Product Description
Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a user's guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a crystal clear and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this Missing Manual 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. Then, bingo! Instant access to the personal and professional details of all the folks you're connected with, the people they're connected with, and so on, and so on. With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to:
- Join a network, whether it's where you went to school, 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 virtually poking them, or leaving notes on their message boards
- Get automatic updates from Facebook friends and send updates of your own
- Participate in groups of particular interest and meet up with members face-to-face
- Buy and sell using Facebook's marketplace and classified ads
- Find a job or hire employees by combing through the member pool
- Use Facebook as a collaboration tool to keep team members, co-workers, clients, and projects upto date
- Play it safe by using a multi-pronged approach to ensuring your privacy
Product Details
| Publisher | Pogue Press |
| ISBN | 0596517696 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Author | E. A. Vander Veer |
| EAN | 9780596517694 |
| Label | Pogue Press |
| Edition | 1 |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 006.7 |
| Studio | Pogue Press |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Title | Facebook: The Missing Manual |
| Publication Date | 2008-01-25 |
| Manufacturer | Pogue Press |
Customer Reviews
Clarifying your FaceReview by Eric R. Foy, 2010-05-20
Very helpful in explaing how to navigate this site. Still have to do a bunch more reading as this 61 year old's skull seems to have thickened.
This 2008 edition is terribly out of date
Review by NRB, 2010-04-22
I tried using this 2008 edition to undestand Facebook in April 2010. It seems that the Facebook site has changed so much, that many of the examples and statements in the 2008 edition could not be located at all. For example, in 2008 Location groups, such as the region where you live, were in place. Those have since been removed, so there is not a default geographic group you can be part of. I had to look carefully through the Facebook online help to determine this. Even the location of items in the screens and menus are changed, so most of the references for where to locate settings are different.
I'm going to look for the 2010 version. The 2008 version is not even a good doorstop, like an old phonebook would be, because it is too small!
This Manual Should be Missing!
Review by R. Robinson, 2010-04-12
The missing manual is now missing any usefulness. When Facebook updated its user interface it made this book entirely obsolete. I wish I'd read that in the product description (it was in a review that I entirely missed). It is a well written book and would have been extremely helpful except that now there is hardly anything that matches the actual facebook interface. The book should be updated with an on-line version, or simply removed from distribution. Not to state emphatically in the book's description that it is no longer current is a total misrepresentation.
No inside scoope
Review by Louie Crew, 2010-03-03
Mainly the book states quite plainly what one can easily do with Facebook following the prompts online without this book.
I hoped it would have 'insider secrets' -- especially sophisticated ways of connecting with people of common back grounds, expeditious ways ways of moving to a data file the email addresses of one's friends....
It's okay, but I probably will stick with the online advice, which has the same limitations but is far more accessible.
Louie Crew
Looking forward to the next edition
Review by S. Deeth, 2010-02-08
A friend learned that I'd just joined Facebook and loaned me this book. Of course, within a week of my joining, some aspects of Facebook had changed. And today, as I write this review, I find my home page and profile look completely different. So, did the book help me?
I guess what I'd really like is an online Facebook manual--one that updates every time they update the site. But this book has a second edition coming out in March 2010, so maybe that would solve my problems.
As a Facebook newbie, I simply inserted information into my profile, responded to other people's "stuff" that appeared in my "feed," and wondered how anyone wrote all those articles since all I could see was a status bar rather like Twitter's, or Gather's, or any other ning's.
My usual technique with any kind of software is get comfortable with doing very little then slowly start pushing buttons. The Missing Manual was valuable to me in that it suggested what sort of things I should be able to do, thus encouraging me to click those strange words with a little more confidence that they might do what I wanted.
"Note." That's like a "post," or "article." Okay. That makes sense. And maybe there really is a way to link Facebook to my blog so I don't have to write the same post twice. (Three times if I want to post it on Gather too, but I usually don't.) The Missing Manual didn't give me the right instructions, but it pointed me in the right directions to succeed.
I found Facebook networks after reading the first few chapters, but I couldn't find my local network no matter how hard I tried. Maybe they don't have them anymore, or maybe I'll find them soon just like I found groups, which seemed more useful, maybe. And I almost learned the meaning of pages, even creating my own one to advertize my books. One day I'll figure out how to make it look more professional, and I'll probably use the Missing Manual to help me guess what's possible.
I'm glad I read the manual. I think it's helped me get further, faster, though I still have a long way to go. Facebook's fun, and my friend assures me it's helped her friend to sell her stuff. Anything that helps me sell...
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