New to Facebook

HI!
Ahhh questions, questions, everywhere. Don’t worry. I’ve been using facebook for a while and I still stare at it blankly, with my mouth hanging agape at least once a month.

First of all, things are cluttered and ugly depending on who you’ve added and what order THEY put things up. Generally, Facebook throw things up on chronological order so as people throw new things up, they’ll just….show. now you do have the option of hiding people if you want (goodness knows I abuse that button). If you hover over the person’s update to the right, it should pop up a ‘hide’ button.

Looking at News Feed, News Feed is generally what facebook /thinks/ is important. Based on how many comments/likes are on that particular update.
If you click just above the ‘what’s on your mind’ box, on the ‘Live Feed’ link, it should change everything to the Live Feed, which is unfiltered and EVERYTHING that EVERYONE on your friends list has posted. once more, all in chronological order, starting with the newest.

If random people are adding you, chances are they’re adding you for games, because they liked your status picture or for the same reason that random people add on myspace; spam and advertising.

My suggestion? If you don’t know them, don’t add them.

Writing on your wall is fairly easy. To update your status, just click on the afformentioned ‘What’s on your Mind?’ box and it’ll let you update your status. It will also allow you to post pictures, videos, events, links and other things with those little links that show up by “Attach:”

I hope that helped a little bit…if not, I blame the hour. Hahahaha, as if that’s an excuse *grin*

No worries on the delay, Michelle *grins* I once had a delay that was about a year long here, so I think I can forgive you! *chuckles* I might suggest as a helpful tip, though, when you need to add on to your post, instead of making another post, you can just use the button and stick it right on there!

Just you! It wont hinder anyone else’s ability to read all about how they just ate a bowl of cheerios, but the cheerios tasted a little stale, so they poured them out and had toast instead. Or whatever.

Actually, people are able to put a safety lock on just how much or how little others can see of their profile before they’re friends. BUT the problem here is that there is no “Language” block on the ‘About Me’, so even on friends there isn’t anywhere that I see where English is a primary language. The only way you can tell is by actually talking to them.

Though, why you would want to spam up your facebook with a bunch of people you don’t know and don’t care to know is something I’m not quite understanding why you’d want to inflict upon yourself. If it’s for business, a lot of people will have the business they work for (or school they go to) under the ‘education and work’ section if they’re serious about networking. And that’s typically viewable.

Alright, an easy way to search for a friend is if you know their email address, job or school. If you know that, you can search for them here, under ‘Search for People’. Push their email in there and hit search.
OR!
When you search for a name, sometimes it will say what networks/cities/schools they’re in.
OR!
If you had mutual friends, you can troll through the lists of your friends’ friends for their names.
OR!
If you click on their name and view their profile, flip over to the INFO tab and it’ll show things like birthdate if they’ve entered it.
OR!
Looking at a picture also helps sometimes *winks*

Sometimes, Facebook is just a pain in the ass and doesn’t like certain words that could be used in a non PG manner. The only thing I can suggest trying to use another manner of spelling the name out or another phrase related to the business.
C’mon, can you about imagine how much crap we get for being ‘Big Blue Ball’ around here? *grins* Sometimes ‘Big Blue’ is the best Jeff can do, I’m sure, just because of ‘implications’.

If you like I’m sure you can send a word off to Facebook and see if they have any suggestions or can make an exception

Technically, anything that violates the terms of conduct, rights and restrictions of Facebook is terms for deletion. Among them:

1. Registration and Account Security Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:
   1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
   2. You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).
   3. You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
   4. You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
   5. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
   6. You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
   7. You will not transfer your account to anyone without first getting our written permission.
   8. If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user’s actual name).

This generally means you have to use some semblance of your real name. The Company should go in your education and work section.

HAH! Funny. Sure! You just go to your profile, flip over to Info and if you float your mouse to the right side under basic information, an edit button should appear magically!

There are many many many MANY different ‘books I am reading’ applications on facebook. You just need to install them and get to town on it!
Here’s a List of Virtual Bookshelf Applications.

And I have no idea how any of these work, but if you slap ‘Amazon’ in the applications search, here’s a list of applications that in some way cater to Amazon.
I am tired and lazy and don’t want to sift through it all, but there you go if you like!

To read more about each application, click on them, and hit the INFO tab, like you would a person! *beams*

Anything else? *jumps around from foot to foot, shadowboxing* Hit me!

Hi Michelle, welcome to the BBB!

About your FB questions – FB can (and usually does) confuse the heck out of me, so I can’t answer all your recent questions…but I can answer one.

Contacting FB: It looks to me as if every incoming contact to FB is conducted through their Help Center…here is the link to the page, with their (FaceBook’s) instructions on how to contact them.

Also, maybe if you become a friend of Facebook you could send them a message personally? I’m not sure – just something I noticed.

Also: hats off to you, Sami, for posting your fantastic know-how of FB! +Rep for you. 🙂