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My advice to Myspace users:

• If you’re going to “customize” your profile, please ensure that it is, in fact, readable. Don’t use busy backgrounds. Make sure your type isn’t microscopic and is of sufficient size and color to be read over the top of your background. Avoid Comic Sans - better choices are Verdana, Helvetica or Arial.
• Don’t embed videos that play automatically. I’m typically listening to my own stuff; I don’t need yours interfering. Also, for anyone on dial-up, your videos look like crap anyway.
• Make sure your background images aren’t gigantic. What’s the use in having a cool image if nobody sticks around to see it? If things take too long to download, I’m gone. I won’t wait for it unless I’m expressly coming there to see that image and really really want to wait around for it.
• Avoid chat speak and sticky caps like the plague. Chat speak is talking like, “hey u, r u thr? y u not say n e thing?” and sTicKy CaPs TeNd To Be SeLf ExPlAnAtOrY. They make you look dumber than you really are. Is it seriously that hard to type “you” instead of “u?” It’s also very difficult to read, since we’re not used to the word “anything” looking like “n e thing.”
• Don’t use marquees. They’re the words that scroll back and forth on the page. They have a time and place, but Myspace is not one of them. They’re just obnoxious.
• Same goes for badly animated gifs. Obnoxious and irritating. The worst are the “glitter” ones that say “princess” and the like. I seriously thought the whole princess thing was over about five years ago.

If you are still interested in customizing your Myspace profile, please have a look at Mike Davidson’s Hacking A More Tasteful Myspace article. It goes into detail about how to get certain portions of your profile to do certain things and have it still be tasteful.