How to Leave a 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">When someone adds you to a group, a notification is sent to your FacebookHome page. The next time you log in, you'll see a little red flag over the notifications icon. When you click, it will tell you what the group is and who added you; then you can go check out the group and make sure you want to be a part of it.</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 looking at a group, you'll find a lot to pore over. Some pieces of the group will look familiar — for example, the Share box and the recent postsfrom group members in the center of the page. Other parts are unique to groups, such as the photos at the top of the page and the tabs for different sections of the groups.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="269" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/15/390315.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;min-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"> You can get to any particular group from your Home page by clicking its name in the left sidebar. Groups you look at frequently should be in the top section; you may have to click the See More link to see a full list of your groups. Click the name of the group you want to visit.</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 first visit a group, before doing anything else, make sure you want to be a part of that group.</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">Although your notification may explain that you were invited to join the group, these invitations work by adding you to the group until you decide to leave it. It's sort of like saying "RSVP regrets only" on an invitation to a party.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The first thing you should look at when you join a group is the name of the group and who added you. Often, that is enough to determine if you want to stick around. If you're unsure about wanting to be a part of a group, check out the recent posts in the center of the page. These posts are ones that group members have shared directly with this group.</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">Looking at the recent posts tells you a lot about what to expect from a group in the future. Are posts relevant to the group or not? Is there a lot of discussion or not? Are you interested in the posts you're seeing?</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If the group was created only recently, you may not find very many posts yet. You can still learn a bit about the group by checking out the About section. On the right side of the group's page (next to the recent posts) is a box labeled About.</p> <img alt="image1.jpg" height="186" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/16/390316.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align:bottom;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:100%;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;min-height:auto!important" width="347"><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 About section shows you some of the basics of the group to help you understand what it's for and how it will work:</p><ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Privacy:</b> At the top of the About section is information about the privacy of the group. There are three types of groups:</p> <ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Open: </i>Open groups are publicly visible and available for anyone to join. In other words, anyone who uses Facebook will be able to see the posts and the members of that group.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Closed: </i>Closed groups are only partially visible. Anyone on Facebook can see the name of the group and its members but won't be able to see the posts until becoming a member of the group. People are added to closed groups by other members, or they can request to join it.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Secret: </i>Secret groups are the most private groups. No one other than those who have been added to it can see that it exists, who its members are, and the posts that have been made. If you're invited to join a secret group and you choose to leave it, you won't be able to add yourself again later on, because you won't be able to find it.</p> </li></ul></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Info:</b> Any information the group creator enters will appear in the Info section of the group. Usually people use the space to describe what the group is about and how people ought to use it.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Members:</b> Next to the word About is the member count. You can click it to be taken to the Members tab and peruse who belongs to the group. If it's a big group that's open and united around a big topic like a political cause, you may not know many members. If it's a smaller group united around a local activity, chances are you know more of them.</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">After you acquaint yourself with the group, you can decide whether you want to remain a member or leave the group. If you decide you want to leave, follow these steps:</p> <ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the gear icon.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">It's located on the right side of the page, across from all the different tabs for the group. When you click it, a drop-down menu appears.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Leave Group from the drop-down menu.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A pop-up window opens, asking if you are sure that you want to leave the group.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Decide whether you want to prevent members of the group from adding you again by selecting or deselecting the Prevent Other Members of This Group from Re-adding You check box.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You can leave this check box selected, which means you'll never be able to be added to the group again; or if you think maybe in the future you might want to be part of the group, deselect this check box.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Leave Group.</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"> More often than not, however, you'll usually decide to stay in the group, which actually brings you to the point of sharing and communicating with fellow group 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"> If you're considering leaving a group because you're being inundated by notifications about new posts, you can instead just turn off notifications from that group. From the group, click the Notifications button at the top of the page. You can then select whether you want all notifications, notifications about friends' posts, or no notifications.</p>

