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Getting Started with Facebook Michael Henry Starks March 17, 2011 www.linkedin.com/in/starkscommunications
Getting Started with Facebook
Michael Henry Starks March 17, 2011
www.linkedin.com/in/starkscommunications
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Why are we here?
• Create a Facebook account • Make the initial settings for privacy and
communicating on Facebook • Be ready to go home and:
– Create lists of Friends. – Start posting. – Adjust your Facebook settings over time.
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What’s so great about Facebook?
• Brings communities of people together • Free. • Popular with all ages. • Keep up with people you care about. • Allow others to keep up with you via your
posts of text, photos and links. • Link to articles, chat with other FB members,
invite people to events.
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Before we begin…
• You need to be prepared to tell Facebook your name, birth date, sex and email address.
• You need access to your email account, because Facebook might send you an email to verify who you are.
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Let’s get started! Open a browser and go to www.facebook.com
Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox
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You’ll have to do this step from your own computer. (No, this isn’t really Step 3, 2 or 1.)
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…it means Facebook sent you this email to verify you are who you said.
Open your email and click on this link
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You can activate your mobile phone after you’ve used Facebook a while.
Not today
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You have to tell Facebook… …but you don’t have
to tell anyone else.
You can always change everything but your name, age, sex and email address.
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To start, select the most restrictive option -- either “Friends Only” or “Customize” “Only Me”.
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For now, start conservative. You can change privacy settings at any time.
When finished with this page, click “Back to Privacy.”
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Click each of these to see how the settings change. But before you leave this page…
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Click each of these to see how the settings change. But before you leave this page…
…click this link to edit many more privacy settings.
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If you have already added photos or videos to Facebook, go here to edit the privacy settings.
Do you want all your Friends to know where you are? And that you aren’t at home?
To start, select the most restrictive option -- either “Friends Only” or “Customize” “Only Me”.
Top half of page
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Bottom half of page
What does it mean to be tagged in a photo or video?
When finished with this page, click “Back to Privacy” button at the top of the page. Michael Henry Starks [email protected] 28
“On Facebook, your name, profile picture, gender and networks are visible to everyone. Also, by default, apps have access to your friends list and any information you choose to share with everyone.”
Once you give your friends’ names and email addresses to Facebook and to any games or apps, you cannot get them back. Michael Henry Starks [email protected] 30
If you have not subscribed to any app, there are no settings to edit.
Click Edit Settings for “Info accessible through your friends.”
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“Use the settings below to control which of your information is available to applications, games and websites when your friends use them. The more info you share, the more social the experience.”
To start, select the most restrictive option – uncheck all these boxes.
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Click Friends Only button for “Game and app activity”…
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If you select Customize, you’ll get this pop-up window for “Custom Privacy.”
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Click Edit Settings button for “Instant personalization.”
You’ll get a video window…
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www.facebook.com/instant_personalization
“Partners adhere to Facebook's guidelines and may only use your public information to serve you a personalized experience. Public information includes your name, profile picture, gender, networks, and other information shared with everyone.”
Skip the video for now and instead click on “Learn More,”…
…which goes to this page…
…which says:
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Your “information available to everyone” includes the Facebook posts you have read.
How useful would personalization be to you?
Are you likely to visit any of these sites often?
When finished with this page, click “Back to Apps” button at the top of the page. Michael Henry Starks [email protected] 38
When people do a Web search on your name (Google), do you want your Facebook page to
appear on their search-results page?
When finished with this page, click “Back to Apps” button at the top of this page and then “Back to Privacy” at the top of Apps, Games and Websites page. Michael Henry Starks [email protected] 40
We’re done here for now. Come back later to read these pages about blocking and sharing.
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When you’re finished, save your changes by clicking this button.
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From any page, click on “Account” in the blue bar at the top. Then click “Account Settings” in the drop-down box.
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In the drop-down menu, click the box to check-mark “Secure Browsing (https)” and “Send me an email.”
