How to Customize Your Facebook Timeline

<p dir=ltr>Your <i>Facebook Profile, </i>or <i>Timeline,</i> is the online representation of who you are. Most likely, you have online profiles for various websites. Facebook Timelines tend to be a little more comprehensive and dynamic.</p><p dir=ltr>While you're getting started, Facebook asks for only a little bit of Profile Information<i>. </i>Facebook asks for this bio because this is the information that will help your friends find you.</p><p dir=ltr>There are five fields that Facebook asks for. You can fill out all or none of them, but it's recommended that you fill them all out:</p><p dir=ltr><b>High School:</b> Enter the high school you attended. If you attended more than one high school, pick just one to enter now; you'll be able to add the rest of them later.</p><p dir=ltr><b>College/University:</b> If you attended college, enter your school. If you attended more than one school, either because you transferred or because you also attended a graduate program, just pick one school for now. You'll be able to add the rest later.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Employer:</b> Enter the name of the company you work for. For now, enter wherever you're currently working or where you worked most recently. You'll be able to enter a full work history later on.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Current City:</b> Enter the city where you currently reside.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Hometown:</b> Enter the place you identify as your hometown. That may be the place you were born or the place you moved to when you were 10 years old. It's up to you.</p><p dir=ltr>You may notice that as you type the name of your high school or college, a list of names appears below the field where you're typing. Get used to seeing these <i>autocomplete</i><i> </i>menus around Facebook. As you type, Facebook tries to guess the rest of the word you're typing. When you see what you're looking for, use the arrow keys to highlight the correct match and press Enter.</p><p dir=ltr>Next to each field is a globe icon with an upside-down triangle next to it, shown next to this paragraph. This is one version of the<i> </i>Privacy Menu that appears throughout Facebook. Also known as the Audience Selector, you can click this icon to change who can see the information you just entered.</p><p dir=ltr>Privacy on Facebook is important. And complex. For now, decide who can see each of these items. So, for example, if you're choosing privacy for your High School, you would click the globe icon to open the privacy menu and select from the following options:</p><p dir=ltr><b>Public or Everyone:</b> Anyone who visits your Timeline can see where you went to high school. Additionally, anyone who searches for People Who Went to<i><High School Name> </i>will see you in the search results.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Friends:</b> Only people you add as friends will be able to see where you went to high school.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Only Me:</b> Only you will be able to see where you went to high school. A friend visiting your Timeline won't see this information.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Custom:</b> A specific set of people you choose will or will not be able to see where you went to high school. This option doesn't usually become very useful until people have responded to your Friend Requests.</p><p dir=ltr><b>Lists (Close Friends and Family):</b>Facebook tries to help you sort your friends into categories such as Close Friends or Family. You can choose to allow only people in those lists to see where you went to high school. Much like Custom, this option may not be very useful at this time.</p><p dir=ltr>If you don't want to share this information publicly, simply click the globe icon and select with whom you do want to share it. Each privacy setting has its own icon to represent it, so if you choose Friends, the globe icon will be replaced by the icon of two silhouettes.</p><p dir=ltr>Because these are the fields that help friends find you, it's recommended that you leave them set to Public. Especially if you have a common name, having some biographical details makes it easier for friends to find and identify you. But if you aren't comfortable with that, you of course can change the privacy setting. Privacy settings aren't set in stone; you can always adjust them later.</p><p dir=ltr>When you're done filling out these fields, click the blue Save & Continue button to move on to the next step.</p><p dir=ltr>Sometimes Facebook will use the information you just entered to show you some people it thinks you may know. In that case, after you finish Step 2, but before you get to Step 3, you may see an Add People You Know screen. This screen displays the name and photos of people you may want to add as friends.</p><p dir=ltr>Click the Add Friend button next to the images of people you know and want to add as friends. You can also choose to skip that part of the step using the Skip link (next to the Save & Continue button).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDOljJTSpe5yoE0FYhyphenhyphenqTNsi7boiDiNT6fgwcgJMkjZvlYySofjuUlRu7nMhpXFZgMHnbxg4f4-DeDg_hu8hQuev1_d74psxPV4g0OwOeJO6s2jpL8M0bjGUTrHbz7Gv-j_R1HC-lM8tL/s1600/IMG_20140116_190825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDOljJTSpe5yoE0FYhyphenhyphenqTNsi7boiDiNT6fgwcgJMkjZvlYySofjuUlRu7nMhpXFZgMHnbxg4f4-DeDg_hu8hQuev1_d74psxPV4g0OwOeJO6s2jpL8M0bjGUTrHbz7Gv-j_R1HC-lM8tL/s640/IMG_20140116_190825.jpg"> </a> </div>

How to Customize Your Facebook Timeline

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How to Add a Facebook Event Photo

