How Do I Facebook

How Do I Facebook?
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This page is not affiliated with nor endorsed by Facebook®, the social networking website. You will find the official Facebook Help Center here.

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1. What this Page is About (top)

What is Facebook? Facebook is a social utility that connects people with family, friends, coworkers, classmates and other people they find interesting. It builds communities from individuals, and gives its users a place to share information, ideas and concerns.

If you're new to Facebook, you have a million questions about what to do and how to do it. If you're anything like me, you've already spent countless hours looking for answers, only to be frustrated when you couldn't find what you were looking for in a reasonable amount of time.

That's why I put this page together. To help me (and now you) navigate Facebook. At HowDoIFacebook.com we answer your most frequently asked questions, provide a glossary of Facebook terminology, and package it in an easy-to-use format.

Don't get me wrong, Facebook has a robust Help Center, but it can lead you all over the place for answers. That's a real problem for me. You may have also noticed that some of the questions are answered by Facebook users themselves, people like you and me, whose intentions are good, but whose answers lack clarity and meaning.

HowDoIFacebook.com offers an FAQ section, a glossary of Facebook-specific terminology, and a search feature that lets you find the answers you can't find elsewhere.

If you have a question and no answer, email me. I'll do my best to resolve your issue. If you bring up something new, or something that has yet to be adequately documented, I might easily be convinced to post your question and my response to it to this site for others to see.

2. Facebook Help Resources (top)

Facebook Application Directory
Go here to access the dozens upon dozens of applications that work with Facebook pages and profiles. Yes, pages and profiles are different animals. They may look alike, but they are not the same thing.

Facebook Getting Started Guide
How to find friends, coworkers, school mates, and other acquaintances and connect with them on Facebook.

Facebook Help Center
Get help with using Facebook and its many applications and features. Learn how to create ads and how to use pages to generate business revenue.

Facebook Help Center - Profiles
Profiles are for regular, everyday people like you and me. Profiles attract friends. Each user is permitted to maintain a single account, which is represented by a profile. Profiles can only be used to represent an individual, and must be held under an individual name. You create a new profile when you sign up for a Facebook account as a new user.
Facebook Help Center - Pages
Facebook Pages represent a real public figure, artist, brand, business or organization. Pages attract fans. A single user can have multiple Facebook Pages provided that user is an authorized representative of the entity for which the page was created. Visit the step-by-step guide on how to create a page on Facebook. Go here to create a page.
Facebook Help Center - Groups
Groups can be created by any user and about any topic, as a place for users to share their opinions and interest in that subject. Groups center around shared interests, activities, or ideas. Groups attract members. Go here to create a group.
Facebook Help Center - Causes
Causes are advocacy groups and/or online campaigns used to raise money, promote awareness, or champion a cause. They are created by people like you and me. They generally benefit non-profits or other organizations that have already established a connection with Facebook. Go here to start a new cause.
Facebook Help Center - Bugs and Known Problems
Like it says. Go there to read about bugs and known issues with the various features of Facebook.

Facebook Advertising
Facebook is a great place to reach 200,000,000 people and market you products and ideas.

Facebook Charity Gifts
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.

Facebook Charity Gift Shop (Gift Shop Help)
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.

Facebook Pages Product Guide
A Facebook page is used by an organization, product, or public personality to interact with users on Facebook. This guide explains the purpose of a page and the process of creating one.

Facebook Causes
This link takes you to the application that lets you add causes to your Facebook profile.

Facebook Groups
This link takes you to the application that lets you create a Facebook group. Groups are not profiles. There are several differences.

Groups have members. Profiles have friends.
Groups have officers. Profiles have administrators.
Groups center around shared interests, activities, or ideas. Profiles are generally created for a single person or entity.
Groups have discussion boards where members can share ideas and interact with each other. Profiles have "the wall" where friends can post comments, pictures and more.

3. Helpful Resources Outside of Facebook (top)

Facebook: Yahoo Answers
Excellent Q&A in 26 different languages. Interactive search feature lets users search for the right answers to the right questions. Users ask questions, help answer existing (open) questions, benefit from resolved questions, and/or vote on the best answers to questions that are still undecided. A little convoluted, but not a bad way to resolve issues.

Facebook: How-to Information at eHow
How to connect with others. eHow shows you how to store, share or view photos and videos online, or stay in the know with the latest online content.

Inside Facebook Network
A platform for Facebook developers and marketers.

Inside Facebook is devoted to tracking Facebook and Facebook Platform news for developers and marketers.
Inside Social Games is the first blog dedicated to tracking the convergence of games and social networks.
AppData is the most reliable way to monitor traffic trends for over 44,000 Facebook applications.
PageData is the easiest way to track metrics for hundreds of thousands of Facebook Pages.
Inside Facebook France is the first blog dedicated to serving Facebook marketers & developers in French.
Inside Facebook en Español is the first blog dedicated to serving Facebook marketers & developers in Spanish.