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The Facebook guide for people over 50People over 50 are the fastest-growing segment of the Facebook population, and they have some unique interests and concerns. This one-of-a-kind guide addresses issues of specific interest to older generations, helping them create a profile, connect with old friends and relatives, communicate with others, and maintain their safety online. If youre among this group, youll find these tips and instructions will give you confidence and help you enjoy all that Facebook has to offer.People over 50 are joining Facebook in record numbers; an estimated 6 million such people are Facebook usersThis Facebook guide for people over 50 focuses on topics of particular interest to older generations, such as finding and connecting with relatives, friends from the past, former colleagues, and classmatesHelps you set up your profile, find old and new friends, communicate with others through the site, and protect your privacyFacebook insiders contribute plenty of tips and ideas to make the Facebook experience more fulfillingIf youre over 50 and already on Facebook or thinking of joining, The Facebook Guide For People Over 50 can help you make the most of the experience. From the Author: Safely Sharing Your Travels on Facebook Trips and vacations are wonderful adventures, and the next best thing to getting away is telling your family and friends what a great time youre having. Of course, Facebook makes this easy by letting you post trip-related status updates, photo albums, videos, notes, or whatever. If Facebook Places is available in your home country, you can use it to check in to restaurants, hotels, museums, and other sites while youre away. This is all good fun, but is it safe fun? That is, when youre traveling are you compromising your home security by changing your current location in your profile, by posting pictures and videos, or by using Facebook Places? Possibly, because there are thieves who look for this kind of information to perform cybercasing: using online location data and services to determine when a home is unoccupied with a view to robbing it. If a would-be thief sees your travel status updates or faraway Places check-ins, or gets access to a vacation photo that has your current location embedded (as is the case with most modern cameras a camera phones, particularly the iPhone), then the thief might surmise that your house is empty and can be robbed with impunity. So does this mean that you should only share your travels after you get home? Not necessarily. With a few tweaks of your Facebook settings, you can set up an environment where you can safely share your vacation updates, photos, and check-ins. The Friends-Only Approach The biggest problem you want to avoid is giving total strangers access to your profile, particularly your status updates, photos, check-ins, and contact information. The easiest way to ensure this doesnt happen is to configure your global Facebook privacy setting to Friends Only. Heres how: Figure 1. In the Sharing on Facebook section, click Friends Only 1.Log in to Facebook. 2.Click Account and then click Privacy Settings to open the Privacy Settings page. 3.In the Sharing on Facebook section, click Friends Only, as shown in Figure 1. While youve got the Privacy Settings page open, there are a few other tweaks you should make. First, adjust your connection settings: 1.In the Connecting on Facebook section of the Privacy Settings page, click View Settings to open the Connecting on Facebook page. 2.For the See Your Friend List setting, choose Friends Only. 3.For the See Your Current City and Hometown setting, choose Friends Only. This is the default setting, so you might not have to change anything here. 4.Click Back to Privacy to return to the Privacy Settings page. If youll be using any Facebook applications while youre away, follow these steps to make sure that all your applications share information only with your friends: 1.In the Applications and Websites section of the Privacy Settings page, click Edit Your Settings to open the Applications, Games and Websites page. 2.For the Game and Application Activity setting, choose Friends Only. 3.Click Back to Privacy to return to the Privacy Settings page. Finally, if you create a photo album for trip pictures, make sure its configured to be seen only by your friends: 1.Click Profile and then click the Photos tab. 2.Click the album you want to configure. 3.Click Edit Album Info. 4.In the Privacy list, choose Friends Only. 5.Click Save Changes. That does it. Now anything you share while youre away will only be visible to your friends. The Group-of-Friends Approach Figure 2. In the Privacy list, choose Secret to keep your group away from prying eyes. The Friends-Only approach from the previous section works well, but only if you implicitly trust everyone on your friend list. That might sound odd, but most of us on Facebook have at least a few friends that were not that sure about. It might be a colleague you dont know very well, an old school classmate that you havent been in touch with for many years, or an acquaintance who you know only vaguely. Its very unlikely, of course, but can you say for sure that these people can be trusted completely? Heck, many of us even have complete strangers on our friend list! That shouldnt happen (and Facebook strongly discourages friending anyone you dont know), but perhaps you just liked the cut of someones jib or just felt particularly social one day. However, thieves and other bad guys (and gals) send out friend requests all the time, so any complete stranger on your friend list could be a criminal just waiting to pounce. If you have strangers on your friend list, or if you cant vouch 100% for everyone on the list, then the Friends-Only approach to vacation safety just wont work. Instead, you need to create a Facebook group thats comprised of only those friends and family members that you trust completely. Heres how to create such a group: 1.Click Home and then click Create Group in the navigation pane on the left side of your Home page. The Create Group dialog box appears. 2.Type a name for the group. Figure 3. 3.Click inside the Members box. 4.Start typing the name of a person you want to include in the group, and then click that persons name in the list that appears. 5.Repeat steps 3 and 4 until youve specified all the group members. 6.In the Privacy list, choose Secret, as shown in Figure 2. 7.Click Create and then click Okay when Facebook tells you it has created the group. With your group created, click Home and then click the group in the navigation pane on the left. With the group open (see Figure 3), you can post status updates, links, photos, videos, and more, and only the people in the group will see them.

