Introduction to Facebook from Boulder City Library

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Introduction to Facebook

The Basics

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Topics• What is Facebook?• What can I do on Facebook?• Creating an account• Your Timeline (Profile)

o Adding profile and cover pictureso Notificationso Friend Requestso Updating your Statuso Adding Pictures

• Reading the News Feedo Commenting, Sharing, and Liking

• Privacy Settingso Selecting your audienceo Ad privacy settings

• Helpful Sites

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What is Facebook?• Facebook is the most popular social

networking site in the world. It allows you to connect with family and friends online.

• Facts about Facebooko 2nd most visited website in the world. (Google is #1)o Has been around for 10 years.o 757 million daily active users on average in December

2013.o 1.23 billion monthly active users as of December 31, 2013.o 640,000,000: Total minutes spent on Facebook each montho Every 20 minutes on Facebook

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What can I do on Facebook?

• There are a lot of things you can do on Facebook.oConnect with your friends and family.o Share updates from your life or thoughtso Share photos and videos.o Play games.o Plan eventso Join groups (like a TV show? There’s

probably a fan group for that.)o Promote your group or business

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Creating an AccountYou will need an email address to create a Facebook account. If you do not have one, you can get one for free at gmail.com• Go to facebook.com• Fill in the information on the screen. If you already

have an account, you can fill in your email and password at the top to log in. Fill in

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Importing Contacts• You can import your list of contacts from other

places (ex: your email account) and we'll find your friends for you.

• After Facebook imports your contacts, you'll have the option to send a friend request to any of your friends that already have a Facebook account (just click Add Friend) or send an invitation to friends who aren't on Facebook

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Fill Out Your Information

• You can add information to help Facebook connect you to friends or help those friends find you including things like your hometown, high school/college, workplace, and interests. Click Save & Continue after filling things out or skip if you don’t want to add anything.

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Add Profile Picture• You can also do this later.• To upload a picture from your computer, click on

Upload a Photo. Navigate to the photo and click open to upload the photo. You’ll be asked to crop the picture when it uploads to fit in the profile square.

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Your New Account• After your account creation, you’ll be taken to a

page that will let you change some of your settings, including privacy.

• The privacy tour is highly recommended.• Don’t forget to confirm your email address. You’ll

need to log into your email and find the Confirmation email from Facebook.

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Your Timeline• Your timeline is

your profile on Facebook. On your timeline you can:o Add a cover photoo Edit your basic infoo Jump to stories from your

pasto View a log of your

Facebook activityo Star stories you want to

highlighto Add life eventso Update your statuso View and add photoso Share your app activityo See highlights from each

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Profile Picture• One of the pictures that will always be public no

matter what your privacy settings are is your profile picture.

• It is the small picture located on the left side of your profile.

• Try to choose a picture that represents you. It doesn’t have to be a picture of you if you don’t want. Mine is of one of my dogs.

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Change Profile Picture• Go to your timeline and hover over

your profile picture• Click Edit Profile Picture to edit

your picture• Choose whether you want to:

o Pick a photo you already uploaded to Facebooko Take a new photoo Upload a photo from your computero Edit your thumbnailo Remove your current photo

• Select, upload, or take a new picture.• Crop the picture by dragging the

square corners.• Click done cropping to make that

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Cover Picture• This is the other picture that is always

public.• Your cover photo is the large image at the

top of your Timeline. This is your chance to feature a unique image that represents who you are or what you care about.

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Change Your Cover Picture

• Adding or changing your cover pictureoGo to your Timelineo Click Add a Cover, or hover over your

current cover photo and click Change Covero Choose whether you want to upload a new

photo or pick a photo from one of your existing photo albums

oOnce you choose a photo, you can reposition it by clicking on the image and dragging it up or down

o Click SaveoNote: Your cover image has to be at least 720

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Notifications• You can get 3 types of notification

o Friend requests: When someone wants to add you as a friend, the friend request notification will alert you. Click on it to review that friend request.

o If someone sends you a private message, you can view and send one back by clicking on the message.

o Global notifcations: this is the catch all for all other notifications. You can be notified when:• Someone likes your post.• Someone comments on your status, picture, video• Someone comments on a thread you’ve liked or commented on.

