Chapter 4
The Daily Facebook: News Feed and Posting
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding out what your friends are up to by reading News Feed
Interacting with friends’ posts via comments, likes, and reactions
Sharing your own thoughts using the Publisher
Sometimes after I’ve explained the basics of Facebook to someone — it’s a website that lets you connect and share with your friends — they follow up with an obvious question: But what do you do with it?
The answer to that question is both very simple — you keep up with your friends — and somewhat complicated. There are so many tiny actions and interactions on Facebook that add up to a sense of being surrounded by your friends. It’s that sense of friendship that keeps people coming back to Facebook day after day (and, with smartphones, minute after minute).
This book tells you how to do virtually everything you could ever want to do on Facebook, but chances are you won’t create a photo album or plan an event every single day. Chances are that as you go about your day online — reading articles, watching videos, shopping, and more — you’ll check in on Facebook, find out news big and small from your friends and the Pages you follow, share a few ...
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