The document provides guidance on setting up and using Facebook and Twitter accounts. It includes steps for creating accounts, setting up profiles and privacy settings, understanding key terms, and beginning to post on each platform. For Facebook, it outlines steps for importing contacts, setting a profile picture and cover photo, confirming email addresses, adding friends, liking pages, and adjusting privacy settings for posts, tags, apps and more. For Twitter, it describes creating accounts, choosing interests, following others, setting notifications and design preferences, and defines common terms. The document aims to help new users understand the basics of setting up and starting to use their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

3. FIRST THINGS FIRST Creating your Facebook account

4. STEP ONE Importing contacts

5. STEP ONE Importing contacts

6. STEP TWO Setting your profile picture

7. GETTING STARTED Your Welcome Screen

8. GETTING STARTED Privacy Tour

9. GETTING STARTED Privacy Tour

10. GETTING STARTED Privacy Tour

11. GETTING STARTED Privacy Tour

12. YOUR PROFILE PAGE Your Cover Photo

13. YOUR PROFILE PAGE Your Cover Photo

14. YOUR PROFILE PAGE The About Section

15. YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT Pre-confirmation

16. CONFIRMATION EMAIL Make it official

17. YOUR NEW FACEBOOK ACCOUNT Post Confirmation

18. THE NEWSFEED Your Homepage

19. FACEBOOK FRIENDS Add Friends

20. FACEBOOK FRIENDS Confirm Friends

21. FACEBOOK PAGES Like Organizations, Companies, Public Figures, Etc.

22. FACEBOOK PAGES Like Organizations, Companies, Public Figures, Etc.

23. UPDATE Your Homepage

24. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Manage Your Settings

25. To view and adjust your privacy settings:
1. Click on the triangle next to the lock at the top of the page
2. Select Settings from the dropdown menu
3. Click on Privacy in the left column
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Manage Your Settings

26. How to choose who sees your posts:
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Selecting an Audience

27. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Selecting an Audience

28. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Selecting an Audience

29. How to choose who sees your posts:
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Selecting an Audience
• You'll also find an audience
selector tool most places you
share status updates, photos
and other stuff.
• Remember, when you post to
another person's timeline, that
person controls what audience
can view the post.

30. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Changing Past Posts
If you want to change who you shared something with after you post it, return to
the audience selector and pick a new audience.
You can also adjust the audience of many posts at once.

31. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Changing Past Posts
Some important notes about this tool:
• If you want to undo this action in the future, you'll need to adjust the
audience of each individual post.
• If you have shared a previous post with a Custom audience such as
Friends except Acquaintances or Close Friends, this tool will not change
the audience for those past posts.
• If you tagged someone in the post, the audience of the post will still
include the person you tagged and people they include in posts they're
tagged in.
• This tool only controls the audience for posts you've shared. If you've
been tagged in someone else's post, they control the audience.

32. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Your Activity Log
To get to your activity log to you review
and manage what you share on Facebook:
• Click your privacy shortcuts
in the upper-right corner of the
page and select Who can see my
stuff?
• Click Use Activity Log (after
Where do I review who can see
or find things I’ve posted or been
tagged in?).

33. • Tags can added to photos, as well as posts. Anyone
can tag you in anything. Once you are tagged, you
and your friends will be able to see it (such as in
News Feed or in search).
• Your photos and the photos you're tagged in are
visible to:
 The audience they're shared with
 The people tagged in the photo
 Friends that the people tagged choose to add
to the audience.
• Tags from people you're not friends with will
appear in your Activity Log under Posts You’re
Tagged In, where you can decide if you want to
allow them on your Timeline. Remember, posts you
choose not to allow on your Timeline may appear
in News Feed and elsewhere on Facebook.
• There are a few things you can do to make it more
difficult to tag you.
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

34. Your Tag settings:
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

35. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

36. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

37. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

38. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

39. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

40. To remove a tag from a post you’re tagged in:
• From your Activity Log, click and select Report/Remove Tag.
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

41. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging
To remove a tag from a post you’re tagged in:
• From your Activity Log, on the arrow in the upper-right corner of the post and
select Report/Remove Tag or or Report post.

42. Remove a tag from a photo you’re tagged in:
From the photo, click Options at the bottom of the photo:
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

43. You can also remove tags from multiple photos at once, Go
to your activity log
1. Click Photos in the left-hand column
2. Select the photos you'd like to remove a tag from
3. Click Report/Remove Tags at the top of the page
4. Click Untag Photos to confirm
Remember, when you remove a tag, that tag will no longer
appear on the post or photo, but that post or photo is still
visible to the audience it's shared with on other places on
Facebook, such as in News Feed and search.
BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Tagging

44. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Sharing
The good news: If a person shares your Friends Only post, only your friends will see
the shared post.
• However, when you comment on or "like" someone else's story, or write on
their timeline, that person gets to select the audience. For example, if a friend
posts a Public story and you comment on it, your comment will be Public. You
can see the audience someone selected for their story before you post a
comment, however, the person who posted the story may later change their
audience.
• If you do not want someone to tag you, you have to reach out to them and give
them that feedback. If that does not work, you can block them. This will prevent
them from tagging you going forward. You can also report the post.
• If you tag someone, that person and their friends can see your story no matter
what audience you selected. The same is true when you approve a tag someone
else adds to your story.
• Comments on Pages are always public.

45. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS App Settings

46. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS App Settings

47. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Visibility

48. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Visibility

49. BASIC PRIVACY SETTINGS AND TOOLS Notifications

50. FACEBOOK RESOURCES Privacy, Pages and Groups
Facebook Privacy Settings and Tools: http://on.fb.me/ZIkhgx &
https://www.facebook.com/about/basics/
Facebook Pages Basics: http://on.fb.me/16H9UNC
Facebook Groups Basics: http://on.fb.me/170acZe
Help Center: https://www.facebook.com/help/
What’s New on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1bwOYY3
dinica.williams@ohea.org

51. NOW WHAT? Status Updates

52. BASIC TERMS Hashtags

53. BASIC TERMS Unfriend, Follow, and Message (Chat)

54. BASIC TERMS Like, Comment, and Share

56. WHAT IS TWITTER? In a nutshell
• Twitter is a free social networking micro-
blogging service that allows users to publish
short posts online called Tweets.
• Tweets, which may include links, are limited to
140 characters, including spaces and
punctuation. Twitter uses tinyurl.com to
automatically shorten long URLs, but can use
any link shortener you chose, e.g. Bitly. Pictures
use up characters.
• On Twitter you can follow other users and then
you will see their Tweets on your homepage as
soon as they post something new.
• The default settings for Twitter are public.
Unlike Facebook where users need to approve
social connections, anyone can follow anyone
on Twitter if their account is public.

57. FIRST THINGS FIRST Creating your Twitter account
Your username preceded by the @ symbol is how you’ll be identified on
Twitter, e.g. @DinicaW or @OhioEA

58. STEP ONE Connect Your Cell Phone (Optional)

59. STEP TWO Choose your interests

60. STEP THREE Twitter’s Who To Follow suggestions

61. STEP FOUR Setting your profile picture

62. STEP FIVE Importing contacts

63. STEP SIX Follow people you know

64. FINAL STEP Confirm your email address

65. SETTINGS Manage Your Settings

66. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Account

67. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Security

68. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Privacy

69. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Privacy

70. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Text Notifications

71. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Email Notifications

72. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Online Notifications

73. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Mute or Block Accounts

74. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Design

75. MANAGE YOUR SETTINGS Design

76. YOUR PROFILE What other people see

77. BASIC TERMS Glossary
@
The @ sign is used to call out usernames in Tweets: "Hello @twitter!" People will use
your @username to mention you in Tweets, send you a message or link to your profile.
Direct Messages
Direct Messages are private messages sent from one Twitter user to another Twitter
users. You can Direct Message someone for one-on-one private conversations, or
between groups of users.
favorite
Favoriting a Tweet indicates that you liked a specific Tweet. You can find all of your
favorite Tweets by clicking on the favorites link on your profile page.
hashtag
A hashtag is any word or phrase immediately preceded by the # symbol. When you
click on a hashtag, you'll see other Tweets containing the same keyword or topic.

78. BASIC TERMS Glossary
header photo
Your personal image that you upload, which appears at the top of your profile.
Home
Home is your real-time stream of Tweets from those you follow.
list
From your own account, you can create a group list of other Twitter users by topic or
interest (e.g., a list of friends, coworkers, celebrities, athletes). Twitter lists also contain
a timeline of Tweets from the specific users that were added to the list, offering you a
way to follow individual accounts as a group on Twitter.
mention
Mentioning other users in your Tweet by including the @ sign followed directly by their
username is called a “mention.” Also refers to Tweets in which your @username was
included. Similar to tagging in Facebook.

79. BASIC TERMS Glossary
pinned Tweets
You can pin a Tweet to the top of your profile page to keep something important to you
above the flow of time-ordered Tweets.
profile
Your profile displays information you choose to share publicly, as well as all of the
Tweets you've posted. Your profile along with your @username identify you on Twitter.
Promoted Accounts/Trends/Tweets
Bought by advertisers to appear in your Home timeline and elsewhere on the site. As
opposed to Trends and Top Tweets, which are determined by an algorithm that
calculates what is most popular at that moment.
protected/private accounts
Twitter accounts are public by default. Choosing to protect your account means that
your Tweets will only be seen by approved followers and will not appear in search.

80. BASIC TERMS Glossary
reply
A response to another user's Tweet that begins with the @username of the person
you're replying to is known as a reply. Reply by clicking the "reply" button next to the
Tweet you'd like to respond to. This will only show up in the timeline of people who
follow you and the other user.
Retweet
A Tweet that you forward to your followers is known as a Retweet. Often used to pass
along news or other valuable discoveries on Twitter, Retweets always retain original
attribution.
timeline
A timeline is a real-time stream of Tweets. Your Home stream, for instance, is where
you see all the Tweets shared by your friends and other people you follow.
timestamp
The date and time a Tweet was posted to Twitter. A Tweet's timestamp can be found in
grey text in the detail view of any Tweet.

81. START TWEETING #MyFirstTweet
Leave 13-25 characters to allow for Retweets, depending on the length of your
username. Retweets add the characters: “RT @username: ”
Images will be cropped in the timeline at a 2:1 width to height ratio, i.e. 1200 pixels
wide by 600 pixels tall.

82. START TWEETING #MyFirstTweet

83. TWITTER RESOURCES Privacy, Pages and Groups
The Twitter Glossary: https://support.twitter.com/articles/166337-the-twitter-
glossary
Twitter Basics: https://support.twitter.com/groups/50-welcome-to-twitter
Managing your profile and account settings:
https://support.twitter.com/groups/51-me
Help Center: https://support.twitter.com/
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