This document provides instructions for using basic Facebook features like posting, liking, commenting, and adding friends. It explains how to create a post and add additional details like locations, activities, emotions, and tags for friends. Users can also like and comment on other people's posts. The document recommends practicing these skills before the next session, which will involve assessment and feedback.

1. Facebook
Posting, Liking and Commenting

2. Recap
Search for, Add and Accept Friends
Send and Receive Private Messages using
Messenger

3. This Week
Learn how to Post
Learn how to Like what someone else has
Posted
Learn how to Comment on a Post

4. Posting

5. Posting
You might want to Post something yourself to
your own page/Timeline
This means typing a note onto your
page/Timeline that people who visit your page
can read
It tells people what you are doing, where you
are, how you are feeling etc.

7. Type whatever you want
into this box and click Post

9. It will then be Posted on to your
page - it will appear on your
page/Timeline

11. Specific Posts

12. Activities/Emotions

13. You might want to say in your Post
that you are feeling a certain way or
doing a certain thing

14. Facebook provides a
shortcut for this

16. Click the Smiley Face and it will
bring up a list of activities and
emotions to choose from

18. Click on one of these options and
complete the sentence to add it to
your Post

19. Places

20. You can also say that you are in a
certain place when Posting, say if
you want to Post that you are at the
theatre

21. Again Facebook provides a
shortcut for this

23. Click on the Indicator to
bring up a search box

24. Type in the place you want to search
for and click on the correct one from the
list of options that appear to add it to
your Post

26. Tagging

27. Finally, you can tag one of
your friends in a Post

28. This means you can say that you
are with them at the time of
Posting

29. Their name is then added to the
Post and people can click on their
name in the Post and go to their
page/Timeline

31. Click on the Head to bring up a list of
your Friends, choose who you want
or search for them to add them to
your Post

32. Privacy

33. You can also choose the
Privacy levels for each
Post

34. You choose whether the Public, your
Friends or Just You can see what
you Post

35. Click where it says Friends to
bring up a drop down menu of
options

36. Once again I recommend
you pick Friends

37. All of this should be done
BEFORE you click Post

38. Your turn…

39. Practise Posting; adding a
location, a Friend or an activity
to the Post

40. Posting on a Friend’s
page/Timeline

41. You can also post on a
Friend’s page/Timeline

42. Choose a friend from the Friends
button on your page/Timeline or
search for them and go onto their
page/Timeline

44. You can now post a message to
their Timeline/Wall by typing into the
white box that says Write Something

45. Posting to their Wall/Timeline will be
seen by all of their Friends, sending
them a Private Message will only be
seen by them

46. Liking

47. You can go to a Friends
page/Timeline, read what they have
Posted and like it

48. This means clicking a button that says Like in
order to show that you agree with what they
Posted, you found it funny etc. Basically that
you liked it!!

50. Click where it says Like and they will
be Notified that you Liked what they
Posted

51. You will also be Notified and be
able to see if someone likes what
you Post

52. You can also see how many other people
liked the Post and by clicking on the
number, see who they are and go to their
page/Timeline

53. Commenting

54. You can Comment on what
someone has Posted

55. Maybe they have Posted that they
are at the airport and you want to tell
them to have a nice time on their
holiday

57. Click in the box that says Write a
Comment, type what you want and
press Enter

58. Your Comment will appear
below their Post

59. If someone else has Commented on
the Post, you can also Like that
Comment to show them that you Liked
what they wrote

61. Click the Like button under
their Comment

62. They will be Notified that
you Liked their Comment

63. You can also see how many other people
Liked the Comment and by clicking on the
number, see who they are and go to their
page/Timeline

65. Sharing

66. You can also Share what someone has
Posted which means putting what they
have on their page/Timeline onto your
own page/Timeline

68. Click the Share button to Add
the Post to your own
page/Timeline

69. Liking a Page

70. Your page is personal
Some pages are for businesses or are fan
pages for a famous person
You can click Like on these pages
This is similar to friend request - once you
Like a page, updates from it will appear on
your Newsfeed

71. Search for the business or fanpage
that you want in the search box in
the banner and press Enter

73. Click on the relevant
search result to go to that
Page

75. Click the Like button

76. Updates from this page will
now appear on your
Newsfeed

77. Your turn…

78. Practise Liking and
Commenting on your Friend’s
Posts

79. For next week
Practise the things that you have been
learning

80. Next Week
Assessment
Feedback

81. Final session next week!

82. See you next week!!