How to Administer Your Facebook Group

<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're the creator of a Facebookgroup, you're automatically its <i>admin</i><i>,</i>or administrator. Additionally, you can be added as an admin of someone else's group. After you have members in your group, you can use the group member list to remove (and even permanently ban) undesirable members, promote your most trusted members to administrators, or demote your existing administrators (if any) back to regular members.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To get started in your career as an admin, take a look at the Edit Group Settings page. You get to this page by clicking the gear icon on the right side of your group's page (under the member photos). This expands a drop-down menu with several options. Select Edit Group Settings from the menu, which takes you to the Edit Group Settings page.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="284" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/39/390239.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"> The Edit Group Settings page allows you to revisit some of the decisions you made when you were first creating your group, as well as adjust some settings that tend to be relevant only for people who are admins of large, open groups.</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>Name:</b> Edit the group name here.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Icon:</b> You can change your icon at any time from here.</p></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Privacy:</b> The privacy level of the group can change here. Changing a secret group to an open group might be a bad idea if people are sharing content they may feel is sensitive.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Membership Approval:</b> By default, any member of a group can add other members. You can change this option by requiring admins to approve new members.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Group Address:</b> If you want, you can create a group e-mail address and web address. Group addresses appear as something like<a disabled href="mailto:groupname@groups.facebook.com" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">groupname@groups.facebook.com</a>and web addresses appear as something like<a disabled href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/groupname" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">www.facebook.com/groups/groupname</a>. E-mails sent to the group e-mail address are added as <a class="" disabled href="http://m.dummies.com/DummiesArticle/How-to-Administer-Your-Facebook-Group.id-390242.html#glossary-post" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">posts</a> to the group wall.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Description:</b> The description of your group appears in the About section of the group the first time new members visit your group page. So this is a good place to set expectations for what the group is for and how you expect to use it.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Posting Permissions:</b> By default, all members of a group can post to it. But if you're the admin of a large group, you may want to change this setting so that only administrators can post. Keep in mind that this can really limit discussion!</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Post Approval:</b> Similarly, if you want to make sure the content of a group is appropriate and relevant, you can choose to have admins approve posts before all group members see them.</p> </li></ul><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">Click Save when you're done editing your group's information; otherwise, all your hard work will be lost.</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 an admin, you can remove and ban members from the group, as well as create other admins to help shoulder the burden of admin-hood.</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 members, 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">Next to the group's name, click the Members tab.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This takes you to the Members section of the group, the bulk of which is taken up by images of group members. If you are an admin, below each group member's name is a little gear icon.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the gear icon below the name of the person you want to remove or make an admin.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu with two options appears: Make Admin or Remove from Group.</p> <img alt="image1.jpg" height="183" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/40/390240.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="295"></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To make someone an admin, click Make Admin.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> When someone is already an admin, you can remove her admin status by choosing Remove as Admin from this same menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> To remove someone from the group, choose Remove from Group.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You need to confirm this via a pop-up window that appears. If someone has been posting consistently offensive or abusive content, you can ban that person permanently by selecting the Ban Permanently check box; that person can never rejoin the group.</p> </li></ol>

How to Administer Your Facebook Group

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How to Administer Your Facebook Group

