Facebook For Dummies. Carolyn Abram

Framing Your Profile Picture Adding Dimension Giving Your Photos Some Flair Reviewing the Last Year (or Years) Making Your Status Stand Out Tagging It All Using Stickers or GIFs in Your Messages Friend-a-versaries Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Be Politically Active on Facebook Familiarize Yourself with the Voting Information Center Share Your Voting Status Spend Time in the Town Hall Join Relevant Groups Fundraise for a Cause Organize a Digital Grassroots Campaign Fact-Check Your Sources Beware of Click-Bait Don’t Feed the Trolls Mute What Drives You Crazy Chapter 18: Ten Frequently Asked Questions Do People Know When I Look at Their Timelines? I Friended Too Many People and Now I Don’t Like Sharing Stuff — What Can I Do? Facebook Looks Different — Can I Change It Back? I Have a Problem with My Account — Can You Help Me? What Do I Do with Friend Requests I Don’t Want to Accept? Why Can’t I Find My Friend? Will Facebook Start Charging Me to Use the Site? How Do I Convince My Friends to Join? What If I Don’t Want Everyone Knowing My Business? Does Facebook Have a Feature That Lets Me Lock Myself Out for a Few Hours?

      10  Index

      11  About the Authors

      12  Connect with Dummies

      13  End User License Agreement

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: Welcome to Facebook.FIGURE 1-2: Welcome back to Facebook, old friend.FIGURE 1-3: An example of a Facebook timeline.

      2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Enter information here to create a Facebook account.FIGURE 2-2: Keep your inbox free of clutter.FIGURE 2-3: Find your friends early and often.FIGURE 2-4: Home sweet Home page.FIGURE 2-5: Little boxes like this one point out how and why to use different F...

      3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: Your Home page may look a little like this.FIGURE 3-2: The top bar.FIGURE 3-3: Check out stories from friends here.FIGURE 3-4: Share what’s on your mind.FIGURE 3-5: A sample sidebar.FIGURE 3-6: Use this menu to hide and unpin shortcuts.

      4 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Just your average status update.FIGURE 4-2: Viewing a shared link from a friend.FIGURE 4-3: Checking out a friend’s photo post.FIGURE 4-4: Live video of a friendly face.FIGURE 4-5: A post to a group — with a background!FIGURE 4-6: Celebrate your achievements with a life event.FIGURE 4-7: Flip through your friends' stories here.FIGURE 4-8: Share your own thoughts with a comment, and it may spark a conversa...FIGURE 4-9: Share here.FIGURE 4-10: The News Feed menu for a specific post.FIGURE 4-11: The News Feed Preferences window.FIGURE 4-12: Start sharing here.FIGURE 4-13: The share box, expanded.FIGURE 4-14: Adding a background gives your words a little more pop.FIGURE 4-15: Emojis help you express everything you feel.FIGURE 4-16: Tag your friends when they are with you.FIGURE 4-17: A post with activity information.FIGURE 4-18: Start telling your story.FIGURE 4-19: The Select Privacy menu.

      5 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Welcome to your timeline.FIGURE 5-2: Choose a cover photo.FIGURE 5-3: Choose a new profile picture here.FIGURE 5-4: Add a frame to make your profile picture say something.FIGURE 5-5: The share box on the timeline.FIGURE 5-6: Add a life event from the recent or distant past.FIGURE 5-7: Edit or delete a post.FIGURE 5-8: Hi, nice to meet you; here are the basics.FIGURE 5-9: The About section of your timeline.FIGURE 5-10: Leave a public message for a friend on his timeline.

      6 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: Audience options for your posts.FIGURE 6-2: Choose who you don’t want to see something.FIGURE 6-3: The Custom Privacy dialog.FIGURE 6-4: The doctor is in for your privacy checkup.FIGURE 6-5: The Settings page.FIGURE 6-6: Access your information here.FIGURE 6-7: Edit your settings for tags.FIGURE 6-8: Add people to the restricted list.FIGURE 6-9: Control how you receive notifications.FIGURE 6-10: Keep tabs on the ads you are seeing on Facebook.FIGURE 6-11: Privacy shortcuts can be found here.FIGURE 6-12: Here’s everything you did recently on Facebook.FIGURE 6-13: Reporting inappropriate content.

      7 Chapter 7FIGURE 7-1: Log in to the Facebook app for iPhone.FIGURE 7-2: Facebook for iPhone home.FIGURE 7-3: More links.FIGURE 7-4: Facebook reactions.FIGURE 7-5: You got something to say?FIGURE 7-6: Influence your News Feed here.FIGURE 7-7: iPhone posts start here.FIGURE 7-8: Share photos from your phone’s camera roll.FIGURE 7-9: Tag, crop, and add stickers to your photos.FIGURE 7-10: Add text, doodles, or effects to photos.FIGURE 7-11: Start a live video, take a selfie, or use superzoom.FIGURE 7-12: Funny faces.FIGURE 7-13: Start your story here.FIGURE 7-14: Stories can be found at the top of your News Feed.FIGURE 7-15: Watch a friend’s story unfold.FIGURE 7-16: A friend’s timeline in the Facebook app.FIGURE 7-17: Post options.FIGURE 7-18: Say hi to Avatar Carolyn.FIGURE 7-19: A group on your phone.FIGURE 7-20: The Messenger inbox.FIGURE 7-21: A message thread between friends.FIGURE 7-22: Facebook Mobile Home.

      8 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: The search results for Carolyn Abram.FIGURE 8-2: Click Confirm or Delete.FIGURE 8-3: A friend’s friends might just be your future friends.FIGURE 8-4: Get to the friend you want using search filters.FIGURE 8-5: Adjust your News Feed Preferences.

      9 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: The New Message chat window.FIGURE 9-2: A conversation between friends.FIGURE 9-3: Selecting stickers.FIGURE 9-4: Sending money to friends.FIGURE 9-5: The chat list.FIGURE 9-6: Welcome to your inbox.FIGURE 9-7: Conversation previews in the Messages inbox.

      10 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Checking out a group.FIGURE 10-2: What’s on your mind?FIGURE 10-3: You’ve got questions? Facebook has answers.FIGURE 10-4: Creating an event for group members.FIGURE 10-5: Checking out a group event.FIGURE 10-6: What’s up, doc?FIGURE 10-7: Controlling notifications.FIGURE 10-8: Adding friends to a group.FIGURE 10-9: The Create Group page.FIGURE 10-10: Admin