Facebook connects you with the people you know and care about. It enables you to communicate, stay up-to-date, and keep in touch with friends and family anywhere. It facilitates your relationships online to help enhance them in person. Specifically, Facebook connects you with the people you know around content that is important to you. Whether you’re the type to take photos or look at them, or write about your life, or read about your friends’ lives, Facebook is designed to enable you to succeed. Maybe you like to share Web sites and news, play games, plan events, organize groups of people, or promote your business. Whatever you prefer, Facebook has you covered.

Facebook offers you control. Communication and information sharing are powerful only when you can do what you want within your comfort zone. Nearly every piece of information and means of connecting on Facebook comes with full privacy controls, allowing you to share and communicate exactly how — and with whom — you desire.

Facebook welcomes everyone: students and professionals; grandchildren (as long as they’re at least age 13), parents, and grandparents; busy people; socialites; celebrities; distant friends; and roommates. No matter who you are, using Facebook can add value to your life. Results are typical.

The perennial bestseller—now updated to cover the latest features of Facebook

Facebook is forever evolving, with the goal of improved user interaction. This new edition catches you up on the latest privacy updates, interface redesign, and other new features and options that keep the site up to date and never leaves you bored. You'll discover helpful coverage of all the changes and updates that have occurred since the previous edition, as well as the newest features that Facebook offers.

• Reveals all the latest changes, updates, and new features of Facebook that have occurred since the previous edition
• Introduces you to getting started with Facebook by creating a profile, setting privacy features, and navigating the interface
• Encourages you to find friends, upload photos, fill out your profile, and make new friends
• Helps you get organized by using Facebook as a scheduler, creating specialized business pages, and joining groups
• Shows you how to use Facebook as a search tool, advertise on Facebook, and more

If you're ready to face the music and get started with Facebook, then this is the book for you!