Facebook 101
怎樣在「俾面相簿」拋頭露面
Yui-Wah (Clement) Lee 李銳華 leeyuiwah.blogspot.com
© Yui-Wah Lee 2008
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Motivations
An efficient and non-intrusive way to stay in touch with my friends You may be able to meet (or reconnect) with friends that you may not be able to meet otherwise A tool for serious stuff (social causes, stationaudience relationship, school-parent relationship, etc) A way to stay young
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What are the main things to do (Part 1)?
As simple as 1-2-3 … 1. Check your Home
• Check if there are any Requests • Check the News Feed from your friends • Check your friends Status
2. Check your Inbox
• Not answering messages is impolite …
3. Check your Profile
• Your public image to your circle of friends • You can customize the layout
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A glossary of facebook terms
Profile Picture: choose a good one! Status: an one-liner that you can edit as often as you wish Networks:
Regional: you can join at most one Employer, School, etc: verified by email address
Mini-Feed / News-Feed: Friends: Video: Information: more about privacy later
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A glossary of facebook terms (Cont’d)
Photos:
Tagging
Posted Items: Post URLs with your comments Live Blog (3rd-Party): Groups: more about this later FunWall (3rd-Party): A Wall with more fun Super Wall (3rd-Party): A Wall with more fun Entourage (3rd-Party): The Wall: Imagine a wall in a dorm …
Wall-to-Wall: presenting wall messages of a dialogue
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What are the main things to do (Part 2)?
Upload Photos
You can use the built-in upload function or use Picasa (3rd-party) The commenting is the fun part The commenting is the fun part
Upload Video
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What are the main things to do (Part 3)?
Many features in facebook are implemented by Applications Applications by facebook
Photos Videos Groups
3rd-Party Applications
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What are the things that you can safely ignored?
3rd-Party Applications: most of them are not that useful, except
FunWall Entourage (Live Blog) (My Chinese Name) (Super Wall) (Picasa)
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What are the things that you can safely ignored? (Cont’d)
3rd-Party Applications that are not very useful (IMHO)
Love Ice Cream Top Friends What’s Your best Quality Friends for Sale …
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How to find your friends
Direct invite (requires email address)
Friends -> Invite Friends
Click on someone’s picture and then Add to Friends
From someone else’s Friends (list) From Friends -> Find Friends
Import Email Addresses (from Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Gmail, MSN, etc – requires your username/password)
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Effective facebooking
Reciprocal Principle Observe the News Feed on your Home: Some actions have more effects than others. E.g.
Status: A one-line diary!
(I keep a local copy too)
Commenting on Photos has much effect Writing a Group Post has relatively smaller effect
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How about your privacy?
(IMHO) Do not show these on your Profile
Full birthday Telephone number Street address
edit -> Basic -> “Don’t show my b’day” edit -> Contact -> Mobile/Land Phone: Or privacy -> Profile -> Contract Information
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How about your privacy? (Cont’d)
General Strategies (IMHO)
More restrictive in the beginning, relax as you understand more (I prefer this) More friends -- Little Info (I prefer this)
A lot of friends / No private info on profile
Few friends -- Lots of Info (I don’t prefer this)
Close friends only / More private info on profile
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E.g. Who can see your photos
Settings:
Everyone My Networks and Friends Friends of Friends Only Friends Customize …
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Wall posting vs message: the privacy aspect Type/privacy
Wall Posts Comments Messages X
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Private
Public (your friends)
X X
Facebook for serious stuff
Facebook Groups
E.g. SaveRTHK E.g. CUHK Computer Science A powerful tool is called Message All Members (use with care) E.g. Stop Global Warming Can be linked with a Donation feature (US only?)
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Facebook Causes (3rd-Party)
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How to fight facebook addiction?
Facebook addiction (facebookaholic) The pitfall: “Let me just spend two more minutes in facebook … ” The solution: “Stop immediately!” Another solution: Set aside a daily timeslot Yet another solution: First thing first
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Questions and Answers
This set of slides is available on
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