What’s all this hype about Facebook? (Part 2)
I’m glad many of you joined Facebook yesterday (and thanks to those that added me as your friend). Hopefully you’ll learn a lot and develop some new relationships. If you have not joined, you can read about how in my first post of this series.
Once you’ve signed-up, you’ll probably want to edit/complete your profile. Always be sure to only include information that you are comfortable with other people viewing. You do not have to complete everything…just the stuff you’d like people to know about you. You can also modify the security settings on each piece of your contact info (phone, email, etc) to restrict who has access to view that information. Your privacy is important, so be careful.
Today we’ll talk about how to find and add friends in Facebook. As you expand your network of relationships, you’ll begin to see how Facebook allows you to stay connected to a much larger group of friends. So let’s do that first. For those of you who are already Facebook pros, this won’t be new information, but you can probably add a few other thoughts in the comments to help everyone else.
There are a few ways you find/add friends
- You can search for your friends by name (this is what I talked about in yesterday’s post) and then select “Add friend” when you find someone you know in the search results.
You can find/join a network by selecting “Networks” in the top menu. If you are in school or still have a school email address, you can join a school network. You can also join a regional network or workplace network (i.e. the city/region where you live or where you work). Once you find a network, you can browse through the other people in that network and find people that you know.
You can find friends from existing contacts by selecting “Find friends” from the drop down menu just to the right “Friends” at the top of the page. This is actually the easiest way to quickly grow the number of connections/friends that you have. If you are a web-based email user (Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc) Facebook can import your contacts for you if you provide them your email account info. If you use Outlook or another email client, you can export your contacts from those programs and then upload that file to Facebook. Specific instructions on how to do this for various email programs are available on the “Find Friends” page once you log-in.
Tomorrow we’ll continue with joining and creating groups.
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Thank you for taking the time to give us tutorials.
For me, one of the easiest ways to find people is to look at my friends’ friends. Once you go to a friend’s profile, you can scroll down a bit and either look at all of their friends (”view all friends”) or look at their friends in a particular network.
Thanks for being my friend.
I always was…now it is just formalized.
Bobby,
Facebook needs to pay you for this stuff bro…
Jeremy,
I never said they didn’t pay me. J/K
But good idea.
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