Facebook Application for Smartphones

There are special mobile phone apps available for a number of popular smartphones—including iPhone, BlackBerry,  Android, Sidekick, and more. You can download these apps to your phone for a mobile Facebook interface that’s custom designed for your specific device. To find out more about these apps, head to the home page for the Facebook...

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The Facebook Footer description?

Running along the bottom of every Facebook page is a horizontal list of links called the footer. It’s easy to overlook, but it has some useful resources. n The Language link (next to the copyright statement) opens a dialog that lets you change which language you view Facebook in. (I use this to brush up on my French sometimes.)n About takes...

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A to Z Brief History of Facebook

Facebook’s rise to prominence on the Internet has been meteoric. At the time of this writing, Facebook has more than 500 million members around the world and is still growing by leaps and bounds. Launched in February 2004 by Mark  Zuckerberg, then a student at Harvard University, Facebook took its name from the printed directories known as “face books” that students were given to help match their classmates’ names with...

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The Blue Bar of social networking site facebook

Running across the top of every page on Facebook is the same bright blue bar, cleverly known as “the blue bar.” It will be your faithful companion for all your journeys on Facebook, more loyal than Tonto, Robin, or even Dr. Bunsen Honeydew’s faithful lab assistant, Beaker. The left side of the blue bar       ...

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What’s an Facebook Application?

What’s an Application?Facebook applications let you doall kinds of fun things, from playinggames to sending offbeat greetingsto your friends. Often referred to as“apps” for short, applications aresimply programs designed to run onFacebook. See the Applications andOther Add-Ons chapter for completeinfo on Facebook’s applications—what they are and how to use th...

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What Can You Do on Facebook?

In upcoming chapters, we’ll look at the various ways you can use Facebook: n Reconnecting with old friends and making brand new onesn Keeping track of what your friends are saying, thinking, and doingn Sharing info with friends by posting notes, links, photos, and videosn Using applications to play games with friends around the world; spread the word about charities and political causes; recommend books, movies, and music;...

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The Anatomy of Facebook

Until you actually join Facebook and play with it a little, it can be hard to figure out what’s so appealing about it. Some stories in the media make it sound like the hottest hipster fad since the invention of the black turtleneck, while others portray it as a cross between an opium den and a shark-infested lagoon. So you put off signing...

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