Carolyn Abram - Facebook For Dummies

Facebook For Dummies, 6th Edition

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1. Table of Contents

Facebook connects you with the people you know and care about. It enables you to communicate, stay up-to-date, and keep in touch with friends and family anywhere. It facilitates your relationships online to help enhance them in person. Specifically, Facebook connects you with the people you know around content that is important to you. Whether youre the type to take photos or look at them, or write about your life, or read about your friends lives, Facebook is designed to enable you to succeed. Maybe you like to share websites and news, play games, plan events, organize groups of people, or promote your business. Whatever you prefer, Facebook has you covered.

Facebook offers you control. Communication and information sharing are powerful only when you can do what you want within your comfort zone. Nearly every piece of information and means of connecting on Facebook come with full privacy controls, allowing you to share and communicate exactly how and with whom you desire.

Facebook welcomes everyone: students and professionals; grandchildren (as long as they're at least age 13), parents, and grandparents; busy people; socialites; celebrities; distant friends; and roommates. No matter who you are, using Facebook can add value to your life.

explores the creative, diverse, touching, and even frustrating ways people have welcomed Facebook into their lives.

Here are some of the things you can do with this book:

• Find out how to represent yourself online. Facebook lets you create a profile (called a Timeline) that you can share with friends, co-workers, and people-you-have-yet-to-meet.
• Connect and share with people you know. Whether you're seeking close friends or long-lost ones, family members, business contacts, teammates, businesses, or celebrities, Facebook keeps you connected. Never say, Goodbye again unless you want to.
• Discover how the online tools of Facebook can help enhance your relationships offline. Photo sharing, group organization, event planning, and messaging tools all enable you to maintain an active social life in the real world.
• Take Facebook with you when youre not at your computer. Facebooks mobile tools are designed to make it easy to use Facebook wherever you are.
• Bring your connections off Facebook and on to the rest of the web. Many websites, games, apps, and services on the Internet can work with your Facebook information to deliver you a better experience.
• Promote a business, cause, or yourself to the people who can bring you success. Engaging with people on Facebook can help ensure that your message is heard.

In this book, I make the following assumptions:

• Youre at least 13 years of age.
• You have some access to the Internet, an email address, and a web browser that is not Internet Explorer 6 (Internet Explorer 7, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and so on are all good).
• There are people in your life with whom you communicate.
• You can read the language in which this sentence is printed.

Facebook pages and features such as the Facebook Groups or the Settings page are called out with capital letters. Brackets like denote generic text that will be different on your screen, such as looking at .

I often state my opinions throughout this book. Though I have worked for Facebook in the past, the opinions expressed here represent only my perspective, not that of Facebook. I am an avid Facebook user and became one long before I worked for Facebook.

Whats a For Dummies book without icons pointing you in the direction of great information thats sure to help you along your way? In this section, I briefly describe each icon I use in this book.