How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists

<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"><i>Smart Lists</i> are the lists thatFacebook makes on your behalf. These lists are created automatically based on your interactions with your friends and shared characteristics of your friends. Here are some common Smart Lists:</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>Close Friends: </b>Facebook creates this list based on things like people you interact with a lot on Facebook, people you appear in a lot of photos with, and so on.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Acquaintances: </b>The opposite of the Close Friends list. This list is meant to be a place where you can cordon off the people you don't know as well. In fact, one of the default privacy options when you post something from the Share box is Friends Except Acquaintances, which is Facebook's way of saying, "Share this with my <i>real</i> friends only."</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Restricted: </b>This list is for people you want to add as friends but don't want to see posts that are visible to friends. In other words, people on this list see only posts that you choose to make public.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Family: </b>Based on information you've entered about your family, they may show up on this Smart List.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your High School></i>: </b>If you've caught up with a lot of old friends on Facebook, a Smart List might be created so you can post photos from the reunion or share memories just with them.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your college/university/workplace></i>:</b>Similar to a high school list, depending on the information your friends have listed on their profiles, additional Smart Lists may be created for these groups.</p> </li></ul><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 Facebook is smart, it's not perfect. Although these lists will be mostly accurate, you may find that you have to do some editing to them. The accuracy of the lists may also depend on how you want to use your lists.</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">For example, you may want your Family list to make it easy to share with just your immediate family and, therefore, need to remove the more distant members. Or you want it to be a giant family reunion all the time, in which case, you need to add some of the third and fourth cousins once removed to the mix.</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 edit a Smart 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">From the Home page, look on the right side of the page for the News Feed menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the down arrow to expand the News Feed menu once and then click the See All link at the bottom of the menu to expand it even further.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> All your lists appear, along with links to categories of News Feeds you can look at, such as Music and Photos.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the list you want to edit.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Doing so takes you to that list's News Feed. On the right side of the page is an On This List section, where you can check out the current members of the list.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To add people to a list, type their names in the text box in the On This List section.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Facebook autocompletes as you type. Select your friends' names when you see them.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To remove people from a list, click Edit in the upper-right corner of the On This List section.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears with options for changing what you see in this view.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Add/Remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A pop-up window displays the names and pictures of all members of the list.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Hover over the person you want to remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A small X should appear in the upper-right corner of the person's picture.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the X.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Repeat Steps 7 and 8 for each person you want to remove.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Finish button when you're done.</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">You can edit who is on a Smart List at any point in time.</p>

How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists

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How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists

<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"><i>Smart Lists</i> are the lists thatFacebook makes on your behalf. These lists are created automatically based on your interactions with your friends and shared characteristics of your friends. Here are some common Smart Lists:</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>Close Friends: </b>Facebook creates this list based on things like people you interact with a lot on Facebook, people you appear in a lot of photos with, and so on.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <b>Acquaintances: </b>The opposite of the Close Friends list. This list is meant to be a place where you can cordon off the people you don't know as well. In fact, one of the default privacy options when you post something from the Share box is Friends Except Acquaintances, which is Facebook's way of saying, "Share this with my <i>real</i> friends only."</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Restricted: </b>This list is for people you want to add as friends but don't want to see posts that are visible to friends. In other words, people on this list see only posts that you choose to make public.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Family: </b>Based on information you've entered about your family, they may show up on this Smart List.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your High School></i>: </b>If you've caught up with a lot of old friends on Facebook, a Smart List might be created so you can post photos from the reunion or share memories just with them.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b><i><Your college/university/workplace></i>:</b>Similar to a high school list, depending on the information your friends have listed on their profiles, additional Smart Lists may be created for these groups.</p> </li></ul><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 Facebook is smart, it's not perfect. Although these lists will be mostly accurate, you may find that you have to do some editing to them. The accuracy of the lists may also depend on how you want to use your lists.</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">For example, you may want your Family list to make it easy to share with just your immediate family and, therefore, need to remove the more distant members. Or you want it to be a giant family reunion all the time, in which case, you need to add some of the third and fourth cousins once removed to the mix.</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 edit a Smart 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">From the Home page, look on the right side of the page for the News Feed menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the down arrow to expand the News Feed menu once and then click the See All link at the bottom of the menu to expand it even further.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> All your lists appear, along with links to categories of News Feeds you can look at, such as Music and Photos.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the list you want to edit.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Doing so takes you to that list's News Feed. On the right side of the page is an On This List section, where you can check out the current members of the list.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To add people to a list, type their names in the text box in the On This List section.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Facebook autocompletes as you type. Select your friends' names when you see them.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To remove people from a list, click Edit in the upper-right corner of the On This List section.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears with options for changing what you see in this view.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Add/Remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A pop-up window displays the names and pictures of all members of the list.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Hover over the person you want to remove.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A small X should appear in the upper-right corner of the person's picture.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the X.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Repeat Steps 7 and 8 for each person you want to remove.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Finish button when you're done.</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">You can edit who is on a Smart List at any point in time.</p>

