Daniel Boone Regional Library's Facebook Fundamentals program.

1. Facebook Fundamentals

2. What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social networking
Web site intended to connect
friends, family, and business
associates. It is the largest of the
social networking sites.

3. How does Facebook Work?
Facebook has millions of users,
but you create your own profile
page and network within that
larger group. After you become a
Facebook member, you can invite
friends and relatives to join your
list of friends.

4. When you visit your Facebook
page, you can update your
"status," by sharing what you're
doing or what you're thinking.
Your friends will see that update
on their pages the next time they
visit the site, and they can
comment on your status or send
you private messages about it.

5. You can also share photos, videos,
and Web site links with your
friends and see the photos,
videos, and links that they've
posted. No one but your selected
group of friends will see your
updates.

6. Why Join Facebook?
To keep up with friends & family
over long distances
To reconnect with old friends &
colleagues
To share photos and videos
To share Web links to fun articles
To create a private Web page for
your club or civic organization

7. To feed your addiction to online
gaming
Peer pressure… your kids are
making you

8. Anatomy of a
Facebook Page

9. To create a Facebook account, simply visit
www.facebook.com & complete the sign up form.

10. Navigation bar similar to that found
at our public site, www.dbrl.org.
Upon logging in, you are immediately directed to the
Home Page, or “News Feed.” The center column
shows a list of stories that Facebook thinks you will
find interesting.

11. Navigation bar similar to that found
at our public site, www.dbrl.org.
The small box on the right shows newer
stories in a continuously updating ticker of
the newest stories from your friends.

12. You may share things with your friends
clicking on the type of item you would
like to share.

13. Click on your name to look at your
personalized Facebook page.
Navigation bar similar to that found
at our public site, www.dbrl.org.

14. A short summary of your personal information,
photos, friends, and likes can be found at the top
of your profile page.

15. Below the banner, you will find your Timeline. This
is where you will find items that your friends
posted for you as well as your own postings and
life events.

16. Updating Your Status
&
Adding Photos

17. You can update your status from your home your
timeline simply by typing into the text box. You can
also click on the photo, link, or life event buttons to
share those items.

18. This can also be done from your Home page by clicking the
appropriate link at the top of the page.

19. Tagging

20. Tagging is most
commonly a way of
labeling a person in a
photo.

21. Tagging is most
commonly a way of
labeling a person in a
photo.
It is also sometimes used
to name a person in a
status update or other
post.

22. Editing Your List of
Friends

23. Click on the word “Friends” to the
right of your personal information
or the large box below to edit your
list of friends.

24. This will take you to a page showing all of
your Facebook friends.

25. By placing the cursor over
the name of your friend you
can change which lists a
friend is in or unfriend
them.

26. A Word About
Facebook Friends
Who should you friend? Some
people adopt an everyone-
welcome policy on Facebook and
accept all friend requests; some
only want real-world contacts in
their friends list.

27. In deciding on the right approach
for you, bear in mind that the
bigger your friend network is, the
more application, event, and chat
invitations you'll receive--and that
can lead to some uncomfortable
moments and the occasional
friend purge.

28. Ignore away. You are under no
obligation to acknowledge a
Facebook friend request, whether
it comes from a stranger or from
someone you know but don't
want as part of your digital life.
After all, you wouldn't be obliged
to seat visitors at your dinner
table if they showed up without
warning at your house at 7
o'clock.

29. Adjusting your Viewing
and Privacy Settings

30. Adjusting your Viewing
and Privacy Settings
Account Settings

31. You can adjust your viewing and privacy
settings by clicking on the arrow in the
upper right corner of the page.

32. From “Account Settings”
you can update your
personal and contact
information..

33. Selecting “Security” offers options to ensure that your
account is better protected from hackers, phishermen, and
other nefarious types.
You can also deactivate your account from this page.

34. When clicking on the “Notifications” tab, you can choose
which updates to receive and in what format. For example,
you can be notified via email or cell phone text every time
someone writes on your wall.

35. Click the “Edit” button next to any type of notifications. This
will open up a list of specific events. Toggle the checkbox
next to any of them for which you wish to receive a
notification.

36. If you choose not to receive your notifications via email, all will not be lost. You will also
see your recent notifications at the top left any time you are logged into facebook.

37. Choosing the “Applications” tab offers you the opportunity
to remove or edit the permissions for various third-party
applications (also accessible through Privacy Settings).

38. The “Edit” button next to any
application will open up a
menu with options for that
particular application. Clicking
the “X” will remove the
application.

39. Adjusting your Viewing
and Privacy Settings:
Privacy Settings

40. Any time you post something on Facebook, you can choose who gets to see that post
directly below the text box. You can choose “Public,” “Friends” or choose a specific
person or group of people.

41. Choosing “Custom” will bring up a new window that allows you to choose who exactly
can see the post.

42. From the “Privacy Settings” page under the “Account” dropdown, you can select the
default privacy settings for each post. This is the setting that facebook will automatically
use if you post from a place that does not offer inline privacy selection, such as your
smartphone.

43. Farther down the page you will find the privacy settings for other parts of your profile
including who can comment on your posts, who can send you messages, who can tag you
in posts, settings for third party applications, and manage the people that you have
blocked from interacting with you.

44. Choosing “How you connect” will allow you to limit the number of people who can find
and contact you on Facebook.

45. Choosing “How tags work” will allow you to either automatically approve when your
friends tag you or require that you review these tags before they post to your profile. It
will also allow you to determine who can see those tags.

46. Choosing “Apps and websites” will take you to a page that will allow you to alter the amount of
information that is available to individual applications. You can also delete unwanted
applications from this same page.

47. Choosing “Edit” next to any given application will show you the permissions that are available to
that application. Choosing the “X” next to the Edit button will allow you to delete the
application.

48. The “How people bring your info to apps they use” tab will bring up a screen that allows you
to decide what information of yours that friends can share with their games and applications.

49. The “Public Search” tab will take you to a page that allows you to determine whether non-
facebook members can find you through general internet searches.

50. jrustemeyer@dbrl.org