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How to Manage Facebook’s News Feed and Live Feed
Your Facebook home page gives you two views to help keep up with family and friends: News Feed, which is an aggregated and summarized view of your friends’ activity, and Live Feed, which is a constantly [more…]
How to Sync Your MySpace and Facebook Status Using Twitter
If you've got multiple social media accounts, such as MySpace and Facebook, it might be hard to keep every account synchronized and up-to-date when it comes to your status [more…]
How to Delete Your Facebook Account for Good
If you’ve ever tried to locate the Facebook passageway that takes you through the steps to permanently delete your account, you know it’s not easy to find. That’s because the popular social networking [more…]
FarmVille and Other Facebook Games
Perhaps you’re the sort who enjoys playing games? Whether you like action, making your own creation, or trying your hand at games of chance, you can find a place to play on Facebook. Follow the quick links [more…]
Add Emoticons to Facebook Status Updates
Emoticons (or Smileys) have been used since the 19th century to punctuate the written word with graphics simulated by characters. On Facebook, users who put emoticons in their status updates add a little [more…]
Using Targeting Filters in Facebook Advertising
Ensure that your Facebook ad is being shown to the right target audience. Facebook Advertising offers a variety of targeting filters you can use to make sure that only the people who match your criteria [more…]
Words to Know for Creating Facebook Advertisements
Facebook Advertising has its own set of terms and language, some of which may seem familiar to you but could carry another meaning. Here are the most commonly used — and most helpful — terms in Facebook [more…]
Important Facebook Advertising Resources
When you create a Facebook Ads campaign, it's important to know the range of possibilities and rules. Designing your Facebook Advertising campaign is easier when you turn to the resources on the following [more…]
Facebook Advertising For Dummies Cheat Sheet
When you use Facebook Advertising, you can target a precise audience for your ad from an audience of up to 500 million members. Facebook Ads enable you to start and stop ad campaigns on your schedule, [more…]
How to Get Verified on Facebook
Facebook has systems in place to detect any fake Profiles. Fake Profiles may be jokes (for example, someone creating a Profile for her dog), or they may be spammers [more…]
How to Navigate Facebook's News Feed
The Home page is what you see when you first log in to Facebook, and the News Feed is its predominant feature. You can interact with friends by commenting on their activity, keep up with current events [more…]
What It Means to Be Friends on Facebook
In many ways, a Facebook friend is the same as a real-life friend. However, subtle differences exist among your real-life friends and your Facebook friends: There are a few Facebook-specific things about [more…]
About Choosing Facebook Friends
On Facebook, you generally send friend requests to and confirm friend requests from only people you actually know. If you don't know them, click Ignore. Don't declare friendship on Facebook unless some [more…]
Why Should You Join Facebook?
Facebook lets you connect with people who matter to you. When you sign up, you start by finding the Profiles of the people you know and establishing your virtual connection to them. Facebook can become [more…]
Ground Rules for Using Facebook
Facebook is meant to represent real people and real associations; it's also meant to be safe. Many of the rules of participation on Facebook exist to uphold those two goals. This list is by no means exhaustive—there [more…]
How Students Use Facebook
Because of the level of trust found between schoolmates and the accountability of their peers, students are perhaps the group most open about the information they exchange on Facebook. As long as students [more…]
Who Can Join Facebook?
Anyone with any e-mail address is welcome to join Facebook. Originally, it was created as a way for students at a particular college or university to find and connect with each another. In fact, when Facebook [more…]
How to Sign Up for Facebook
All you need to join Facebook is a valid e-mail address. "Valid" means that you need to be able to easily access the messages in that account because you're e-mailed a registration confirmation. Simply [more…]
How Members Keep Facebook Safe
No one wants anything bad to happen to you as a result of something you do on Facebook. Facebook doesn't want that. You don't want that. In order to ensure your own safety on Facebook, you have to make [more…]
How Facebook Protects Its Members
Facebook has some of the most granular privacy controls on the Internet, enabling you to share real information comfortably on Facebook. There are a lot of horror stories out there about the Internet, [more…]
How to Customize Your Privacy Controls on Facebook
Facebook's Custom privacy option allows you to both include and exclude individuals or groups of friends from being able to see parts of your Profile and your content. Find the Custom option for any piece [more…]
Choosing a Facebook Profile-Building Strategy
A Profile is a set of information that helps you decide whether you and another person are destined to be friends. To say you have a "strategy" when you talk to someone for a length of time may be a bit [more…]
How to Upload Videos to Facebook
Uploading a video to Facebook involves going out into the world, recording something, and then moving it from your video camera onto your computer. Assuming you've already done that part and are now back [more…]
Using the Events Application on Facebook
Events is an application built by Facebook. To access its dashboard, click Events in the left column. This brings you to the Events page and opens up additional menu options for Events. The Events page [more…]
How to Send a Message on Facebook
You can think of Facebook messages pretty much the same way you think of personal e-mail, but with a few subtle differences. For one thing, no one can message more than 20 people at a time. Twenty is somewhat [more…]
