Facebook For Dummies

Description

Facebook is a fun and easy way to connect with your current friends, family, co-workers, or find old acquaintances online. Once you understand and become comfortable using Facebook's collection of features, you will discover how fun and useful the site can be in helping manage and maintain all of your relationships. Facebook For Dummies launches you over the learning curve, straight to full Facebook proficiency. This guide demonstrates how to launch a profile, find friends, share notes and photos, and add applications to your very own Facebook page. As two Facebook employees, authors Carolyn Abram and Leah Pearlman are both ultimate Facebook insiders. They not only have their hands on the site every day as avid users, they also help develop many of the features you'll find on Facebook. In Facebook For Dummies they share their insight on how to use Facebook effectively and safely.

Author description

Carolyn Abram: One of the first Facebook users on the west coast, Carolyn took her English degree from Stanford University (Class of 2006), and decided the best career move was to get paid to be on Facebook all day long. On the Product Team since 2006, Carolyn has managed voice, language, and tone for Facebook, while contributing as an author and manager of the Facebook Company Blog. Originally from Ardsley, New York, Carolyn currently resides in Palo Alto. She boasts the highest ratio of mess to desk at the office. Her hobbies include hiking, writing, enjoying sunshine, mocking her friends, and Ultimate Frisbee. Leah Pearlman graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Brown University, where she first signed up for Facebook to find out the name of a boy in a class. Typical. She spent two years at Microsoft learning the product management ropes (seriously, there are ropes) before becoming a Product Manager for Facebook. Since joining, she has worked on a wide range of projects including messaging and the Inbox, News Feed, Pages, and Ads. At the office, Leah's desk is always clean, except sometimes when it's not, and instead of a chair, she sits on an inflatable ball - she has only fallen twice while people were watching. Her hobbies include snowboarding (though she feels pretentious every time she says it), writing (see previous parenthetical comment), and also playing Ultimate Frisbee.

Table of contents

Introduction.Part I: Getting Familiar with Facebook.Chapter 1: The Many Faces of Facebook.Chapter 2: Adding Your Own Face to Facebook.Chapter 3: Finding Your Way.Chapter 4: Privacy and Safety on Facebook.Part II: Representing Your Identity Online.Chapter 5: Building Out Your Profile.Chapter 6: Finding Facebook Friends.Chapter 7: Using Facebook Photos.Chapter 8: Facebook Applications.Chapter 9: Adding Third-Party Applications.Part III: Keeping Connected and Staying in Touch.Chapter 10: Keeping Up with Your Friends.Chapter 11: Defining Your Outer Circle with Networks.Chapter 12: Creating and Joining Groups on Facebook.Chapter 13: Scheduling Your Life with Facebook.Chapter 14: Facebook on the Go.Part IV: It's Not Personal: It's Business.Chapter 15: Leveraging Facebook for Business.Chapter 16: Creating a Page for Your Business.Chapter 17: A New Kind of Advertising.Chapter 18: Facebook Platform.Part V: The Part of Tens.Chapter 19: Ten Great Third-Party Applications.Chapter 20: Ten Ways Facebook Uniquely Impacts Lives.Chapter 21: Leah and Carolyn's Favorite Groups.Index.