| Admin |
An admin is a person who's in charge of a
group. When you create a
group, you are automatically be listed as both an admin and the group's
creator. Admins can invite
people to join the group, appoint other admins, and edit group
information and content. They
can also remove members and other admins.
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| Ads |
An
advertisement. Users can
create Facebook Ads to market their products and ideas.
Ads are not free. Visit
the Help Center to
learn more. |
| Application |
Users
can add applications to their profiles, pages, and groups.
There are dozens upon dozens of applications to choose from.
Some are built by Facebook. Most
are built by external developers. Visit
the Application Directory
to learn more. See General
Application Support for Q&A. |
| Blog |
Web log.
Used as a noun or verb. An online diary or column maintained by an
individual. Blogs generally contain commentary, but may also
contain graphic images, videos, or descriptions of events. |
| Cause |
An
advocacy group or online campaign for collective action.
Any Facebook user can start one.
A cause can be used to raise money or promote one's position on an
issue. Visit the Causes
Help Center to learn more. |
Charity
Gifts
(by Causes) |
This
feature enables Facebook users to donate money to any of 21 select and
specifically targeted charities. Donation amounts are
predetermined and range in value from $10 for two blankets for people
suffering from a disaster or emergency to $200 for a laptop computer for a
child in a developing country. Visit Causes
to learn more. |
| Chat |
A
feature that lets users talk with friends who are online in Facebook.
Visit the Help
Center to learn more. |
| Creator |
The
person who started and administers a cause. |
| Delete |
One of the most
popular searches on Facebook is How
do I Delete (... fill in the blank). |
| Event |
A
calendar-based resource that users can add to their profiles, pages and
groups that lets them share news about upcoming affairs or social
gatherings. |
| Facebook
Connect |
A
single sign-on service that enables Facebook users to login to affiliated
sites using their Facebook account and share information from those sites
with their Facebook friends. See Facebook
Connect to learn more. |
| Facebook
Blog |
The official
Facebook blog where you will find hundreds of posts on a wide range of
subjects. |
| Facebook
Platform
|
The
underlying systems software and application framework that developers use
to build Facebook applications. See FAQ. |
| Fan |
A
person who has joined a page because they like what that page represents. |
| FBML |
Facebook
Markup Language is a variation and subset of HTML
with some elements removed. It allows Facebook application developers to
customize the "look and feel" of their applications. It
lets developers build social applications on the
Facebook platform. Facebook
Developers Wiki is an excellent resource for information about FBML.
There are several
applications offered that have FBML editing capability. See Static
FBML. |
| Filters |
Used
to separate friends into different categories. Create your own filters
using Friend Lists. You can also filter by applications, like Photos.
Tour the new Facebook
homepage to see the where Filters are used on the profile. |
| Friend |
A
person who has joined a profile, usually by invitation. |
| Friend
Finder |
A
Facebook utility that helps users find present and former friends, family,
coworkers, schoolmates, and other acquaintances.
Visit Friend Finder
to learn more. |
Gifts
(by Facebook) |
Virtual
tokens of appreciation one member gives to another. On April 9, 2009,
Facebook celebrated 200 million users by partnering with 16 global
charity/advocacy groups. Those groups created virtual gifts for the
Facebook gift shop that Facebook users can purchase for their friends.
All proceeds go to the group associated with the gift. Users can select gift recipients, gift images and delivery
options. Visit the Gift
Shop or Help
Center to learn more. |
| Group |
A
group is not a page or profile. It
is a Facebook site created by bands, companies and other organizations to
promote their activities. Visit the Help
Center to learn more. |
| Highlights |
Featured
photos, events, notes and more that you don't want to miss. Stories are
chosen based on what your friends have interacted with. Tour
the new Facebook
homepage to see the where Highlights are located on the profile. |
| Inbox |
The
Facebook mail application. See
Messages and Inbox at the Help
Center to learn more. |
| Insights |
Facebook's answer to web page analysis.
For each Facebook page, Insights tracks the number of
page views, unique views, total interactions, wall posts, discussion
topics, fans, new fans, removed fans, reviews, photo views, audio plays,
and video plays.
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| Koobface
Worm |
A rogue application that is plaguing Facebook
and other social network sites. It is spread by a link that looks
like a video. What it does is ... Facebook is all over
it. Every time Koobface, or one of its variants rears its ugly head
on the Internet, Facebook has implemented safeguards to protect its users
from attack. See cnet
or Scientific
American articles for details about how the worm spreads and what it
does.
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| Lexicon |
A Facebook tool to follow language trends
across Facebook. Specifically, Lexicon looks at the usage of words and
phrases on profile, group and event Walls.
Visit the Help
Center to learn more.
|
| Like |
A
feature that appears as a link next to something you see on
Facebook that allows users to let others know they appreciate that
something, whether it be a video, a comment or something else.
