Getting Started with Facebook

Presented by Randy Reynolds at Piedmont Community Colleges, Business

Development and Entrepreneurship Center on9-30-10

General Housekeeping

• Restrooms are out the door to the left • The presentation will be posted online. I will need

your email address to send you a link.• To prevent confusion, please confine your

questions to the topic we are covering at the moment.

• We will cover all other questions at the break and the end. Please use the Post-its at your table to jot down your questions.

What you need today

• An email address• A picture for your profile• Other pictures are optional

What will we cover today?

• How to set register for your account• Setting up your profile• Your profile picture• Privacy and security settings• Notification settings• Posting comments and pictures to your wall• Requests – friend, event etc…• Uploading photo albums (time permitting)• Messages (time permitting)

What we will not cover

• Using applications• Facebook mobile• Facebook for business (come on the 7th)• Games• Creating lists• Notes• Chat

Facebook Statistics (from Facebook)

• People on Facebook• More than 500 million active users• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day• Average user has 130 friends• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook• Activity on Facebook • Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events • Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month• More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog

posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.• Global Reach• More than 70 translations available on the site• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

Some more interesting stats.

www.digitalbuzzblog.com

Lets get started!

In your browser go to www.facebook.com

Then click here

Fill in your information

Enter text from the box above

If you can’t read it, try a

different one

When you are done, click here

You may be offered people that Facebook thinks you are friends with. Some you may know, others you may have no clue as to who they are.

I know this one so I click to add

I don’t know th

is one , s

o I click

ignore

Now, click

to co

ntinue

You can use this option to search for more friends. We’ll do this later

Click to skip

This information will be used in your profile and to help find friends.

As you start typing, choices will appear. Just click on the

correct one.

Once you choose a high school, it will ask you for the year you graduated

Select the year you graduated. If you didn’t graduate, try choosing a year that you attended.

When finished, cl

ick to

continue

You may enter college

information the same

way you entered high

school

Small employers may not

be pre populated. Just

type yours in.

Now enter your college and employment information.

You should now be presented with an opportunity to choose friends. “Add” all those you are interested in “friending”

This is how it will look

after you click “Add as friend”

When you are done,

click to

continue

It’s time to add your profile picture

Choose this option

Click here to choose your picture file

Where your picture is stored may look different, depending on your operating system (This is Windows 7). Hopefully your picture file is stored somewhere you can easily find it.

When you’ve selected your picture click “open”

The picture is uploaded. We will center it later.

Click to continue

Note that it is prompting m

e to

confirm m

y account. We’ll do this

later

We will not cover this today.

Click

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that

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file

These will help to suggest friends

Optional

Choose one

Optional. Many people leave blank

All of these are optional and can

be added or changed later

When you are finished, click to

save

Click here to add your relatives

This section will work best for relations who are already on Facebook. If they are on and are not already friends, they will be sent a friend request. If they are already friends, a confirmation of relationship request will still be sent.

Save when finished

Now, let’s look at “Likes and Interests”

As you start adding activities, interests etc… the form will start to populate. Just click on your choices. You can add as many as you want into each category.

When you finish , click here to move on to

Education and Work.

Remember to save, before you leave the page

This is your chance to add more schools and jobs. You can always

come back here if needed

Save before you leave

Now on to your contact information

This is where you can enter your contact information. We will cover securing your privacy next. However, if there is information that you don’t want to make available to any friends on Facebook, don’t bother to enter it here!

When you’re finished, save your work

Let’s take a look at your profile so far

When you’re done admiring

your work, c

lick on

“account”

Then “Privacy Settings”

To customize, click “view settings”

Clicking on these will open a drop down menu that lets you chose who

can view each type of information

Customize is not available for all information types

Through your privacy settings you can choose to hide items from individuals or groups of people

Let’s preview our profile to see

how it will look to people who

aren’t our “friends”

Notice that very little information is available. Facebook requires a minimum to be shown

Let’s return to the privacy settings

Now we are going to get more specific with “Customize settings”

Do not check

Click and select “Customize”

Choose “only me”

Scroll down

Now to get rid of the new features that let you “check in” or have your friends check you in. Don’t activate these until you know what they are and

decide to use them.

This is the last of the main privacy settings. Most are pretty easy figure out.

If you don’t want friends giving out

your location, click here

Then check disabled

When you’re finished, scroll to the top of the page and click on “Account” then click

on “Account Settings”

The one of most interest is “name”

Women often put their maiden name here if they want to help

old friends find them.

Networks can help you to connect with people, but are

entirely optional.

The list of notifications seems endless, but unless you want your e-mail box stuffed, you’ll need to change the default selections

Getting started, I recommend that you have the first 4

checked

For the rest, choose what

seems good to you. If you’re getting too

many emails, come back here and

deselect some

You can get notifications sent to you by text message. You can also post comments, pictures and video from your cell phone.Sorry, but how to do that is beyond the scope of this class

Enough of the boring but necessary stuff. It becomes a lot more fun when you start to connect with your friendsSo let’s get started! Click on “Find Friends”This means that someone is

requesting to be my friend

Facebook gives you lots of ways to find your friends!

You could search for them by name

Remember the friend requests

from the other page? We can confirm them here

This is a handy feature for

grouping your friends

If you use a major email program, you can search your contacts

More optionsClicking the “X” will remove the person from the list and usually bring you another person

Now for a tour….

This is where you will receive notifications, if it is red, click on itYou will get friend requests the same way

Now click on “Messages”

These messages are like a Facebook email system

Click on “New Message”

Fill in the pop up form and click send when you are finished

Now let’s look at events

From here you can respond to event invitations or even create your own.

Click here to respond to an event invitation. A pop up box

will appear.

Click the one you want, or if you prefer to make it go away

without a response, click “Remove this event "in the

bottom left of the box

Click here and follow

the directions

Check your e-mail account. You should have received a confirmation that looks like this.

Photo albumsFor a short tutorial visit this link: http://www.screencast.com/t/l3oH41Od