Friend requests Messages Global Notifications

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Friend Requests• You don’t have to import your

contacts to find friends.• You can also add friends from their

Timelines:o Search for the person you'd like to friend using the

search bar at the top of any Facebook page. o Click on their name to go to their Timeline. o Click the Add Friend button next to their name. You

might not see this button on some people's Timelines, depending on their privacy settings.

o Once this person accepts your request, they'll show up in your Facebook friends list.

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Updating you Status• You can share new stories from the

top of your Timeline or your News Feed: o Pick what type of story you want to share (ex: Status,

Photo, Life Event)o Type in any details you want to add

• If you start typing a friend’s name, Facebook should allow you to select that friend to add to your post. This is called “tagging”

• You can also add a location, a picture, or what you’re doing.

Tag Location Picture What you’re doing

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Uploading Pictures• Would you like to share pictures of your last

vacation with friends and family? You can easily upload pictures to Facebook to share them.

• To upload photos: o Click Add Photo/Video at the top of your homepage.o Pick Create Photo Album.o Pick the image files you want to upload. To pick multiple photos at

once, hold down the Control button on your PC, or the Command button on your Mac, while clicking the image files.

o While your files are uploading: • Add an album title and description• Use the audience selector to choose who can see the album

(Note: If you tag people, their friends will be able to see the pictures they’re tagged in)

• Add captions, tags, and locations to photos as each one finishes uploading

o Check the progress bar to see the estimated remaining time for your album upload. Once it's complete, click Post Photos.

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Photo Page

Click here to create a new album.

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Photo Selection• Navigate to the place where your pictures are.

You can selection multiple pictures by holding down the control key.

• Click open to add them to the upload queue.

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Filling in Photo Info

Really this step is optional, but it’s nice to have the information so people can search through your pictures and know the who, what, where, and when!

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Your New Album• Once you’re done you’ll have an album. You can

add more pictures, edit, tag, and change your privacy settings at any time.

• To view a photo, click on it!

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Reading theNewsfeed• News Feed—the center column of your home

page—is a constantly updating list of stories from people and Pages that you follow on Facebook. News Feed stories include status updates, photos, videos, links, app activity and likes.

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Liking, Commenting, Sharing

• See something you like posted by your friend or page you follow? You can do three things:

• Share: Repost it to your own timeline. You can even add a status.

• Like: Press the like button to let someone know you like their post or picture.

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Basic Privacy Settings• One of the thing that puts Facebook in the news is

their privacy settings. • Where are the privacy settings?• To view and adjust your

privacy settings:o Click in the upper-right corner of any

Facebook pageo Select Settings from the dropdown menuo Select Privacy on the lefto Click on a setting (ex: Who can see your

future posts?) to edit it

• You can also quickly view and adjust some of the most widely used privacy settings and tools from your Privacy Shortcuts at the top right of any Facebook page.Privacy Shortcut

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Privacy Settings Facebook is known for changing their privacy settings from time to time. These are what the current privacy settings are.

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Selecting Your Audience

• You can select who you want to see your status/post/picture right from where you’re posting.

• Click on the audience tool. It’s normally to the left of the post icon.

• If you’ve already posted, it will be next to the “time” you posted, right under your name.

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Facebook Ad Privacy Settings

• Personally, I don’t want Facebook using any of my actions, likes, pictures, or my name in any of their or any of their partners (known as Third Parties) ads.

• You can prevent Facebook from using that information by changing a couple of setting under the Ads settings.

• Note that this isn’t in your privacy settings, but in another part of settings. This is why many people miss it.

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Third Party Site• To disallow 3rd party sites from using your

information, click edit, select “No one”, and save changes.

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Friend’s Ads• Don’t want your likes to show up in your friends

ads?• Click edit and change “Pair my Social actions with

ads for” to “No one”, then click save changes.

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Helpful Resources• Facebook Help Center: https://

www.facebook.com/help• Mashable’s Facebook for Beginners:

http://mashable.com/2012/05/16/facebook-for-beginners/

• Mashable’s Facebook Guide: http://mashable.com/guidebook/facebook/

• Bookso Facebook for seniors : quicksteps / Carole Boggs

Matthews 006.754MAT  o Facebook marketing all-in-one for dummies / by Amy

Porterfield 658.872POR  o Facebook for dummies / Carolyn Abram 006.754ABR  

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