What is Facebook?
Facebook helps you connect with friends, family and communities of people who share your interests. Connecting with your friends and family as well as discovering new ones is easy with features like Groups, Watch and Marketplace. (Meta, 2024)
What You Should Know Before Using Facebook
Facebook is for people ages 13 and up. This network let's you write posts, share videos, connect with groups, and sell and purchase items. It is commonly used with Messenger which is another product of Meta. This is a way to privately message or share content with other Facebook and Messenger users. There is no limit on length of posts. You can type your heart out, add photos, and videos to your posts.
Below please find additional resources to help new users to Facebook.
Facebook Help Center
The Facebook Help Center is a great place for new users to review. It offers a variety of popular topics such as how to use Facebook, managing your account, privacy, safety and security, and policies and reporting.
In this 12 minute beginner's guide on How to Use Facebook by Howfinity learn about 12 topics to help get you started in creating a Facebook accoung and how to use it.
Notable timestamps are:
00:00 Overview - How to Use Facebook
01:27 Creating a Facebook account
2:14 Adding a profile picture
3:01 Adding friends
4:27 Following public pages
5:11 Privacy settings
6:11 Posting on Facebook
8:00 Liking/Commenting/Sharing posts
8:40 Facebook Profile
8:55 Adding photos and videos
9:17 Life events
10:32 Other Facebook features (Facebook Watch, Marketplace, Groups)
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