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Facebook: The Missing Manual, Third Edition
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The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgements
The Missing Manual Series
1. Introduction
How Facebook Works
What You Can Do on Facebook
Social Activities
Professional Uses for Facebook
About This Book
Missing Manuals on Facebook
About MissingManuals.com
Safari® Books Online
2. Getting Started
Signing Up for an Account
Step 1: Finding Your Friends on Facebook
Step 2: Creating Your Profile
Step 3: Adding a Picture of Yourself
Confirming Your Facebook Registration
Viewing Your Profile
Adding Basic Info
Adding or Changing Your Profile Picture
Adding Relationship-Related Stuff
Adding Education- and Work-Related Info
Adding Your Philosophical Views
Adding the Stuff You Like and Do
Adding Contact Info
Viewing Your Facebook Home Page
Changing Account Info
3. Joining a Network
How Networks Work
Viewing the Networks You’re Already On
Joining a Network
Leaving a Network
Suggesting a New Network
4. Finding and Adding Friends
How Facebook Friends Work
Finding Friends
Finding People Who Are Facebook Members
Finding People Who Aren’t Facebook Members
Finding New Friends
Inviting People to Be Your Friend
Responding to Friend Requests
Confirming Email Requests
Confirming Requests in Facebook
Ignoring a Friend Request
Viewing Your Friends
Organizing Your Friends
Creating a Friend List
Viewing a Friend List
Editing a Friend List
Deleting a Friend List
Breaking Up: Unfriending Friends
5. Sending Messages to Friends
Sending Messages
Sending Messages to Friends
Sending Messages to People You’re Not (Yet) Friends With
Sending a Message to More Than One Person
Receiving Messages
Viewing Your Facebook Inbox
Reading and Responding to Messages
Chatting
Poking
Writing on Walls
Writing on a Friend’s Wall
Responding to a Wall Post
6. Exchanging Automatic Updates
Types of Updates
News Feeds: What Others Are Doing
Customizing Your News Feed
Mini Feeds: What You’re Doing
Customizing Your Mini Feed
Facebook Notifications
Choosing Which Notifications You Want to See and Where
Subscriptions
Subscribing to Friends’ Status Updates
Subscribing to People’s Notes
Creating Notes (Blogs)
Typing Notes from Scratch
Importing Notes from an Existing Blog
Viewing and Changing Your Notes
Restricting Access to Your Notes
Adding Comments to Notes
Tagging Notes
Finding Mentions of Yourself in People’s Notes
7. Participating in Groups
What’s a Group?
Joining a New Group
Participating in New Groups
If You’re a Group Member
If You’re a Group Administrator
Creating a New Group
Adding Friends to a New Group
Changing a New Group’s Privacy Setting
Deleting a New Group You Started
Finding, Joining, and Participating in Old Groups
Searching for Old Groups
Joining an Old Group
8. Facebook and the Real World: In-Person Events
Types of Events
Finding Public Events
Searching for Events by Name or Subject
Seeing Your Friends’ Events
RSVPing to an Event
Creating Your Own Events
9. Going Shopping
The Marketplace Application
The Friend Factor: Ads from Facebook Connections
Cost: Free, Risk: Yours
Finding and Viewing Marketplace
Placing an Ad
Changing Your Ad
Finding Stuff
Answering an Ad
10. Hiring and Getting Hired
Recruiting New Hires
Creating a Recruitment Page
Paid Advertising
Posting a Marketplace Ad
Working with a Recruiting Firm
Searching for Prospects
Announcing an Opening to Your Friends
Vetting Prospects
Looking for a Job
Turning Your Profile into a Resumé
Using the Marketplace
Networking
11. Collaborating on Projects via Facebook
Keeping in Touch
Sending Messages
Setting Up Meetings
Exchanging Ideas
Creating and Subscribing to Notes
Exchanging Files
Sharing Pictures
Creating and Filling an Album
Editing Your Album
Viewing Your Album
Restricting Access to Your Albums
Tagging (Labeling) Your Pictures
Sharing Links and Other Items
Keeping Up-to-Date with Notifications
12. Advertising on Facebook
Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More
How Pages Work
Creating a Page
Liking Pages
Social Ads (Targeted Announcements)
Creating and Running a Social Ad
Connect Facebook to Your Website with Widgets
High-Dollar Options
13. Customizing Facebook and Adding Apps
Modifying Your Home Page and Profile
Facebook Applications: An Overview
Finding Applications
Adding Applications
Using Applications
Troubleshooting Applications
Controlling Who Knows You’re Using Applications
Deleting Applications
Applications and Privacy
Facebook Games
Finding Games
Paying for Games (and Other Stuff) with Facebook Credits
Buying Credits
Checking Your Credits Balance
Using Credits
14. Playing It Safe: Facebook Privacy
Privacy and Facebook: An Overview
Privacy Threats
Strategies for Keeping Your Info Private
Deciding How Much to Share
Controlling Access to Your Account
Adjusting Your Privacy Settings
Controlling Who Sees Your Profile, Contact, and Friend Info
Hiding from Facebook and Web Searches
Deciding What Applications Can Access (and Blab)
Controlling Which Sites Can Access Your Profile
Fighting Back
Blocking Individual Members
Reporting Violations
15. Facebook Mobile
How Facebook Mobile Works
Setting Up Facebook Mobile
Activating Your Phone
Adjusting Your Settings
Using Facebook Mobile
Surfing Facebook from Your Phone
Interacting with Facebook via Text Message
Uploading a Picture or Video
Subscribing to Friends’ Status Updates
Deactivating Your Phone
Checking In with Places
Getting Set Up
Adjusting Your Privacy Settings
Checking Yourself (and Your Friends) In
Finding Your Friends
Removing a Check-in
A. Getting Help
Facebook Help
Getting Help from Other Facebook Members
Contacting Facebook
Useful Facebook-Related Websites
Index
About the Author
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