Facebook: The Missing Manual - Softcover

Vander Veer, E A Vander Veer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596517696 ISBN 13: 9780596517694

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2008

Synopsis

Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums and groups, photosharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a users guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a very objective and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer.

Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this guide is uniquely designed to help you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more. You'll discover how to create your page and make connections with other members in no time -- everybody who went to your school, for example, or those who work at your company or play on your soccer team. Bingo: instant access to the personal and professional details of all the folks you're connected with, the folks they're connected with, and so on, and so on.

With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to:

• Join a network, whether it's in your area, or work-related, or based on other interests
• Look up old friends, find new ones, and decide who you'd like to keep track of
• Contact members by poking them, writing on their walls, and sending them gifts
• Get automatic updates from Facebook friends and send updates to them
• Participate in groups of particular interest and hook up with members face-to-face
• Buy and sell using Facebook's uniquely targeted marketplace and classified ads
• Find a job or hire employees by combing through Facebook's member pool
• Use Facebook as a collaboration tool to keep team members, co-workers, clients, and projects up to date
• Play it safe by using a multi-pronged approach to ensuring your privacy

Think of Facebook as a 30-million-plus-entry searchable Rolodex on steroids! With help from this Missing Manual, you'll quickly get in the swim of the Facebook experience -- without getting in over your head.

About this title

Review:

One of the beauties of the Missing Manuals is that there is always something new to discover and the research is quite thorough...I kept finding snippets of information, in the way of Tips or Notes, that would give just that bit extra.

-- Graham K. Rogers,

(Graham K. Rogers)

Facebook [The Missing Manual] is relatively short at 268 pages, but contains a great deal of valuable information for new or confused users. The book is formatted to be user friendly with lots of graphics from the Facebook interface nested in large areas of white space and easily read text...If you're interested in getting the most out of Facebook, I highly recommend Facebook: The Missing Manual; otherwise, you may continue to send me virtual gifts while I ignore your pokes.

-- Jeff Myers,

(Jeff Myers)

For those seeking to become part of the growing Facebook online community, Vander Veer (whose many computer books include PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual and JavaScript for Dummies) explains how to move into the neighborhood and send messages to other Facebook "friends" for social networking and marketplace purposes. She also covers protecting privacy. Further resources, including using Facebook's help section, are appended.

-- Shannon Hendrickson,

(Shannon Hendrickson)

About the Author:

E. A. Vander Veer has authored or edited more than a dozen books to date, including "PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual" and "PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual." Her work has appeared in dozens of on and offline publications, including "Byte," "The Writer," "Salon.com," and "CNN.com."

About this edition

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0596517696
• ISBN 13: 9780596517694
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286