<h1 style="margin-top: 0.25rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5rem; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal; ">though not required, adding an event photo to your Facebook event helps make the invitation feel a bit more official. Although it's not quite the same thing as sending out letter-pressed, hand-addressed invitations, it's the next best thing.</span><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To add an event photo, follow these steps.</p><ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the event's page, click the Add Event Photo button in the top-right corner.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A menu with two options appears: You can either select from photos you have already added to Facebook or you can choose a photo from your computer's hard drive. Either option opens an interface for browsing photos.</p></li> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select a photo from your hard drive or from Facebook.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> After selecting a photo from your hard drive, you may need to click Open. After you select your photo, it should appear at the top of the event with white text that reads Drag to Reposition Event Photo.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Use your mouse to drag the photo in order to position it properly on the screen.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Save Changes button.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">After you add your event photo, the Add Event Photo button is replaced with a Change Event Photo button that appears when you hover your mouse over the photo. Click this button to choose a new photo, reposition the existing photo, or remove the existing photo entirely.</p> </li></ol>

How to Add a Facebook Event Photo

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What It Means to Be Friends on Facebook

<h1 style="margin-top: 0.25rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5rem; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal; ">n many ways, a <i>Facebook Friend</i> is the same as a real-life friend. These are the people you hang out with, keep in touch with, care about, and want to publicly acknowledge as friends. These aren't people you met on Facebook. Rather, they're the people you call on the phone; stop and catch up with if you cross paths; or invite over for parties, dinners, and general social gatherings.</span><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">In real life, there are lots of shades of friendship — think of the differences between acquaintances, a friend from work, an activity buddy, and best friends. Facebook gives you a few tools for negotiating these levels of friendship. But by default, most friendships are lumped into a blanket category of "friend."</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Here are the basics of what it means to be friends with someone on Facebook, though you'll notice that each of them comes with a few caveats on how it can be adjusted by either person in the friendship.</p> <ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:24px"> <b>They can see all the stuff on your Timeline (like your posts and other information) that you have set to be visible to Friends.</b></p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Remember, this is what happens by default. You can actually control which friends can see which posts more specifically by learning about your privacy options, and about Friend Lists.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:24px"> <b>They see new posts you create in their News Feeds on their Home pages.</b></p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b></b>Again, the information your friends see in their News Feed depends on the audience you've chosen to share each post with. It may also depend on your friends' News Feed settings.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:24px"><b>You can see their posts and other information on their Timelines.</b></p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b></b>This, of course, depends on their own privacy settings, but in general, you'll be able to see more as a friend than you did before you became friends.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:24px"> <b>You see new posts from them in your News Feed on your Home page.</b></p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b></b>This depends on your friend's sharing settings, but more importantly, you can control whose posts you see in your News Feed through managing your own News Feed settings and preferences.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:24px"><b>You'll be listed as friends on one another's Timeline.</b></p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This is a small detail, but it's important in understanding the difference between becoming friends with someone and simply subscribing to someone's posts. Lots of people, especially public figures or people who have a business, allow you to subscribe to their posts without becoming friends. In these cases, you see their posts on your Home page, but they won't see your posts unless they choose to subscribe to you.</p> </li></ul>

What It Means to Be Friends on Facebook

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How to Accept a Friend Request on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">When you receive a new friend request from Facebook, a little red flag appears over the Friends icon in the big blue bar on top of each page. You may also be notified in your e-mail or on your phone. The number in the red flag indicates how many Friend Requests are waiting for you.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="100" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/00/390200.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="238"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> Clicking this icon opens the Friend Requests menu.</p><img alt="image1.jpg" height="151" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/01/390201.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="535"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> To accept the Friend Request, click the Confirm button. You now have a friend. To reject the request, click Not Now.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> When you click Not Now, Facebook may ask you whether you know that person outside of Facebook. In other words, is this a Friend Request from someone you know or someone you don't know?</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If you click No — meaning, "I have no idea who this person is" — Facebook prevents that person from friending you again in the future. If you click Yes, meaning "Yes, I know this person but I'm not sure I want him looking at my stuff," Facebook hides the request. In other words, you can go back to it in the future and confirm it at that time.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To get back to hidden Friend Requests, open the Friend Request menu and click See All at the bottom of the menu. This takes you to a page where all your outstanding requests (including hidden ones) appear. You can then confirm or permanently delete a request.</p> <p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You can also access hidden requests by going to the Timeline of the person who sent the request. There, the Add Friend button is replaced with a button to accept the Friend Request. Click the button to become official Facebook friends.</p> <p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Some people worry about clicking that Not Now button. If you're not sure what you want to do, you can always leave the request untouched. But never hesitate to click Not Now for someone you really just don't want to be friends with. Facebook won't notify her that you ignored her request.</p>

