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.

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.

Most recent news

& updates.

Friend’s status

update.

Friend’s friends’

comments.

Most popular

updates.

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

Menu for the different Profile sections. Click one

to make changes in that section.

Remember to click the “Save Changes” button

when you modify anything.

Privacy

More specific, custom

privacy settings.

“Friends Only” or custom settings are the best choices if you want to lock down

your profile from prying eyes.

Basic 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

1.

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.

6.

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”.

The Wall

Your “Wall” is where you can post 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.

Your status updates

& public messages

from Friends will

appear under your

basic info and

photo banner.

Facebook for Dummies

by Abram, Carolyn & Leah Pearlman. 2010

Non-fiction 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.

Non-fiction 338.761 Kir

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

Money, Genius and Betrayal

by Mezrich, Ben. 2010.

Non-fiction 006.7 Mez

A Guide to the New Facebook Home Page

http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php

Facebook Resources for Beginners

http://www.facebookforbeginners.com/

10 Things You Shouldn't Do On Facebook

http://techland.time.com/2011/01/10/10-things-you-shouldnt-do-on-facebook/

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: 4/27/11