<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're the creator of a Facebookgroup, you're automatically its <i>admin</i><i>,</i>or administrator. Additionally, you can be added as an admin of someone else's group. After you have members in your group, you can use the group member list to remove (and even permanently ban) undesirable members, promote your most trusted members to administrators, or demote your existing administrators (if any) back to regular members.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">To get started in your career as an admin, take a look at the Edit Group Settings page. You get to this page by clicking the gear icon on the right side of your group's page (under the member photos). This expands a drop-down menu with several options. Select Edit Group Settings from the menu, which takes you to the Edit Group Settings page.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="284" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/39/390239.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"> The Edit Group Settings page allows you to revisit some of the decisions you made when you were first creating your group, as well as adjust some settings that tend to be relevant only for people who are admins of large, open groups.</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>Name:</b> Edit the group name here.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Icon:</b> You can change your icon at any time from here.</p></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Privacy:</b> The privacy level of the group can change here. Changing a secret group to an open group might be a bad idea if people are sharing content they may feel is sensitive.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Membership Approval:</b> By default, any member of a group can add other members. You can change this option by requiring admins to approve new members.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Group Address:</b> If you want, you can create a group e-mail address and web address. Group addresses appear as something like<a disabled href="mailto:groupname@groups.facebook.com" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">groupname@groups.facebook.com</a>and web addresses appear as something like<a disabled href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/groupname" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">www.facebook.com/groups/groupname</a>. E-mails sent to the group e-mail address are added as <a class="" disabled href="http://m.dummies.com/DummiesArticle/How-to-Administer-Your-Facebook-Group.id-390242.html#glossary-post" style="color:rgb(1,69,138)">posts</a> to the group wall.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Description:</b> The description of your group appears in the About section of the group the first time new members visit your group page. So this is a good place to set expectations for what the group is for and how you expect to use it.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Posting Permissions:</b> By default, all members of a group can post to it. But if you're the admin of a large group, you may want to change this setting so that only administrators can post. Keep in mind that this can really limit discussion!</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Post Approval:</b> Similarly, if you want to make sure the content of a group is appropriate and relevant, you can choose to have admins approve posts before all group members see them.</p> </li></ul><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">Click Save when you're done editing your group's information; otherwise, all your hard work will be lost.</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 an admin, you can remove and ban members from the group, as well as create other admins to help shoulder the burden of admin-hood.</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 members, 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">Next to the group's name, click the Members tab.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This takes you to the Members section of the group, the bulk of which is taken up by images of group members. If you are an admin, below each group member's name is a little gear icon.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the gear icon below the name of the person you want to remove or make an admin.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu with two options appears: Make Admin or Remove from Group.</p> <img alt="image1.jpg" height="183" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/40/390240.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="295"></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">To make someone an admin, click Make Admin.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> When someone is already an admin, you can remove her admin status by choosing Remove as Admin from this same menu.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> To remove someone from the group, choose Remove from Group.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You need to confirm this via a pop-up window that appears. If someone has been posting consistently offensive or abusive content, you can ban that person permanently by selecting the Ban Permanently check box; that person can never rejoin the group.</p> </li></ol>

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How to Use Facebook Groups from Your Mobile Phone

<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 use a smartphone, you can download the Facebook App for your phone, which allows you to use most Facebook features on the go, including Facebook Groups. To get to a Facebook group from your mobile or tablet app, 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"> Tap the menu icon in the upper-left corner of the screen.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">This expands the left-hand menu. Scroll down to look at the list of groups.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Tap the name of the group you want to check out.</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 group's mobile Home page. It's actually not all that different from the regular view of groups. You see all the group's recent posts.</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"> When you're looking at a post, you can tap on the post or the gray text at the bottom listing the number ofcomments to see all the comments that have been made. You can tap the Like button to like the post, or the Comment button to add your own comment.</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">Tapping a photo focuses the screen on just the photo. You can then use your normal finger shortcuts to zoom in and out for a better view of that photo.</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 looking at the group's recent posts, you can choose to add a post from your mobile phone by tapping the Post button at the top of the page. Tap the Photo button to post a photo from your phone. Just like creating a post anywhere on Facebook, you can add tags and location information.</p>

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How to Use Facebook Groups from Your Mobile Phone

<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 use a smartphone, you can download the Facebook App for your phone, which allows you to use most Facebook features on the go, including Facebook Groups. To get to a Facebook group from your mobile or tablet app, 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"> Tap the menu icon in the upper-left corner of the screen.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">This expands the left-hand menu. Scroll down to look at the list of groups.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Tap the name of the group you want to check out.</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 group's mobile Home page. It's actually not all that different from the regular view of groups. You see all the group's recent posts.</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"> When you're looking at a post, you can tap on the post or the gray text at the bottom listing the number ofcomments to see all the comments that have been made. You can tap the Like button to like the post, or the Comment button to add your own comment.</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">Tapping a photo focuses the screen on just the photo. You can then use your normal finger shortcuts to zoom in and out for a better view of that photo.</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 looking at the group's recent posts, you can choose to add a post from your mobile phone by tapping the Post button at the top of the page. Tap the Photo button to post a photo from your phone. Just like creating a post anywhere on Facebook, you can add tags and location information.</p>

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How to Adjust News Feed Settings for a Friend