How to Accept a Friend Request on Facebook

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How to Accept a Friend Request on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">When you receive a new friend request from Facebook, a little red flag appears over the Friends icon in the big blue bar on top of each page. You may also be notified in your e-mail or on your phone. The number in the red flag indicates how many Friend Requests are waiting for you.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="100" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/00/390200.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="238"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> Clicking this icon opens the Friend Requests menu.</p><img alt="image1.jpg" height="151" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/01/390201.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="535"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> To accept the Friend Request, click the Confirm button. You now have a friend. To reject the request, click Not Now.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> When you click Not Now, Facebook may ask you whether you know that person outside of Facebook. In other words, is this a Friend Request from someone you know or someone you don't know?</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If you click No — meaning, "I have no idea who this person is" — Facebook prevents that person from friending you again in the future. If you click Yes, meaning "Yes, I know this person but I'm not sure I want him looking at my stuff," Facebook hides the request. In other words, you can go back to it in the future and confirm it at that time.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To get back to hidden Friend Requests, open the Friend Request menu and click See All at the bottom of the menu. This takes you to a page where all your outstanding requests (including hidden ones) appear. You can then confirm or permanently delete a request.</p> <p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You can also access hidden requests by going to the Timeline of the person who sent the request. There, the Add Friend button is replaced with a button to accept the Friend Request. Click the button to become official Facebook friends.</p> <p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Some people worry about clicking that Not Now button. If you're not sure what you want to do, you can always leave the request untouched. But never hesitate to click Not Now for someone you really just don't want to be friends with. Facebook won't notify her that you ignored her request.</p>

How to Accept a Friend Request on Facebook

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How to Manage Facebook’s News Feed and Live Feed

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Your Facebook home page gives you two views to help keep up with family and friends: News Feed, which is an aggregated and summarized view of your friends' activity, and Live Feed, which is a constantly updating real-time view of what people are doing.</p> <p class="Remember" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">News Feed and Live Feed are meant to be complementary. In other words, while News Feed may be interesting first thing in the morning, once you've read all of it, Live Feed will keep you updated as things happen.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">On the flip side, if you're busy and can't keep up with everything that's happening with Live Feed, News Feed will make sure you see the important stuff. You can switch between News Feed and Live Feed at any time by clicking the links at the top of the page.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="144" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/03/150503.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="400"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If one of your friends posts too frequently or too obnoxiously, you don't have to avoid your home page. Here's how you can "hide" someone from News Feed.</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the Live Feed view, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. Click Edit Options.</p><img alt="image1.jpg" height="382" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/04/150504.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings up a dialog box to Edit News Feed Options.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type the names of any friends you want to hide into the "Hide" box on the right.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">This doesn't remove the friendship, just makes your Live Feed a little bit more manageable.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> If you have a lot of friends (and it's okay if you don't), you can make sure your most interesting ones always show up by adding them to the "Show more" box on the left. You can also increase the number of friends who appear in Live Feed, which will mean more stories will move through your home page on any given day.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Save button when you're done.</p></li></ol>

How to Manage Facebook’s News Feed and Live Feed

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How to Manage Facebook’s News Feed and Live Feed

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Your Facebook home page gives you two views to help keep up with family and friends: News Feed, which is an aggregated and summarized view of your friends' activity, and Live Feed, which is a constantly updating real-time view of what people are doing.</p> <p class="Remember" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">News Feed and Live Feed are meant to be complementary. In other words, while News Feed may be interesting first thing in the morning, once you've read all of it, Live Feed will keep you updated as things happen.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">On the flip side, if you're busy and can't keep up with everything that's happening with Live Feed, News Feed will make sure you see the important stuff. You can switch between News Feed and Live Feed at any time by clicking the links at the top of the page.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="144" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/03/150503.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="400"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If one of your friends posts too frequently or too obnoxiously, you don't have to avoid your home page. Here's how you can "hide" someone from News Feed.</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the Live Feed view, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. Click Edit Options.</p><img alt="image1.jpg" height="382" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/04/150504.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings up a dialog box to Edit News Feed Options.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type the names of any friends you want to hide into the "Hide" box on the right.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">This doesn't remove the friendship, just makes your Live Feed a little bit more manageable.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> If you have a lot of friends (and it's okay if you don't), you can make sure your most interesting ones always show up by adding them to the "Show more" box on the left. You can also increase the number of friends who appear in Live Feed, which will mean more stories will move through your home page on any given day.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Save button when you're done.</p></li></ol>

How to Manage Facebook’s News Feed and Live Feed

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How to Build Your Business’s Facebook Friend Network

