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

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...

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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>

How to Build Your Business’s Facebook Friend Network

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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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<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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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 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

You'll mostly encounter videos onFacebook in your News Feed with a big fat Play button in the center. Simply click that button to watc...

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