Week+3+-+Social+Networking

Facebook I use facebook quite often and I like it to catch up with people you know or went to school with. To search for someone you sign into your account and it will bring you to your home page. You will see a search bar where you can type in the name to a person, place, or thing you want to search or look up. I like facebook also for the reason of social networking for example I am friends with someone who is going to Africa to help an orphanage and she posted a link on facebook to tell people about what she is doing and let them know they are taking donations. It works great because if you share the link yourself which you do so by reading the link and at the end of it there is an option to share and when you click on share it will appear on your profile wall. So it helps spread the word to people that she may not be friends with but I am. I think facebook and google are different in alot of ways but the main one I see is that facebook is more personal and really about you. Google is more for searching information you need facts for.

posted by Jaden Anderson = = Instant messaging

I use facebook all the time to help keep track of my daughters lives that don't live with me. It is very helpful in my life as well as theirs. There's nothing like seeing new pictures of the grandchildren. One of my girlfriends daughters lives in Dubai they facebook and Skype almost every day. The other day I learned that when you click on a friends picture to instant message them at the very bottom of the instant message box on the righthand side is a little face if you click on it there's a small box that comes up with twenty-one images of things that you can put at the end of your message. I thought it was a pretty cool thing, and if you didn't already know about it you should check it out

posted by, Chad Noice

=How to not be annoying=

Tricky Facebook. Did you know that when you "like" a company, that company can then post enormous ads on your friends newsfeeds? I noticed this last week when ads for Kohls showed up on my newsfeed, despite my never having "liked" Kohls. This would be particularly annoying for people who access Facebook on their phones, as the ads are very large and some people have hundreds of friends who may inadvertently help the company advertise by clicking "like". To not be annoying, take these steps:


 * Click on your name on your Facebook toolbar, this will take you to your profile page.
 * Click on your "likes" and scroll down, looking for large companies like Kohls, Walmart, Target, etc.
 * Click on the page that you want to take out of your friends newsfeeds.
 * Click on the button that says "liked" and select "unlike".
 * Do this for every year you have been on Facebook, you might have "liked" a company just to get a coupon a couple years ago.

I did this earlier today and "unliked" a few companies, for example, Ann Taylor. Although I do in fact like that brand, I am not willing to be a carrier of their advertisements. My friends might not notice I am not cluttering their newfeeds but I am happy knowing I'm doing my best to not be annoying.

Posted by Emerald Crafton

=Week 3 - Social Networking=

Turning off Notifications
I have used Facebook for a few years now, but never really paid much attention to how things work or function. I always wondered if there was a way to turn off these annoying notifications and now I see that there is, imagine that? I guess I am not the only one that has had issues with this or struggled with all the notifications that can get generated.

Click on the “Notifications” button at the bottom right corner in Facebook. Click on “See All.” On the right, you’ll see a long list of every application that sends you notifications, and you can turn them off by unchecking them. Be careful, Facebook’s own #|applications which are probably useful to you, such as feed comments, are also on the list, so you’ll probably want to leave them checked.

I learned something useful and new this week. Thank you.

Posted by Mary Bond

Week 3 - Social Networking

Facebook Tip - How to Block People from Writing on Your "Wall"

First of all, only you and your friends can post to your Wall. However, the more "friends" you have (I know people who have hundreds), the chances are that someone will post something that you don't want to have on your wall. So, to block people from posting to your Wall:
 * 1) Go the Account menu at the top right corner of your Facebook page and choose Privacy Settings.
 * 2) Next to the **How You Connect** heading, click Edit Settings.
 * 3) From the dropdown menu next to “Who can post on your wall?” choose Only Me.

