Facebook For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 3

Finding Your Way Around Facebook

IN THIS CHAPTER

Navigating Facebook

Looking around the Home page

Using Search

Finding those less frequently used links

Here’s the thing about using Facebook: It has a lot of options. Now, this is actually one of the best things about Facebook. You can upload photos, look at photos, chat with a friend, message a friend, read updates from friends … the list goes on and on. What does get a little confusing is that there’s no one way to do anything on Facebook. Depending on the page you’re on, you’ll see slightly different things. Depending on who your friends are, you’ll see slightly different things. Using Facebook can’t exactly be broken down into ten easy steps.

You can learn, however, to recognize a few more constant places. Starting from when you log in, you will always start on your Home page, which is where you’ll find one of Facebook’s most defining features, News Feed. Though News Feed is always different (more on that later) the home page has a few constants that are detailed in this chapter. If you ever find yourself lost on Facebook ...