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Transform your online presence into a lead generation machine Instagram & Facebook All-in-One For Dummies brings together the expertise of a group of seasoned social media professionals and certified Meta trainers to solve the biggest challenge facing businesses and individuals today: how to translate Facebook and Instagram’s massive user bases into loyal audiences and customers.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-13-2026
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.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-30-2021
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.
Be a new face on Facebook! If you're new to the Facebook user community, don't be shy: you're joining around 2.7 billion users (roughly two-and-a-half Chinas) worldwide, so you'll want to make sure you’re being as sociable as possible. And with more functionality and ways to say hello—like 3-D photos and Video Chat rooms—than ever before, Facebook For Dummies is the perfect, informative companion to get and new and inexperienced users acquainted with the main features of the platform and comfortable with sharing posts, pictures (or whatever else you find interesting) with friends, family, and the world beyond!
Article / Updated 05-23-2018
To check out Facebook’s Marketplace, click on the Marketplace link in the left-side menu on your Home page (it has a little storefront icon). This brings you to Marketplace. See what’s on the market.Marketplace has its own left-hand menu and search functionality across the top of the page. The bulk of the page is taken up with the listings.
Article / Updated 05-23-2018
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.
Article / Updated 05-23-2018
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.
Article / Updated 05-23-2018
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.
Article / Updated 05-23-2018
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.
Article / Updated 05-23-2018
If you lived in the U.S. during the 2016 Presidential Election, chances are you heard a bit about Facebook and how it related to the election. There were two main parts of this: the proliferation of fake news headlines and the simple exhaustion many people felt (on both the right and the left) with what felt like constant political battles waged in comment threads between friends and strangers alike.
