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How to Customize Your Facebook News Feed
On Facebook you have some control over your News Feed’s Top Stories and Recent Stories. The easiest way to influence your News Feed is to let it know when you don’t Like a post. Whenever you hover over [more…]
Top Stories Versus Recent Stories on Facebook
Your Facebook News Feed is like a newspaper centered around your friends. Look below the Share menu on your Home page to see the News Feed column, divided into two sections: Top Stories and Recent Stories [more…]
Managing Facebook News Feed Subscriptions
The recent addition of Facebook Subscriptions means you can receive public posts from your favorite blogger or pundit in your News Feed without the hassle of mutual friendship or Liking their Page. Getting [more…]
How Facebook Impacts Member’s Lives
Facebook doesn’t replace real friendships — it supplements them. You can still communicate and share information with your friends without Facebook; however, it’s easier and faster to do it with Facebook [more…]
Knowing the Difference between Facebook and Other Social Sites
Several social sites besides Facebook try to help people connect. In some cases, these sites have slightly different goals than Facebook. LinkedIn, for example, is a tool for connecting with people specifically [more…]
Ten Tips for Parents of Teens on Facebook
It’s unreasonable to think you can keep your teen away from Facebook, much less the Internet. So here are some tips to use as a jumping-off place for figuring out how to keep your teen safe on Facebook [more…]
Facebook FAQs
You might find you have new questions about Facebook often. Each year, Facebook modifies parts of the site, redesigns how certain pages look and feel, and adds features. Here are some of the most frequently [more…]
Ten Great Facebook Games and Apps
Facebook offers a variety of applications (all of which were built by outside developers). To find any of these applications, just search for their names from the search box in the big blue bar on top. [more…]
How to Create a Facebook Group
When you create a group on Facebook, you’re by default the Group administrator, which means that you write the Group’s information, control its privacy settings, and generally keep it running smoothly. [more…]
Posting Photos or Videos on a Facebook Group Wall
Posting a photo or video to the Group Wall is the same as posting to your own Wall or to a friend’s Wall. Clicking what you want to share (Post, Photo/Video, or Question) and then following the onscreen [more…]
Writing a Post or Asking a Group Question
If you are in a Facebook group you may want to write a post or ask a question of your fellow group members. Posts are status updates that you share only with the members of a Group [more…]
How to Plan a Facebook Group Event
Your Facebook Group may be centered around an activity, so Facebook makes it easy for people to plan Events for Group members, whether it’s a game of pick-up or a family reunion. To create an Event, follow [more…]
How to Navigate Your Facebook Group’s Home Page
To get to a Facebook Group’s Home page, just click the Group name in the left column. If you have a lot of Groups, you may need to click a More link to find the one you want to get to. Just as your Profile [more…]
How to Report an Offensive Facebook Group
As a member of the Facebook community, if you stumble upon an offensive Group in your travels, you should report it to Facebook so that the company can take appropriate actions. To report a Group, follow [more…]
Using the Events Application on Facebook
Events is an application built by Facebook. To access its dashboard, click Events in the left menu of your Home page (currently it’s right below Messages and right above Find Friends). This brings you [more…]
How to Create and Invite People to a Facebook Event
Want to host your own Event? Facebook gives you complete control over the Event guest list. If you’re planning an Event that’s not happening for a few days or so, start with the Big Events section. If [more…]
How to Take a Photo to Post on Facebook
Want to post your photo on Facebook? If you have a webcam, you can always take a photo of yourself to share just what you’re feeling at the moment or to illustrate just what’s going on around you at that [more…]
How to Create a Facebook Photo Album
Photo albums are some of the posts you are most likely to create and look at on Facebook. Whereas a single photo can share a moment, an album can truly tell a story and spark conversations with your friends [more…]
Uploading a Single Photo to Facebook
Although most people post albums on Facebook, you don’t have to post a group of pictures. If you have just one great photo you want to share with your Facebook friends, posting it is a snap. To get started [more…]
How to Change Photos in a Facebook Album
After you’ve created a photo album to share with your Facebook friends, you can add more photos to it or remove photos from it at any time. Your status will update too, so your friends will know to go [more…]
How to Tag a Photo on Facebook
Tagging Facebook photos is one of the things that makes Facebook photo albums so useful for everyone. Tags let you mark who is pictured in your photos. Imagine that you took all your photos, printed them [more…]
How to Add a Description to a Facebook Photo
Using tags lets your Facebook friends know who is in the photos you post in your Facebook albums, but you can also add a description or caption underneath a photo to tell everyone more about it. [more…]
Moving and Rotating Pictures in Your Facebook Photo Album
After uploading the photos for your Facebook album, you have several editing options. You can move photos around, change any info you entered when you set up the album, and rotate your photos. All of these [more…]
How to Navigate the Bottom Links on Facebook
In blue type at the very bottom of every Facebook page, you see a set of links collectively called the Footer. The Facebook Footer is the catch-all for important information about Facebook the social network [more…]
Let Friends Know Where You Are with Facebook Places
Facebook Places works like this: when you go someplace using your Facebook app or Facebook Mobile, you choose from a list of possible locations. These might be restaurants or parks or buildings. Facebook [more…]
