The Missing Credits
Introduction
Part 1 From Signing Up to Staying Connected
Chapter 1 Getting Started 1
Signing Up for an Account 2
Creating Your Profile 6
Viewing Your Facebook Home Page 18
Changing Account Information 19
Chapter 2 Joining a Network 23
How Networks Work 24
Viewing the Networks You're Already On 26
Joining a Network 27
Suggesting a New Network 30
Chapter 3 Finding and Adding Friends 33
How Facebook Friends Work 34
Finding Friends 36
Inviting People to Be Your Friend 43
Responding to Friend Requests 45
Viewing Your Friends 49
Organizing Your Friends 50
Viewing Your Connections to Friends 54
Breaking Up: Unfriending Friends 56
Chapter 4 Sending Messages to Friends 59
Sending Messages 60
Receiving Messages 63
Poking 66
Writing on Walls 67
Sending Gifts 71
Chapter 5 Exchanging Automatic Updates 77
Types of Updates 78
News Feeds: What Others Are Doing 78
Mini-feeds: What You're Doing 80
Facebook Notifications 81
Subscriptions 84
Creating Notes (Blogs) 90
Controlling What People See About You 100
Part 2 Interest Groups and Shopping
Chapter 6 Participating in Groups 103
What's a Group? 104
Finding Existing Groups 105
Joining a Group 109
Creating a Group 110
Participating in Groups 114
Chapter 7 Facebook and the Real World: In-person Events 119
The Three Different Kinds of Events 120
Finding Existing Events 121
RSVPing to an Event 125
Creating Your Own Events 126
Chapter 8 Going Shopping 131
The Facebook Marketplace 132
Placing an Ad 133
Finding Stuff 138
Answering an Ad 139
Part 3 Doing Business with Facebook
Chapter 9 Hiring and Getting Hired143
Recruiting New Hires 144
Vetting Prospects 149
Looking for a Job 150
Chapter 10 Collaborating on Projects via Facebook 157
Keeping in Touch 158
Exchanging Files 162
Keeping Up-to-date with Feeds 173
Chapter 11 Advertising on Facebook 177
Taking Polls 178
Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More 182
Social Ads (Targeted Announcements) 189
High-dollar Options 197
Part 4 Privacy and Power Tools
Chapter 12 Customizing Facebook and Adding Applications 203
Modifying Your Home Page and Profile 204
Facebook Applications: An Overview 206
Chapter 13 Playing It Safe: Facebook Privacy 217
Privacy and Facebook: An Overview 218
Deciding How Much to Share 220
Controlling Access to Your Account 221
Adjusting Your Privacy Settings 222
Fighting Back 236
Chapter 14 Facebook Mobile 241
How Facebook Mobile Works 242
Setting up Facebook Mobile 243
Using Facebook Mobile 247
Part 5 Appendix
Appendix Getting Help 255
Facebook Help 256
Contacting Facebook 257
Useful Facebook-related Web Sites 258
Index 259