Amy Karasavas

People use the Meta platforms of Instagram and Facebook the world over for connecting with others and sharing news, photos, and videos. These platforms are also a vital aspect of running a successful business. This cheat sheet tells you about some Instagram restrictions, helps you understand what image and video sizes to use, and how to add photos to Facebook from your phone.

Facebook is one of the dominant social networking sites in the world. Facebook lets you share photos, videos, links, status updates, and much more with your friends. As you discover how this social networking site works, use this handy reference to help you find people on Facebook, communicate with friends, and figure out what to do as soon as you log in.

What if you don’t want to worry about the small privacy settings on Facebook and who tagged what when? What if you just want to make sure that your Timeline looks the way you want to your friends and that people who aren’t your friends can’t see anything you don’t want them to see?Well, the good news is that the View As tool allows you to do just that, and the Activity Log tool allows you to keep track of everything that’s been happening recently and to make any needed adjustments without trying to figure out which setting, exactly, needs to be changed.

Now that you know what you can do, generally, on Facebook, it's time to consider some of the specific ways you may find yourself using Facebook in the future. The following list is by no means comprehensive. These are more specific-use cases than an advertisement for Facebook’s features. Two billion people use Facebook, but not all of them can see your whole Timeline.

Facebook adds items to this section as you use Facebook. For example, if you start to spend a lot of time posting and commenting on a particular group, Facebook will automatically add it to your Shortcuts section. Over time, you may wind up with more shortcuts than easily fit in this space, at which point Facebook will choose the five shortcuts you click most often to display, and the rest will be hidden behind a blue “See More” link at the bottom of the Shortcuts section.

Facebook offers users a Trending section to keep up to date. If you consider yourself a news junkie or are just someone who likes to know what everyone’s talking about these days, you’ll probably enjoy paying attention to the box labeled Trending on the right side of your News Feed.Trending topics shows headlines that people are talking about across all of Facebook.

Facebook’s News Feed is designed to learn about what you like and whom you care about and to show you stories accordingly. As you use News Feed, it learns what you like based on your clicks, comments, and likes. You can give News Feed more information to work with to make News Feed even better for you. Hiding posts and people There are ways to tell News Feed explicitly who you do and don’t want to see.