Facebook: The Missing Manual
Facebook: The Missing Manual By E. A. Vander Veer
January 2008
Pages: 268

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Table of Contents

  1. From Signing Up to Staying Connected

    1. Chapter 1 Getting Started

      1. Signing Up for an Account
      2. Creating Your Profile
      3. Viewing Your Facebook Home Page
      4. Changing Account Information

    2. Chapter 2 Joining a Network

      1. How Networks Work
      2. Viewing the Networks You're Already On
      3. Joining a Network
      4. Suggesting a New Network

    3. Chapter 3 Finding and Adding Friends

      1. How Facebook Friends Work
      2. Finding Friends
      3. Inviting People to Be Your Friend
      4. Responding to Friend Requests
      5. Viewing Your Friends
      6. Organizing Your Friends
      7. Viewing Your Connections to Friends
      8. Breaking Up: Unfriending Friends

    4. Chapter 4 Sending Messages to Friends

      1. Sending Messages
      2. Receiving Messages
      3. Poking
      4. Writing on Walls
      5. Sending Gifts

    5. Chapter 5 Exchanging Automatic Updates

      1. Types of Updates
      2. News Feeds: What Others Are Doing
      3. Mini-feeds: What You're Doing
      4. Facebook Notifications
      5. Subscriptions
      6. Creating Notes (Blogs)
      7. Controlling What People See About You

  2. Interest Groups and Shopping

    1. Chapter 6 Participating in Groups

      1. What's a Group?
      2. Finding Existing Groups
      3. Joining a Group
      4. Creating a Group
      5. Participating in Groups

    2. Chapter 7 Facebook and the Real World: In-person Events

      1. The Three Different Kinds of Events
      2. Finding Existing Events
      3. RSVPing to an Event
      4. Creating Your Own Events

    3. Chapter 8 Going Shopping

      1. The Facebook Marketplace
      2. Placing an Ad
      3. Finding Stuff
      4. Answering an Ad

  3. Doing Business with Facebook

    1. Chapter 9 Hiring and Getting Hired

      1. Recruiting New Hires
      2. Vetting Prospects
      3. Looking for a Job

    2. Chapter 10 Collaborating on Projects via Facebook

      1. Keeping in Touch
      2. Exchanging Files
      3. Keeping Up-to-date with Feeds

    3. Chapter 11 Advertising on Facebook

      1. Taking Polls
      2. Facebook Pages: Profiles for Bands, Brands, and More
      3. Social Ads (Targeted Announcements)
      4. High-dollar Options

  4. Privacy and Power Tools

    1. Chapter 12 Customizing Facebook and Adding Applications

      1. Modifying Your Home Page and Profile
      2. Facebook Applications: An Overview

    2. Chapter 13 Playing It Safe: Facebook Privacy

      1. Privacy and Facebook: An Overview
      2. Deciding How Much to Share
      3. Controlling Access to Your Account
      4. Adjusting Your Privacy Settings
      5. Fighting Back

    3. Chapter 14 Facebook Mobile

      1. How Facebook Mobile Works
      2. Setting up Facebook Mobile
      3. Using Facebook Mobile

  5. Appendix

    1. Appendix Getting Help

      1. Facebook Help
      2. Contacting Facebook
      3. Useful Facebook-related Web Sites

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