Garrick Chow – Facebook Essential Training

In Facebook Essential Training, Garrick Chow shows how to navigate the world of social networking and put the best face forward online. The course covers the basics, starting with creating a profile; making Facebook friends; communicating via status updates, wall posts, and chat; and sharing photos, videos, and links. Garrick also touches on the delicate subject of removing friends and respecting other people’s privacy online. The advanced features of Facebook, including permissions, add-in applications, and dedicated groups, are also covered.

Topics include:

• What is social networking?
• Finding and adding friends
• Organizing friends into lists
• Liking pages
• Reading the News Feed
• Writing on a friend’s wall
• Updating your status
• Posting videos and links
• Sending and receiving private messages
• Creating a page for a business 
• Protecting privacy and staying secure
• Deactivating an account

Contents:

Introduction
Welcome 00m 45s

1. What Is Facebook?
Understanding Facebook and social networking 02m 22s

2. Signing Up and Creating a Profile
Signing up with Facebook 05m 56s
Editing your profile 06m 18s
Changing your profile photo 04m 03s
Configuring your notifications 03m 54s

3. Finding and Adding Friends
Understanding Facebook friends 01m 15s
Finding friends, family, and coworkers 04m 39s
Managing friend requests 03m 04s
Organizing friends into lists 03m 20s
Removing and blocking friends 01m 10s
Liking pages 03m 47s
What’s “poking”? 01m 32s

4. Your Home Page and Your Wall
Understanding the home page 02m 17s
Understanding your News Feed 04m 12s
Understanding your Wall 03m 05s
Writing on a friend’s Wall 03m 03s

5. Updating Your Status and Sharing Content
Updating your status 03m 32s
Posting photos, videos, and links 05m 16s
Writing Notes 03m 34s
Tagging friends 03m 19s

6. Managing Photos and Videos
Uploading photos and creating albums 08m 01s
Uploading videos 04m 23s
Tagging, editing, and deleting photos 04m 41s

7. Sending and Receiving Private Messages
Sending private messages 04m 21s
Reading, replying to, and deleting private messages 03m 01s
Setting privacy for private messages 01m 51s

8. Chatting
Displaying the Chat list and chatting with friends 05m 00s
Adding, removing, and blocking friends from your Chat list 01m 43s
Disabling Chat 01m 00s

9. Searching Facebook
Searching for people 02m 16s
Searching for content 01m 34s
Editing your public search listing 03m 54s

10. Facebook Groups
Searching for and joining groups 04m 42s
Creating and administering a group 08m 39s
Posting content to a group 02m 21s

11. Facebook Applications
Understanding applications 04m 08s
Accepting, ignoring, and removing application requests 03m 04s
Installing and using applications 04m 45s
Viewing application settings and uninstalling applications 03m 13s

12. Creating a Page for Your Business
Creating a page for your business, band, or organization 07m 33s
Assigning other people as administrators for your page 01m 54s
Using your page identity to post and comment on other people’s pages 04m 27s
Setting up a user name for your page 01m 54s

13. Protecting Your Privacy and Staying Secure
Choosing what to share publicly 05m 55s
Configuring sharing 04m 48s
Using https to log in 03m 59s
Using one-time passwords 02m 04s
Signing out remotely 01m 04s
Recognizing new devices accessing your account 02m 26s

14. Taking a Break from Facebook
Downloading your information 04m 52s
Deactivating your account 03m 38s
Deleting your account 02m 28s

Conclusion
Goodbye 00m 14s