This document provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a Facebook account. It outlines entering personal details to create a profile, checking email to confirm the account, logging in and out to familiarize with the interface, and promises to cover the account homepage layout in more detail next week. The instructions are accompanied by reminders of relevant website links and a request for any questions.

1. Facebook
Setting up your Account

2. Recap
Facebook origins, background and facts
What Facebook can do and what you can do
with it
What would you like to do with Facebook?

3. Any thoughts, concerns,
questions or ideas after last
week?

4. Remember!
Blog -
www.is40480computerclasses.wordpress.com
Facebook page -
www.facebook.com/is40480computers

5. Let’s get started…

6. Step 1
Go to the Facebook homepage
Type www.facebook.com into the address bar
Press Enter

9. Step 2
Under the words Sign Up, on the right hand side, there are boxes
Put your corresponding personal details into these boxes
Click into a box and type in the relevant information/choose the appropriate response from
the dropdown menu and click it/click the appropriate buttons
Click into the next box and continue with these steps until all of the necessary information is
provided
Choose a password that you will easily remember
The most secure passwords contain both letters and numbers
Make a note of the password you chose so you don’t forget it
Click the green button that says Sign Up
It can take a minute or two for sign up to complete

10. Remember your email addresses from the previous sessions?
This should be the email address that you enter into the relevant box
You will need to open a new tab and log into your email to access
confirmation emails sent by Facebook

12. Step 3
The page that appears will have a message at
the top that asks you to check your email to
confirm sign up
Sign in to your email
There should be an email there from
Facebook asking that you click a link to
complete sign up

14. Step 4
Click on the words Confirm Your Account to
complete the Sign Up process
This will open a new tab with your account on
it - work from this tab now
Your account is now created and ready for
you to start personalising and using

16. Note
Ignore the background to the message, my
page might look different to yours but the
message will be the same regardless

17. Note
You will receive a follow up email from
Facebook welcoming you. You don’t have to
do anything with this message

19. Step 5
Familiarise yourself with the Interface of the
page, clicking on things if you want to
discover what they do
You can’t break it or do anything wrong at this
stage but do ask if you need any assistance

21. Step 6
Practise logging In and Out of your Account
On the Homepage top right there should be a downward
facing arrow
Click it
Choose Log Out from the drop down menu that appears
Click it
You should now be Logged Out and once again see the
Homepage

25. Step 7
To log back in enter your Log In details in the
boxes on the top right of the facebook.com
Homepage
Type the email address that you provided when
signing up into the box on the left
Type the password that you provided when
signing up into the box on the right
Click the Log In Button

28. For next week
Log in and out a few times until it becomes
second nature
Have a look at your homepage - we will go
into the layout of it in more detail next week

29. Remember!
www.is40480computerclasses.wordpress.com
Blog post this week will have a short video
taking you through the process again

30. Any questions?

31. Contact me
edel.king@ucdconnect.ie

32. Next week - getting to
know your Interface

33. See you next week!!