5. Sharing Content on Facebook

Here’s where the fun of Facebook truly begins. Spiffing up your profile and collecting friends is all well and good, but the secret ingredient to Facebook’s success is the way it keeps you connected to your friends—making it easy to share news, links, photos, and videos.

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Before Facebook came along, you might have dug up old friends on the Internet whom you hadn’t seen in years and swapped an excited e-mail or two in an attempt to catch up. But unless you really worked at keeping in contact, all too often you’d find that within six months or a year you’d fallen out of touch again.

Fortunately, Facebook takes the ...

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