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Building your personal friend network on Facebook can have a resonating effect on your professional persona. By encouraging your friends to become fans of your business's Page, your updates appear on their News Feeds and increase your Page's exposure to all their friends. All good Facebook marketers know that their friends can be valuable viral enablers within Facebook.</p> <h2 style="margin:0.25rem 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Finding Facebook friends</h2><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> You can find friends and contacts by using several search and import capabilities within Facebook. To start, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Go to your Home page by clicking the Home link on the top navigation bar.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Friends link on the right side of the page.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="400" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/84/263984.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="466"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Friends page appears.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Identify someone with whom you want to be Facebook friends.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> You have several options for locating potential friends:</p><ul class="level-two" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> If you want to import contacts from your e-mail client, click the Find Friends link and enter your e-mail address and password. Click Agree to give Facebook access to your contacts and then decide which contacts you want to add as friends.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Other Tools link at the bottom to find former high school classmates, current or past college classmates, or current or past coworkers. Click the appropriate link for the group you're interested in and then browse the list on the search results page.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Enter a Facebook user's name or e-mail address in the default search box at the top of the screen or by navigating to the <a disabled href="http://www.facebook.com/search.php" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">Facebook Search Page</a>.</p> <img alt="image1.jpg" height="199" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/85/263985.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"></li> </ul></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">After you identify a Facebook member with whom you want to reconnect, extend a friend request by clicking the Add as Friend link to the right of that person's name within the search results.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You can also send a friend request from within someone's profile page. Simply visit that person's profile page and then click the Add as Friend button. (<b><i>Note: </i></b>Because you're not already friends, you have access only to profiles of members with a common network, depending on their privacy settings.)</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Send a Friend Request dialog box appears.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> (Optional) Click Add a Personal Message and enter a message in the text box that appears.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">If you enter a message, the person has a point of reference when she receives your friend request.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Send Request.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Your request is sent to the user's Facebook account.</p></li></ol><h2 style="margin:0.25rem 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Creating Facebook Friends lists</h2> <p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">After you have a healthy number of friends, Facebook lets you organize your gaggle into lists, or groups. For example, you can create a work list that consists of coworkers or business contacts. Lists allow you to quickly view friends by type and then send messages to an entire list. Facebook allows up to 100 lists with up to 1,500 friends per list.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To create a list, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Friends tab in the left navigation pane on your home page.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Friends page appears.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Edit Friends button at the top-right of the page.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> On the page that appears, choose All Friends from the drop-down list, and then click the Create a List button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Create New List dialog box appears.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Enter a name for the list in the Enter a Name text box.</p><img alt="image2.jpg" height="400" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/86/263986.image2.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="422"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> For example, enter Work Friends.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select friends by clicking their profile pictures.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> To find the friends to include in your new list, you can either browse your friends list or enter a person's name in the search field at the top right of the dialog box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Create List button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A page appears where you can edit the new list's name, or add and remove friends from that list.</p> </li></ol>

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How to Build Your Business’s Facebook Friend Network

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Building your personal friend network on Facebook can have a resonating effect on your professional persona. By encouraging your friends to become fans of your business's Page, your updates appear on their News Feeds and increase your Page's exposure to all their friends. All good Facebook marketers know that their friends can be valuable viral enablers within Facebook.</p> <h2 style="margin:0.25rem 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Finding Facebook friends</h2><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> You can find friends and contacts by using several search and import capabilities within Facebook. To start, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Go to your Home page by clicking the Home link on the top navigation bar.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Friends link on the right side of the page.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="400" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/84/263984.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="466"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Friends page appears.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Identify someone with whom you want to be Facebook friends.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> You have several options for locating potential friends:</p><ul class="level-two" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> If you want to import contacts from your e-mail client, click the Find Friends link and enter your e-mail address and password. Click Agree to give Facebook access to your contacts and then decide which contacts you want to add as friends.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Other Tools link at the bottom to find former high school classmates, current or past college classmates, or current or past coworkers. Click the appropriate link for the group you're interested in and then browse the list on the search results page.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Enter a Facebook user's name or e-mail address in the default search box at the top of the screen or by navigating to the <a disabled href="http://www.facebook.com/search.php" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">Facebook Search Page</a>.</p> <img alt="image1.jpg" height="199" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/85/263985.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"></li> </ul></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">After you identify a Facebook member with whom you want to reconnect, extend a friend request by clicking the Add as Friend link to the right of that person's name within the search results.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You can also send a friend request from within someone's profile page. Simply visit that person's profile page and then click the Add as Friend button. (<b><i>Note: </i></b>Because you're not already friends, you have access only to profiles of members with a common network, depending on their privacy settings.)</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Send a Friend Request dialog box appears.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> (Optional) Click Add a Personal Message and enter a message in the text box that appears.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">If you enter a message, the person has a point of reference when she receives your friend request.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Send Request.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Your request is sent to the user's Facebook account.</p></li></ol><h2 style="margin:0.25rem 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Creating Facebook Friends lists</h2> <p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">After you have a healthy number of friends, Facebook lets you organize your gaggle into lists, or groups. For example, you can create a work list that consists of coworkers or business contacts. Lists allow you to quickly view friends by type and then send messages to an entire list. Facebook allows up to 100 lists with up to 1,500 friends per list.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To create a list, follow these steps:</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Friends tab in the left navigation pane on your home page.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Friends page appears.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Edit Friends button at the top-right of the page.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> On the page that appears, choose All Friends from the drop-down list, and then click the Create a List button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Create New List dialog box appears.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Enter a name for the list in the Enter a Name text box.</p><img alt="image2.jpg" height="400" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/86/263986.image2.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="422"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> For example, enter Work Friends.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select friends by clicking their profile pictures.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> To find the friends to include in your new list, you can either browse your friends list or enter a person's name in the search field at the top right of the dialog box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Create List button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A page appears where you can edit the new list's name, or add and remove friends from that list.</p> </li></ol>

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Facebook: Writing a Post or Asking a Group Question