Posted by David Sweet

New Apps for your Facebook Time Line

 * **#|Facebook Apps (App Center) bring your timeline to life** Once you've added an app, you can begin updating your timeline with your activities as they happen. For example, if you love design, shopping or fashion, you can add the Pinterest or Pose apps to make your favorite items... If you love to cook, you can add the Foodily app to your timeline and share your latest dishes. If your friends have added the Foodily app, you can discover new recipes with each other, as you'll see their updates in the ticker and their timeline, and possibly News Feed. If you're a traveler, you can add the Gogobot and TripAdvisor apps to bring a virtual passport to your timeline, and show your friends where you've been and share tips about your favorite spots from around the world. Soon, there will be apps for all types of interests, as more apps will launch over time. Whether you love snowboarding, gardening, hiking, or knitting, or something else, there will be an app for you.

By Christina Hart

**__Getting Started Using Facebook:__**

If you are just getting started on facebook I've included a link to a page that literally walks you through every step from setting up your profile to finding friends and uploading video and photos... Pretty helpful stuff...How to Use Facebook...Posted by Shelly West

What do you mean "You didn't really post that?"
So I'm sure that for no fault of our own, some of us have people in our life (or past), that love to cause mischief any chance they can get. Since things posted on FaceBook appear to be from you every time, this can occasionally cause problems when someone thinks it is funny to 'hack' your account and post crazy things you would never actually say or do. Well you don't have to sit around wondering if someone has access to your account, you can see for sure! It's a simple process to determine when and where you (or they) have been logging in.

Here is how you do it:
> This will make sure that nobody else is accessing your account from a different location. However, it will not stop people from using a keylogger or looking over your shoulder when you sign in, so if you still feel that someone is accessing your account, change your password!
 * Sign in to your FBaccount
 * On the very top of the page is a horizontal blue navigation banner. All the way to the right end of it, after your name and the 'Home' link, is a downward facing triangle, indicating a sub-menu.
 * Click on it, and it will give you several options
 * Select "ACCOUNT SETTINGS"
 * ** A new screen will appear, and on the left side is a vertical navigation menu.
 * Select "SECURITY" and it will then display 'Security Settings' for you.
 * Select the bottom one, namely "[|ACTIVE SESSIONS]"
 * It will display some info about your 'Current Session' such as:
 * DEVICE NAME
 * LOCATION
 * DEVICE TYPE
 * Then it will state "If you notice any unfamiliar devices or locations, click 'End Activity' to end the session. This list does not currently include sessions on Facebook's mobile site (m.facebook.com)."
 * Scroll down and click "END ACTIVITY" on anything that looks shady to you!

Posted by: Aaron Ford

= Facebook - Restricting Certain Friends From Seeing Your Posts=

Ever wonder if there was a way to "block" a friend from seeing what you are posting? Are you friends with a couple and they break up so your buddy asks you to unfriend his ex, but you really don't want to be that rude? Well, Facebook has an option to restrict certain friends from viewing your posts. This requires your posts to be visible to friends only. You can set this option under the privacy settings link located under the drop down arrow next to your name in the upper right side of the Facebook screen. Follow these simple steps to restrict certain friends from viewing your wall posts:


 * 1) //Click the down arrow next to your name in the upper right hand corner of the Facebook website.//
 * 2) //Select "Privacy Settings" from the list.//
 * 3) //Scroll down to Blocked People and Apps ... to the right is a link "Manage Blocking."//
 * 4) //Click "Manage Blocking."//
 * 5) //The first option "Add friends to your Restricted list" has a link embedded that allows you to Edit List.//
 * 6) //Click "Edit List"//
 * 7) //This opens up a window that allows you to search current friends and add them to the restricted list.//

Once you have added the friends you do not want seeing your posts, they will no longer be able to view your posts. You can change the group able to view each individual post to public and in doing so, this will allow even the friends on your restricted list to view your posts.

Posted By: Luke Wier



How to find friends on your mobile Facebook app:
If you have an Android phone or iPhone, you can access your Facebook account by using your Facebook app on your phone. To find friends, you would click on "Find Friends" from the main menu. If you do not have any friends added yet, you could search by choosing to find friends from your e-mail address or by typing in some friends' name on the search bar. Once you already have added a friend or friends, it will have a list of people that you may know by a random generation by generating friends of your friends. Then you can simply click on the Add+ button to add people whom you want to be friends with on Facebook.

