Things You can Do on Facebook

Basically Facebook is a huge social network that allows its members to communicate, connect and engage with each other, both directly and through various applications and features. More significantly, Facebook is changing the way we interact on the web, making our experience much more open and social.  To get a better idea of the full scope of the Facebook experience, review the following interactive. It displays some actual examples of the various things you can do with Facebook.

Exploring the Facebook Home Page

The Home page displays all of your Friends’ recent thoughts, posts and activities. Whenever your Friends update their status, it appears in the News Feed on your Home page.

Exploring the Facebook Profile Page

While the focus of the News Feed on the Home page is your Friends’ Facebook activities, the purpose of your Profile page is to record what you are doing and thinking. This is where you can post your recent thoughts and Facebook activities. When you record “What’s on your mind”, it appears on your Profile Wall. Your Friends can comment about your status updates or post a message to your Wall as well.

Setting Up Your Facebook Profile

Before you can use Facebook, you must create an account. Creating a Facebook account is free. All you need to get started is an email address and a few minutes of your time.

In this lesson, you will learn how to create a Facebook account. You will also learn how to modify your account settings.

Creating an Account

 Tips for Creating an Account

When you create your account, keep these things in mind:

• While you might use a screen name or nickname in your email address or on other sites, on Facebook, you should sign up with your real name. Facebook is for connecting with people you already know, so using your real name will make it easier for them to find and trust you.
• You can hide your personal information later.
  When you sign up, Facebook asks you for personal information, including your gender, birthday, and email address. After you've created your account, you can always change your settings so that this information isn't public.

This can seem like a lot of personal information to share online. If you're concerned about privacy, you can change your settings to restrict how much of your personal information other people can see.

To Create a Facebook Account:

Using your browser, navigate to www.facebook.com

Under the words Sign Up, enter your personal information and desired password.

When you're finished filling in your information, click Sign Up.

 Complete the security check by typing the words in the image into the box below it. If you have trouble reading the words, you can try different words or get an audio security check. When you're done, click Sign Up.

Completing the security check

 Now, you'll have the chance to find your first Facebook Friends. To find Friends, enter your email address and click Find Friends. You can also skip this step and add Friends later, if you don't want to give Facebook access to your email account.