Facebook: The Missing Manual; The Missing Manual

Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums and groups, photosharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a users guide… (More) Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums and groups, photosharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a users guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a very objective and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer.Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this guide is uniquely designed to help you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more. You'll discover how to create your page and make connections with other members in no time -- everybody who went to your school, for example, or those who work at your company or play on your soccer team. Bingo: instant access to the personal and professional details of all the folks you're connected with, the folks they're connected with, and so on, and so on. With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to:Join a network, whether it's in your area, or work-related, or based on other interestsLook up old friends, find new ones, and decide who you'd like to keep track ofContact members by poking them, writing on their walls, and sending them giftsGet automatic updates from Facebook friends and send updates to themParticipate in groups of particular interest and hook up with members face-to-faceBuy and sell using Facebook's uniquely targeted marketplace and classified adsFind a job or hire employees by combing through Facebook's member poolUse Facebook as a collaboration tool to keep team members, co-workers, clients, and projects up to datePlay it safe by using a multi-pronged approach to ensuring your privacyThink of Facebook as a 30-million-plus-entry searchable Rolodex on steroids! With help from this Missing Manual, you'll quickly get in the swim of the Facebook experience -- without getting in over your head. (Less)

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1Getting Started
Signing Up for an Account
Creating Your Profile
Viewing Your Facebook Home Page
Changing Account Information
2Joining a Network
How Networks Work
Viewing the Networks You’re Already On
Joining a Network
Suggesting a New Network
3Finding 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
Viewing Your Connections to Friends
Breaking Up: Unfriending Friends
4Sending Messages to Friends
Sending Messages
Receiving Messages
Poking
Writing on Walls
Sending Gifts
5Exchanging Automatic Updates
Types of Updates
News Feeds: What Others Are Doing
Mini-feeds: What You’re Doing
Facebook Notifications
Subscriptions
Creating Notes (Blogs)
Controlling What People See About You
6Participating in Groups
What’s a Group?
Finding Existing Groups
Joining a Group
Creating a Group
Participating in Groups
7Facebook and the Real World: In-person Events
The Three Different Kinds of Events
Finding Existing Events
RSVPing to an Event
Creating Your Own Events
8Going Shopping
The Facebook Marketplace
Placing an Ad
Finding Stuff
Answering an Ad
9Hiring and Getting Hired
Recruiting New Hires
Vetting Prospects
Looking for a Job
10Collaborating on Projects via Facebook
Keeping in Touch
Exchanging Files
Keeping Up-to-date with Feeds
11Advertising on Facebook
Taking Polls
Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More
Social Ads (Targeted Announcements)
High-dollar Options
12Customizing Facebook and Adding Applications
Modifying Your Home Page and Profile
Facebook Applications: An Overview
13Playing 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
14Facebook Mobile
How Facebook Mobile Works
Setting up Facebook Mobile
Using Facebook Mobile
Getting Help
Facebook Help
Contacting Facebook
Useful Facebook-related Web Sites
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