How to Edit Your Facebook Smart Lists

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How to Manage Facebook Friend Lists

<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"><i>Friend Lists</i> (capital L) are subsets of your giant list of Facebook friends (lowercase l). Confused yet? Friend Lists are a way of organizing your friends into lists to make your Facebook experience even easier and more personalized to you and your types of friends. Organizing your friends into Friend Lists allows you to do the following:</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"> <i></i><b>Share different types of information with different sets of friends.</b> For example, your best friends may get to see your party photos, and your family may get to see your wedding photos. This is a custom privacy setting you can use all over Facebook.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>See a version of News Feed that shows only updates from people in that list. </b>You can make sure that you can easily zero in on updates from a certain group of people, which may be your family, or friends from college, or both. You can choose to view only News Feeds from those people.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Use Friend Lists in Chat.</b> You can show yourself as online or offline to different groups of people, or easily scan for certain types of friends currently online, such as social friends if you're looking for a dinner date or carpool friends if you need a ride.</p> </li></ul><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 options for how you create Friend Lists are virtually limitless. Your lists can be for silly things (Girls' Night Out Girls), real-world needs (Family), or general bucketing (co-workers).</p>

How to Manage Facebook Friend Lists

Friend Lists  (capital L) are subsets of your giant list of Facebook friends (lowercase l). Confused yet? Friend Lists are a way of organi...

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How to Manage Facebook Friend Lists

<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"><i>Friend Lists</i> (capital L) are subsets of your giant list of Facebook friends (lowercase l). Confused yet? Friend Lists are a way of organizing your friends into lists to make your Facebook experience even easier and more personalized to you and your types of friends. Organizing your friends into Friend Lists allows you to do the following:</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"> <i></i><b>Share different types of information with different sets of friends.</b> For example, your best friends may get to see your party photos, and your family may get to see your wedding photos. This is a custom privacy setting you can use all over Facebook.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>See a version of News Feed that shows only updates from people in that list. </b>You can make sure that you can easily zero in on updates from a certain group of people, which may be your family, or friends from college, or both. You can choose to view only News Feeds from those people.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Use Friend Lists in Chat.</b> You can show yourself as online or offline to different groups of people, or easily scan for certain types of friends currently online, such as social friends if you're looking for a dinner date or carpool friends if you need a ride.</p> </li></ul><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 options for how you create Friend Lists are virtually limitless. Your lists can be for silly things (Girls' Night Out Girls), real-world needs (Family), or general bucketing (co-workers).</p>

How to Manage Facebook Friend Lists

Friend Lists  (capital L) are subsets of your giant list of Facebook friends (lowercase l). Confused yet? Friend Lists are a way of organi...