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If you are in a Facebook group you may want to write a post or ask a question of your fellow group members. Posts are status updates that you share only with the members of a Group (unless the Group is open, in which case anyone can see your post). You might post an update just to say hi or to start a discussion with Group members. To write a post, follow these steps:</p> <ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click into the Write Something text box at the top of the Group page (as shown in the following figure).</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="72" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/87/309687.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> After you click into the box, you see the Post button appear below the text box along with buttons to indicate where you are and which other Facebook members are with you.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Type whatever you want to say into the box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Post.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Your post appears on the Group wall, and Group members see it in their notifications and possibly in their News Feeds.</p></li></ol><p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If you want to share a link, usually some sort of article, video, or other online content that you want the Group to see, simply type or paste in the complete link to whatever you want to share, along with your thoughts or opinions, into the text box for writing a Post.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Using the Question feature is great for polling a Group of people about choices big and small. To poll your Group, follow these steps:</p> <ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Ask Question in the Publisher at the top of the Group Wall.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b></b>The Question Publisher appears.</p></li><li> <p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type your question into the Ask Something box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Add Poll Options link beneath the text box.</p><img alt="image1.jpg" height="262" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/88/309688.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This expands the poll options</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type your first option into the first Add an Option box.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Facebook auto-completes these boxes as you type and assumes you are typing in a place, brands, article titles, or other non-friend entities.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Add more options until you're finished.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Facebook keeps adding more boxes as you fill up these first few, so just stop when you're ready.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Choose whether people can add more options.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A check box labeled Allow Anyone to Add Options controls this setting. Allowing this means people can add more answers to a Poll (so if before people could only choose Dog or Cat, Group members may be able to add Hedgehog as an option) Depending on how big your Group is, this may or may not be a significant choice.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Post.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The question then appears on the Group Wall and in member's notifications and News Feeds. They will be able to vote, Like, orcomment on the Question.</p></li></ol>

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Facebook: Writing a Post or Asking a Group Question

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If you are in a Facebook group you may want to write a post or ask a question of your fellow group members. Posts are status updates that you share only with the members of a Group (unless the Group is open, in which case anyone can see your post). You might post an update just to say hi or to start a discussion with Group members. To write a post, follow these steps:</p> <ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click into the Write Something text box at the top of the Group page (as shown in the following figure).</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="72" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/87/309687.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> After you click into the box, you see the Post button appear below the text box along with buttons to indicate where you are and which other Facebook members are with you.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Type whatever you want to say into the box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Post.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Your post appears on the Group wall, and Group members see it in their notifications and possibly in their News Feeds.</p></li></ol><p class="Tip" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> If you want to share a link, usually some sort of article, video, or other online content that you want the Group to see, simply type or paste in the complete link to whatever you want to share, along with your thoughts or opinions, into the text box for writing a Post.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Using the Question feature is great for polling a Group of people about choices big and small. To poll your Group, follow these steps:</p> <ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Ask Question in the Publisher at the top of the Group Wall.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b></b>The Question Publisher appears.</p></li><li> <p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type your question into the Ask Something box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Add Poll Options link beneath the text box.</p><img alt="image1.jpg" height="262" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/88/309688.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This expands the poll options</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Type your first option into the first Add an Option box.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Facebook auto-completes these boxes as you type and assumes you are typing in a place, brands, article titles, or other non-friend entities.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Add more options until you're finished.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Facebook keeps adding more boxes as you fill up these first few, so just stop when you're ready.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Choose whether people can add more options.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A check box labeled Allow Anyone to Add Options controls this setting. Allowing this means people can add more answers to a Poll (so if before people could only choose Dog or Cat, Group members may be able to add Hedgehog as an option) Depending on how big your Group is, this may or may not be a significant choice.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Post.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The question then appears on the Group Wall and in member's notifications and News Feeds. They will be able to vote, Like, orcomment on the Question.</p></li></ol>

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How to Add a Facebook Event Photo

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Although not required, adding an event photo to your Facebook event helps make the invitation feel a bit more official. Although it's not quite the same thing as sending out letter-pressed, hand-addressed invitations, it's the next best thing.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To add an event photo, follow these steps.</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the event's page, click the Add Event Photo button in the top-right corner.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A menu with two options appears: You can either select from photos you have already added to Facebook or you can choose a photo from your computer's hard drive. Either option opens an interface for browsing photos.</p></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select a photo from your hard drive or from Facebook.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> After selecting a photo from your hard drive, you may need to click Open. After you select your photo, it should appear at the top of the event with white text that reads Drag to Reposition Event Photo.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Use your mouse to drag the photo in order to position it properly on the screen.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Save Changes button.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">After you add your event photo, the Add Event Photo button is replaced with a Change Event Photo button that appears when you hover your mouse over the photo. Click this button to choose a new photo, reposition the existing photo, or remove the existing photo entirely.</p> </li></ol>

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How to Add a Facebook Event Photo

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Although not required, adding an event photo to your Facebook event helps make the invitation feel a bit more official. Although it's not quite the same thing as sending out letter-pressed, hand-addressed invitations, it's the next best thing.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To add an event photo, follow these steps.</p><ol class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From the event's page, click the Add Event Photo button in the top-right corner.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A menu with two options appears: You can either select from photos you have already added to Facebook or you can choose a photo from your computer's hard drive. Either option opens an interface for browsing photos.</p></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select a photo from your hard drive or from Facebook.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> After selecting a photo from your hard drive, you may need to click Open. After you select your photo, it should appear at the top of the event with white text that reads Drag to Reposition Event Photo.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Use your mouse to drag the photo in order to position it properly on the screen.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Save Changes button.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">After you add your event photo, the Add Event Photo button is replaced with a Change Event Photo button that appears when you hover your mouse over the photo. Click this button to choose a new photo, reposition the existing photo, or remove the existing photo entirely.</p> </li></ol>