How to Leave a Facebook Group

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How to Leave a 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">When someone adds you to a group, a notification is sent to your FacebookHome page. The next time you log in, you'll see a little red flag over the notifications icon. When you click, it will tell you what the group is and who added you; then you can go check out the group and make sure you want to be a part of it.</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 looking at a group, you'll find a lot to pore over. Some pieces of the group will look familiar — for example, the Share box and the recent postsfrom group members in the center of the page. Other parts are unique to groups, such as the photos at the top of the page and the tabs for different sections of the groups.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="269" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/15/390315.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;min-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"> You can get to any particular group from your Home page by clicking its name in the left sidebar. Groups you look at frequently should be in the top section; you may have to click the See More link to see a full list of your groups. Click the name of the group you want to visit.</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 first visit a group, before doing anything else, make sure you want to be a part of that group.</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">Although your notification may explain that you were invited to join the group, these invitations work by adding you to the group until you decide to leave it. It's sort of like saying "RSVP regrets only" on an invitation to a party.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The first thing you should look at when you join a group is the name of the group and who added you. Often, that is enough to determine if you want to stick around. If you're unsure about wanting to be a part of a group, check out the recent posts in the center of the page. These posts are ones that group members have shared directly with this group.</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">Looking at the recent posts tells you a lot about what to expect from a group in the future. Are posts relevant to the group or not? Is there a lot of discussion or not? Are you interested in the posts you're seeing?</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If the group was created only recently, you may not find very many posts yet. You can still learn a bit about the group by checking out the About section. On the right side of the group's page (next to the recent posts) is a box labeled About.</p> <img alt="image1.jpg" height="186" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/16/390316.image1.jpg" style="vertical-align:bottom;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);max-width:100%;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;min-height:auto!important" width="347"><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 About section shows you some of the basics of the group to help you understand what it's for and how it will work:</p><ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Privacy:</b> At the top of the About section is information about the privacy of the group. There are three types of groups:</p> <ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Open: </i>Open groups are publicly visible and available for anyone to join. In other words, anyone who uses Facebook will be able to see the posts and the members of that group.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Closed: </i>Closed groups are only partially visible. Anyone on Facebook can see the name of the group and its members but won't be able to see the posts until becoming a member of the group. People are added to closed groups by other members, or they can request to join it.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Secret: </i>Secret groups are the most private groups. No one other than those who have been added to it can see that it exists, who its members are, and the posts that have been made. If you're invited to join a secret group and you choose to leave it, you won't be able to add yourself again later on, because you won't be able to find it.</p> </li></ul></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Info:</b> Any information the group creator enters will appear in the Info section of the group. Usually people use the space to describe what the group is about and how people ought to use it.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Members:</b> Next to the word About is the member count. You can click it to be taken to the Members tab and peruse who belongs to the group. If it's a big group that's open and united around a big topic like a political cause, you may not know many members. If it's a smaller group united around a local activity, chances are you know more of them.</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">After you acquaint yourself with the group, you can decide whether you want to remain a member or leave the group. If you decide you want to leave, follow these steps:</p> <ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the gear icon.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">It's located on the right side of the page, across from all the different tabs for the group. When you click it, a drop-down menu appears.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Leave Group from the drop-down menu.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A pop-up window opens, asking if you are sure that you want to leave the group.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Decide whether you want to prevent members of the group from adding you again by selecting or deselecting the Prevent Other Members of This Group from Re-adding You check box.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">You can leave this check box selected, which means you'll never be able to be added to the group again; or if you think maybe in the future you might want to be part of the group, deselect this check box.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Leave Group.</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"> More often than not, however, you'll usually decide to stay in the group, which actually brings you to the point of sharing and communicating with fellow group 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"> If you're considering leaving a group because you're being inundated by notifications about new posts, you can instead just turn off notifications from that group. From the group, click the Notifications button at the top of the page. You can then select whether you want all notifications, notifications about friends' posts, or no notifications.</p>

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How to Add a Follow Button to Your Facebook Page

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You have the option of adding a Follow button to your own FacebookTimeline to enable non-friends to receive your public updates in their News Feeds. Just follow these easy steps:</p> <ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Open the Account menu by clicking the small down-pointing arrow in the big blue bar on top.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Settings from the menu that appears.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Settings page appears. Items on the left side of this page allow you to edit different types of settings.</p></li> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Followers on the left side of the page.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Followers section of the Settings page appears.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select the check box to Turn On Follow.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A series of other settings related to being followed appear:</p><ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <i>Follower Comments: </i>Here you can control which people can comment on your posts.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Follower Notifications:</i>Choose which people interacting with your posts generate notifications.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Username: </i>Set up a username so people can quickly type a URL into their browsers and go straight to your Timeline.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Twitter: </i>If you already use Twitter to post short updates, you can automatically import them into Facebook here.</p> </li></ul></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 had previously turned off the capability for your Facebook Timeline to be found via search engines like Google or Bing, you'll see an additional setting here called Follower Search. Checking this box turns back on your capability to be found in searches people do outside of Facebook.</p>

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How to Control Facebook Group Notifications

