Lesson 13. Adding Applications

In this lesson, you learn how to use applications to enhance your Facebook experience. You’ll learn how to search for applications and add interesting ones to your collection. You’ll also learn how to manage your applications, edit their settings, and remove apps you no longer want.

What Are Apps?

Applications are tiny programs that run within the Facebook environment—also called apps for short. Applications are similar to plug-ins you use to enhance your web browser, but in the case of Facebook, they enhance your social networking experiences. You’ve already been using applications on Facebook, perhaps without even knowing it, and we’ve covered quite a few so far in this book. This section will go into them with ...

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