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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Book I: Creating a Timeline

Chapter 1: Deciding to Join

Describing Facebook

Enjoying the Benefits of Facebook

Embracing Facebook as an extension of your world

Finding your community on Facebook

Using Facebook for news and marketing

Avoiding the Timesuck

Agreeing to the Terms of Service

Chapter 2: Creating Your Account

Signing Up

Completing step 1: Finding friends

Completing step 2: Filling in profile information

Completing step 3: Choosing interests

Completing step 4: Uploading a profile picture

Finding Friends

Understanding what it means to be friends on Facebook

Searching for people you know

Sending, receiving, and responding to friend requests

Finding and Customizing Your Account Settings

General Account Settings

Name setting

Username setting

Email setting

Password setting

Networks setting

Language setting

Download a copy of your Facebook data

Security Settings

Secure Browsing setting

Login Notifications setting

Login Approvals setting

Code Generator setting

App Passwords setting

Trusted Contacts setting

Recognized Devices setting

Active Sessions setting

Deactivate Your Account setting

Timeline and Tagging Settings

“Who can add things to my timeline?” setting

“Who can see things on my timeline?” setting

“How can I manage tags people add and tagging suggestions?” setting

Notifications Settings

Mobile Settings

Followers Settings

Apps Settings

Ads Setting

Payments Settings

Account Balance setting

Subscriptions setting

Purchase History setting

Payment Methods setting

Preferred Currency setting

Shipping Addresses setting

Facebook Card Setting

Support Dashboard Setting

Deleting Your Facebook Account

Chapter 3: Touring the Interface

Navigating Your News Feed Page

Top navigation

Left navigation

News feed

Right navigation

Ticker and Chat panes

Navigating Your Timeline

Familiarizing yourself with the timeline

Hiding a story from your timeline

Adding a past event to your timeline

Chapter 4: Customizing Your Privacy Settings

Understanding Online Privacy

Taking Responsibility for Your Own Privacy

Managing and Customizing Your Privacy Settings

Blocked People and Apps settings

Understanding How Privacy Settings Affect What Others See

How people can find you

How friend requests work

How your updates are shared

Utilizing Lists So You Don’t Miss a Thing

Creating a list

Making a list a favorite

Managing your lists

Discovering Interest Lists

Creating or following an interest list

Managing your interest list

Sharing your interest list with others

Chapter 5: Finding Help

Using Help Center

Searching Help Center

Searching specific help topics

Using the community forum

Getting additional tips

Expecting a response from Facebook

Finding Important Facebook Documents

Finding Additional Facebook Resources

Book II: Connecting with Others

Chapter 1: Creating Your Social Media Persona

Understanding News Feed

Finding Your Voice on Facebook

Lifecasting

Embracing differences

Knowing what people read

Using humor and provoking controversy

Speaking to your audience

Using Graph Search

Building a Brand

Building your personal brand

Building a business brand

Planning Content for a Page

Being a Resource

Avoiding Inflammatory or Spammy Behavior

Chapter 2: Posting and Interacting

Creating a Status Update

Adjusting how you share content

Adjusting individual privacy settings

Using hashtags to make content discoverable

Tagging friends and business pages

Allowing Replies to Business Pages

Removing and Editing Updates and Comments

Interacting with Other People’s Updates

Understanding How the Follow Feature Works

Adjusting the follow feature settings for your account

Following other people’s updates

Chapter 3: Sharing Photos

Uploading Images from Your Computer

Adding Photos with Instagram

Adding a Photo to Your Comments

Creating and Editing Albums

Uploading new photos to an existing album

Moving photos from one album to another

Editing privacy settings for albums

Editing Pictures

Using Smartphone Apps to Share Photos

Chapter 4: Sharing Videos

Benefits of Using Video

Uploading Video to Facebook

Sharing video from your computer

Sharing video from your phone

Sharing video from another social media channel

Customizing Your Video

Finding your video on Facebook

Editing your video

Using Facebook Apps to Share Video on Your Business Page

Producing Great Video Clips

Chapter 5: Participating in Groups

Discovering Groups

Creating a Group

Personalizing Your Group's Image

Establishing the Settings for Your Group

Inviting People to Join Your Group

Adding members when you create a group

Adding members to a group any time

Accepting a request to join your group

Posting to a Group

Sharing Documents in a Group

Leaving a Group

Deleting a Group

Chapter 6: Going Mobile

Going Mobile

Using the Facebook Smartphone App

Features of the smartphone app

Updating your status on the Facebook app

Understanding the limitations of the Facebook app

Accessing Facebook on a Smartphone or Tablet

Using Facebook on a Cellphone

Setting up your Facebook account to accept text messages

Updating your status via text

Changing your mobile number

Using your cellphone to text pictures and posts to Facebook

Checking In to Places

Using Places to connect

Using Location Services

Finding your place

Finding friends on Places

Chapter 7: Keeping Up with Events

Introducing Events

Understanding Events Basics

Getting the lay of the land

Kinds of events

Finding and Interacting with Events

Searching events

RSVP to an event

Checking out who is attending the event

Interacting on the event wall

Synchronizing Events and Birthdays with Your Online Calendar

Synchronizing all your events

Synchronizing a single event

Creating an Event

Adding a picture to your event

Inviting friends

Making changes to an event

Promoting Events on Facebook

Chapter 8: Having Private Conversations

Introducing Facebook Messaging Options

Sending Messages

Messaging friends

Messaging nonfriends

Chatting with Friends

Initiating a chat message

Chatting with more than one friend

Going offline or limiting your availability

Making a Video Call

Your Facebook E-Mail Address

Chapter 9: Games and Gifts

Facebook Games

Playing Games

Finding the games your friends are playing

Allowing games to access your information and timeline

Inviting friends to a game

Accepting invitations from friends

Blocking unwanted games

Making In-Game Purchases

Changing a Game's Privacy Settings

Games on Facebook Mobile

Facebook Gifts and Gift Cards

Gifts

Gift cards

Chapter 10: Professional Networking

Before You Begin Networking

Customizing your profile photo for networking

Getting to know the space

Using Facebook for Professional Networking

Having personal and professional conversations

Building connections with professional contacts

Expanding Your Network

Providing exclusive content to friends and followers

Establishing yourself as an authority

Rocking the boat

Building Stronger Engagement

Networking via Your Business Page

Sharing a business page with a friend

Inviting e-mail contacts to Like your business page

Chapter 11: Managing Connections Gone Awry

Unfriending or Hiding

Hiding updates from a friend or business page

Removing someone as a friend

Blocking Someone

Leaving Groups

Unliking Business Pages

Blocking Apps

Removing Content from Your Timeline

Avoiding Facebook Viruses

Spotting a virus

Fixing your account

Book III: Connecting to Other Social Media

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