Michael Miller has written more than 100 non-fiction how-to books in the past two decades, including Que's Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics, Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, and Windows 7 Your Way. He is also the author of Que's Facebook Essentials video and Pearson Higher Education's Introduction to Social Networking textbook. Mr. Miller has established a reputation for clearly explaining technical topics to non-technical readers, and for offering useful real-world advice about complicated topics. More information can be found at the author's website, located at www.molehillgroup.com.

Introduction 1 How This Book Is Organized 2 Conventions Used in This Book 3 Get Ready to Facebook 4 Part I: Getting Started with Facebook--and Social Networking 5 1 Welcome to Facebook: It's Not Just for Kids Anymore 6 What Social Networking Is and How It Works 6 What Is a Social Network? 8 Why Do People Use Social Networks? 8 What Other Stuff Does a Social Network Do? 10 Who Uses Social Networks? 10 How Did Social Networks Develop? 11 Say Hello to Facebook 12 Things You Can--and Can't--Do on Facebook 14 Things to Do 14 Things Not to Do 16 Why Grown-Ups Use Facebook 17 Social Networking Do's and Don'ts 19 Do These Things 19 Don't Do These Things.20 2 Signing Up and Getting Started 23 Before You Sign Up 23 Creating a Facebook Account 24 Find Friends and Complete Your Profile 25 Filling Out Your Profile 29 3 Getting Around the Facebook Site 37 What's What and What's Where on Facebook 37 Signing In 37 Welcome to the Home Page 38 Profile Pages 41 Navigating the Facebook Toolbar 42 Searching Facebook 44 Signing Off 46 Part II: Facebook for Friends and Family 49 4 How to Find Old Friends--and Make New Ones 51 How Facebook Helps You Reconnect 51 Why Friends Are Important 53 Making Friends with People You're Already in Contact With 54 Finding Friends You Email 54 Finding Friends You Instant Message 56 Finding Co-Workers 57 Searching for Long Lost Friends 58 Finding Former Co-Workers 58 Finding Former Classmates 59 Searching by Name or Email Address 60 Accepting Friend Requests 61 Exploring Facebook's Friend Suggestions 62 Finding Friends of Friends 63 5 Visiting Friends and Family on Facebook 67 Catching Up with the Facebook News Feed 67 Viewing the News Feed 67 Viewing More Updates from More Friends 70 Viewing Only Status Updates from Your Friends 71 Hiding Friends You Don't Like 71 Hiding Updates from Applications and Games 72 Commenting on Friends' Posts 73 Liking What You See 74 Sharing a Posted Attachment 75 Getting to and Getting to Know Your Friends' Profile Pages 76 Displaying a Profile Page 76 Navigating a Profile Page 77 Reading the Wall--and Leaving Your Own Comments 79 Viewing Your Friends' Personal Information 80 Looking at Photos 81 Viewing Other Tabs 82 6 Keeping Tabs on Your Kids 85 Making Your Children Your Friends 85 What to Do If Your Kids Hide from You on Facebook 86 Viewing Updates Without Being a Friend 86 Viewing Updates as a Friend of a Friend 86 Creating a Surreptitious Identity 87 Using Facebook to See What Your Kids Are Up To 89 Using Facebook to Contact Your Grown Kids 90 7 Organizing Your Friends List 93 Creating Friends Lists 93 Editing Your Lists 95 Displaying Status Updates from List Members 97 Deleting Custom Lists 98 Getting Rid of Unwanted Friends 98 Blocking Unwanted Users 99 Part III: Keeping in Touch with Facebook 103 8 Updating Your Friends on What You're Doing 105 What Is a Status Update? 105 Where to Update Your Status 107 How to Update Your Status 108 Posting a Simple Text Update 108 Attaching a Photo 109 Attaching a Video 110 Attaching an Event 111 Attaching a Link to Another Web Page 112 Tagging a Friend in a Post 113 Determining Who Sees Your Status Updates 114 Setting Universal Status Privacy 115 Setting Who Can View Individual Updates 117 Deleting an Accidental Status Update 118 Deciding What to Write About 118 Employing "Facebook Grammar" 121 9 Exchanging Private Messages 125 Understanding Facebook's Private Messages 125 It's Just Like Email--Except It Isn't 126 Readingand Replying to Messages 127 Deleting Messages 129 Sending a New Message 130 Adding Attachments to a Message 131 Attaching a Picture 131 Attaching a Video 132 Attaching a Web Link 133 10 Chatting with Your Kids--Live 137 What's Chat--and Who Uses It? 137 Understanding Instant Messaging 137 Welcome to Facebook Chat 138 Who's Chatting with Whom? 139 Who's Online to Chat With? 139 Doing the Chat Thing 141 Managing Your Chat Settings 