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Facebook

Setting up a facebook account

Type in the address bar

https://facebook.com

Press enter

You will be taken to the sign up

page

Write your first name and last name

You need to write your email

address twice

Create a passwordIt needs to be at least 6 characters long.

Use capital letters and small letters, numbers and punctuation marks. This

makes it safer.

Use a different password from other websites you go on.

Add your date of birth

Click to say if you are male or female

Make sure that you haven’t ticked

the ‘keep me logged in box’ if you

share a computer

Press ‘sign up’ and you are ready to start

Creating your profile

Add a photograph

Choose ‘upload a photo from your

computer’

Select ‘choose a file’

Search your folders for a picture

Double left click on the picture you want

Your picture will appear

Write information that you are

happy to share on your profile page

Facebook will ask you where you live, education,

what you are into and about your relationships

If you don’t want to share

something press ‘skip’

Facebook will suggest films and music you like. If you

type in what you like, it will appear.

You don’t have to select what Facebook suggests.

Facebook will ask you to add your mobile phone number. Don’t

do it because everyone can see it.

Only give your number to people who you know well.

There are many ways to add friends. If you type in places that

you go to suggestions come up.

You can type in someone’s name in the search bar and then press

add friend.

They will get an invite to be your friend.

They can say yes or no to being your friend.

Sometimes when you log on Facebook will ask you for your email

to find friends from your contact list.

If you don’t want to, click on your name (to go to your profile) or

click on your news feed

Some people will ask to be your friend. Sometimes facebook will

suggest friends.

You don’t have to be friends with people. Only say yes to people

you know and like

Joining groups like luv2meetu

If you type in the search bar the name of group you are interested in you

can click on it. You can like groups and then you will get updates about

them.

Groups like luv2meetu can invite you to be in their group.

Messages

You can send people private messages.

Click on the ‘envelope icon’. Click on send new message.

Type in who you want to send the message to. You can send a

message to more than 1 person at once. Only the people you write

the message to will see it.

When you have written your message press enter or reply.

When people send you a message you will see it come up.

To reply, click on the envelope, write your message and press reply.

You can write on your friend’s walls.

This is public and all your friends and their friends can see it.

You can write on your own wall. All your friends can see it.

Don’t write anything private.

Privacy settings

It is very important to have ‘privacy settings’.

This stops everyone being able to see your pictures and

information.

You can find your ‘privacy settings’ at the top right of your page

You can choose who can see your stuff.

Who can contact you and who can look you up

You can decide who sees your stuff.

It is a good idea to make sure only your friends see your Facebook page.

You can decide who can send you messages.

‘Strict filtering’ means that you will only get messages from friends.

You can decide who can send you a friend request.

If you choose the ‘friends of friends’ setting it will stop strangers trying to be

your friend

You can decide who can find you on facebook.

You need to click on ‘more settings’. Then click on ‘edit’.

If you click on ‘friends of friends’ strangers can’t find you.

Make sure your date of birth is private.

Go to your profile page. Choose ‘update info’

Then edit ‘basic information’

Select ‘don’t show my date of birth’ or ‘only show the month and day’

This helps stop identity fraud

What to do if someone sends

you messages that upset you

You can ‘block’ someone by clicking on the ‘privacy shortcut’ and writing

the persons name where it asks you.

This stops the person being able to contact you.

You can report people to facebook that have upset you.

When you have finished using

facebook

If you share a computer you must ‘log off’.

This stops people pretending to be you.