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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780596517694
ISBN: 0596517696
Label: Pogue Press
Manufacturer: Pogue Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: January 25, 2008
Publisher: Pogue Press
Studio: Pogue Press
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Amazon.com Review:
Facebook's popularity is skyrocketing, drawing more than 50 million people to this combination online village green, personal Web site creator, and souped-up address book. But one thing you won't get when signing up is a printed manual. Enter Facebook: The Missing Manual--your witty, authoritative, full-color guide to unlocking everything Facebook can do.
Facebook: The Missing Manual Sneak Preview: Five Tips and Tricks
1. Never check the "Remember me" box when logging onto the site. (Doing so puts your account at unnecessary risk and saves you very little time or effort.)
2. When you register for the site, use your actual birthday so that your friends will get an automatic heads-up a few days before the Big Day (all the better to fete you with).
3. Never add compromising photos or info to your Facebook profile; bosses, teachers, hiring managers, and others can use legitimate means to see your profile *even if* you think you've adjusted your privacy settings to prevent them.
4. If you're on Facebook to find a gig (or a date), be sure to sprinkle keywords liberally in your profile descriptions. Doing so ups the odds of your appearing in other members' searches.
5. Before you fill out your profile, first head to the main menu and click the "privacy" link (little-p) and follow the steps in Chapter 12 of the book to customize who gets to see how much of your personal information.
Product Description:
Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a user's guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a crystal clear and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this Missing Manual is uniquely designed to help you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more.
You'll discover how to create your page and make connections with other members in no time everybody who went to your school, for example, or those who work at your company or play on your soccer team. Then, bingo! Instant access to the personal and professional details of all the folks you're connected with, the people they're connected with, and so on, and so on. With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to:
- Join a network, whether it's where you went to school, work-related, or based on other interests
- Look up old friends, find new ones, and decide who you'd like to keep track of
- Contact members by virtually poking them, or leaving notes on their message boards
- Get automatic updates from Facebook friends and send updates of your own
- Participate in groups of particular interest and meet up with members face-to-face
- Buy and sell using Facebook's marketplace and classified ads
- Find a job or hire employees by combing through the member pool
- Use Facebook as a collaboration tool to keep team members, co-workers, clients, and projects upto date
- Play it safe by using a multi-pronged approach to ensuring your privacy
Think of Facebook as a 30-million-plus-entry searchable Rolodex on steroids! With help from this guide, you'll quickly get into the Facebook experience without getting in over your head.
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Published in Jan 2008, this book no longer describes Facebook as it has made radical changes to the site recently. The book's pictures of screens and menu items are mostly not there. Should be pulled from circulation.
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This book is hopelessly out-of-date. Very few of the screen-prints and menu options in the book are still accurate.
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I am surprised that Amazon still sells this book without posting a disclaimer that it is so outdated as to be nearly worthless. Again and again readers are advised to go to menus that do not exist, or to click on links "at the top of any page" that no longer appear anywhere, on even one page. To make matters worse, the index omits many essential terms, so when the text refers you to a nonexistent feature, there is no way to tell whether it is simply a misprint, or if the same feature is discussed elsewhere in the book.
Some of the basic information is still usable, but for optimizing your use of Facebook, you would be far better off saving your money and putting your questions to random middle schoolers on the nearest street corner.
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I read this book from cover to cover I learn a lot about Facebook. I became sorta addicted to Facebook. After four weeks I had to find a way to block facebook. [...]
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My two grown children kept telling me I HAD to get on Facebook. Now I know nothing of the likes of it so I was not eager. My daughter came by to set me up on Sunday and give me a few pointers. Two days later I went to book store and saw Facebook: The Missing Manual and thumbed through it, came home and immediately ordered it through Amazon. It is a GREAT resource for those of us who did not grow up with MySpace, Twitter, etc. I have expanded my Facebook account with so many things, like keeping track of the books I read, playing Scrabble with my daughter long-distance and just keeping up with the goings-on of the whole family. Without The Missing Manual, I would have kept to the front page and left the rest to those who know how. Definitely a MUST-HAVE!
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