Facebook: The Missing Manual

✍ Scribed by Veer, Vander

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Facebook's spreading about as far and fast as the Web itself: 500 million members and counting. But there's a world of fun packed into the site that most folks miss. With this bestselling guide, learn how to unlock Facebook's talents as personal website creator, souped-up address book, and bustling community forum. It's an eye-opening, timesaving tour, guaranteed to help you get the most out of your Facebook experience. Coverage includes: Get started, get connected. Signing up is easy, but the real payoff comes when you tap into networks of coworkers, classmates, and friends. Pick and choose.  Read more...

Abstract: Facebook's spreading about as far and fast as the Web itself: 500 million members and counting. But there's a world of fun packed into the site that most folks miss. With this bestselling guide, learn how to unlock Facebook's talents as personal website creator, souped-up address book, and bustling community forum. It's an eye-opening, timesaving tour, guaranteed to help you get the most out of your Facebook experience. Coverage includes: Get started, get connected. Signing up is easy, but the real payoff comes when you tap into networks of coworkers, classmates, and friends. Pick and choose

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Copyright
Contents
The Missing Credits
Introduction
How Facebook Works
What You Can Do on Facebook
About This Book
Safari® Books Online
Getting Started
Signing Up for an Account
Step 1: Finding Your Friends on Facebook
Step 2: Creating Your Profile
Step 3: Adding a Picture of Yourself
Confirming Your Facebook Registration
Viewing Your Profile
Viewing Your Facebook Home Page
Changing Account Info
Joining a Network
How Networks Work
Viewing the Networks You're Already On
Joining a Network
Leaving a Network
Suggesting a New Network
Finding and Adding Friends. How Facebook Friends WorkFinding Friends
Inviting People to Be Your Friend
Responding to Friend Requests
Viewing Your Friends
Organizing Your Friends
Breaking Up: Unfriending Friends
Sending Messages to Friends
Sending Messages
Receiving Messages
Chatting
Poking
Writing on Walls
Exchanging Automatic Updates
Types of Updates
News Feeds: What Others Are Doing
Mini Feeds: What You're Doing
Facebook Notifications
Subscriptions
Creating Notes (Blogs)
Participating in Groups
What's a Group?
Joining a New Group
Participating in New Groups
Creating a New Group. Finding, Joining, and Participating in Old GroupsFacebook and the Real World: In-Person Events
Types of Events
Finding Public Events
RSVPing to an Event
Creating Your Own Events
Going Shopping
The Marketplace Application
Finding and Viewing Marketplace
Placing an Ad
Finding Stuff
Answering an Ad
Hiring and Getting Hired
Recruiting New Hires
Vetting Prospects
Looking for a Job
Collaborating on Projects via Facebook
Keeping in Touch
Exchanging Files
Keeping Up-to-Date with Notifications
Advertising on Facebook
Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More. Social Ads (Targeted Announcements)Connect Facebook to Your Website with Widgets
High-Dollar Options
Customizing Facebook and Adding Apps
Modifying Your Home Page and Profile
Facebook Applications: An Overview
Facebook Games
Playing It Safe: Facebook Privacy
Privacy and Facebook: An Overview
Deciding How Much to Share
Controlling Access to Your Account
Adjusting Your Privacy Settings
Fighting Back
Facebook Mobile
How Facebook Mobile Works
Setting Up Facebook Mobile
Using Facebook Mobile
Checking In with Places
Appendix
Facebook Help
Getting Help from Other Facebook Members. Contacting FacebookUseful Facebook-Related Websites
Index.

✦ Subjects

Facebook (Firm);Facebook (Electronic resource);Web sites;Design;Online social networks;Computer network resources;Social networks;Facebook (Electronic resource);Parodies, imitations, etc;Online social networks;Social networks;Computer network resources;Sociology & Social History;Electrical & Computer Engineering;Social Sciences;Engineering & Applied Sciences;Telecommunications;Social Change