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How to View Videos on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You'll mostly encounter videos onFacebook in your News Feed with a big fat Play button in the center. Simply click that button to watch the video. It expands the photo viewer overlay (yes, the photo viewer is what you use to view videos), which makes the background darken and lets you focus on the video you want to watch.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The video plays on the left side of the screen, and the right side displays the video's title, description, and tags, as well as links to Like, Comment, and Share the video. Any comments or likes that have already been made also show up on the right side of the screen.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">While the video is playing, you can hover your mouse over it to see the progress bar and to display the various links you can click related to the video. These appear in white toward the bottom of the video.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="396" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/25/390325.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="535"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> Here are the components of the photo viewer when you are watching a video:</p><ul class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Progress bar, Volume, and Full Screen:</b> You can pause the video from the progress bar, as well as adjust the video's volume from the volume meter. Click the square icon to the right of the progress bar to expand the video and watch it on your entire computer screen.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Video Title:</b> The video's title is at the bottom left of the viewer. If video doesn't have a title, the date and time of upload are displayed.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Tag Video:</b> Click this link if you want to tag someone in the video.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Options:</b> Clicking this link expands a menu of options, including a Report option if you ever see a video you think shouldn't be on Facebook.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Share:</b> This link allows you topost a video to your own Timeline and share it with your friends.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Send:</b> This link allows you to send the video to friends attached to a message. When you send a video, the message and video go to your friend's Inbox.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Like:</b> Click this link to let your friends know that you like their videos.</p></li></ul>

How to View Videos on Facebook

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How to View Videos on Facebook

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You'll mostly encounter videos onFacebook in your News Feed with a big fat Play button in the center. Simply click that button to watch the video. It expands the photo viewer overlay (yes, the photo viewer is what you use to view videos), which makes the background darken and lets you focus on the video you want to watch.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The video plays on the left side of the screen, and the right side displays the video's title, description, and tags, as well as links to Like, Comment, and Share the video. Any comments or likes that have already been made also show up on the right side of the screen.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">While the video is playing, you can hover your mouse over it to see the progress bar and to display the various links you can click related to the video. These appear in white toward the bottom of the video.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="396" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/25/390325.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); max-width: 100%; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; height: auto !important;" width="535"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> Here are the components of the photo viewer when you are watching a video:</p><ul class="level-one" style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Progress bar, Volume, and Full Screen:</b> You can pause the video from the progress bar, as well as adjust the video's volume from the volume meter. Click the square icon to the right of the progress bar to expand the video and watch it on your entire computer screen.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Video Title:</b> The video's title is at the bottom left of the viewer. If video doesn't have a title, the date and time of upload are displayed.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Tag Video:</b> Click this link if you want to tag someone in the video.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Options:</b> Clicking this link expands a menu of options, including a Report option if you ever see a video you think shouldn't be on Facebook.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Share:</b> This link allows you topost a video to your own Timeline and share it with your friends.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Send:</b> This link allows you to send the video to friends attached to a message. When you send a video, the message and video go to your friend's Inbox.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Like:</b> Click this link to let your friends know that you like their videos.</p></li></ul>

How to View Videos on Facebook

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How to delete or disable your Facebook account

<div class="imageContainer580xX" style="width:320px;height:auto;clear:both;margin:auto;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px"><img class="galleryImage imgId100056164 " itemprop="image" src="http://zapt1.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/09/fb_deactivate_my_account-100056164-gallery.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px; max-width: 100%;"></div> <div class="department" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;overflow:hidden"><a class="topCatLink" href="http://www.techhive.com/category/web-social" style="color:rgb(215,114,39);float:left;font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;margin-right:5px"><span style="line-height:1.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">Privacy concerns surrounding Facebook have been well documented, but you may have other reasons for wanting to walk away from the social network. Perhaps you don't find it all that useful, or you've received one too many FarmVille requests. If this sounds like you, consider deactivating or outright deleting your Facebook account.</span><br> </a></div><span itemprop="articleBody description text" style><h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Deactivate your account</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em"> Deactivating your Facebook account puts it on hiatus: Your profile will be removed from the site, as will most of what you posted to Facebook (though messages and other things will stick around), but Facebook will retain your data in case you decide to come back. You can always reactivate your account later by logging in to Facebook.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">To deactivate your account, log in to Facebook, and select the settings menu in the upper-right corner (represented by a gear icon). Choose<em style>Account Settings</em> from the menu, and then on the next screen select<em style>Security</em> from the list along the left side of the window.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Once there, click <em style>Deactivate your account</em> toward the bottom of the page. Facebook will try to guilt you into staying by showing you photos of your Facebook friends, and then ask you why you want to deactivate your account. Once you tell Facebook why you don't want to be friends anymore, click the <em style>Confirm</em>button, and Facebook will proceed to deactivate your account.</p> <a class="zoom cboxElement" href="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/09/fb_deactivate-100056161-orig.png" style="color:rgb(37,167,215)"><img alt="" border="0" height="278" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/09/fb_deactivate-100056161-large.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="580"></a><strong style>Was it something I said?</strong> When you deactivate your account, Facebook will ask you why you don't love it anymore.<h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em"> Kill your account altogether</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Deleting your account, on the other hand, kills it completely: You won't be able to log back in to retrieve or view anything you've posted to Facebook, and if you want to use Facebook again, you'll have to start from scratch.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Facebook recommends that you download a copy of the data you've published to the site before you delete your account. Open the settings menu on Facebook while logged in to your account by clicking the gear icon at the upper left. Next, select <em style>Account Settings,</em> and on the General Account Settings page, look for<em style> Download a copy of your Facebook data</em> and click the link. The service will then guide you through the process of downloading an archive of all your Facebook data.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">The company doesn't make it immediately obvious as to how to delete your Facebook account, but to do so, log in to Facebook with your account, and then visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account" style="color:rgb(37,167,215)">Facebook's account deletion form</a> to carry out the process.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Keep in mind that once your Facebook account is gone, it's gone, so you should delete your account only if you're really, really sure that you won't use Facebook again</p> </span>