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How to Search for a Specific Person 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">Facebook's Friend Finder is a great way to build your Friend List quickly without a lot of work. After you build it a bit, though, what if you find other people who may want to be your friends? Facebook Search offers you the capability to seek out certain friends by name.</p> <p class="Warning" 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 Search box in the blue bar on top lets you search a lot of things on Facebook: pages, groups, events, even things your friends have liked. Most often, you use it to search for people. It may be people you're already friends with and you just want to go to their Timelines. Sometimes it will be people you aren't friends with yet but whom you want to find.</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">Basic Search can be a little confusing because Facebook autocompletes the names that you type and assumes you're trying to get to your friends' Timelines. If you're the type of person who is used to pressing the Enter key to begin a search, this can lead you landing on friends' Timelines when you meant to search for someone<i>else</i> named James.</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">You'll wind up using Search two basic ways. The first way is if the name of the person you're looking for (or at least someone with the same name) appears in the autocomplete menu. You can accomplish that sort of search following 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"> Begin typing the name you're looking for in the Search box.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Pay attention to the people who appear in the autocomplete menu. Facebook displays first your friends and then friends of friends. There's a good chance that you may find the person you're looking for in this menu.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">If you see the name in the autocomplete menu, use your mouse or arrow keys to highlight the person you're looking for.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the name or press Enter.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings you to the person's Timeline, where you can verify that you know the person and add him as a friend.</p></li></ol><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 don't see the person you're looking for, don't despair; you can get more results:</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">Type the person's full name in the search box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click See More at the bottom of the search menu.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The search menu expands to reveal new options for search. So, if you type Jane Smith and then click See More, you can now either search People Named Jane Smith, Pages Named Jane Smith, or Places Named Jane Smith.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the People Named <b><i><Friend's Name></i></b> option.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A blue friend icon is next to this option. A search results page appears with larger previews of people's profile pictures and Timeline info. The right side of the page also has options for narrowing your search using fields such as Gender, Employer, Current City, and so on.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Use the fields on the right side of the page to zero in on your actual friend.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This might be information like where your friend works or where she's from.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">When you find the person you're looking for, add her as a friend.</p> </li></ol>

How to Search for a Specific Person on Facebook

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How to Search for a Specific Person 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">Facebook's Friend Finder is a great way to build your Friend List quickly without a lot of work. After you build it a bit, though, what if you find other people who may want to be your friends? Facebook Search offers you the capability to seek out certain friends by name.</p> <p class="Warning" 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 Search box in the blue bar on top lets you search a lot of things on Facebook: pages, groups, events, even things your friends have liked. Most often, you use it to search for people. It may be people you're already friends with and you just want to go to their Timelines. Sometimes it will be people you aren't friends with yet but whom you want to find.</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">Basic Search can be a little confusing because Facebook autocompletes the names that you type and assumes you're trying to get to your friends' Timelines. If you're the type of person who is used to pressing the Enter key to begin a search, this can lead you landing on friends' Timelines when you meant to search for someone<i>else</i> named James.</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">You'll wind up using Search two basic ways. The first way is if the name of the person you're looking for (or at least someone with the same name) appears in the autocomplete menu. You can accomplish that sort of search following 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"> Begin typing the name you're looking for in the Search box.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Pay attention to the people who appear in the autocomplete menu. Facebook displays first your friends and then friends of friends. There's a good chance that you may find the person you're looking for in this menu.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">If you see the name in the autocomplete menu, use your mouse or arrow keys to highlight the person you're looking for.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the name or press Enter.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This brings you to the person's Timeline, where you can verify that you know the person and add him as a friend.</p></li></ol><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 don't see the person you're looking for, don't despair; you can get more results:</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">Type the person's full name in the search box.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click See More at the bottom of the search menu.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The search menu expands to reveal new options for search. So, if you type Jane Smith and then click See More, you can now either search People Named Jane Smith, Pages Named Jane Smith, or Places Named Jane Smith.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the People Named <b><i><Friend's Name></i></b> option.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A blue friend icon is next to this option. A search results page appears with larger previews of people's profile pictures and Timeline info. The right side of the page also has options for narrowing your search using fields such as Gender, Employer, Current City, and so on.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Use the fields on the right side of the page to zero in on your actual friend.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This might be information like where your friend works or where she's from.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">When you find the person you're looking for, add her as a friend.</p> </li></ol>

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10 Great Facebook Games, Apps, and Websites

