Facebook tips and tricks for personal use. The slides were part of AUBOC's annual workshop entitled Social Media 101.

1. AUBOC’s Annual
Social Media 101 Workshop
Third Edition
Facebook Tips and Tricks
Given by Ayman Jalloul

2. Outline
• Facebook Etiquette
• The do’s and the don’ts
• Tips and Tricks
• 20 Essential Facebook Tips and Trick
• Q&A

3. Facebook Etiquette
THE DOs

4. One!
• 1. Message Private Matters Instead Of Posting
On Wall
• The walls indeed have ears [and eyes], especially so
for the Facebook Wall.
• It’s best to keep these conversations behind closed
doors: in Facebook Messaging.

5. Two!
• 2. Be Mindful Of What You Post
• Your friends come from different backgrounds, jobs,
beliefs and so on. What you might find to be
interesting might be considered offensive by other
friends.
• Think about how a post might be misterpreted.

6. Three!
• 3. Call Rather Than Post Personal News
• Common sense, personal news is best
communicated in person.
• Be it good or bad ones it’s always better to have
some form of genuine communication through voice
tones and body languages

7. Four!
• 4. Reply To Comments Especially If They Are
Questions
• If your friends take the time to write a comment,
make sure you take the time to reply.
• Imagine a real life scenario

8. Five!
• 5. Avoid Posting Comments On Every Post
• It’s no secret. Everyone is checking everyone’s
profiles. But don’t go commenting and liking
everything they do.
• It annoys your friends, friends of friend and will seem
not genuine of you.

9. Bonus!
• Make sure you mind your tone. It’s easy for
someone to think you are being sarcastic when you
are not, or misunderstand you in any other manner
for that matter
• One way to compensate for this is to use emoticons.
A smiley always makes things better !

10. Facebook Etiquette
THE DON’Ts

11. One!
• 1. Make Friend Requests To Strangers
• Don’t add a stranger just to increase your friend list
or to appear popular
• If you have a valid reason, like approaching a crush,
use some sort of introduction or a mutual friend.
Being blunt about it, will leave a very bad impression

12. Two!
• 2. Tag Your Friends In ‘Unglam’ Shots
• Be sensitive about the photos you tag, especially the
awkward photos.

13. Three!
3. Overshare Yourself
• Don’t bombard your friend’s feeds with mundane
posts about yourselves
• Make sure each post has something of worth

14. Four!
4. Vent About Your Work
• There’s still a risk that what you post can reach
people you wouldn’t want it to reach
• Your co-workers and boss are the last people you
want to mess with.
• So, just play safe and leave your venting to
somewhere private.

16. Five!
5. Post Chain Status Updates
• Not posts like chain emails, but posts related to
causes.
• Although the intention is good, but sometimes too
much of a good thing isn’t good.
• When you see your news feed updates filled with the
same status, you get annoyed instead, and you
associate negative emotions to that social cause

17. Bonus!
• Everyone is entitled to state their own opinion on the
free internet, so there’s no need to put anyone down
just because you disagree with them
• Sometimes people criticizing the comments of their
friend’s friend who replied to the post, whom they
don’t even know. It’s embarrassing not only to
yourself, but to your friend as well.
• Keep this in mind in whatever communication we
have online, in Facebook, forums, emails, etc. Don’t
ruin it for everyone.

18. Facebook Tips and Tricks

19. Activity Log
• Your activity log is a list of your posts and activity,
from today back to the very beginning. You’ll also
see stories and photos you’ve been tagged in, as
well as the connections you’ve made – like when
you liked a Page or added someone as a friend.

21. Hiding Yourself From
Search
• Facebook gives you the option of hiding yourself
from its search engine and other search engines
such a Google or Bing.
• You can access these features through the privacy
settings menu [Located under the Gear Icon on the
Top right of the screen]

23. Log In Notifications
• To turn on Login Notifications:
• Go to your Security Settings page ( > Account
Settings > Security)
• Click on the Login Notifications section
• Check the box next to the type of alerts you'd like to
receive and save your changes
• Note: If you want to receive text message alerts,
you'll need to add a mobile number to your account

24. Log In Notifications
• Nexgt time you log in, Facebook will ask you to
register your device and name it
• An email will be sent to confirm the device name.

25. Lists
• Facebook lists are a great way to manage your
experience online.
• Lists can be used with friends. These lists are useful
when posting and on chat.
• You can also create interest lists and subscribe to
other people’s interest lists.

26. Default Lists
• Close Friends: You can add your best friends to this
list to see more of them in your news feed and get
notified each time they post
• Acquaintances: This list is for friends you don’t
need to stay in close touch with. People on your
acquaintances list will rarely show up in your news
feed.
• Restricted: This list is for people you’ve added as a
friend but just don’t want to share with, like your
boss.

27. Other Lists
• Smart lists: are lists that update automatically
based on info you have in common with select
friends, like a school, job or city. And you can
manually edit them.
• Custom lists: You can also create custom lists to
organize friends and create custom privacy settings.
• When working with Lists, your friends will not be
notified of these settings.