How to delete or disable your Facebook account

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How to delete or disable your Facebook account

<div class="imageContainer580xX" style="width:320px;height:auto;clear:both;margin:auto;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px"><img class="galleryImage imgId100056164 " itemprop="image" src="http://zapt1.staticworld.net/images/article/2013/09/fb_deactivate_my_account-100056164-gallery.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px; max-width: 100%;"></div> <div class="department" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;overflow:hidden"><a class="topCatLink" href="http://www.techhive.com/category/web-social" style="color:rgb(215,114,39);float:left;font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;margin-right:5px"><span style="line-height:1.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">Privacy concerns surrounding Facebook have been well documented, but you may have other reasons for wanting to walk away from the social network. Perhaps you don't find it all that useful, or you've received one too many FarmVille requests. If this sounds like you, consider deactivating or outright deleting your Facebook account.</span><br> </a></div><span itemprop="articleBody description text" style><h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em">Deactivate your account</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em"> Deactivating your Facebook account puts it on hiatus: Your profile will be removed from the site, as will most of what you posted to Facebook (though messages and other things will stick around), but Facebook will retain your data in case you decide to come back. You can always reactivate your account later by logging in to Facebook.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">To deactivate your account, log in to Facebook, and select the settings menu in the upper-right corner (represented by a gear icon). Choose<em style>Account Settings</em> from the menu, and then on the next screen select<em style>Security</em> from the list along the left side of the window.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Once there, click <em style>Deactivate your account</em> toward the bottom of the page. Facebook will try to guilt you into staying by showing you photos of your Facebook friends, and then ask you why you want to deactivate your account. Once you tell Facebook why you don't want to be friends anymore, click the <em style>Confirm</em>button, and Facebook will proceed to deactivate your account.</p> <a class="zoom cboxElement" href="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/09/fb_deactivate-100056161-orig.png" style="color:rgb(37,167,215)"><img alt="" border="0" height="278" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/09/fb_deactivate-100056161-large.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="580"></a><strong style>Was it something I said?</strong> When you deactivate your account, Facebook will ask you why you don't love it anymore.<h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em"> Kill your account altogether</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Deleting your account, on the other hand, kills it completely: You won't be able to log back in to retrieve or view anything you've posted to Facebook, and if you want to use Facebook again, you'll have to start from scratch.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Facebook recommends that you download a copy of the data you've published to the site before you delete your account. Open the settings menu on Facebook while logged in to your account by clicking the gear icon at the upper left. Next, select <em style>Account Settings,</em> and on the General Account Settings page, look for<em style> Download a copy of your Facebook data</em> and click the link. The service will then guide you through the process of downloading an archive of all your Facebook data.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">The company doesn't make it immediately obvious as to how to delete your Facebook account, but to do so, log in to Facebook with your account, and then visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account" style="color:rgb(37,167,215)">Facebook's account deletion form</a> to carry out the process.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em">Keep in mind that once your Facebook account is gone, it's gone, so you should delete your account only if you're really, really sure that you won't use Facebook again</p> </span>

How to delete or disable your Facebook account

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Protect your Facebook account from hackers with two-factor authentication

