Facebook's popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 400 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, Second Edition -- the witty, authoritative guide you need, now revised and updated to include all of Facebook's latest features.
Coverage includes:
Getting started, getting connected. Signing up is easy, but the real payoff comes when you tap into networks of coworkers, classmates, and friends. This book explains it all-including how to pick and choose who gets to see what, and how to steer clear of people you want to avoid.
Adding applications. Ranging from silly (fortune cookies and video games) to serious (goal tracking), thousands of mini-programs can transform your Facebook account into an addictive, one-stop resource. Learn how to find and install your favorites.
Facebook for grownups and businesspeople. Facebook isn't just for Junior anymore. Thousands of companies and business professionals use the site for everything from project collaboration and advertising to filling (and finding) jobs. This book is written for adults of all ages.
Protecting your privacy. Creeps are everywhere online, but on Facebook you can feel especially exposed with so much personal info on display. This book offers an easy-to-follow, multi-pronged approach to staying safe.
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
E.A. Vander Veer has authored or edited more than 15 computer books, covering everything from Excel basics to JavaScript and XML. Her work has appeared in dozens of online and print publications, including Byte, The Writer, Salon, and CNN.com.