<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">Apps use Facebook information to provide some sort of service to you. That might be the capability to battle your friends in a game of chess or poker or it might be the capability to vote up content on another website. Here are ten apps that are popular among Facebook users.</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">Spotify</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"> Spotify is a music service you can actually download to use on your computer and on your mobile phone. Regardless whether you use the Spotify app on Facebook, you can use Spotify to build playlists, listen to specific songs or artists, and follow music from your favorite artists.</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 listen to songs or create playlists on the Spotify Facebook app, this information is shown to your friends on Facebook. When your friends look at the Music view of News Feed they can see what you've been listening to, click Play, and start listening to the same song right away. It's a great way to discover new music and share the joy of music with your friends.</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">Goodreads</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"> Goodreads is a website that enables you to list books you're reading, write book reviews for the books you've read, and share reading lists and suggestions with friends. When you sign up for Goodreads using your Facebook information, you will easily be able to share books and reviews with your Facebook friends on your Timeline.</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">Pinterest</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"> By "pinning" links and images to your various boards, Pinterest allows you to create collections of things you want to try or find interesting. When you sign up with Facebook, you can automatically share your boards with your friends. If you choose, they'll see when you pin new things to your boards in their News Feeds. From there, they can like your pins orcomment on what you've been pinning.</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">Instagram</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"> Instagram was acquired by Facebook in 2012. However, it continues to operate as an independent mobile app for taking, editing, and sharing photos. Instagram works with the camera on your mobile phone, allowing you to add filters to the images you take and then share them via the Instagram app. People can follow each other's photo streams and comment on the photos they like.</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">If you choose to sign up with your Faceboook information, you can postyour Instagrams to Facebook, where your friends can see your photos in their News Feeds. This means you don't have to post the same photo twice. Instagram photos automatically are compiled in an Instagram album on your Timeline.</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">Someecards</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"> Someecards is a website that creates witty, darkly funny e-cards in honor of all the typical holidays — birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, and so on. You can use the app on Facebook to browse cards and post them to you or your friends' Timelines. This allows all your friends to be in on the occasion. After e-cards are posted to a Timeline, friends can like and comment on them.</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">Candy Crush Saga</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"> Candy Crush Saga is a matching game that takes place entirely in a world full of candy and candy shops. You can play it on your computer or on your mobile phone. The goal is to create clusters of certain candy types to score points. As you progress through the levels, you can see how you're stacking up against your friends.</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">As the levels get harder and harder, you may find that you need a few extra turns, which your friends can then gift to you to help you win. You can also send each other gifts within the game to help you get higher and higher scores.</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">Scramble With 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"> Scramble With Friends is a mobile game that you can choose to join through Facebook. Once you do, you can easily challenge friends to games of Scramble (a Boggle-like word game). You can use your Facebook information to easily find opponents and then post your victories (or losses) to your Timeline so everyone can see your prowess with letters.</p> <p class="Warning" 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">Scramble With Friends and many of the other most popular Facebook games are owned by Zynga. The Zynga games are often known for their addictive nature, their entertainment, and unfortunately, sometimes spamming people's friends. As you're playing these games, make sure you pay attention to your Timeline and the number of posts the games make to it.</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">MyFitnessPal</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"> MyFitnessPal is a diet and exercise app that helps you keep track of the food you eat and the calories you burn. When you sign up with Facebook, you can get support from any of your friends who are also working to lose weight or just be healthier. When you add Facebook friends as friends in MyFitnessPal, you can collaborate as you all work to achieve them.</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">You can also post fitness-related updates back to Facebook, such as a weight loss or a particular workout you just completed. As an added bonus, MyFitnessPal works on your smartphone, and can sync with activity tracking devices like the Fitbit and Jawbone UP.</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">Kickstarter</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"> Kickstarter is a website that enables people to <em>crowdsource </em>funding for a project. In other words, people can donate to a project like a film, book, product, or idea. In addition, you can check out what projects your friends are supporting and see if you want to support them also. Additionally, Kickstarter is a great way to garner support for a project that is near and dear to your heart.</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">SongPop</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"> SongPop is a game you can play on your phone or on your computer. It centers around identifying song titles and artists as quickly as possible based on a snippet of music. Of course, once you sign up through Facebook, you can challenge your friends to see who can identify the most songs the quickest.</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">This game is great because it provides easy links to find the songs in the game in Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube.</p>

10 Great Facebook Games, Apps, and Websites

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10 Great Facebook Games, Apps, and Websites

