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Facebook tips and tricks part 1
1. Signing up
Your own name
You should use your own name or your
nickname if people use it more commonly, to
sign up. It’s important to ensure that your
friends, family and colleagues can find you
easily.
2. Your email
Facebook sends out a lot of notifications once
you start signing up with various groups and fan
pages, apps and even comments. But people
can also find you by your email, so you should
probably use a personal email account. Check
it frequently for friend requests and more. It has
to be real though, because Faceboo Read the terms and conditions k uses it
and sometimes your mobile number to verify
who you are.
3. Read the terms and conditions
You should always read the terms and
conditions on any site, and Facebook is no
exception, though, it should be noted that
Facebook frequently updates it’s TOS causing a
lot of outrage in the community. Know where
your rights are and read their documentation. g.
4. Search your email
In some cases when you sign up for Facebook,
especially if you use a ‘free’ email system such
as hotmail or Gmail, Facebook can search your
email addresses and see if anyone in your
address book is already on Facebook.
5. Profile information – school, university,
company
The first piece of profile information Facebook
asks for is your School (leaving year), University
(leaving year) and Company – this starts the first
basic groups links so you can find Alumni and
colleagues from work – if you don’t want to find
anyone there, leave it empty and click skip.
6. Profile information – picture
your photo or avatar doesn’t need to be of you,
but it’s usually a good idea to use a shot of
yourself so that people that aren’t sure they’ve
found you can add you. Many people change
their profile photos weekly though, so you can
use just about any image you hold copyright to.
7. Profile information – basic information
Once you’ve gotten into Facebook, you can fill in
any or all personal information on the basic
information box, and depending on your security
settings, people will be able to see this – it’s
sometimes the difference between knowing
whether it’s you or another person that they’ll
friend, so this information can be useful.
8. Profile information – is Facebook a dating
site?
One of the core pieces of information that
Facebook asks about on signup is what you’re
‘looking’ for on the site, along with your religious
standing. Don’t be afraid to mark ‘friendship’ in
that box, even if you are actively seeking a
relationship – it makes little difference to people
adding you. Facebook is not a dating site,
though there are groups on there for finding
partners.
9. Profile information – personal information
Many people don’t list all of their hobbiesinstead list the ones you’re interested in
attracting friends for. If you’ve got a ‘guilty
pleasure’ remember that people may be able to
access your information, even before you add
them, so you may not want to publish that. The
boxes in this section are entirely optional.
10.Contact information
One of the boxes you can fill in is ‘contact
information’. Be aware that depending on your
security settings (see security and privacy) you
may then place your ID out in the ‘open’ which
can open you up to spam or bot contact.
11. Profile information – Network
If you’re interested in chatting with, or meeting
up with people in your region, you can add
where you life and join that ‘uber-group’. Some
require email addresses or other information
that ‘proves’ affiliation, but Facebook has
recently improved that interface, so it works very
well. Your network affiliation is listed on your
profile, unless you change the security settings
(see security and privacy)
12.Profile information – friends
As we’ll explain later, you can keep those that
you’ve added from appearing in your search, but
your friends list is always visible. Be careful
when adding ‘controversial’ people in your life,
as it’s very easy for other friends to use your list
to find others to add – the only exception to this
is if you add someone with extremely tight
security settings.
13. Profile information – relationships
Facebook allows the listing of relationships in
your profile – but until the person you’re in a
relationship confirms it; you will only be listed as
in a relationship. Otherwise you will be tagged
as ‘in a relationship’ but not with whom.
14. Fill as much of it in as possible
Remember, you can always come back and
add, or subtract information. It’s usually
something people don’t do often though, so
spending those extra few minutes at sign up to
create a proper profile is well worth it
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