Facebook is one of the most popular social networks of our time. Despite this, there are people who have not been able to fully understand all its features.
Facebook: what is it?
Facebook is a social network developed at the beginning of 2004 and implemented by Mark Zuckerberg at the end of the same year . At first, the site was called Thefacebook, and only students at Harvard University had access to it. A little later, the network expanded the range of participants to all students of the United States of America, and two years after the launch, everyone who has reached the age of thirteen and has a personal email address could create a Facebook account. With the expansion of the audience, the site slightly changed its name to just Facebook, under which it continues to develop to this day.
Today, Facebook is a social network that is the largest and one of the most popular on the Internet. It is noteworthy that the Russian-language version of the site was launched four years after the creation of the network, and at the moment the counter of registered participants from around the world has already exceeded the figure of six hundred million people. But despite such an impressive number, people are divided into two camps: they are adherents of this site and those who, to put it mildly, are not entirely satisfied with the functions that determine how to use Facebook.
Registration procedure on the site
In order to get an account on the Facebook network, you must complete the standard registration on the official website facebook.com. There you are invited to fill out a registration form, all fields of which are mandatory:
- name;
- surname;
- personal email address (will be used to enter the site);
- password (must include latin letters and numbers);
- floor;
- Date of Birth.
By the way, the date of birth after registration can be hidden for viewing.
After filling out the form, click "Registration", after which you will be sent a letter to the specified email address with confirmation of registration. Further, the site will offer to take a few more steps before starting to fully use the service:
- Search for friends: the site offers to find your friends who are already registered in the network with whom you spoke via e-mail (mail.ru, gmail.com or another service), as well as via Skype.
- Profile information: indicate the school, university and place of work, as well as your name in English and Russian.
- Profile photo: you can upload a photo from a computer or make it a webcam.
How to use Facebook?
Facebook is a classic social network. You optionally indicate personal information (country, city in which you live and where you have been, age, education, place of work, etc.), add photos and videos, create lists of your preferences (watched films, favorite music and artists, teams and athletes , restaurants, clubs, events and the like). You can chat with friends, post interesting posts, and also use additional programs within the network (games, polls, and other entertainment).
But you can use the service not only as a standard social network. It is also possible to use it to promote your business on the Internet and attract new customers.
The relationship between Facebook users.
Network users have the opportunity to add other members as friends, subscribe to their pages and even wink at each other.
1. Add to friends and subscribe to their updates. The developers, in order to protect your account, have provided restrictions on adding to friends in the form of their limit of 5000 people. Also, if you do not have common data with a potential friend (for example, school, university, etc.), you will be asked if you are familiar with the user. If not, you will be issued a warning. With a large accumulation of such warnings, your account may be blocked.
When you add a friend, you can subscribe to his updates. To do this, there is a special button in his profile. Until the user confirms the friendship, you are automatically subscribed to his updates. In the future, you can unsubscribe from them, while maintaining friendship.
By the way, your friends are divided by default into groups that depend on the data you specify. For example, friends at school, university, city, relatives and friends. If you want, you can create groups yourself, as you wish.
2. The function "Wink" on Facebook. What it is? Why this app is needed remains a mystery. Indeed, besides the fact that this is a kind of “Hello” to another user, it no longer carries any functionality. You can wink at each other an infinite number of times.
Facebook chat
Messages on Facebook are divided into two types: inbox and others. Sent from those who are not your friend on the site automatically fall into the second group. This is done in order to reduce the amount of spam.
For communication between users, a special Facebook email is used. What it is? This is your personal Facebook email address, which consists of your name and ends with @ facebook.com. For example, ivanpetrov@facebook.com.
To see the archive of your correspondence, just go to the "Messages". Then a window opens showing a complete list of your interlocutors. Also on the site you can exchange messages by the principle of chat. Then each of your correspondence will be opened in a small window at the bottom of the browser, and you can further study, for example, your news feed.
Facebook and your website
Today you can not have your own website, but almost all entrepreneurs have a group or community on a social network. Many start an account, and in addition they also create a page with their business. This can be either a company profile or a group for your personal business, for example, if you sew clothes to order or paint pictures.
If you have a page in a social network and your own site, then in order to achieve your goal (disseminating information about your business and attracting more customers), it is necessary that these two resources overlap. To do this, the site hosts the widget of your community on Facebook. What it is?
A group widget is a small block that contains information about your page on a social network, for example, about the number of subscribers and the last post posted. With it, a site visitor can also join a group and be always up to date with your latest news.
How to add a Facebook widget to the site? To place it, you need to insert a special html-code on the page of your site, which can be obtained on the Facebook site in the section for developers.
There you click “Lixe Box” and create your widget, just filling out the form:
- Facebook Page URL - Paste the copied address of your group on Facebook.
- Width - indicate the width of the future widget.
- Height - indicate the height of the widget.
- Show Friends's Faces - check this box if you want the widget to display the faces of subscribers.
- Show Posts - checkmark if you want the widget to display the latest posts of the group.
After filling in all the lines, click "Get Code" and copy the result to the pages of your site.
Mobile version of Facebook
Today, many sites exist in two versions: regular and mobile. Facebook is no exception.
The mobile version of the service has a more simplified interface. Extra pictures and videos were removed here, only the text remained, which significantly increases the page processing speed. How to use Facebook in such a simplified version? Yes, everything is just as easy! You, as before, can use all the functions of Facebook: view pages, photos and videos, write messages, change status, comment and so on.
It is worth noting that more than a third of the participants already use the mobile version of the social network.
The difference between Facebook and other social networks
The main difference between Facebook is not the interface at all, as you might guess. Its peculiarity lies in a number of functions inaccessible to other social networks. The most valuable of these is privacy settings.
The account owner has the right to fully regulate access to his page in general and in particular. The user can choose with whom to share their personal data and posts. You can restrict access as you please. For example, you post information that you want to share only with a narrow circle of people. Then when publishing, select "Available" and indicate to whom. You can get more information in the "Settings" - "Privacy" menu.