Facebook is currently the largest social networking site. It’s an efficient way to keep in touch with friends and family members and let them know what you’re up to. You can see your friends’ profiles and they can see yours, but you can’t browse the profiles of strangers.
When you sign up, Facebook will let you search for people using their Facebook names or e-mails. Ask them to be friends. If they accept, then you’ve started to build your network. You can see the friends of your friends, and if there is someone you know, you can invite them to be friends, too. You can give status updates, share links, photos, and videos with your network.
Here’s what not to do on Facebook:
- 1. Don’t go around friending random people. Facebook is most effective when it keeps you in touch with people you already know and care about.
- 2. Only do status updates when you have something interesting to say. Only share work stuff on Facebook when it will be legitimately interesting to your friends. If you want to keep people updated on your business, create a fan page or start a group.
- 3. Keep your updates to things that are important. Too many updates on Facebook can become annoying. If nothing much is going on, but you still want to do something on Facebook, visit your friends’ profiles and comment on what they’re doing. You don’t always have to talk about yourself.
- 4. Don’t post compromising photos or videos. Facebook technically owns the rights to anything you publish on it. Keep embarrassing/nekkid photos to yourself.