Posted by: Rochiemar Carson
=Facebook Timeline=

Using facebook is fairly simple once you get the hang of it. Within the last year, Facebook has changed most of the profile pages to “Timeline.” There are some cool things you can do with your profile photos and "cover photos," as Facebook calls it.

Clever examples can be seen here

[] is a site you can use to create similar cover photos. Using one photo, you can create your cover photo and profile picture. To see what I'm talking about, check out my facebook page to see what I created using the site. It is best viewed on a computer, rather than a smartphone.

Most of us who have used Myspace have customized our pages to represent ourselves or something we like, etc. Facebook hasn’t had any customizability until timeline came along. Many people have complained about it when it came out but I personally love it.

On the right side of my timeline there are years listed. These years make it easier for your viewers to skip back in time on your profile (Timeline can only be viewed by those who already have timeline). For instance, if you click “Born” on my profile, it will take you to the oldest point on my profile and show a picture of me and my twin brother when we were born. If you don’t have timeline and would like to get it, you should visit the following address and scroll to the bottom of that page and click “get timeline.” []

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Posted by Tom McCarty

//**CHOOSING HOW TO VIEW**// **POSTINGS**

Under the box where you can "share some news" are the words: sort//:// most recent. When the arrow next to this is clicked, two titles appear, most recent and top stories. Choosing one of these catagories indicates how you wish to receive and view the postings and news stories from your "friends". By viewing the posting in the "most recent" heading, the reader views what is newest to their Facebook page. The "most recent" view is constantly updating posts, so the reader is seeing the latest news posted. Top News view is the default setting. Facebook uses a system to factor what the owner of the page finds most useful, and posts from favorite friends and pages.

Posted by: Jan Bardwell

**__Facebook!!!__** Facebook has a lot to offer. It allows you to keep in touch with friends and family, and at the same time lets them see whats going on with you. You can post a comment to their wall for them to see. They can either comment on my post on their wall, or start a new post on my wall. There are also a bunch of free games that Facebook offers for anyone to play. The eaziest way to find games is Click on the App center link, Choose the game you want to play and enjoy.

Posted by: Steve O'Brien

But I don't want to play that game with you...
Everyone has that friend (or many) that is always sending invites to play Facebook game apps. But maybe you heard about the shady stories from the early years of Facebook games, or you don't like the way they bog down your computer, or you just don't have the time or inclination to accept that invite. Go under Privacy Settings>Ads, Apps and Websites>Edit Settings, which gives you the option to block all apps including games. You can also block individual games if you go to Apps on the left side of your Home page. The arrows that appear on the top right side of each friends' post in the Games feed give you a drop-down menu when you click on them. Posted by Rachel Hooper

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With Great Power comes great responsibility!

We are given such a remarkable gift of technology and as we advance further and further our society becomes lazy and spoiled in virtual bliss. These tools that are given to us can be utilized and put to good use, but this special privilege that we have been granted free access to can too can also be abused. there's a lot of grey and moral debate whether social networking is a good thing or not. I say in the end it's the individual's responsibility to treat such a power with care and respect. I use Facebook to keep in touch with many relatives that live far away and also for networking with other designers in my filed of work. there are dangers with social networking just like with anything else we do in life. so play smart.

[|Facebook and your health: A Dr. Grammar Special Report]
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:15 PM CDT By debaron@illinois.edu

=[|Can Facebook Make Or Break Your Social Life?]=

[|Facebook Addiction Disorder — The 6 Symptoms of F.A.D.]

 * [|Amy Summers] on May 2, 2011 2:50 PM **

Posted by Danielle Ralston

=Creating your own group!= On the left hand side of the page, there is a giant index. If you haven't already closed out of a majority of the stuff, you will see a section for Groups! If you click on "Add group" there will be a button titled "+Create new group." From here it's a very simple process. Choose a name, put in the members you would like in the group, how you want the privacy settings to be. Usual "open, closed, private"

It's as simple as that! You now have a group in which you can get your friends together and post all those pretty little kitten pictures we all adore so much. Enjoy.