<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">Sometimes, especially in largerFacebook groups, you may find yourself a bit overwhelmed by all the notifications. To control them, you just need to get comfortable with the Notifications Settings menu, which you access by clicking the Notifications button from a group's Home page. Clicking Notifications (it's on the right side of the page under the member photos) reveals a drop-down menu with three options.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="115" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/19/390319.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;min-height:auto!important" width="142"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>All Posts:</b> Because commentthreads can often become very long and rambling, this option allows you to see when a new post is created, but not see comments on those posts unless you follow the post.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Friends' Posts:</b> In especially large groups, you might not be official Facebook friends with everyone in the group, so a good way to filter down to the material you're most likely to care about is to pay attention only to the things your friends post.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Off:</b> Some people may want to read the posts only when they choose to look at the group and not receive any notifications from this group. Selecting Off gives you that silence.</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're being inundated by e-mail notifications but still want the notifications to appear on Facebook, you can change your e-mail notification settings from the Account Settings page. To adjust this setting, follow these steps:</p> <ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the upside-down triangle icon in the blue bar at top of any page.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A drop-down menu appears.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Select Settings.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Settings page appears. You can choose different types of settings from the menu on the left side of the page.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Notifications on the left side of the page.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This opens all notifications settings. Look for the Email line in the How You Get Notifications section.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Edit to the right of the Email option.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">This expands to three options for e-mail notifications: All Notifications, Important Notifications, and Only Notifications about Your Account Security and Privacy.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select either Important Notifications, or Only Notifications about Your Account, Security and Privacy.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This step limits how many e-mail notifications you receive from Facebook.</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, after you change this setting, you're still getting e-mails about activity happening in a group, scroll to the bottom of one of the offending e-mails and click the Unsubscribe link. You will be asked to confirm that you want to unsubscribe from that type of e-mail. After you confirm, you'll no longer see e-mails about groups.</p>

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How to Add Facebook Photos from Your iPhone

<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">Lots of photos you see on Facebookare added when people are nowhere near a computer. Instead, they're sent from an iPhone and are the photos of things that happen while you're out and about. Things that are beautiful (spring blossoms!), or weird (how did this person lose only one high heel?), or just emblematic of your day (another cute photo of the baby).</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If you add the Facebook app to your phone, iPhones and Android phones try to make it as easy as possible to send photos from your phone right to Facebook.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Here's a simple way to share photos if you're using an iPhone:</p><ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From your photo gallery, tap the photo you want to share; then tap the Send icon at the bottom left of the photo.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu of options appears, including things like e-mail or text messages. If you previously installed the Facebook app, you should see the Facebook icon among the other options.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Tap the Facebook icon.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A Facebook window for sharing that photo appears.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="400" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/22/390322.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align:bottom;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;max-width:100%;min-height:auto!important" width="225"></li> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">(Optional) Use the keyboard to type any explanation the photo needs.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> (Optional) Tap Add Location to use GPS to share where you're adding the photo from.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">(Optional) Tap the Privacy menu to change who can see this post.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Remember, by default, the audience you shared your last post with will be the people who can see this post.</p></li><li> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Tap Post in the upper-right corner of the Facebook window.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The photo is added to your Timeline as part of the Mobile Uploads album, and it may appear in your friends' News Feeds.</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 use an iPhone, you can download the Facebook Camera app specifically for taking and sharing photos. This app gives you tools like filters for your photos and makes it easy to look only at friends' photos.</p>

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How to Add a Follow Button to Your Facebook Page

<h1 style="font-size:20px;margin:0.25rem 0px;padding:0px 0px 0.5rem;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></h1> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">You have the option of adding a Follow button to your own FacebookTimeline to enable non-friends to receive your public updates in their News Feeds. Just follow these easy steps:</p> <ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Open the Account menu by clicking the small down-pointing arrow in the big blue bar on top.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Settings from the menu that appears.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Settings page appears. Items on the left side of this page allow you to edit different types of settings.</p></li> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select Followers on the left side of the page.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The Followers section of the Settings page appears.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select the check box to Turn On Follow.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A series of other settings related to being followed appear:</p><ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> <i>Follower Comments: </i>Here you can control which people can comment on your posts.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Follower Notifications:</i>Choose which people interacting with your posts generate notifications.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Username: </i>Set up a username so people can quickly type a URL into their browsers and go straight to your Timeline.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><i>Twitter: </i>If you already use Twitter to post short updates, you can automatically import them into Facebook here.</p> </li></ul></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 had previously turned off the capability for your Facebook Timeline to be found via search engines like Google or Bing, you'll see an additional setting here called Follower Search. Checking this box turns back on your capability to be found in searches people do outside of Facebook.</p>

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How to Control Facebook Group Notifications

