Chapter 5. Visiting Friends and Family on Facebook

After you’ve found family members and old friends and made them part of your Facebook friends list, now what?

Actually, there’s a lot that can happen next. First, you can keep up-to-date on your friends’ daily comings and goings via the News Feed on your Facebook Home page. You can pore over your friends’ personal information, photographs, and the like on their individual Profile pages. You can even leave comments on your friends’ postings and leave your own messages.

It’s all part of the community aspect of the Facebook community—and how you can get closer to your friends online.

Catching Up with the Facebook News Feed

Let’s start by going home—to the Facebook Home page, that is. This is ...

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