Hide Myspace Friends?
"I added some code for hiding my friends list on Myspace, but my ex-friend somehow got the whole list and sent it to me as proof. How did she do this? Isn't that a security problem on Myspace?"
Hiding Your Myspace Friends List?
NEWS FLASH! A "hidden" friends list is not really hidden. If you view the source of the page, everything you thought was hidden is right there in the HTML code for your page. Try it... right-click on any Myspace profile page, select the View Source option, and it will open in a new text window.
It may take a bit of poking around in what looks like a jumble of computerese, but all the friends and links to their profiles are there. You can get to the right spot by doing a search in the code for "Friend Space".
If you paste the HTML/CSS code as shown below in the About Me section of your profile, you can turn off the display of the Friends list on the profile page. That makes it invisible to humans viewing the page with a web browser, but it doesn't actually remove anything from the page.
td.text td.text table table table,
td.text td.text table br,
td.text td.text table .orangetext15,
td.text td.text .redlink,
td.text td.text span.btext {display:none;}
td.text td.text table {background-color:transparent;}
td.text td.text table td,
td.text td.text table {height:0;padding:0;border:0;}
td.text td.text table table td {padding:3;}
td.text td.text table table br {display:inline;}
</style>
The "hide friends list" hack demonstrated above is not sanctioned by Myspace, and there's no guarantee it will work next week, next month or next year. If Myspace changes the structure or layout of the HTML code in user profiles, it could stop working, or even make something else invisible. So this is not a Myspace security issue. It would be nice if Myspace provided an option in the profile editor to hide or show the Friends list, but until that happens you'll have to use an unofficial hack like the one above, and live with a partial solution.
This underscores another point that I think many Myspace users don't quite understand. Your Myspace page is a public forum which can be viewed by anyone in the world, unless you make the profile private. It's not a place for one-to-one personal communication. And even if your page is private, the comments you post on other profiles may be public. If you have something personal to say, and you don't want it published for the whole world to see, use email or instant messaging instead.
Do you have any Myspace layout tips to share? Post your comments below...
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Most recent comments on "Hide Myspace Friends?"
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Jarrod Cyrus
16 Jun 2008
It is VERY possible and very easy to read Someones Comments on myspace and veiw there friends ETC. When all of it is hidden. Its simple. If they rally want to read them. Then thers really no preventing it. There are Numourous ways to do so.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks for the helpful information! I'll be sure to let you know if I have any other questions.
Posted by:
dfs
17 Jun 2008
If you are looking at someones page in the middle of the url adress it says viewprofile. Change it to viewfriends.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, this will show you the list of friends, but it will not work for private profiles.
Posted by:
nicole
17 Aug 2008
this code doesn't work for me, no code that i try to use works.
i do exactly what it tells me to do, but my top friends are still shown. Does the code actually hide your top friends as well?
because every code i try, nothing works and nothing changes; my top friends still remain there.
do you know if there's a code that hides your top friends on your profile too?
Posted by:
Jennifer
26 Sep 2008
Is there any way to hide just a category of friends? Due to the recent boom of Myspace applications, I have added tons of friends just for the applications. And put them into a Application category. I want them to be hidden on my friends list though? Any way?
EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't know of any way to do that, unless there's a DIV on the profile page that uniquely identifies the block of text. If so, you could add CSS code to make that DIV invisible.
Posted by:
twiin
16 Jan 2009
i want to hide my friends
EDITOR'S NOTE: I want a puppy.
Posted by:
Dan
31 Jan 2009
is there anyway to COMPLETELY make friends invisible? i tried the code, it doesnt work. my friend has a code that makes her comments invisible even when i type in "viewcomments" on her url with her friend id. i was wondering if you have any idea how to do that for friends
Posted by:
Diana
12 Feb 2009
hayyy i hide my top friends on my profile and i try to hide it when other people have another way to see them. how can you hide them both ways?? i need help because im tired of this girl takin all my friends. so reply. kthanks
Posted by:
Christian
15 Feb 2009
How do i hide my comments on myspace?
Posted by:
Lady
30 Mar 2009
yea it did work...for a first view of ur profile after u saved it. then it went back to ppl that know how to view ur hiddne friends/comments. damn.
Posted by:
lolgsil
09 Sep 2009
mmk, heres how you view someones pictures/friends/comments and stuff
click their picture, then in the url bar itll have like
"..picture&friendid=.."
change the "picture" to "friends" for friends list and "comments" for comments list
TADA the magic of url
p.s. codes only make the myspace page show a blank image instead of the list, its still their..