The document provides an overview of key features of Facebook including: creating an account and setting basic privacy controls; adjusting account settings; creating a social network by finding friends; sharing information through posts, shares, comments, and likes; using the Facebook timeline to view photos and activity; and exploring other features like news feed, chat, groups, and photos. The document includes tasks for creating an account, setting privacy controls, changing the language setting, adding a friend, posting a proverb, and changing a cover photo.

1. Facebook
Contents
• Creating an Account
• Basic Privacy Controls
• Account settings
• Creating your society
• Sharing information with others
• Facebook Timeline
• Other Features in Facebook
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2. • Creating an Account
It is the first step to join Facebook social network. Creating an account is
considered as creating an unique identity for you on the network including
your name, birthday, password, email..ect.
These information should help others to find and identify you on the network.
To create your own account, follow the instructions in the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/help/createaccount
Lab Task:
Create a new account on Facebook if you don't have an account.
• Basic Privacy Controls
After creating your account, you should adjust your privacy on the network.
Otherwise, the network should assign a public privacy policy for you by
default. This means that your account will be visible and searchable for
everyone on the network. Leaving your account as is indicates that you are not
realizing the natural of social network environment. To set your privacy
controls, follow the instructions in the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/help/privacy/basic-controls
Lab Task:
Set your privacy controls to hide your basic info such as your email,
birthday,…ect, except for your friends.
• Account settings
After creating your account, you may need to adjust your account settings
such as changing your Name, Username, Email, Password, and Language.
Also you can edit Security, Notifications, Mobile, Apps and Payments
settings. To set your account settings, follow the instructions in the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/help/account-settings-and-deletion
Lab Task:
Set your Facebook account language to Arabic and switch it back to your
preferable language.
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3. • Creating your society
The main idea behind any social network is building up relationships between
people. These could be identical reflection of the real relationships, or just
electronic online relationships.
To build up your own society by finding your friends, adding them, or
deleting/blocking them, follow the instructions in the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/help/friends
Lab Task:
Find and add me (Tahani Fourah) on Facebook.
• Sharing information with others
It is not just about creating a society; Social Networking is about sharing
knowledge with others. Facebook invents a new term to represent sharing
knowledge through the network. This term is called a wall. To know more
about wall, visit the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/help/profile
To help users sharing knowledge among each others, Facebook social network
provides them with four communication and sharing tools:
o Post
Posting on the wall is the only way to create a new material on
Facebook. You may add the following information on the post:
Who are with you?
Where are you?
Audience who will see the post
o Share
If you want to share others' posts, click share which is found below the
post.
o Comment
If you want to comment on others' posts, click comment which is
found below the post.
o Like
If you want to express your admiration on a post, click like which is
found below the post.
Lab Task:
In cooperation with one of your friends, Post a proverb on your wall, and set
the audience to Friends of Friends.
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4. • Facebook Timeline
One of the recent features added to Facebook, The Timeline is considered one
of the greatest tools to update your status, view and add photos, Jump to
stories from your past, and View a log of your Facebook activity. By the time,
your timeline represents your historical activities on the network.
To learn how to use your timeline, follow the instructions in the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=329522390442844
Lab Task:
Change your cover photo to represent something related to Technology for
Teaching English course.
• Explore other Features by yourself
o News Feed and Home:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/newsfeed
o Chat:
For more information,
https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=168570673202050
o Messages
For more information,
https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=184809401568848
o Groups:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/groups
o Pages
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/pages
o Events:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/events
o Photos:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/photos
o Videos:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/videos
o Tagging
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/tagging
o Links:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/links
o Questions:
For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/facebook-
questions
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