Facebook 101

Connecting to Your World

What is Facebook?• Facebook is a social network. You can friend other

people, accept their friendships, and follow topics and companies that interest you.

Why Should I Join?• Connection: Your family and friends are on FB,

sharing photos and events in their lives.

• Information: Companies, organizations, and friends share thoughts, pictures, and events that keep you updated.

Signing Up and Logging In

Creating Your Account

Setting Up Your Account

Adding Profile Information

Adding Your Friends

Uploading Your Profile Picture

Anatomy of Your Timeline

Profile Pic

Status Box

Activity

Cover Photo

Basic Info

Photos

Status Updates

There are two places you can update your status and tell everyone what’s going on: your News Feed (or profile page) and your Timeline.

Timeline/Profile News Feed

Notifications

News Feed AnatomyYou

Your status box

Others’ posts

Birthdays and Events

Ads

Chat

Your News Feed is a “home” page: you can see others’ posts and easily access things like messages, birthdays/events, and your Timeline.

Finding Friends through Search

Adding a Friend

Click “Add Friend” to send Jennifer a friend request. She must approve this for you to see one another’s posts.

You’ll get a notification here when someone friends you.

Likes and Commenting

Click “Like” to like the status.

You can click on “11 others” to see who else liked this status.

Click here to view all the comments.

Write your comment!

You can “like” comments you agree with.

Sharing a PostOften you can share others’ posts with your friends.

Step One: click “share.”

Step 2: Make a comment (if you wish) and click “share link.”

Tagging Photos

2: Click on the person’s face or another part of the picture and type their name. Select the correct person from the list.

1: Click “Tag Photo.”

Hiding Annoying People

Hiding Others’ Posts

Click “Hide” to hide this person’s post from your News Feed.

How to Unfriend

Click “Unfriend” to remove this person from your friend list. They will not be notified.

Public vs. Private Messaging

This is private. Only you and the recipient will see this message.

This is public. If I post something here, Ginnie AND ALL OF HER FRIENDS will see it.

It will appear on her Timeline and in her News Feed.

Privacy SettingsClick on the cog icon to access all of your settings options.

Timeline and Tagging Settings