FACEBOOKMaterial adapted from www.gcflearnfree.org

INTRODUCTION AND PRIVACY

Why use Facebook?⦿ See updates and posts from friends⦿ Share photos and videos with friends⦿ Share information on your profile page⦿ Join groups and events⦿ Chat with friends online⦿ Play games and use applications⦿ Connect with businesses and celebrities⦿ Use Facebook to sign into different

services (eg, Pinterest)

Signing up for Facebook⦿ Navigate to

www.facebook.com in your web browser.

⦿ Under the words Sign Up, enter your personal information and desired password, then click Sign Up

Adding information in Facebook

⦿ Facebook will walk you through several steps in adding information and features to your Facebook account.

⦿ These can all be skipped at first and returned to later

Find friends with address book

Add Friends on Facebook

Profile Information – Job, Hometown, etc..

Profile Picture

Confirm by checking your email

Facebook Privacy Intro⦿ You could be sharing personal

information you’d rather keep private, such as your birth date and address.

⦿ Anything you post, such as photos, comments, and status updates, will be visible to people you don’t know.

⦿ Embarrassing or unflattering posts could negatively affect your personal and professional reputation.

⦿ Third-party websites and applications can access and share information from your Facebook account.

Facebook Privacy

Navigating Facebook⦿ Two main ways of looking at facebook:

●Timeline or Profile page – everything you post about yourself (or an organization posts)

●Home page or News feed – Where you see posts other people or organizations share

Timeline or Profile

Home Page

Home Page/News FeedClick here for Home Page

Who can see a post?⦿ If you post a photo on a friend’s timeline:

●All your friends can see the photo●Anyone who is friends with the person who

you shared with can ALSO see the photo.

How your Timeline looks to Friends

How timeline looks to anyone

Apps and games⦿ Apps will ask for permission

to access your facebook, for instance posting a winning score or book you just finished on your timeline.

Posting on Facebook

Terms⦿ Search Bar⦿ Timeline/Profile⦿ Home Page/

News feed⦿ Friend Request⦿Message or

Notification⦿ Like⦿ Status Update

Adding Friends⦿ You’ll be posting to your group of

friends, so the first part of facebook is adding friends

⦿ Use the search bar to search for someone you know on facebook

Adding Friends⦿When you find someone, you can click

“Add Friend” to request them as a friend.⦿ Next time they log into facebook they

can confirm or deny your request.

Using Facebook⦿ Posting

●On your timeline●On a friend’s timeline

⦿ Tagging●In a post or a picture

⦿Messaging●To a group or an individual

Post to your Timeline⦿ Find at the top of your Timeline – ‘Publisher”

⦿ Click inside and more options appear at the bottom

Click “Post” when you’ve finished typing.

Posting Photos⦿ Photos: It's easy to share your photos

on Facebook. Just click Add Photos/Video in the Publisher. You can then upload a photo from your computer, or upload lots of pictures at once to create a photo album.

Liking Posts⦿ Like posts friends have shared⦿ You can also like the Facebook page

for businesses and organizations to receive updates about them in your News Feed.

Facebook Chat/Messaging⦿ Locate and select the chat box in the

bottom-right corner of the screen. ⦿ A list of friends who are currently

available to chat will appear. Select an available friend.

⦿ Available friends have a green dot by them.

Chat, continued.⦿ Click on a friend’s

name you’d like to chat with.

⦿ A chat window will appear. Type your message, then press Enter. Your conversation will appear in the chat window.

Facebook Messages⦿ Messages work like chat, but allow you to

send messages to people who are offline.⦿ Locate and select the Messages icon at

the top of the screen, then select Send a New Message.

Messages, continued.⦿ A message window

will appear. Type the name of the person you want to message—a list of suggested friends will appear as you type. You can click a suggestion to add that friend to the message.

⦿ Type your message. When you're done, press Enter to send it.

Messages, continued.⦿ You can also send messages to your

friends directly from their Timelines. Simply click the Message button on a friend's Timeline to start a new message.

⦿ To message an organization, you will need to use this method

Updating Your Personal Information⦿ Items you skipped when signing up for

an account can be added from your timeline

⦿ Go to your timeline by clicking your name, then click ‘Update Info” button

Updating Your Personal Information, cont.⦿ Enter any information you’d like to add

Enter any information you’d like to add

PRIVACY AND SETTINGS

Setting up Privacy Controls⦿ Two main ways to control privacy:

●You can apply privacy settings that set general rules about who can contact you and view your information.

●You can control who sees every individual thing you share.

Setting General Privacy Rules⦿ Privacy Shortcuts⦿ Privacy Settings and

Tools Page

Privacy Settings for Individual Posts⦿ The audience selector

Settings Page

Location⦿ Facebook can post your location – on a

computer click the place icon in your publisher window

⦿ If it automatically guesses a location, you can click the x next to it in order not to publish it.

Location Cont.⦿ If you are using

Facebook for mobile phone, you can disable Facebook’s connectivity with the phone’s GPS in the phone’s settings menu.

ACTIVITIES

Post on your Timeline/Profile⦿ Click on your name at the top of

Facebook to navigate to your Timeline

⦿ Click on the text “What’s on your mind?” and type your own post – then click submit.

Like Your Library⦿ First, find the library page by using the

search bar

⦿ Type your library’s name in the search bar and hit enter.

⦿ You can look for friends on Facebook using this search bar as well.

Like Ector County Library⦿ Once you find your library page in

search, click the result to go to the page.

Click ‘Like’ to like and follow the page.

Add A Friend⦿ Use the search bar to search for

someone you know⦿ Request them as a friend

Send a Message⦿ Click the ‘Message’ Button to send a

message to the library⦿ Type a message

then click ‘Send’

Tagging others in Posts⦿ Type your message, and to tag

someone, type ‘@’ in front of their name and it should come up in a list you can select.

⦿ Click to select, and your tag will show up with blue highlight. Press ‘Post’ to send

your tagged status.

Sign up for Pinterest using Facebook⦿ Navigate to www.pinterest.com⦿ Click “Continue with Facebook”

Pinterest Cont.⦿ Once you enter your

Facebook Username (email address) and Password you will have signed up for Pinterest.

⦿ Pinterest is an example of an outside platform app using information from Facebook.

What is Pinterest?⦿ Social media for sharing images and

links, called a ‘virtual pinboard’.⦿ For more information see

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/pinterest101

Resources⦿ www.facebook.com/safety

⦿ http://www.gcflearnfree.org/facebook101

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