<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">Whenever you add a friend onFacebook, you start seeing some of that friend's updates in your News Feed. And depending on the friend, what you see about him might be perfect. But that "depending on" is a pretty big "depending." You might like one friend's statuses but hate seeing photos of her baby all the time.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You might feel like someone else isposting way too often and your News Feed is cluttered with his constant status updates. Or you might want to make sure you don't miss a single thing your best friend does. You can actually control these settings from a friend's Timeline.</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 adjust News Feed settings for a friend, 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 her Timeline.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> You can get there using Search or by clicking her name anywhere you see it around the site. Once you're on your friend's Timeline, look for the button on her cover photo that says 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 Friends button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu of options appears. By default, the Show in News Feed option is selected. You can remove your friend from News Feed entirely by selecting Show in News Feed, which will remove the check mark. Assuming you want to see something from your friend, though, proceed to Step 3.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Settings from the menu.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The News Feed settings menu appears, asking which updates you want to see from that person. You can control what you see by both quantity and type.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Decide how much you want to see from your friend.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You can choose to see</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"><i>All Updates: </i>All updates really does mean everything, so if your friend is particularly active on Facebook, your News Feed may be overrun with her stories.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Most Updates: </i>Most friends are set to Most Updates by default. This means News Feed determines which stories from this person to show you.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Only Important:</i> Important updates are really the big things: an engagement or kid, or maybe a post that seems to be getting a lot of attention from other friends. If you want to see drastically less of a person, this usually does the trick, without the danger of you missing any big news.</p> </li></ul></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Decide whether there are any types of stories you particularly want to see.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The bottom part of the News Feed settings menu shows types of stories that appear in News Feed. By default, all types are selected, because News Feed assumes you like variety. Select any story type to remove the check mark next to it.</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">On Facebook, everyone has the option to turn on <i>following </i>for his posts. This means that followers can receive that person's public posts in their News Feed without becoming friends. It is a settings that's handy for public figures and people who might want to share some things very broadly and other things more privately.</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">Most people don't allow following, which is why when you go to someone's Timeline, you just see a button to add her as a friend. If someone allows followers, you will see an additional button that says Follow. Click that button to start getting that person's posts in your News Feed.</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">After you're following someone, you can edit News Feed settings for him just as though he were any other friend. Navigate to his Timeline, click the Following button, and select Settings from the menu that appears. Make your choices about quantity and type of posts you want to see.</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">Additionally, when you like a Page, you automatically start following its posts. Unlike following a regular Timeline, you either get updates from Pages or you don't. From a Page's Timeline, hover over the Liked button to bring up a menu of options. By default, the Show in News Feed option is checked. Select it again to uncheck it and prevent stories from that Page from appearing in your News Feed.</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">Whenever you add a friend onFacebook, you start seeing some of that friend's updates in your News Feed. And depending on the friend, what you see about him might be perfect. But that "depending on" is a pretty big "depending." You might like one friend's statuses but hate seeing photos of her baby all the time.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You might feel like someone else isposting way too often and your News Feed is cluttered with his constant status updates. Or you might want to make sure you don't miss a single thing your best friend does. You can actually control these settings from a friend's Timeline.</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 adjust News Feed settings for a friend, 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 her Timeline.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> You can get there using Search or by clicking her name anywhere you see it around the site. Once you're on your friend's Timeline, look for the button on her cover photo that says 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 Friends button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu of options appears. By default, the Show in News Feed option is selected. You can remove your friend from News Feed entirely by selecting Show in News Feed, which will remove the check mark. Assuming you want to see something from your friend, though, proceed to Step 3.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Settings from the menu.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The News Feed settings menu appears, asking which updates you want to see from that person. You can control what you see by both quantity and type.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Decide how much you want to see from your friend.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You can choose to see</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"><i>All Updates: </i>All updates really does mean everything, so if your friend is particularly active on Facebook, your News Feed may be overrun with her stories.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Most Updates: </i>Most friends are set to Most Updates by default. This means News Feed determines which stories from this person to show you.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Only Important:</i> Important updates are really the big things: an engagement or kid, or maybe a post that seems to be getting a lot of attention from other friends. If you want to see drastically less of a person, this usually does the trick, without the danger of you missing any big news.</p> </li></ul></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Decide whether there are any types of stories you particularly want to see.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The bottom part of the News Feed settings menu shows types of stories that appear in News Feed. By default, all types are selected, because News Feed assumes you like variety. Select any story type to remove the check mark next to it.</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">On Facebook, everyone has the option to turn on <i>following </i>for his posts. This means that followers can receive that person's public posts in their News Feed without becoming friends. It is a settings that's handy for public figures and people who might want to share some things very broadly and other things more privately.</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">Most people don't allow following, which is why when you go to someone's Timeline, you just see a button to add her as a friend. If someone allows followers, you will see an additional button that says Follow. Click that button to start getting that person's posts in your News Feed.</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">After you're following someone, you can edit News Feed settings for him just as though he were any other friend. Navigate to his Timeline, click the Following button, and select Settings from the menu that appears. Make your choices about quantity and type of posts you want to see.</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">Additionally, when you like a Page, you automatically start following its posts. Unlike following a regular Timeline, you either get updates from Pages or you don't. From a Page's Timeline, hover over the Liked button to bring up a menu of options. By default, the Show in News Feed option is checked. Select it again to uncheck it and prevent stories from that Page from appearing in your News Feed.</p>