143 Part IV: Sharing Your Life on Facebook 145 11 Sharing Family Pictures 147 What's Good--and What's Bad--About Sharing Photos on Facebook.147 Facebook Photos: The Good 148 Facebook Photos: The Bad 148 So Is Facebook Good for Photo Sharing, or Not? 149 Creating a Photo Album 151 Uploading New Photos 152 Editing, Moving, and Deleting Photos 154 Tagging People in Your Photos 155 Sharing Photos with Others 157 Managing Your Photos and Albums 158 Viewing Other People's Photos 160 Viewing Photos and Photo Albums 160 Adding Your Comments 162 Tagging Yourself in a Photo 163 Sharing a Photo 163 Printing a Photo 163 Downloading a Photo 163 Downloading Multiple Photos 164 12 Sharing Home Movies 167 The Ins and Outs of Sharing Videos on Facebook 167 Shooting Videos for Facebook 167 What to Upload 168 Editing Your Videos 169 Uploading Your Videos 169 Displaying the Video Tab 170 Uploading a Video File 170 Recording a Webcam Video 172 Editing Video Information 174 Sharing Uploaded Videos.175 Posting YouTube Videos 177 Watching Your Friends' Videos 180 Watching a Video in the News Feed 180 Watching a Video on Its Own Page 181 Viewing Your Friends' Most Recent Videos 182 13 Sharing Birthdays and Events 185 Why You Might Like Events 185 Searching for and Attending Events 186 RSVP'ing to Events 188 RSVP'ing from the Event Page 188 RSVP'ing from a Status Update 190 RSVP'ing from an Email Invitation 191 Creating New Events 192 Viewing Your Events 194 Celebrating Birthdays 194 Part V: Doing More with Facebook 197 14 Personalizing Your Profile Page 199 What Can You Personalize on Your Profile Page--and Why Would You Want To? 199 Choosing What Posts to Display on Your Wall.200 Changing Other Wall Settings 201 Changing Your Profile Picture 203 Customizing the Tabs on Your Profile Page 205 Managing Sidebar Boxes 206 Adding New Boxes 206 Rearranging Boxes 207 Deleting Boxes 207 Editing What You See in Sidebar Boxes 207 Editing Your Profile Information 208 15 Becoming a Fan 213 Understanding Fan Pages 213 The Fan Page as Fan Club 213 Liking a Page 215 Navigating a Fan Page 215 Finding Fan Pages 216 Creating Your Own Fan Page 217 Create a New Page 218 Invite Others to Become Fans 219 16 Meeting Others in Groups 221 Understanding Facebook Groups 221 Group Activities 222 Running the Group 223 Finding and Joining Groups 224 Viewing Your Groups--and Your Friends' Groups 225 Participating in a Group 226 Creating Your Own Group 228 Group Administration 229 Access Levels.229 Group Features 229 Creating the Group 229 Customizing Your Group 231 Letting Others Know About Your Group 232 17 Networking for Business--and for Jobs 235 Understanding Facebook Networks 235 Joining Your Work Network 236 Networking Professionally 237 Finding Other Business Professionals on Facebook 237 Managing Your Professional Contacts 238 Networking via Facebook Groups 239 Job Hunting on Facebook 239 Reworking Your Profile 240 Becoming a Fan of Potential Employers 241 Asking for a Job 241 18 Finding Fun Games and Applications 243 Understanding Facebook Applications 243 Discovering Applications and Games 246 Browsing for Apps 246 Searching for Apps 247 Using an Application or Game 247 Viewing and Managing Your Applications--and Those Your Friends Are Using 249 Viewing Your Applications and Games 249 Managing Your Apps and Games 250 Apps for Grown-Ups 252 19 Using Facebook on the Go 257 Connecting from Your iPhone 257 Viewing the News Feed 259 Posting a Status Update 261 Posting a Picture 262 Viewing Friends' Profiles 265 Checking Messages 265 Chatting with Friends 266 Connecting from Other Smartphones 267 Connecting via Text Message 269 20 Buying and Selling in the Facebook Marketplace 273 Understanding the Facebook Marketplace 273 Shopping for Something to Buy 275 Browsing the Marketplace 275 Searching the Marketplace 277 Viewing an Item Listing 278 Sharing and Commenting on a Listing 279 Contacting a Seller--and Buying Something 280 Selling Your Own Stuff 281 Listing an Item for Sale 281 Ending Your Listing 283 Part VI: Basic Facebook Housekeeping Chores 287 21 Keeping Some Things Private 289 Understanding Facebook Privacy 289 Changing Facebook's Privacy Settings 291 Sharing Your Personal Information--or Not 291 Setting Custom Sharing Options 293 Hiding Your Information from Other Websites 295 Removing Unwanted Fan Pages 297 What to Keep Private--and What to Share 298 22 Managing Your Facebook Account 303 Changing Account Settings 303 Controlling When and How Facebook Contacts You 306 Leaving Facebook 307 Index 313