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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…]
Finding Good Facebook Applications
There are millions of applications on Facebook. Finding the perfect one for your business's Facebook Page can be a difficult process. Here are some apps that are worth checking out: [more…]
Finding Development Help on Facebook
Finding help on Facebook can often be a difficult task. If you're a social strategist at a large organization, chances are you have an account rep at Facebook that can help you when you run into problems [more…]
How to Set Up Your Facebook Page
Setting up a Facebook Page for your business is simple! Just go through these steps and your business will be collecting fans and connecting with customers on Facebook in no time: [more…]
How to Follow Business Etiquette on Facebook
While Facebook grows, so do the surprising number of faux pas committed by individuals and companies alike. You can and must protect your business’s reputation on Facebook, as well as maintain the utmost [more…]
How to Adapt Your Business’s Page to Facebook Changes
When you enter the world of Facebook marketing, remember that Facebook is an ever-changing universe, and some of the features and guidelines you’ve grown to rely on could be in jeopardy with every new [more…]
Understanding Facebook Pages
When you're thinking about creating a Facebook Page to keep in touch with fans or customers, the most important thing to keep in mind is that Pages are like the Profiles of your friends. However, you don’t [more…]
How to Navigate Your Facebook Timeline
Your Facebook timeline is more than just a bunch of information. It’s an ongoing, ever-evolving story about you. Your timeline is your ongoing autobiography with a complete multimedia presentation, pulling [more…]
Entering Education and Work Information into Your Facebook Timeline
When you set up your Facebook account, you have a chance to enter work history and education. If you don’t do it, your timeline might look a little lean. You can enter this information later by going to [more…]
Entering Friend, Family, and Relationship Information in Your Timeline
The Facebook Timeline has an At-A-Glance box that lets you edit and enter information about your friends and family. This box provides space for you to list your romantic and family relationships. Additionally [more…]
How to Use the Facebook Share Menu
Your Facebook timeline shows boxes that represent events that you share with your Facebook friends. Facebook is all about sharing. The Share menu, also known as the Publisher, is the text field just below [more…]
How to Show and Hide Facebook Timeline Posts
If you’ve been on Facebook for a while and start scrolling backward through you timeline, you may notice that you’re not actually seeing everything. Facebook does some editing, but you can choose what [more…]
What Is the Facebook Timeline?
Your Facebook timeline is what your friends look at to get a sense of your life, and it’s also where they leave public messages for you. In this way, your friends’ posts become part of your history [more…]
How to Update Your Facebook Status
The most common type of post that you see people make on Facebook is a status update that answers the question, “What’s on your mind?” On Facebook, people refer to this type of post as a status update [more…]
How to Change Your Facebook Profile Picture
Your Facebook Profile photo is a small photo that sticks with you all around Facebook, appearing wherever you comment or post something. For example, your friends may see your status post in their News [more…]
How to Navigate Facebook’s News Feed
The Facebook News Feed is the centerpiece of your Home page. When you log in to Facebook, you see the familiar blue bar and left menu, but mostly you see News Feed. So what is News Feed? It’s primarily [more…]
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 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…]