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How to Unfriend Someone 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">It happens to everyone: After a while, you start to feel like a few people are cluttering up Facebook for you and want to unfriend some. Maybe you just feel like you have too many friends, or maybe you and a friend have legitimately drifted apart. Maybe you had a big falling-out and just need a break. Don't worry; you can<i>unfriend</i> just like you friend people.</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 unfriend someone, do the following:</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 the person's Timeline.</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 button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears that is for assigning people to Friend Lists. The last item in this list is Unfriend.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Unfriend link.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A window pops up asking if you're sure you want to remove this friend.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Remove from Friends button.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Take a moment of silence. Okay, that was long enough.</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"> People aren't notified when you unfriend them, but people who care about you (that is, family, close friends) have a tendency to notice on their own that, hey, you're not in their list of friends anymore. This can sometimes lead to awkwardness, so it might be worth using your privacy settings to further limit these people's knowledge of your life <i>before </i>you unfriend 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">Lots of people go through periodic friend-cleaning. For example, after changing jobs or moving, you may notice that you want to keep in touch with some people from that chapter in your life; others, you just don't. Unfriend away.</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">It happens to everyone: After a while, you start to feel like a few people are cluttering up Facebook for you and want to unfriend some. Maybe you just feel like you have too many friends, or maybe you and a friend have legitimately drifted apart. Maybe you had a big falling-out and just need a break. Don't worry; you can<i>unfriend</i> just like you friend people.</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 unfriend someone, do the following:</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 the person's Timeline.</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 button.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu appears that is for assigning people to Friend Lists. The last item in this list is Unfriend.</p> </li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Unfriend link.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A window pops up asking if you're sure you want to remove this friend.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the Remove from Friends button.</p> <p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Take a moment of silence. Okay, that was long enough.</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"> People aren't notified when you unfriend them, but people who care about you (that is, family, close friends) have a tendency to notice on their own that, hey, you're not in their list of friends anymore. This can sometimes lead to awkwardness, so it might be worth using your privacy settings to further limit these people's knowledge of your life <i>before </i>you unfriend 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">Lots of people go through periodic friend-cleaning. For example, after changing jobs or moving, you may notice that you want to keep in touch with some people from that chapter in your life; others, you just don't. Unfriend away.</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">Facebook Smart Lists can usually help you figure out whom you want to share your own posts with. But sometimes you may want a specific list that Facebook can't figure out. This might be a sub-sub-group, like all the people you played Frisbee with in college. In these cases, you can create your own 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 Friend 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"> This brings you to a list of all the different ways you can view News Feed, including seeing only certain types of stories or only stories from certain lists.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the Manage Lists option (the last item in the list).</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Manage Lists page appears. In other words, a page that lists all your lists.</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 in the upper-right corner.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Create New List window appears.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="323" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/11/390211.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align: bottom; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" width="535"></li> <li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">In the List Name box, type the name of your list.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Maybe something like Dummies for the Dummies Team.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Add friends who belong on this list by typing their names in the Members box.</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. Press Enter when you highlight the correct friend's name.</p></li><li><p class="first-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click Create.</p><p class="child-para" style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Now, wherever Friend Lists appear on Facebook, including where you set privacy, you have access to the new list you just created.</p> </li></ol><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">Friend Lists you create are private, so even if the list you're messaging is known in your mind as <i>Annoying Co-Workers</i><i>,</i> all that your annoying co-workers see is a list of names. Members of Smart Lists are able to see the name of a list they've been added to.</p>

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