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Every once in a while, come back here to “Download Your Information.”
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If you ever want to leave Facebook, download your information and then click “deactivate.” You can actually delete
your account by going here: https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
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Come back later to explore and understand each of the other pages of settings for “My Account.”
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Make your selection for “Allow adds on platform pages…” and then scroll down and make a selection for “Show my social actions in Facebook ads to…”
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Now you need to add the names and email addresses of your Friends…
…in order to share what you post and to see what they post.
Try using the Facebook friend finder.
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Depending on which email program you use, you might need to convert the information in your email address book into CSV format so Facebook can put your address book entries into your Facebook Friends list. Text that’s in the CSV (comma-separated-value) format is what gets pulled out of one software program so it can be put into another software program. Each output item is separated by a comma from surrounding items, and each output text item is surrounded by "double quotes“. So output from an email address book would look something like this: “Mike Starks”, “[email protected]”, “Zionsville”,
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You can create and name your own Friends lists and give more access to one and less access to another.
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Facebook asks, “What’s on your mind?” and “What are you planning?”
Your answers to these questions are the posts that show up on your friends’ News Feed pages.
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Life is more than text.
You can also post photos, a link to a Web page and/or a video file.
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www.facebook.com
After you have some people in your Friends list, you will start seeing their posts on your Home News Feed page.
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Your Wall is in your Profile. It has your Profile information, all the items that you have posted, plus items by Friends whom you have allowed to post on your Wall.
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“The New Profile” This page has a promotional video and a guide for using the features of Facebook’s new Profile.
www.facebook.com/about/profile/
See also Help Center: Top Questions about the New Profile www.facebook.com/about/profile/#!/help/?topic=new_profile Michael Henry Starks [email protected] 61
Remember this email?
Facebook really wants you to spend time on the site. So they offer lots of help. Use it.
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Facebook is a lot more interesting and fun to use than it is challenging. You’ll learn best by just doing it!
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Facebook made many changes in February 2011 and continues to make more changes.
• You’ll need time to explore, learn and understand which Facebook features matter to you.
• There are many options for using Facebook for marketing or other business purposes.
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Information for managing your page for marketing purposes.
• To get to Manage My Page: – www.facebook.com/pages then click on “Pages I
Admin.” – Or click on “Ads and Pages” in the left hand column (if
you have that option) under your profile picture.
• www.allfacebook.com/10-facebook-page-creation-tools-2011-02
• For creating pages without a lot of coding: www.postling.com.
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Help and answers • Michael Starks
– [email protected] – http://www.linkedin.com/in/starkscommunications.
• Facebook Help Center. https://www.facebook.com/help/. Last accessed 3/16/11. • Smith, Mari. 15 frequently asked questions about Facebook pages.
http://www.marismith.com/15-frequently-asked-questions-about-facebook-pages/. Last accessed 3/16/11.
• Qora Facebook page. http://www.quora.com/Facebook-1?q=facebook. Last accessed 3/16/11.
• GCFLearnFree.org. http://blog.gcflearnfree.org. • Lifehacker. http://lifehacker.com. • Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Website. • AllFacebook.com. https://www.facebook.com/allfacebook. • Facebook Privacy Guide.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/privacy/explanation.php. Last accessed 3/16/11.
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Sources and references • Pogue, D. July 8, 2010. An intro to the hottest social networks.
Video. NYTimes.com, http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/07/08/technology/personaltech/1247468407934/an-intro-to-the-hottest-social-networks.html?ref=twitter. Last accessed 2/25/11.
• Pogue, D. July 7, 2010. For those Facebook left behind. Column and video. NYTimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/technology/personaltech/08pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology. Last accessed 2/25/11.
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org • Social Media Primer: http://www.sminorgs.net/2010/12/social-
media-primer-parts-1-2-updated-revisiting-the-fire-and-the-juggernaut.html
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