Facebook Tips
New to Facebook? How to Get Started… Once You’ve Been Using Facebook For Awhile…
1. Create a Facebook account. 1. Set up Friends lists to easily manage family,
friends, colleagues, etc. in customized lists.
2. Set up your profile page.
2. Review your privacy settings.
o Tip: For greater privacy/security, show
just your birth month and day (not year) o Tip: Once you’ve set up Friends lists, it’s
and opt out of showing contact info. even easier to manipulate privacy
settings. Then you can easily set it so
o Tip: Consider sharing some interesting only people from certain lists can see
things about yourself—your hobbies, certain photos, or exclude certain types
educational background, favorite music, of friends from seeing certain things.
movies, TV shows, quotes, etc.
o Tip: You can find out how your profile
3. Upload an image for your profile picture. appears to others. Just go to Privacy
Settings, then click on Profile, and then
4. Find some friends. at the top of the page, type the name of
a friend to “become” to see how they
5. Create a photo album. view your page.
o Tip: After uploading, caption the 3. Customize your News Feed.
photos, and “tag” people in the album
who are also on Facebook. You can also o Tip: Click the News Feed tabs to view
set privacy restrictions on who can or just Status Updates or Photo stories, or
can’t view the album. to view news only from certain friends.
6. Join Groups, “become a fan” of relevant Pages. o Tip: At the bottom of your Home page,
click on Options for News Feed. You can
o Example Groups: ITC@UVa, College specify the types of stories you’d like to
Communicators Association, ITC USS see more or less of, and the friends you
Students, Linux Users , Mac users, want to hear more or less about.
Who’s Watching Charlottesville, UVa
Communicators, UVa Library, Hoos For 4. Get the Firefox extension. Go to
UVA Men's Basketball, VA Tech Needs http://developers.facebook.com/toolbar/.
Our Support, VA Tech is a Stain on the
Face of Our Great State 5. Try Facebook Mobile if you have an iPhone or
BlackBerry. Try adding other applications, too.
o Example Pages: The Association of
Computing Machinery (ACM), UVA, the 6. Create a group or event. Invite others!
UVa Law School, the UVa Art Museum
UVa Library, Barack Obama, U2, Oprah, 7. Start updating your status, posting notes from
the New York Times, CNN, NPR, IMDb, time to time, or sharing interesting articles.
the Apple Store, Coca Cola, YouTube,
McDonalds, Disney, the Red Cross