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How to Customize What You Share on Facebook
Facebook lets you control who you share your information with. For most pieces of information on Facebook, you have five options for the audience to which you want to make a piece of content visible: [more…]
How Facebook Protects Its Members
Facebook’s part in keeping everyone safe requires a lot of manpower and technology power. The manpower involves responding to the reports that you and the rest of Facebook submit, as well as proactively [more…]
How to Sign Up for Facebook
Officially, all you need to join Facebook is a valid e-mail address. You get started by going to the Facebook sign-in page. You fill in some basic information, and then Facebook e-mails you a registration [more…]
How to Use the Facebook Friend Finder
The Facebook Friend Finder is very useful when you’re just getting started on Facebook because it allows you to find a whole bunch of friends all at once. If you had to look for each of your friends by [more…]
How to Upload Your Facebook Profile Picture
Uploading a Facebook Profile picture helps set you apart from other people with similar names. When you first sign up for Facebook, you have an opportunity to upload a picture to represent you. Make sure [more…]
How to Get Verified on Facebook
Confirmation and verification are Facebook’s way of trying to make sure you are really you, and that the e-mail address you used to sign up is really yours. After you finish the three getting started steps [more…]
What You Can Do on Facebook
Facebook lets you connect with people who matter to you. When you sign up for Facebook, one of the first things you do is establish your Profile. A Profile on Facebook is a social résumé — a page about [more…]
What You Can’t Do on 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. The rules here may change how [more…]
Navigating Facebook’s Blue Top Bar
Facebook pages all have the big blue bar across the top of the page. The blue bar is home to many of the important navigational links on Facebook. And anytime you’re looking at a Facebook page, you’ll [more…]
How to Navigate the Left Side of Facebook’s Home Page
The left column of your Facebook Home page is very important. Some of the options there follow you around no matter what page you are on. Here’s a summary of these links and what happens when you click [more…]
How to Navigate the Right Side of Facebook's Home Page
The Facebook Home page is divided into three parts. On the right side of your Facebook Home page, next to the News Feed, you find a somewhat random smorgasbord of what’s new, what’s now, and what’s coming [more…]
What It Means To Be Friends on Facebook
On Facebook, friendships are reciprocal, which means if you add someone as a friend, they have to confirm the friendship before it appears on both timelines. If someone adds you as a friend, you can choose [more…]
How to Send a Friend Request on Facebook
If you’re low on Facebook friends at the moment, don’t feel bad. There are many ways to find your friends on Facebook. And once you find them, you send a friend request. It’s easy! [more…]
How to Accept a Facebook Friend Request
You see your incoming Facebook Friend Requests in any of several places, including your e-mail account, your Friends page, and your Home page. When you receive a new request, you’ll also notice a little [more…]
How to Import an Address Book into Facebook
If you’re someone who uses a desktop e-mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Entourage, the Facebook Friend Finder won’t be able to access your list of contacts without your help. Chances are that [more…]
How to Find Classmates and Coworkers on Facebook
The Facebook Friend Finder works by looking for large groups of people you might want to become friends with. A common assumption is that you’ll want to become friends with people you’ve gone to school [more…]
How to Search for a Specific Person on Facebook
The Facebook Friend Finder is a great way to build your Friend List quickly without a lot of work. But how do you find a specific person who may want to be your friend if that person isn’t in your email [more…]
How to Manage Facebook Friends Lists
After finding and adding Facebook friends, you may find that things are getting out of control. The Facebook Friend List and Smart List are tools that help you end the madness. Friend Lists are subsets [more…]
How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists
Facebook makes Smart Lists on your behalf. Although these lists will be mostly accurate, you may find that you have to do some editing to them. It may also depend on how you want to use your lists. For [more…]
How to Create a Facebook Friend List
You can create your own Facebook Friend List, although for most people, Smart Lists can usually help you figure out who you want to see in your News Feed and who you want to share your own posts with. [more…]
How to Unfriend Someone on Facebook
After a while on Facebook, you may start to feel like a few people don’t really qualify as friends. Maybe you just feel like you have too many friends, or maybe you and a friend have legitimately drifted [more…]
How to Block People and Applications on Facebook
If someone does something on Facebook that bothers you, you may choose to block them. To get to your block lists, click Manage Blocking to the right of the Blocked People and Apps section on the Privacy [more…]
How to See a Facebook Friendship Page
After you’ve had a Facebook timeline for a while, you’ll likely find that you’ve littered your closest friends’ timeline Pages with posts, tagged photos, and invitations. Facebook offers a quick way to [more…]
How to Post on a Friend’s Facebook Timeline
The Facebook timeline winds up being one of the places you are most likely to post a message for a friend. Usually leaving a timeline post or a message that is visible on a timeline is a way of tapping [more…]
How to Like a Facebook Page or Post
In addition to leaving a timeline post, you can interact with your friends on Facebook by commenting on or liking the things they post. Frequently, people post things that you want to respond to. You may [more…]