<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">Apps use Facebook information to provide some sort of service to you. That might be the capability to battle your friends in a game of chess or poker or it might be the capability to vote up content on another website. Here are ten apps that are popular among Facebook users.</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">Spotify</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"> Spotify is a music service you can actually download to use on your computer and on your mobile phone. Regardless whether you use the Spotify app on Facebook, you can use Spotify to build playlists, listen to specific songs or artists, and follow music from your favorite artists.</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 listen to songs or create playlists on the Spotify Facebook app, this information is shown to your friends on Facebook. When your friends look at the Music view of News Feed they can see what you've been listening to, click Play, and start listening to the same song right away. It's a great way to discover new music and share the joy of music with your friends.</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">Goodreads</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"> Goodreads is a website that enables you to list books you're reading, write book reviews for the books you've read, and share reading lists and suggestions with friends. When you sign up for Goodreads using your Facebook information, you will easily be able to share books and reviews with your Facebook friends on your Timeline.</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">Pinterest</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"> By "pinning" links and images to your various boards, Pinterest allows you to create collections of things you want to try or find interesting. When you sign up with Facebook, you can automatically share your boards with your friends. If you choose, they'll see when you pin new things to your boards in their News Feeds. From there, they can like your pins orcomment on what you've been pinning.</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">Instagram</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"> Instagram was acquired by Facebook in 2012. However, it continues to operate as an independent mobile app for taking, editing, and sharing photos. Instagram works with the camera on your mobile phone, allowing you to add filters to the images you take and then share them via the Instagram app. People can follow each other's photo streams and comment on the photos they like.</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">If you choose to sign up with your Faceboook information, you can postyour Instagrams to Facebook, where your friends can see your photos in their News Feeds. This means you don't have to post the same photo twice. Instagram photos automatically are compiled in an Instagram album on your Timeline.</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">Someecards</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"> Someecards is a website that creates witty, darkly funny e-cards in honor of all the typical holidays — birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, and so on. You can use the app on Facebook to browse cards and post them to you or your friends' Timelines. This allows all your friends to be in on the occasion. After e-cards are posted to a Timeline, friends can like and comment on them.</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">Candy Crush Saga</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"> Candy Crush Saga is a matching game that takes place entirely in a world full of candy and candy shops. You can play it on your computer or on your mobile phone. The goal is to create clusters of certain candy types to score points. As you progress through the levels, you can see how you're stacking up against your friends.</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">As the levels get harder and harder, you may find that you need a few extra turns, which your friends can then gift to you to help you win. You can also send each other gifts within the game to help you get higher and higher scores.</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">Scramble With 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"> Scramble With Friends is a mobile game that you can choose to join through Facebook. Once you do, you can easily challenge friends to games of Scramble (a Boggle-like word game). You can use your Facebook information to easily find opponents and then post your victories (or losses) to your Timeline so everyone can see your prowess with letters.</p> <p class="Warning" 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">Scramble With Friends and many of the other most popular Facebook games are owned by Zynga. The Zynga games are often known for their addictive nature, their entertainment, and unfortunately, sometimes spamming people's friends. As you're playing these games, make sure you pay attention to your Timeline and the number of posts the games make to it.</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">MyFitnessPal</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"> MyFitnessPal is a diet and exercise app that helps you keep track of the food you eat and the calories you burn. When you sign up with Facebook, you can get support from any of your friends who are also working to lose weight or just be healthier. When you add Facebook friends as friends in MyFitnessPal, you can collaborate as you all work to achieve them.</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">You can also post fitness-related updates back to Facebook, such as a weight loss or a particular workout you just completed. As an added bonus, MyFitnessPal works on your smartphone, and can sync with activity tracking devices like the Fitbit and Jawbone UP.</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">Kickstarter</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"> Kickstarter is a website that enables people to <em>crowdsource </em>funding for a project. In other words, people can donate to a project like a film, book, product, or idea. In addition, you can check out what projects your friends are supporting and see if you want to support them also. Additionally, Kickstarter is a great way to garner support for a project that is near and dear to your heart.</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">SongPop</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"> SongPop is a game you can play on your phone or on your computer. It centers around identifying song titles and artists as quickly as possible based on a snippet of music. Of course, once you sign up through Facebook, you can challenge your friends to see who can identify the most songs the quickest.</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">This game is great because it provides easy links to find the songs in the game in Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube.</p>

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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">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 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 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> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="371" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/54/389754.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"> 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><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>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> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><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> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><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> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Current City:</b> Enter the city where you currently reside.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <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></li></ul><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 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>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 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">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 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">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> <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>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> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Friends:</b> Only people you add as friends will be able to see where you went to high school.</p></li><li> <p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><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> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><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> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><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> </li></ul><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 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 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">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 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're done filling out these fields, click the blue Save & Continue button to move on to the next step.</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">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 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">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>

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