Facebook

Facebook

Facebook's popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 500 million people to this combination online village green, personal website creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won't get when signing up is a printed manual. Enter Facebook: The Missing Manual, Third Edition -- the witty, authoritative guide you need, now revised and updated to include all of Facebook's latest features.

---

Emily Vander Veer specializes in translating Web-based technologies into straightforward, easy-to-understand concepts and practical examples for consumer, business, and technical audiences.

Inhaltsangabe

- From Signing Up to Staying Connected

Chapter 1 Getting Started

- Signing Up for an Account Step 1: Finding Your Friends on Facebook Step 2: Creating Your Profile Step 3: Adding a Picture of Yourself Confirming Your Facebook Registration Viewing Your Profile Viewing Your Facebook Home Page Changing Account Info

Chapter 2 Joining a Network

- How Networks Work Viewing the Networks You're Already On Joining a Network Leaving a Network Suggesting a New Network

Chapter 3 Finding and Adding Friends

- How Facebook Friends Work Finding Friends Inviting People to Be Your Friend Responding to Friend Requests Viewing Your Friends Organizing Your Friends Breaking Up: Unfriending Friends

Chapter 4 Sending Messages to Friends

- Sending Messages Receiving Messages Chatting Poking Writing on Walls Sending Gifts

Chapter 5 Exchanging Automatic Updates

- Types of Updates News Feeds: What Others Are Doing Mini Feeds: What You're Doing Facebook Notifications Subscriptions Creating Notes (Blogs)

- Interest Groups and Shopping

Chapter 6 Participating in Groups

- What's a Group?

- Finding Existing Groups Joining a Group Creating a Group Participating in Groups

Chapter 7 Facebook and the Real World: In-Person Events

- Types of Events Finding Existing Events RSVPing to an Event Creating Your Own Events

Chapter 8 Going Shopping

- The Marketplace Application Finding and Viewing Marketplace Placing an Ad Finding Stuff Answering an Ad

- Doing Business on Facebook

Chapter 9 Hiring and Getting Hired

- Recruiting New Hires Vetting Prospects Looking for a Job

Chapter 10 Collaborating on Projects via Facebook

- Keeping in Touch Exchanging Files Keeping Up to Date with Feeds

Chapter 11 Advertising on Facebook

- Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More Social Ads (Targeted Announcements) Connect Facebook to Your Website with Widgets High-Dollar Options

- Privacy and Power Tools

Chapter 12 Customizing Facebook and Adding Applications

- Modifying Your Home Page and Profile Facebook Applications: An Overview

Chapter 13 Playing It Safe: Facebook Privacy

- Privacy and Facebook: An Overview Deciding How Much to Share Controlling Access to Your Account Adjusting Your Privacy Settings Fighting Back

Chapter 14 Facebook Mobile

- How Facebook Mobile Works Setting Up Facebook Mobile Using Facebook Mobile

- Appendix Getting Help

- Facebook Help

- Getting Help from Other Facebook Members

- Contacting Facebook

- Useful Facebook-Related Websites