Visit the Help
Center to learn more. |
| Limited
Profile |
A
profile that allows only restricted access. |
| Marketplace |
Facebook
Marketplace is a feature developed by Facebook that allows users to post free
classified ads within the following categories: For Sale, Housing, Jobs,
and Other. Ads can be posted as either available and offered, or
wanted. |
| Member |
A
person who has joined and participates with a group. |
| Mini
Feed |
Similar
to a news feed, but different. A
Mini Feed centers around one person. Each person's Mini Feed shows what
has changed recently in their profile and what content (notes, photos,
etc.) they've added. Mini
Feeds are sent automatically and posted to friends' profiles for all to see. |
| Mobile |
Facebook
Mobile offers multiple Facebook features for your phone, such as Facebook
Mobile Web (m.facebook.com), Facebook
Mobile Texts and Facebook
Mobile Uploads. Go here
to see Facebook Help (Mobile Edition). |
| Network |
A
circle of friends and acquaintances that centers on a city, school,
company, or military organization. See
Help Center to
learn more. |
| News
Feed |
News
Feeds highlight what's happening in your social circles on Facebook. News Feeds are posted to profiles for all to see. |
| Notes |
Notes
are like mini-blogs for your profile.
Visit Help
Center to learn more. |
| Notifications |
Like Mini
Feeds, notifications are news feeds from
friends, sent automatically as they engage in activity on their profile. |
| Officer |
Honorary
appointment. Group admins can
add officers to a group. Other
than holding a title, officers have no additional privileges beyond
regular members. They do not have admin
authority. |
| Page |
A
page is not a profile.
It may look like one, but it's not. The features and capabilities
are different. It
is a Facebook site intended for and created by artists, musical groups, celebrities, businesses,
brands and similar entities (not individuals).
You can add pages to your profile to show your friends what you
care about. Only the official
representative of an artist or business can create and make changes to a
page. Visit the Help
Center to learn more. |
| Photos |
A
Facebook application that lets users upload albums of photos, tag friends,
and comment on photos. |
| Platform |
See Facebook
Platform. |
| Poke |
A
poke is a way to interact with your friends on Facebook. It allows
one user to virtually poke another. Some consider it flirting. |
| Profile |
A
profile is not a page.
It may look like one, but it's not. The features and capabilities
are different. It
is a Facebook site intended for and created by people who want to share information about
themselves and socialize with others.
A profile displays a user's personal information and their interactions
with friends. Each registered user may have only one profile. See Help
Center to learn more. |
| Publisher |
Use
publisher to Publish your status, photos, notes and more into the stream.
Posts show up both in your profile, and on your friends' home pages.
Tour the new Facebook
homepage to see the location of Publisher on the profile.
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| RSS |
Really Simple
Syndication. Wikipedia
defines it as a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently
updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and
video—in a standardized format.
|
| Static
FBML |
A Facebook
application that lets users customize their pages
using Facebook Markup Language (FBML). See the Static
FBML page for more information. We used Static FBML on our
Facebook page to create the HowDoIFacebook section. See How
Do I Add FBML to learn more.
|
| Status |
A
micro-blogging feature called which allows users to inform their friends
of their current whereabouts, actions, or thoughts.
|
| Stream |
The
stream shows you posts from your friends in real-time. This keeps
you up to date on everything that's happening. You can control who appears
here. Tour the new
Facebook homepage to see where Stream is located on the profile.
|
| Tabs |
Tabs
mark the different sections of a profile.
- The Info tab displays basic
information like Birthday and Hometown, as well as interests and
activities. The Info tab also lists all Groups the user is a member
of, and all the Pages the user is a Fan of.
- The Wall tab displays the user's
interactions with friends (comments and messages) as well as status
messages.
- The Photos tab displays profile
photos and albums.
- The Boxes tab displays all of
the applications and features not showcased elsewhere on the profile.
- Other tabs. Users can
feature their Applications by creating a tab unique to that
application.
|
| Tag |
Marking
a photo or video with text that identifies the image or the person in the
image. See How Do I Tag a Picture or Video
to learn more. |
| Translations |
A
Facebook application that allows translators from around world to
translate Facebook into different languages. |
| Updates |
News
feeds sent to you from pages that you have joined. |
| Video |
A
Facebook application that lets users share videos on Facebook. Users can
add their videos with the service by uploading video, adding video through
Facebook Mobile, and using a web cam recording feature. Additionally,
users can "tag" their friends in videos they add much like the
way users can tag their friends in photos. |
| Wall |
A
featured section inside a Facebook profile.
It's a space on every user's profile page that allows friends and
users themselves to post messages for all to see. |
| Warnings |
Notices
from Facebook that you have engaged in a prohibited activity or that you
have reached a limit that suggests you were using a feature at a rate that
is likely to be abusive. See Warnings
on the Facebook Help Center for more information. |
| WYSIWYG |
What You See Is
What You Get. Pronounced wiz·zy·wig (wĭz'ē-wĭg).
The term relates to an HTML editor, word processor, or desktop publishing
system that is designed to show you on screen exactly what will be
displayed when a document is printed or viewed online. |
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