Personality Survey for MySpace

Putting up a personality survey for MySpace is a fun and easy way to let other people get to know you and also learn about your friends online.

Personality surveys come in all shapes and sizes, but they have one thing in common: they are about you. They are designed to ask questions that will help people learn more about your likes, dislikes and other qualities. One of the most common personality surveys for MySpace is posted places such as 123MyCodes.com.

The questions start out asking about qualities that are directly related to your personality. Are you conceited? is an example, along with questions about shyness, generosity, and other general qualities. There are a couple of problems with these kinds of questions, though: not many people will say "yes, I am spoiled!" especially on a form that is designed to introduce them to strangers on the web.

Still, the baseline has to be set somehow, and some of the questions come at the question of personality through oblique means. Questions about viewing habits or situational circumstances, like how you treat the elderly, are designed to give people an idea about your personality based on what you do.

Again, there are problems with this method of getting to know someone. For example, one question is about whether or not a person watches the TV show "Dora the Explorer." Most likely, that's with the idea that someone watches it for themselves. However, it's just as likely that someone might watch it with their children - which puts people in a very different demographic, personality-wise. Asking if someone believes in "magic" is a difficult one, because the word can mean so many different things.

With these kinds of limitations, there became a demand for the ability to create your own personality quizzes, based around your own interests. Sites such as QuizCat were created to meet this need.

Essentially a community of quiz creators, the people on QuizCat can store their quizzes for other people to try out and repost wherever they like, including MySpace. The themes are much more creative in these personality quizzes, with ideas like:

• Have you ever...
• Your First Time...
• First Reactions
• What would you do if...

It's easy to see how these questions can be funny, or thought provoking, or both. It's also easy to shape your quizzes around focus groups. "What kind of Harry Potter Fan are you?" could be a subject, for example.

Making your own quiz is a simple matter of joining the site and then filling in some blanks - setting up categories such as "crushes." "girlfriends" and "emo". You can also select tags that help people find your quiz, and even customize it with your own image (though you may want to be careful with copyright).

Then comes the real work of the survey: coming up with clever questions and answers for multiple choice questions. You can just go off the top of your head, or put a lot of thought into them; since there's no limit to the number of quizzes you can create, you can practice a few before figuring out what you want to do next.

Regardless of whether you use your own survey or someone else's, putting up the personality survey for MySpace is the easiest thing of all. All of the quiz sites have "generate" buttons that produce HTML code that will easily copy and paste onto your MySpace page. There are a variety of ways to do that, but many quizzes will simply have the directions for customizing your MySpace page with whatever format the quiz takes.

Before jumping into creating your own quiz, take a few minutes and see what you like and don't like about them. That way you can make yours not only entertaining, but a reflection of your own personality as well.

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