Chapter 3. Finding and Visiting with Your Friends

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Social networking is all about keeping in touch with friends. To get the most out of Facebook, then, you need to find some friends.

Because it’s in Facebook’s best interests for you to have as many connections as possible, the site makes it easy for you to find potential friends. Facebook suggests friends based on your personal history (where you’ve lived, worked, or gone to school), mutual friends (friends of people you’re already friends with), and Facebook users who are in your email contacts lists. You can then invite any of these people to be your friends; if they accept, they’re added to ...

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