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The Facebook Guide for People Over 50

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Copyright 2011 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

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About the Author

Paul McFedries is a technical writer who has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 70 books to his credit. Pauls books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets, 2nd Edition, MySpace Visual Quick Tips, Internet Simplified, iPad Portable Genius, and iPhone 4 Portable Genius. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language. You can visit Paul on the web at www.mcfedries.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/paulmcfedries.

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Dedication

To Karen, always, and in loving memory of Gypsy and Blue, the best dogs ever.

Acknowledgments

As youll soon see, this isnt so much a How-To book as a What-To book that aims to show you whats available on Facebook, no matter what youre interested in or concerned about. To that end, I spent inordinate amounts of time poking around the seemingly infinite nooks and crannies of Facebook, a task that was often ridiculously fun. Adding to the fun were the great people at Wiley that I got to work with. They included Acquisitions Editor Aaron Black, who was kind enough to ask me to write the book; Project Editor Chris Wolfgang, who has an endless supply of common sense and excellent suggestions; Copy Editor Kim Heusel, who made sure my is were dotted and my ts were crossed, and not the other way around; and Technical Editor Jonny Thaw, who made sure my instructions didnt zig when they were supposed to zag. Very special thanks go out to the lovely and talented Karen Hammond, who helped unearth tons of the Facebook treasures found in this book. Many heartfelt thanks to all of you for outstanding work on this project.

Introduction

When Facebook announced in May 2010 that it had reached 500 million users, the news appeared in all the usual places technology blogs, major news media outlets, and Web sites dedicated to all things Facebook. However, you also saw a story on the announcement if you were a member of AARP, the nonprofit organization that focuses on people aged 50 and older. That seems slightly odd at first blush. Why would an organization devoted to older adults care about a site that seems to be dominated by teenagers and young adults? For the answer to that conundrum you could turn to AARP itself, which had recently published the results of a study that looked at, among other things, the use of social networking among people aged 50 and up. The main result was that of people aged 50+ who used the Internet, 31 percent used Facebook (out of a total of 37 percent who used social networking sites).

The reality is that Facebook is not a site just for the very young. People of all ages use Facebook, but the majority of Facebook users are over 35, and the fastest growing segment on Facebook are people aged 50 and over. Why is Facebook so popular with those of us in the 50+ set? Probably because the things you can do on Facebook are more or less the same as the things you already do in your life: Chat with friends; view photos of your kids or grandkids; talk politics or gossip; play a game of Scrabble or fill in a crossword; learn more about your favorite hobby.

And thats where The Facebook Guide for People Over 50 comes in. Yes, this book shows you how to use Facebook with introductory guides to setting up your profile, learning the Facebook lingo, working with photos, and more. However, this is really a book about what you can do with Facebook. This book is mostly a comprehensive resource to the best that Facebook has to offer in a wide variety of topics: politics, history, charities, shopping, personal finance, fitness, health, medical conditions, aging, arts, media, hobbies, food, travel, and so much more.

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