"Facebook": what is it and how to use it?

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 in early 2004 and implemented at the end of the same year by Mark Zuckerberg. Initially, the site was called Thefacebook and only Harvard University students had access to it. A little later, the network expanded the range of participants to all students in the United States of America, and two years after the launch, anyone who reached thirteen years old and has a personal e-mail address could start a Facebook account. With the expansion of the audience, the site slightly changed its name to just Facebook, under which it continues to evolve to this day.

Today, "Facebook" - a social network, which is the largest and one of the most popular on the Internet. It is noteworthy that the Russian version of the site was launched four years after the creation of the network, and at the moment the counter of registered participants from different countries of 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 are not quite happy with the functions responsible for how to use Facebook.

Registration procedure on the site

In order to get an account on the Facebook network, you need to pass a standard registration on the official site of facebook.com. There you are asked to fill out the registration form, all fields of which are mandatory:

1. name;
2. surname;
3. Personal email address (will be used to log in to the site);
4. Password (must include Latin letters and numbers);
5. floor;
6. Date of Birth.

By the way, the date of birth after registration can be hidden for viewing.

After filling in the form you should click "Registration", after that you will be sent a letter to the e-mail address with confirmation of registration. Further the site will offer to make a few more steps before starting to fully use the service:

1. Search friends: the site offers to find already registered on the network of your friends, with whom you communicated by e-mail (mail.ru, gmail.com or other service), as well as by Skype.
2. Profile Information: specify the school, university and place of work, as well as your name in English and Russian.
3. Profile photo: you can upload a photo from your computer or make it a webcam.

How to use Facebook?

"Facebook" - a social network in the classical form. If you wish, you specify personal information (country, city where you live and where you lived, age, education, work place, etc.), add photos and videos, create lists of your preferences (viewed movies, favorite music and artists, teams and athletes , Restaurants, clubs, events and the like). You can correspond 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. Also there is an opportunity with his (its) help to advance the business on the Internet and to involve new clients.

The relationship between the users of Facebook.

Users of the network have the ability to add other members to friends, subscribe to their pages and even wink at each other.

1. Adding to friends and subscribing to their updates. Developers, in order to secure your account, 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 adding a friend, you can subscribe to its updates. To do this, there is a special button in its profile. Until the user confirms the friendship, you are automatically subscribed to its updates. In the future, you can unsubscribe from them, while retaining friendship.

By the way, your friends by default are divided into groups that depend on the data you specify. For example, friends for school, university, city, relatives and relatives. If you want, you can create groups yourself, as you like.

2. Function "Wink" in "Facebook". What it is? Why this application is needed remains a mystery. After all, except that it is a kind of "Greetings" to another user, it no longer carries any functionality. You can wink at each other an infinite number of times.

Correspondence in Facebook

Messages in Facebook are divided into two types: incoming and other. The second group automatically receives those sent from those who are not your friend on the site. This is done in order to reduce the amount of spam.

For communication between users, a special e-mail "Facebook" is used. What it is? This is your personal email address on the Facebook network, which consists of your name and ends at @ facebook.com. For example, ivanpetrov@facebook.com.

To see the archive of your correspondence, just go to the "Messages". Then a window opens displaying the complete list of your interlocutors. Also on the site you can exchange messages on the principle of chat. Then each of your correspondence will be opened in a small window at the bottom of the browser, and you will be able to further study, for example, your news feed.

Facebook and your site

Today you can not have your own site, but a group or community in a social network exists for almost all entrepreneurs. Many build 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 are sewing clothes or writing pictures.

If you have both a page in a social network and a website, in order to achieve your goal (spreading information about your business and attracting more clients), it is necessary that these two resources resonate with each other. To do this, the site hosts your community widget in Facebook. What it is?

A group widget is a small block that contains information about your page in a social network, for example, about the number of subscribers and the last post posted. With its help, the site visitor can also join the group and be always up to date with your latest news.

How to add Facebook to a website? To place it, you need to insert on the page of your site a special html-code, which can be obtained on the Facebook site in the section for developers.

There you click "Lixe Box" and create your widget by simply filling out the form:

1. Facebook Page URL - paste the copied address of your group on Facebook.
2. Width - specify the width of the future widget.
3. Height - specify the height of the widget.
4. Show Friends's Faces - check this box if you want the faces of subscribers to be displayed in the widget.
5. Show Posts - check this box if you want the last records of the group to be displayed in the widget.

After filling 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: conventional and mobile. Facebook is no exception.

The mobile version of the service has a simplified interface. Here, unnecessary pictures and video are removed, only text remains, which significantly increases the processing speed of the page. How to use Facebook in such a simplified version? Yes, everything is as simple as that! You, as before, can enjoy all the functions of Facebook: view pages, photos and videos, write messages, change status, comment and so on.

It is worth noting that already more than a third of participants use mostly mobile version of the social network.

The difference between Facebook and other social networks

The main difference of Facebook is not at all an interface, as one might imagine. Its peculiarity consists in a number of functions that are inaccessible to other social networks. The most valuable is privacy settings.

The account holder has the right to fully regulate access to his page in general and in particular. The user can choose, with whom to share his personal data and posts. You can restrict access as you please. For example, you post information with which you want to share only with a narrow circle of persons. Then, when publishing, select "Available" and specify who. More information you can get in the menu "Settings" - "Confidentiality".