Chapter 3: Getting Started with Facebook
In This Chapter
Where’s the Metro Facebook app?
Establishing a Facebook account
Nailing down your settings
Building your Timeline
Locking down your Facebook info
If you don’t yet have a Facebook account, about a billion people are ahead of you.
I have friends who figure Facebook is some sort of fad that’s going away soon. They’d rather be drawn and quartered than put anything on Facebook. “You lose your privacy,” they say, “I don’t see any need for it.”
Of course, many of them said the same thing about mobile phones a decade ago. ATMs. Online banking. Two decades before that they lambasted the newfangled color television stuff — it’ll never catch on, you know? Mimeographs. Eight-track tapes. Wringer washing machines. Vinyl records.
In the past decade, Facebook’s become an important part of the daily routine of 700 million people, and it claims ...
