for Beginners

Facebook is a social networking website — a gathering spot, to connect with your

friends and with your friends friends. Facebook allows you to make new

connections who share a common interest, expanding your personal network. —hallman.nccommunities.org/glossary

By Katheryn A. Woodworth

http://www.facebook.com/katheryn.woodworth

Registering & Logging In

Ignore “Create a Page” unless you have a purpose for it.

Whenever you want to use Facebook, all you have to do is Log In at the top

of the Facebook page with your email and the password you signed up with.

Fill out the form

truthfully, then

click the “Sign Up”

button.

If you don’t have a

Facebook account,

Sign Up with this

simple form. You

only need to do this

once.

Your Profile

Your profile is where you share information about yourself. You want to include

things that you would want family and friends (or possibly coworkers and/or

clients) to know, but not information that you want to keep private. There are

privacy settings, but they only protect you up to a point. There are some things

such as social security numbers, credit cards, or even your home address and

phone number that you may not want to share with others.

There are many easy shortcuts for editing the personal information

located in your profile.

Editing Your Profile

Remember to click the “Save Changes” button when you modify anything.

Menu for the different Profile sections. Click one

to make changes in that section.

Privacy

Basic privacy settings.

More specific, custom

privacy settings.

Friends

You can easily add

“friends” (contacts) using

the Search features, through

suggestions from existing

friends, or by allowing

Facebook to tap into the

contacts you have saved in

your email or IM program.

Friends & Privacy: Lists

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2.

3.

Facebook now allows for the creation of customized lists that you can use to

increase your privacy by excluding contacts from viewing specific content such

as individual wall posts or particular photo albums. You can also use lists to

organize Friends and send messages & invites to specific groups.

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7.

After creating a list,

you will be able to

return to your

Privacy settings. Just

click on “Customize

settings”.

4. Choose a name

for this custom

list.

5. Search & select

friends to add

to the list.

8. Go to one of the

individual drop

down menus &

choose “Custom”.

9. Enter the Name

of your list in

“Hide this from”.

Home: News Feed

The “News Feed” is how you can keep up with what your friends and

“Likes” are posting to Facebook all in one place.

Your News Feed is not visible to others—only to you.

This is the page that Facebook will automatically show when you log in.

This is also your “Home” page.

Clicking “Home” in the top right corner will bring you back to this page.

The Wall

Your “Wall” is where you can post & read your updates. Updates can be a

few words, a small paragraph, a web link, or even a photo or video.

You may allow friends & even visitors to write on your wall. They can also

comment on or “Like” what has been posted if you allow it.

Whether or not others can post and/or view content on your wall is

controlled from the Privacy settings.

If you have permission, you may post on your friends’ walls.

Photos

Facebook allows you to easily save and share photos. To get started, click on

the “Profile” tab at the top right of the page. You will see your “Photos” tab

next to the Wall and Info tabs. Click on the “Photos” tab to start uploading

digital pictures from your computer.

Once you have created an album and have some photos uploaded, you will

then be able to access them from a second entry point down the left-hand

side of your profile (under your “Friends” box).

Click on the “Photos” tab. Then either “Create a Photo Album” to start a

new album or click on an existing album to add photos or make changes.

Albums

“Create an Album” view. Fill in the boxes, choose a privacy level, then click

the blue “Create Album” button.

Adding Photos

2. Click the “Select

Photos” button.

3. Choose your photo

and then click the

“Open” button.

1. Click the “Add More

Photos” link to add

photos to an existing

album.

Applications

(Taken from the Facebook Help Center)

What is an application on Facebook?

Applications on Facebook are designed to enhance your experience on the site

with engaging games and useful features like Events and Photos. Some

applications are built by Facebook developers, but most applications are built by

outside developers who use Facebook's APIs and abide by Facebook's Developer

Principle and Policies.

Applications on Facebook allow you to play social games with your friends,

remember friends' birthdays, share your taste in movies, send gifts to friends, and

much more.

Apps that you use will appear in the top list under your name. Apps and

games that your Friends use will appear when you click on the links for

“Applications” and “Games”. Some apps are Facebook approved or are a

part of Facebook, while others are offered by third parties.

Friends can send you invites to use the same apps that they are using. You

can add, ignore, or block the app from the invitation.

Apps can access your private information, so you should always evaluate an

app (number of users, reviews, usefulness, etc.) before adding it.

For More Help

Facebook for Dummies

by Abram, Carolyn & Leah Pearlman. 2010

New Books 006.7 Abr

Facebook: The Missing Manual

by Vander Veer, Emily A. 2008.

Non-fiction 006.7 Van

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting

the World

by Kirkpatrick, David. 2010.

New Books 338.761 Kir

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex,

Money, Genius and Betrayal

by Mezrich, Ben. 2010.

New Books/Non-fiction 006.7 Mez

Facebook Resources for Beginners

http://www.facebookforbeginners.com/

Tip: For video tutorials, try going to www.youtube.com and searching for “facebook”

or “facebook for beginners” or introduction to facebook”.

You can also try these same searches in Google. Use the “Videos” selection that

appears on the left hand side of the page to narrow your results to just videos.

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Updated: 9/7/10