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How to Sign Up for a Facebook Account
To join Facebook, all you need is a valid e-mail address. After you register for a Facebook account, you'll receive an e-mail confirmation. Join Facebook by going to [more…]
How to Join a Facebook Network
When you sign up for a Facebook account, you’re prompted to join a network. Facebook offers four types of networks: city, school, workplace, and regional. Joining a network expands your Facebook experience [more…]
Exploring Links on the Facebook Blue Bar
The blue bar at the top of Facebook pages is home to the most important Facebook links. Navigate Facebook’s blue bar to move around on the site quickly. By exploring the site, you'll learn to feel comfortable [more…]
What’s on the Facebook Applications Menu?
Facebook offers an Applications menu that lets you access services that leverage the core Facebook elements, including Profile information, Friend associations, the Facebook Calendar, and Inbox. These [more…]
What Links Are on the Facebook Footer?
At the bottom of every Facebook page is a set of links collectively called the footer. The Facebook footer is the catch-all for important information about Facebook the social network, Facebook for business [more…]
What Is a Facebook News Feed?
Facebook News Feeds aren't like TV news channels. Rather, Facebook News Feed shows the latest actions that your friends are taking on Facebook, such as photo uploads, comments, Wall posts, profile changes [more…]
How to Set Up Your Facebook Profile
Setting up a Facebook profile is separate from signing up for a Facebook account. After you join Facebook, you should fill in your profile — the information that people can see about you. A Facebook profile [more…]
How to Promote a Business with a Facebook Pages Profile
Facebook Pages — an online presence for brands, businesses, stores, restaurants, and artists — enable companies (or the self-employed) to engage with Facebook users. Facebook Pages offers a suite of features [more…]
How to Control Who Can See What on Your Facebook Page
As you build your Facebook profile, you can control who can see all the information it contains, almost line by line. Only the people in your networks can see your profile. Therefore, the default settings [more…]
How to Find Your Friends on Facebook
The Friend Finder is a Facebook tool that matches e-mail addresses from your e-mail address book to people’s profiles on Facebook. Because each e-mail address can be associated with only one Facebook account [more…]
How to Import an Address Book to Find Friends
If you use a desktop e-mail client (like Microsoft Exchange or Entourage), Facebook can’t automatically find your friends. You must import your address book so that Facebook can check it for friend matches [more…]
How to Use Facebook’s AIM Friend Finder
Facebook’s AIM Friend Finder works only if you use AIM as an instant messenger (IM) client for chatting with your friends. If you send invitations to friends to join Facebook, via the AIM Friend Finder [more…]
How to Build Your Facebook Profile
Your Facebook Profile is how you represent yourself to your friends, family, and others. You can stick to a basic profile or expand your profile by using the boxes and lists on your Facebook page. [more…]
How to Remove Someone from Your Facebook Friend List
As you become more active on Facebook, you may find yourself with too many friends you don’t care about anymore. Removing friends is just as easy as adding them was. And cutting down your Friend list might [more…]
How to Upload Your Photos on Facebook
Facebook is a great place to keep your photos because you can upload them and then easily organize them into albums to share with all the people who might want to see them. You can upload albums for anything [more…]
How to Edit Your Photo Albums on Facebook
After you upload photos for your Facebook album, you have several editing options all gathered on one page. You can add photo captions, choose a photo to be on the album cover, and add or delete photos [more…]
How to Tag Your Photos on Facebook
Tagging your Facebook photos means marking who is in the picture. When you tag a Facebook friend in a photo, it creates a link from her profile to that picture, and notifies her that you’ve tagged her. [more…]
How to View Photos of Yourself on Facebook
You can view photos of yourself on Facebook if your friends (or you) have you tagged in them. To see all the photos of yourself, click the View Photos of Me link under your profile picture. [more…]
How to Use Facebook's Profile Picture Album
Facebook automatically creates a photo album (the Profile Picture Album) for you when you sign up. Every time you upload a new profile picture, Facebook adds it to the Profile Picture Album. [more…]
How to Set Photo Privacy on Facebook
Take advantage of Facebook's photo privacy settings. You can control who can see the photos you upload on Facebook through the privacy settings on a per-album basis. But even if the photo of you is tagged [more…]
How Facebook Protects Your Privacy
Using Facebook’s privacy options wisely is the best way to share the right information with the right people. Setting the privacy options in Facebook keeps your information hidden from people you don’t [more…]
How to Set Privacy on Facebook’s Friend Lists
On Facebook, you can use existing Friend Lists to restrict access to specific content. Facebook enables you to include and exclude groups of friends from being able to see parts of your profile and content [more…]
How to Write Notes in Facebook
The Facebook Notes feature is a way of writing entries (notes) about your life, thoughts, or latest favorite song, and sharing them with Facebook friends. Writing Notes lets you blog without distributing [more…]
How to Format a Note in Facebook
You can format your Facebook notes, but it does take a bit of work. Facebook Notes doesn't have a Rich-Text editor that enables you to press a large B, I, or U to have your text come out bold, italicized [more…]
How to Use Facebook’s Coworker Search
Facebook’s Coworker Search uses the work history information that people enter into their profiles to help you find coworkers to join your friends list. Facebook lets you enter current and past work information [more…]
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