Introducing Facebook
A Primer
What Does It Do?
•Provides tools to interact with other people over the Internet
•Find shared interests
•Communicate narrowly or broadly
•Similar to many other networking tools
Terminology•Account: Your presence within
•Profile: Information about you
•Friends: People you choose to share with
•Share: Make available to others
•Notifications: Announcements telling you something happened
Profile
News Feed
Getting Around
News Feed
Friend Requests
Notifications
Search Profi
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Friend
Fin
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News Fe
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Privac
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Setti
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Search (to change)
News Feed Sidebar
Posts
•Cornerstone of Facebook
•90+% of what you do
•Everything else revolves around this
Posts: Content
•Status
•Photos
•Videos
•Links
•Comments on other posts
•…and many other kinds of content
Posts: How To
Simple Status Update
Who Can See a Status
Privacy Shortcuts
Settings
Help Center
Personal vs. Business
•Accounts are for individuals, whether that individual is a company or a human
•A business account belongs to the business, but is managed by one or more individuals
Personal vs. Business
Types of Business Pages
•Local business or place
•Company, organization, or institution
•Brand or product
•Artist, band, or public figure
•Entertainment
•Cause or Topic