Posted by Michael Dutra

Highlighting, Editing, and Removing posts from your wall.
Once you post something on your Facebook, it appears on your wall. You have the option to either highlight, Edit or Remove whatever you have posted.

To highlight a photo, run your mouse over the window where you have posted something. A star, and a pencil will appear. Click on the star and it will expand that window and make it as wide as the screen, and take up a larger part of your timeline. In order to edit or remove a post, click on the pencil. It will give you multiple options, all the way from changing the date to deleting or hiding the photo or post. You can click on any of those options.

Here is an example from a post of mine:



I know sometimes I make a mistake or a typo in my posts, and it's nice to have the ability to delete it or edit it.

Posted by Katie Warren

Block those pesky adds that Games or Apps that Flood your Wall!!

Ever get some thing like this on your wall?? Want it to stop? Well your in luck with a few simple Clicks they will be gone.

Click on the drop down box at the top right of the post.( as seen in the photo below)

Select the app in this case its Angry Birds. The post will be Blocked and deleted.



The app will be blocked from posting on your wall not just from this friend but any friends.

This works great for Mafia Wars!!

posted by: William Goss

ADDING A FACE BOOK FEED TO YOUR BLOG

All you have todo is going in to the appearance and add a widget to the side bar, Enter the face books URL and there you go.. Heres a video I found after I had already figured it out.

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Privacy Settings-Photos Most people do not want to share their photos with everyone who uses Facebook so they usually make them only visible to friends or friends of friends. However, with so many people playing the games on Facebook, they often have strangers in their friends list with whom they may not want the pictures shared with. In which case, Facebook has a Custom Option that they can use to be even more specific as to who can view the photos.
 * 1) Go to privacy settings
 * 2) Select Custom Privacy
 * 3) Select the arrow on "these people or lists"
 * 4) Select "specific people or lists"
 * 5) Type in only the people you want your photos visible to

-Rebecca Smith

=How to Add a Photo Album to Facebook =

Log on to your Facebook account and go to your wall and in the box that has these following options:
 * Status
 * ===Photo ===
 * Place
 * Life Event

Choose Photo

After you click on Photo, a new option will pop up:
 * [|Upload Photo / Video] || [|Use Webcam] || Create Photo Album

|| choose <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Create Photo Album

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">You can then browse your current files on your computer and choose which pictures to upload. After the pictures are uploaded you can add captions to each photo if you want and a title to the album and even a location of where the photos were taken. After you have given them as much detail as you like, you choose a security setting for the photos by choosing in the lower right hand corner whether they are //public//, //friends//, or //only me// and push POST and you will have a new photo album!

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Here is a link to a completed photo album on my Facebook wall: [|My Son Mows the Lawn] Have fun posting photos!

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Brenda Dolph-Dory

I had so many notifications and i did not know what to do about them or what it was even fore. So i went to the notification menu and turned off all of the people i had marked as family and friends also marked to be notified each and every time they looked at the computer. so i too had not thought much about the settings like these. I have recently started really looking at facebook and stopped laying so much of the games and came to realize that one can buy or sell a car, find and book a vacation. I found some web site places where people i grew up with go to look for each other. It is a social arena, but i just hope it never replaces the real thing like face to face visits. Linda Todd

The facebook app on Android can be wonderful, mostly just for being able to check in and have your location logged as an update. I like being able to let my friends know that I'm at the bar and it's an open invitation to anyone who is able to see that notification to come on down and hang out. However, one of the really nice features of the app ends up being more trouble than it's worth sometimes. I am referring to the ability to add all of your contacts from facebook to your phone. It seems nice, but it usually ends up with an error any time you try to fill out the phone number of any one of your friends who didn't already include their number in their facebook profile. Apparently the phone doesn't have permission to alter the data given to it by facebook. So the easiest thing is to disable the syncing of contacts, but if you happen to have the app and a friends email address under their address book entry their image in your phone will display their profile picture from facebook. Another useful thing to do after installing the app, or after any fresh android install really, is to grab a free app known as Advanced Task Killer. It can be set up to rather aggressively stop any running processes you specify with the push of a button or whenever you lock the screen. This can be very useful in a fight against a resource hungry app like FB that can really slow your phone down running in the background even when you are not using it.