28. Custom Lists
• From the Left of you Home Page you can access
your Friend Lists.
• From there you can create lists and later have
customized settings for them

29. Interest Lists
• Go to your Interests page [www.facebook.com/
bookmarks/interests]
• Click Create List.
• Search for the people or Pages you want to add to
your list using the search box at the top of the
screen, or use the categories on the left to browse.
• After you've selected all of the things you want to
include on your list, click next.
• Pick a name for your list.
• Select a privacy setting
• Click Done.

30. Interest Lists
• Note: You don't have to like a Page or subscribe to a
person to add them to your list. Adding things to a
list and subscribing to a list are independent from
liking or subscribing to the Pages and people
featured in the list.
• If you think one of your friends would enjoy seeing
the information featured on one of the lists you've
created or subscribed to, you can share that list with
them. Here's how:
• Go to the list by clicking Home > Interests > More >
click on the name of the list
• Click Share at the top of the page

31. Chat Settings
• You can customize chat by appearing offline to lists.
This can be accessed by pressing the gear icon:

32. Advanced Chat Settings

33. Keyboard Shortcuts
• While working in the chat menu, you can navigate
through your conversations by using Keyboard
Shortcuts.
• You can access the menu by clicking on the gear
icon in the full chat window.

34. Keyboard Shortcuts

35. Status Updates

36. Unsubscribing
• Do you have this friend that over-shares everything
about themselves?
• If you have that friend you can limit how much they
show on your feed by adding them to the
acquaintance list.
• On the other hand you can go to their profile, click
on the friends tab and uncheck “Show In News
Feed”
• This is reversible and your friend will not know.

37. Scheduling Status Updates
• Using TweetDeck [freeware] you can schedule
Facebook updates

38. Download Your Data
The data you download will include:
• Your timeline information (ex: your contact information, interests, groups)
• Content that you and your friends have posted to your timeline
• Photos and videos that you have uploaded to your account
• Your friend list
• Notes you have created
• Events to which you have RSVP’d
• Your sent and received messages
• Any comments that you and your friends have made on your timeline
posts, photos, and other timeline content

39. Download Your Data
• Press the gear in the top right of the screen
• Go to the General tab
• At the bottom left there is a “Download A Copy” link
• Click of “Start My Archive”

40. Download Your Tagged
Photos
• Using PhotoGrabber App you can download all
your tagged photos.
• PhotoGrabber is a free app and is available for Mac
and PC.

41. Download Your Tagged
Photos
• After downloading the application and installing it,
Log In
• You will be asked to allow the give the application
permission to use your data.

42. PhotoGrabber

43. PhotoGrabber

44. Over-sharing?
• You may post something you find normal on Facebook, but
then it's linked to your LinkedIn work profile and you've put
your job at risk.
• If you post pictures of your family and couple that with
information like, "my husband is out of town this weekend” then
safety could be at risk. Nobody ever thinks it will happen to
them until it does, so safety first is a good default mode
when using social networking sites
• If you share your address and phone number on a social
networking site, you open yourself up to threats of identity
theft and other personal dangers like burglaries.
• Identity theft also can happen when you post your full birthday
and along with your full family relationships.

45. Controlling Your Apps
• They can they access your information
• Post on your behalf
• Effect other online services you use [Such as Skype,
LinkedIn Profile…]
• App settings can be accessed from clicking on the
Gear Icon at the top right of the screen then going
to: Account Settings and then Apps

46. Controlling Your Apps

47. Download Facebook
Videos
• Go to www.downvids.net
• Copy/Paste the URL of the videos
• Click download

48. Nutshell Email
• A Facebook app that sends email in a newsletter
format with customized updates.
• Applies to other Social Media platforms such as
Twitter and LinkedIn.

50. Facebook Search
• When you type an entry in the Facebook search bar,
it starts suggesting items based on your patterns of
usage
• For example, friends you interact with most appear
first.
• You can access the full search for further filters and
even web searches and posts by friends

52. Time Rabbit
• On average, a person spends 7 hours/day on
Facebook
• Time Rabbit is a Windows App that monitors your
mouse movement, browser activity and keyboard
activity to calculate how long you stay on Facebook
and use it.

54. SelfControl
• Ever found yourself too distracted by Facebook? Or
does Facebook kill your productivity?
• SelfControl app is an application that blocks
Facebook (and other websites you choose) for a
certain period of time.
• SelfControl blocks Facebook on ALL browsers and
will continue working even if you quit it, log out or
even restart your computer.
• www.selfcontrolapp.com

55. Questions?

56. References
• www.facebook.com/help
• http://www.fanpageflow.com/50-tips-and-tricks
• www.selfcontrolapp.com
• www.tweetdeck.com
• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-download-
facebook-tag-photos/
• http://www.mashable.com/2013/03/02/timerabbit/
• http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/facebook-etiquette/