<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">Nobody likes it when their friends suddenly start spewing links to weight-loss supplements and porn on Facebook. Don't be that person. Using Facebook's two-factor authentication feature can help keep undesireables out of your account—perhaps saving some friendships.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">Two-factor authentication, for the uninitiated, requires you to enter in another piece of private data in addition to your password in order to log in. This typically takes the form of a single-use security code that gets sent to your smartphone, and it can help keep your account safe in case a hacker or data thief ever gets ahold of your username and password.</p> <img alt="" border="0" height="211" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/login_approval_setup-100058826-medium.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="300">Setting up Facebook's Login Approval feature takes just a couple minutes.<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> To start, visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/" style="color:rgb(37,167,215)">Facebook.com</a> and log in with your username and password. Next click the gear icon in the upper right corner, and select<em style>Account Settings</em> from the menu that pops up. On the next screen, select<em style>Security</em> from the list on the left, then select <em style>Login Approvals</em>. When the Login Approvals section expands, check the box labelled <em style>Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers</em>, and Facebook will walk you through the setup process.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">By default, Facebook will send security codes through its mobile app, but it can send you text messages as a backup login method. If you don't already have a cellphone number associated with your account, Facebook will ask you to add one. When prompted, select your country from the list, enter your number, then press Continue. Facebook will send you a text message to confirm that your number is indeed yours: Enter the six-digit confirmation code texted to you when prompted, then click<em style>Confirm</em>.</p> <h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Logging in</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> Facebook will not pester you to enter a security code from a browser it already recognizes, so if you only use Facebook from one computer, you may never be asked to senter a security code. But if you are, here's what to expect:</p> <img alt="" border="0" height="227" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/enter_code-100058825-large.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="580">After you enter your username and password, you'll be asked to enter a security code.<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> The next time you log into Facebook on a new computer, enter your username and password as usual, then press <em style>Log In</em>. On the next screen, Facebook will ask you to enter a security code.</p><img alt="" border="0" height="221" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/code_generator-100058827-medium.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="300">The Code Generator in Facebook's mobile app.<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> To get that code, open the Facebook app on your phone, tap <em style>More</em> (in the toolbar on iOS, swipe left to right to access the <em style>More</em> menu on Android), then scroll down and tap<em style>Code Generator</em>. Facebook will give you a single-use code that's good for 30 seconds (after 30 seconds, you'll be get a new code). Enter this in on your computer, then press <em style>Continue</em>.</p> <h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Limitations</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> Facebook's two-factor authentication feature won't protect everything, though. It only asks for a security code if you attempt to log in from an unrecognized device, and it only works for login requests from Web browsers—you can log into the Facebook mobile app without having to enter a code. Still, it's better than nothing.</p>

Protect your Facebook account from hackers with two-factor authentication

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Protect your Facebook account from hackers with two-factor authentication

<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">Nobody likes it when their friends suddenly start spewing links to weight-loss supplements and porn on Facebook. Don't be that person. Using Facebook's two-factor authentication feature can help keep undesireables out of your account—perhaps saving some friendships.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">Two-factor authentication, for the uninitiated, requires you to enter in another piece of private data in addition to your password in order to log in. This typically takes the form of a single-use security code that gets sent to your smartphone, and it can help keep your account safe in case a hacker or data thief ever gets ahold of your username and password.</p> <img alt="" border="0" height="211" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/login_approval_setup-100058826-medium.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="300">Setting up Facebook's Login Approval feature takes just a couple minutes.<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> To start, visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/" style="color:rgb(37,167,215)">Facebook.com</a> and log in with your username and password. Next click the gear icon in the upper right corner, and select<em style>Account Settings</em> from the menu that pops up. On the next screen, select<em style>Security</em> from the list on the left, then select <em style>Login Approvals</em>. When the Login Approvals section expands, check the box labelled <em style>Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers</em>, and Facebook will walk you through the setup process.</p> <p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">By default, Facebook will send security codes through its mobile app, but it can send you text messages as a backup login method. If you don't already have a cellphone number associated with your account, Facebook will ask you to add one. When prompted, select your country from the list, enter your number, then press Continue. Facebook will send you a text message to confirm that your number is indeed yours: Enter the six-digit confirmation code texted to you when prompted, then click<em style>Confirm</em>.</p> <h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Logging in</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> Facebook will not pester you to enter a security code from a browser it already recognizes, so if you only use Facebook from one computer, you may never be asked to senter a security code. But if you are, here's what to expect:</p> <img alt="" border="0" height="227" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/enter_code-100058825-large.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="580">After you enter your username and password, you'll be asked to enter a security code.<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> The next time you log into Facebook on a new computer, enter your username and password as usual, then press <em style>Log In</em>. On the next screen, Facebook will ask you to enter a security code.</p><img alt="" border="0" height="221" src="http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/code_generator-100058827-medium.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; height: auto; max-width: 100%; float: left;" width="300">The Code Generator in Facebook's mobile app.<p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> To get that code, open the Facebook app on your phone, tap <em style>More</em> (in the toolbar on iOS, swipe left to right to access the <em style>More</em> menu on Android), then scroll down and tap<em style>Code Generator</em>. Facebook will give you a single-use code that's good for 30 seconds (after 30 seconds, you'll be get a new code). Enter this in on your computer, then press <em style>Continue</em>.</p> <h2 style="font-family:ff-enzo-web,sans-serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:0.25em;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Limitations</h2><p style="line-height:1.7em;margin:0px 0px 0.7em;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif"> Facebook's two-factor authentication feature won't protect everything, though. It only asks for a security code if you attempt to log in from an unrecognized device, and it only works for login requests from Web browsers—you can log into the Facebook mobile app without having to enter a code. Still, it's better than nothing.</p>

Protect your Facebook account from hackers with two-factor authentication

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