Facebook For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Facebook is one of the superior social networking sites in the world. Facebook lets you share photos, movies, links, status updates, and much more with your friends. As you detect 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.
Top five Things to Check When You Log Into Facebook
Facebook is all about staying in touch with friends. Right after you log into Facebook, check out which of your friends has a bday coming up, the requests you've received, and what your friends are up to.
activities on and off Facebook.
center column with stories and posts from your friends.
birthdays, only the names of those friends who have listed their
birthdays showcase up.
number appearing next to it shows how many unread messages you
Facebook page to open the Friend Requests window. Click Confirm or
Not Now to react to pending requests.
underneath the words News Feed. Click Close Friends from the menu of
options that emerges.
Find People You Know on Facebook
A popular way to use Facebook is to find people from your past or get to know friends of friends. To find people you know on Facebook and to build your Friend List, check out this table, which outlines a few effortless ways to do just that.
messenger (IM) mate list are on Facebook.
Home page. Click Find Friends in the upper-right corner. Facebook
permits you to import from a multitude of popular e-mail and IM
Home page. Click Find Friends in the upper-right corner and then
click the Other Instruments section underneath the e-mail options. Click the
links to Find Classmates and Find Coworkers.
friends. To view their friends, go to their Timelines and click the
about people you might know. Check out the People You May Know box
on the right side of your Home page.
about those connections emerge on their Timelines and may also
show up in your News Feed. You most likely know many of the same people
as your friends, so keep your eyes peeled for these stories.
Feast Your Friends' Birthdays on Facebook
Celebrating birthdays on Facebook is a fine way to display your friends you care about them. Facebook bday celebrations are joy, inexpensive, and effortless to do. Here's how:
fills up with well-wishes on a person’s bday.
cover photo and inject your message.
thinking of you.” Only the recipients are aware of your
bottom right of her cover photo. Select Poke from the menu that
You can add tags to posts to give a shout-out to the people you
Then begin typing your friend's name. Select your friend's name
from the list that emerges, and when you post, he'll be
friends. Facebook treats the credit card transactions and getting
your friends' addresses for shipping real gifts.
bottom right of their cover photo. A bounty shop window opens where
you can browse gifts both digital (like bounty cards) and analog
phone number located under Contact Info. Use your phone to call
Communicate with Your Friends on Facebook
Meet up with friends on Facebook. You can communicate with your friends on Facebook in a entire host of ways: talking, writing on their Timelines, sending messages, and more.
any e-mail addresses.
the bottom-right corner of his cover photo.
person is online. You can have as many simultaneous talk
conversations as you can keep track of.
friends have green dots next to their names, and then click the
name of whomever you’d like to talk with.
congratulate them for something their friends might want to hear
about, write on their Timelines.
below her cover photo. When her friends view their Timelines,
they’ll see what you wrote.
certain people, you can tag them so they’ll be notified about
your post. Commence typing your friend’s name and select it from
the menu of names that Facebook generates as you type.
Common Facebook Terminology
If you're fresh to Facebook, you'll run into some unacquainted terminology. Here are some common Facebook terms and their definitions; get to know them so you can get the most out of Facebook:
Your Timeline is your Profile Page. It contains all your posts, your photos and movies, a list of your friends, your dearest activities and interests, and any biographical info you've chosen to share. This is where your friends can leave you messages and where you can update the world with anything you feel like sharing.
The News Feed is a continuous stream of updates about your friends' activities on and off Facebook. It shows up on your Home page.
A friend is someone you're connected to on Facebook. Friending is the act of sending someone a friend request; all friendships must be confirmed by both people in order for the friendship to be official on Facebook.
A status update is a brief post you share on Facebook talking about what you're doing, thinking, or feeling at the moment. People update their status about everything from what they're eating to sharing memories about a loved one to advocating for a particular political position.
A poke is a casual gesture that means, “I'm thinking of you.” The person you poke receives the poke on her Home page when she logs in and has the choice to poke you back. Only she (and not her friends) is aware that you poked her.