchid (2564)
• United States
10 Mar 08
I know you go to edit profile and add html, but mine isn't staying, nor is my transparent setting staying on my profile. Can anyone help me out? Thanks
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@vipulchawla (2220)
• India
10 Mar 08
Even i don't bother about how my profile page looks like.. It is still the same as the first time when i started using mylot an year ago except that i have changed my profile pic.. i find it difficult too to personalise my homepage here at mylot.. Its a little more complicated or i must say its not that user-friendly when it comes to personalizing your profile.. infact i had to ask a fried of mine how to change my profile pic.. I usually get notifications of my discussion being responded or my response being commented through a mail but now i m in a situation where i can't do that either.. I don't revert back to see the responses being commented unless i receive a mail.. But i love spending time here at mylot.. I usually respond to discussions which i find it on my home page..
• India
15 Mar 08
No.. i haven't changed any settings.. But i m unable to open my mail account...The Comapny peple have blocked public mailing sites in the office..Luckily i m left with mylot to spend my time over..
• United States
10 Mar 08
Is it possible that you changed your account settings and that is why you are not getting email notifications?
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• Lithuania
10 Mar 08
I didn't work hard with my profile here on myLot, just put in some photos and that's all. I don't care very much it will be popular, interesting or not, the most important that I like how it looks now.
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• United States
10 Mar 08
Thats ok too. Some people don't think the look of their profile should matter much.
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• Lithuania
11 Mar 08
We think similarly :)
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
9 Mar 08
The only thing that I have done on my Profile page, or to be perfectly honest, got someone else to put on for me, is the music to Avenue Q because I was having a discussion with someone that had never heard of it. I pick up all my responses from my Yahoo account although I do check for BRs and responses that I might have missed. Usually about a week late.
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• United States
9 Mar 08
Did you have a hard time adding the music or was it pretty straight forward?
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@annieroos (1845)
• United States
10 Mar 08
In the past i was able to do things to my profile.. now i just can't seem to get it.. i have tried changing my picture.. I have asked around and i can't seem to do it anymore.. It is true that since they changed things in the profiles.. it is harder.. But i like having a pretty profile..
• United States
10 Mar 08
I haven't tried since they have made changes. I tried when I first came to mylot. I just found it too overwhelming and have never looked at my profile since.
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
9 Mar 08
I think about the only thing I've done wiht my profile page is change the colour of the font but thats about it..I never go to it myself so I guess its just not a big deal for me..
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• United States
9 Mar 08
Can you change the font along with the color?
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@patgalca (18174)
• Orangeville, Ontario
10 Mar 08
I am like you. I rarely even look at my profile page. I did change the colour settings. (I'm pretty limited in my abilities). I also checked it out when myLot made changes. But honestly, I rarely look at it. I was surprised when I saw messages from people on there because I didn't even know that could be done so, needless to say, the messages were old by the time I saw them. I do check in once in awhile now but I'd rather spend my time responding to discussions.
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• United States
10 Mar 08
I know, by the time I first noticed I had comments on my profile, they were about 3 months old. LOL.
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• United States
10 Mar 08
I don't really go to my profile page. Don't pay a lot of attention to it after I set it up originally. In fact I need to go take a look at it and see what the changes are that the site has done. Since they have been doing different things to improve the site.
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• United States
10 Mar 08
Although they have made some changes to the site, apparently our profile page is not one of them. So many people in this discussion have complained that it is not user friendly at all.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
9 Mar 08
Mine is simple. It took me a while to get the hang of it though. I managed to add music and I did have pictures but I took them all off. I check it daily because I often converse with a friend through the comments page.
• United States
9 Mar 08
I think I've looked at my profile perhaps twice in the time I have been here. Thanks by the way for commenting on my pictures. That was really nice of you.
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@mouse27 (1155)
• Canada
10 Mar 08
i like you have never bothered with my profile page to make it all pretty or anything. i go thru the discussions thru my email i get so many sent to me that i don't have time to see what my profile looks like or what anyone elses looks like either.
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• United States
10 Mar 08
I think I've looked at my profile once. Since they have made changes it is probably completely different, but its no more decorated than it was the only time I looked at it.
