Smart apps for kids

 

.1 Signing up

Your own name

You should use your own name or your 

nickname if people use it more commonly, to 

sign up. It’s important to ensure that your 

friends, family and colleagues can find you 

easily.

2. Your email

Facebook sends out a lot of notifications once 

you start signing up with various groups and fan 

pages, apps and even comments. But people 

can also find you by your email, so you should 

probably use a personal email account. Check 

it frequently for friend requests and more. It has 

to be real though, because Facebook uses it 

and sometimes your mobile number to verify 

who you are.

3. Read the terms and conditions

You should always read the terms and 

conditions on any site, and Facebook is no 

exception, though, it should be noted that

Facebook frequently updates it’s TOS causing a 

lot of outrage in the community. Know where 

your rights are and read their documentation. g.

4. Search your email

In some cases when you sign up for Facebook, 

especially if you use a ‘free’ email system such 

as hotmail or Gmail, Facebook can search your 

email addresses and see if anyone in your 

address book is already on Facebook.

5. Profile information – school, university, 

company

The first piece of profile information Facebook 

asks for is your School (leaving year), University 

(leaving year) and Company – this starts the first 

basic groups links so you can find Alumni and 

colleagues from work – if you don’t want to find 

anyone there, leave it empty and click skip.

6. Profile information – picture

your photo or avatar doesn’t need to be of you, 

but it’s usually a good idea to use a shot of 

yourself so that people that aren’t sure they’ve 

found you can add you. Many people change 

their profile photos weekly though, so you can 

use just about any image you hold copyright to.

7. Profile information – basic information

Once you’ve gotten into Facebook, you can fill in 

any or all personal information on the basic 

information box, and depending on your security 

settings, people will be able to see this – it’s 

sometimes the difference between knowing 

whether it’s you or another person that they’ll 

friend, so this information can be useful.

8. Profile information – is Facebook a dating 

site?

One of the core pieces of information that 

Facebook asks about on signup is what you’re 

‘looking’ for on the site, along with your religious 

standing. Don’t be afraid to mark ‘friendship’ in 

that box, even if you are actively seeking a 

relationship – it makes little difference to people 

adding you. Facebook is not a dating site, 

though there are groups on there for finding 

partners.

9. Profile information – personal information

Many people don’t list all of their hobbiesinstead list the ones you’re interested in 

attracting friends for. If you’ve got a ‘guilty 

pleasure’ remember that people may be able to 

access your information, even before you add 

them, so you may not want to publish that. The 

boxes in this section are entirely optional.

10.Contact information

One of the boxes you can fill in is ‘contact 

information’. Be aware that depending on your 

security settings (see security and privacy) you 

may then place your ID out in the ‘open’ which 

can open you up to spam or bot contact.

11. Profile information – Network

If you’re interested in chatting with, or meeting 

up with people in your region, you can add 

where you life and join that ‘uber-group’. Some 

require email addresses or other information 

that ‘proves’ affiliation, but Facebook has 

recently improved that interface, so it works very 

well. Your network affiliation is listed on your 

profile, unless you change the security settings 

(see security and privacy)

12.Profile information – friends

As we’ll explain later, you can keep those that 

you’ve added from appearing in your search, but 

your friends list is always visible. Be careful 

when adding ‘controversial’ people in your life, 

as it’s very easy for other friends to use your list 

to find others to add – the only exception to this 

is if you add someone with extremely tight 

security settings

13. Profile information – relationships

Facebook allows the listing of relationships in 

your profile – but until the person you’re in a 

relationship confirms it; you will only be listed as 

in a relationship. Otherwise you will be tagged 

as ‘in a relationship’ but not with whom.