<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">Sometimes, especially in largerFacebook groups, you may find yourself a bit overwhelmed by all the notifications. To control them, you just need to get comfortable with the Notifications Settings menu, which you access by clicking the Notifications button from a group's Home page. Clicking Notifications (it's on the right side of the page under the member photos) reveals a drop-down menu with three options.</p> <img alt="image0.jpg" height="115" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/19/390319.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;min-height:auto!important" width="142"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></span><ul style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>All Posts:</b> Because commentthreads can often become very long and rambling, this option allows you to see when a new post is created, but not see comments on those posts unless you follow the post.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Friends' Posts:</b> In especially large groups, you might not be official Facebook friends with everyone in the group, so a good way to filter down to the material you're most likely to care about is to pay attention only to the things your friends post.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"><b>Off:</b> Some people may want to read the posts only when they choose to look at the group and not receive any notifications from this group. Selecting Off gives you that silence.</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're being inundated by e-mail notifications but still want the notifications to appear on Facebook, you can change your e-mail notification settings from the Account Settings page. To adjust this setting, follow these steps:</p> <ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Click the upside-down triangle icon in the blue bar at top of any page.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A drop-down menu appears.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Select Settings.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The Settings page appears. You can choose different types of settings from the menu on the left side of the page.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Notifications on the left side of the page.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This opens all notifications settings. Look for the Email line in the How You Get Notifications section.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click Edit to the right of the Email option.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">This expands to three options for e-mail notifications: All Notifications, Important Notifications, and Only Notifications about Your Account Security and Privacy.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Select either Important Notifications, or Only Notifications about Your Account, Security and Privacy.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> This step limits how many e-mail notifications you receive from Facebook.</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, after you change this setting, you're still getting e-mails about activity happening in a group, scroll to the bottom of one of the offending e-mails and click the Unsubscribe link. You will be asked to confirm that you want to unsubscribe from that type of e-mail. After you confirm, you'll no longer see e-mails about groups.</p>

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How to Add Facebook Photos from Your iPhone

<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">Lots of photos you see on Facebookare added when people are nowhere near a computer. Instead, they're sent from an iPhone and are the photos of things that happen while you're out and about. Things that are beautiful (spring blossoms!), or weird (how did this person lose only one high heel?), or just emblematic of your day (another cute photo of the baby).</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If you add the Facebook app to your phone, iPhones and Android phones try to make it as easy as possible to send photos from your phone right to Facebook.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Here's a simple way to share photos if you're using an iPhone:</p><ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">From your photo gallery, tap the photo you want to share; then tap the Send icon at the bottom left of the photo.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu of options appears, including things like e-mail or text messages. If you previously installed the Facebook app, you should see the Facebook icon among the other options.</p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Tap the Facebook icon.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A Facebook window for sharing that photo appears.</p><img alt="image0.jpg" height="400" src="http://media.wiley.com/Lux/22/390322.image0.jpg" style="vertical-align:bottom;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;max-width:100%;min-height:auto!important" width="225"></li> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">(Optional) Use the keyboard to type any explanation the photo needs.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> (Optional) Tap Add Location to use GPS to share where you're adding the photo from.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">(Optional) Tap the Privacy menu to change who can see this post.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Remember, by default, the audience you shared your last post with will be the people who can see this post.</p></li><li> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Tap Post in the upper-right corner of the Facebook window.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The photo is added to your Timeline as part of the Mobile Uploads album, and it may appear in your friends' News Feeds.</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 use an iPhone, you can download the Facebook Camera app specifically for taking and sharing photos. This app gives you tools like filters for your photos and makes it easy to look only at friends' photos.</p>

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How to Hide Facebook News Feed Stories

<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">While you can use Facebook's News Feed views to look at a different version, you can also influence what you see by hiding stories you don't like. Hiding stories (and subsequently hiding all stories from certain people) sends a signal to News Feed that it will try to learn from.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:24px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If you're constantly hiding stories about people checking in to locations, it will stop showing you so many of those stories. Hiding stories also comes in handy if there's a single story that you find annoying and you just don't want to look at anymore.</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 hide a story, follow these steps:</p><ol style="padding:0px 1rem;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Hover your mouse over the story you want to hide.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> A small gray downward-pointing arrow appears in the upper-right corner of that story.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">Click the gray arrow.</p> <p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">A menu of options appears: Hide, Report/Mark as Spam, FollowPost.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> Select Hide.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">The story immediately disappears and is replaced with two lines of text. There are two links in bold: Unhide and Hide All Stories from<i><Friend Name></i><i>.</i></p> </li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">(Optional) If you realize you actually do want to see a story, click the Unhide link.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px"> The story reappears in your News Feed.</p></li><li><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:17px;line-height:24px">(Optional) If you never want to see this person's stories appear in your News Feed, click the link to Hide All Stories.</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 choose to hide people from your News Feed entirely, there may come a day when you want to unhide them. To do so, follow the preceding steps on any story in News Feed. After you have hidden all stories from a friend, a link appears to Edit News Feed Options.</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 this link to bring up a list of all the people and Pages you've hidden from News Feed. Scroll through the list and click the X next to any name you no longer want hidden (in other words, click X next to names you'd like to see in News Feed again). Click Save when you're done.</p>

How to Hide Facebook News Feed Stories

While you can use Facebook's News Feed views to look at a different version, you can also influence what you see by hiding stories y...

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