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@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
10 Mar 08
I have been to some really nice profiles on mylot. Mine is not one of them! I have added some stuff but it is kind of boring still, not pretty at all. I have no idea how to make it pretty. I started a discussion a long time ago asking how to do it but only got like two responses and both of them were "I don't know." I don't really look at my own profile either so on the rare occassion that I do, I am always surprised if there is a comment on there. :)
• United States
10 Mar 08
Don't feel too bad about getting only two responses to your discussion, because based on this one, it doesn't look like too many people know how to change their profile.
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@mrpippo (756)
• United States
9 Mar 08
i personalized my profile a little bit, but not as much as i would have liked to ,it was'nt as easy as i thought, but it was'nt that hard either, if i did it and i dont know to much about computers i'm sure you can too ,i did it just to add some color to my back round it looks nicer but like you said it really does'nt make any difference ,i think i did it more because i was bored and had nothing better to do ..
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• United States
9 Mar 08
So far I haven't gotten that bored. I have too much to add to and have a hard time keeping up, but I have noticed that others do it and I guess it might contribute to people wanting to add themselves to our site.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
10 Mar 08
Mine, I kept simple for a long time as the intricacies of adding colors and fonts were too much for me.One day last month as I just was not in a mood to mylot I went and tried my hand in changing the profile page.It looks somewhat OK now atleast to me.
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@balasri (26537)
• India
10 Mar 08
I am happy that you liked it.Thank you very much.You can call me Bala.After all we are friends.Aren't we? And how shall Icall you please?
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• United States
10 Mar 08
I looked at your profile and it actually looks quite nice. I like the colors that you used.
• United States
10 Mar 08
Hi Bala, my name is Katherine. Thanks for asking.
@venshida (4836)
• United States
9 Mar 08
My profile is sad I am unsure on how to update. I see some other Mylotters profile, and I am in awe of how great theirs look.
• United States
9 Mar 08
Me too, I wish they would make it more user friendly.
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@quawertz (777)
• Philippines
12 Mar 08
I fixed my profile only once. And i find it pretty because it's pink ;) I didn't bother to fix my profile nowadays. I'd rather comment on discussions than fix my profile. Now you opened this discussion, I will try to fix and change the look of my profile.LOL
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@quawertz (777)
• Philippines
19 Mar 08
Well thank you. you made my day, LOL. That inspired me to prettify more my profile, LOL..
• United States
12 Mar 08
I had a look at your profile and it looks really nice.
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I finally managed -through lots of trial and error, kbourgerie, to lay out my profie page pretty well. Having very little experience with such things, I had to learn from scratch. I do visit my profile page at least a couple of times a week, and I plan to spend even more time there since I've added a music player. I also like to leave comments on my friend's pages and receive them from friends.
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• United States
11 Mar 08
I've looked at your profile and you've done a good job. Congratulations. By the way I see that you live in Dayton. I used to live there years ago and my mother still lives there. Sorry, but I can't say I miss it.
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
13 Mar 08
I agree, kbourgerie, that Dayton is not the best place in the world to live, but, hey, there are worst places. The loss of so many auto industry-related jobs has seriously hurt the economy here resulting in adding to the problems that we already had.
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• United States
13 Mar 08
I understand, my stepfather used to work for General Motors for years and of course got bought out. They do have alot of major paper companies though don't they, such as Standard Register, Meade and so on.
@ellie333 (21016)
9 Mar 08
My profile page is exactly how it was when I first joined myLot a cople of months ago. Wouldn't know where to start to alter it. I'm not that computer literate really, and it amazes me that so many people on her have there on links and websiters etc. attached to them. I'm not really that bothered. I just enjoy the discussions. Ellie :D
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• United States
9 Mar 08
My page is exactly the same too, but if I could change it I wouldn't add links or websites.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Mar 08
I tried but did not get far so just left it as it is. I am not too worried about it anyway as I would rather spend my time reading discussions and finding or trying to find some topic for a discussion that would really interest most people. I cannot come up with things as fast as some posters do because I do not want to feel ashamed of what I start as a discussion and do not want it to be too fluffy or too exotic for most people. So I just did the basics on my profile page. as a newbie I am still finding my way around MYLOt
• United States
10 Mar 08
Its hard to come up with discussions that haven't already been done in one form or another. And I agree its also hard to determine whats fluff and whats substance. You never know what people are going to answer to.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Mar 08
I know and I find it amuseing that some of the topics I had bypassed others started discussions with and got scads of responses.
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