WORKSHOP: FACEBOOK
This one-session workshop is designed for students interested in learning about Facebook, a fun and easy online networking tool that allows users to find friends and family and communicate with them. Students will learn how to set up a basic personal profile, become familiar with the Facebook interface, and begin their search for friends and family.
Prerequisite: Please have basic computer skills before signing up for this course.
Class Outline:
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Signing up
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Make sure everyone has a working email address
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Do not need to provide all the information asked for (only submit what they feel comfortable submitting)
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Home page
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Newsfeed: the newsfeed is your connection to other people’s profiles
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Can be set on “Most Recent”: displays every story of your friends’ profiles as they are posted or “Top News”: Facebook chooses stories it thinks you will be interested in
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Explain different parts of Newsfeed and Home Page: Update status, add photo, menu bars at top and left sides, how to search for friends, how to navigate to other people’s profiles
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Profile Page
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Left Menu Bar:
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Wall
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Your status: what this means, how to add photos and links and how to post status
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Updates on your activity (things you “like”, new “friends”, posting on other’s walls)
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Wall posts and comments on posts made by your friends or you
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Info
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About You: types of information you want to include (security and privacy preferences)
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Edit Profile
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Photos
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Pictures that you have uploaded
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Your friends uploaded pictures in which you have been tagged (explain what tagging means)
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You can remove tags of yourself if you want: explain how to do this
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Applications
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Finding Friends
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Other people’s privacy settings will determine if you can find them on FB and how much of their profile you can see
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Using email addresses to look up
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Use names to look up
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How to send a request for friends and what this means
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Privacy Settings
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Account----- Privacy Settings
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This section of Facebook tends to change frequently
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What options you have for privacy and what they mean (i.e. public v. friends v. friends of friends v. custom (specific people or only me))
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Default privacy settings: for updates and photos you post
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How you connect: who can look up your profile by name or contact info, send friend requests or message, or write on your wall
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How tags work: profile and tag review, tag suggestions, etc.
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Apps and Websites
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Block lists: how to block individuals
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Resource to read more about FB privacy: http://www.wikihow.com/Manage-Facebook-Privacy-Options
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IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER REGARDING PRIVACY
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Once something is posted, it is owned by Facebook and is “out there”, even if you delete it
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Job or co-worker bad-mouthing as well as compromising photos, videos etc. could cost you your job
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Make sure you are educated about privacy settings
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Do not feel obligated to accept all friend requests- you control the information you share and with whom you want to share it
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You have control over your online identity and it is a reflection of who you are personally and professionally
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How to upload photos, create events, create notes, upload videos.
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If you have time left, start showing a brief outline of each
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Questions
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