-Thomas Burns

Facebook privacy changes over time:
As you can see, personal data is widely available to the entire world as of two years ago. Timeline has only made things worse. It's more important than ever to secure any and all data from the public in this crazy timeline world. Even if you are growing yourself as a searchable brand, you don't necessarily want EVERYTHING to be available. Some say that walls create the need for walls— it is clear, at least on the facebook side of things, that walls are the best you can do, aside from removing your account.

— Edited by Gregory L. Dewar

Week #3 What about Facebook?
In my research, I read an interesting link about how to "turn off notifications" on Facebook! Fasinating? To say the least considering how many ignored Notifications I receive. Here's me sharing my new found knowledge with you! Enjoy! Click on the “Notifications” button at the bottom right corner in Facebook. Click “See All.” On the right, then a long list of every application appears. Turn them off by un-checking them. Facebook’s own applications which are probably useful, such as feed comments, are also on the list, leave them checked. For additional disconnections of notifications, click on “Settings” in the main menu. Then on “Application Settings”. Click, “Authorized” from the menu. Many applications actually have of privileges. For example, some are able to “Access my data even when I’m not using the application,” “Send me emails” and “Publish recent activity to my wall.” Turn all of those off. This is possible even without removing the application. In order to completely remove it click the “x” next to its name. For Updates: Click on “Updates” in the menu on the same page and then click on “Updates Settings” on the right. Remember to always Save changes when you are finished. For all of you #|Facebook fans, I hope this helps you as much it does me! Sorry, I must compulsively stay ahead in class... fearful of ever being "late." Edited by, Jeannie Snedegar [|Notifications Link] p.s. I posted this one weeek one wiki... I am trying to keep up and learn. I am not sure how this all works or what we are required to do every week. I am making it... I think :)

Week 3 - Facebook and Privacy

When I first set up my Facebook account I had everything set for friends only to view. Through time, I have noticed that certain stuff has changed for everyone to view and I don't like this idea. I have three children and I don't want them publicized to the world. Through research on the internet, I found a really good website that has many different ways to keep your Facebook account private. Is shows how to change the basic privacy settings that determine what you share, then the website takes look at a few lesser-known settings that you'll want to change, and then suggests a few third-party tools that will help keep your Facebook information private.

Here is a link to the website http://lifehacker.com/5813990/the-always-up+to+date-guide-to-managing-your-facebook-privacy

Posted by Cheryl Berger

Week 3 -Facebook

I have had a facebook account for a few years and have enjoyed communicating with folks that dont live around here, weather i know them or not. I do love me some games such as Farm Town, Castle Ville(always need green shards) and Gnome town. I do love putting pictures of animals and family on there. I hate it when people air there dirty laundry there.I do suggest if you write bout politics or religion, don't. Keep it clean because i dont want to read trash and if i did i would by a book, have fun, that is what it is for.

Posted by, Linda Todd

week 3 Facebook I have been on Facebook for awhile now i like what my family is doing since i dont get to see them much. i love seeing pics of my grandson and my family when they post them. I see what my friends are up to that are in other states. I do like some of the games the have on there. I love putting pics of my family and my pets on my wall. posted by Christina vickers

=Creating Friend Lists:= There is a way you can create different groups for your friends. For instance if you want to create a group that only includes friends you play games with you can do so. Select the “Home” tab in your facebook profile. On the left side there are items that change what will be seen on the screen. Click the “more” link at the very bottom. And there you can “Create New List”. Simply add your friends you want for that group. Now you also have the option when “Adding Friends” from their page to include that friend in one or more of your groups. Posted by Danielle Howard