14. Fill as much of it in as possible

Remember, you can always come back and 

add, or subtract information. It’s usually 

something people don’t do often though, so 

spending those extra few minutes at sign up to 

create a proper profile is well worth it

15. Security from the outset

We talk more about security later, but some 

people join Facebook simply to keep up with a 

tiny group of friends – if you’re one of these 

people, then you will want to ensure your 

security is as tight as can be (see security and 

privacy)

16. Finding friends, colleagues and ‘fan’ 

pages

Facebook has made it fairly easy to find people 

and add them, but in the mix with the people you 

can find are fan pages – which are like mini 

profiles (we talk about these more in section) 

and groups. It’s important to remember that 

people, such as authors or local personalities 

may have multiple listings in search results, so 

you may need to contact them and ask which to 

add. You also have to take one extra step to 

make sure people can find you. You can 

currently have 5,000 friends total.

17. Searches

Searching by name may bring back dozens of 

results, so if you know the person well enough, 

find out what email they use and add them via 

that. Adding people via email is often easier 

than searches too because it means you’re 

certain you’ve got the right person, without 

opening yourself up to unwanted attention. If 

you add someone that isn’t actually the person 

you wanted to add, they can see your profile.

18. Adding people via friends

If you’re a close knit group of friends, or a new 

group that met through University or similar 

pursuit, it’s normally ok to go through another 

friend’s list and find those that you know, but 

don’t abuse this – adding everyone from every 

friend’s list can get you flagged as a spammer 

by Facebook.

19.More than one profile?

Be careful not to create more than one 

Facebook page – it’s against their TOS and can 

lead to confusion when people add you. It is 

possible to create a main account and make the 

rest of your ‘accounts’ as pages, but again be 

careful – Facebook has a policy about fake 

pages, fake names or abusing that facility.

20. Fan pages too much for you?

You can hide fan page (and app, and even 

‘friend’ updates) from view easily by setting your 

feed up (we talk more about this in the feed 

management section). Hiding fan pages, even 

temporarily, can let you get your Facebook 

reading back under control, and let you decide 

whether you want to follow them long term.

21.Removing friends, or pages

Removing friends is easy – you just go into your 

friends list and click the x beside their name. 

You can find your friend list by looking at the left 

column of your main feed based Facebook 

page. Or you can go to ‘Account’ and then ‘edit 

Friends’

22. Using friends lists to organize your 

reading

Facebook introduced a concept called ‘friends 

lists’ recently, allowing people to sort their 

friends into groups, sorting them onto groups of 

your choosing. Have workmates, best friends, 

limited profile – the choice is yours. You can 

also edit en masse by selecting ‘Account’ then 

‘edit friends’ – your whole list will appear there 

with drop down arrow lists, including your pages. 

Simply filter them onto a list you’re comfortable 

with and then you can control your feed.

23. Been Blocked?

Facebook is hard to contact in case of problems, 

but you can sometimes email them at whatever 

published email contact they currently have, and 

ask them to review your case – if you’ve done 

nothing wrong you should be reinstated. If you 

were hacked, you should contact support 

urgently and follow their instructions to regain 

control and become unblocked.

24. Got badge?

One of Facebook’s nicest widgets is the ability 

to create badges and display them on your 

webpage or site. If you’ve got a reasonably 

public profile, you can use these easily – if your 

profile is highly protected and privacy locked, 

you may want to consider whether you want to 

use it at all.

25. Looking for more?

If you have just recently joined Facebook, 

instead of searching for everyone by name, go 

to another friend’s profile and find the people 

you’re looking for by checking their ‘friends’ box, 

on the left hand side, below information. Be 

careful not to add too many people though – it 

can be seen as spamming and may be picked 

up by Facebook.

26. Security and privacy

There’s a lot of options in Facebook that you 

have to pay attention to, especially if you don’t 

want to put your information in public. There are 

options to protect everything that you have on 

Facebook, creating a stripped out, bare public 

profile, but you DO need to change your 

settings, it’s not automatic on creation.

27. Use fine grained controls

don’t want your family accessing your photos –

lock them out. Want to only allow reading 

access to your status updates to people closest 

to you? You can do that too (though remember, 

apps use your default posting, which is your 

overall status posting setting). Go to ‘Account’ 

then ‘privacy settings and explore your options 

there.

28.The tightest locks

If you put everything in your security to ‘friends’ 

and remove yourself from search engine results, 

and then start using Facebook, you’ll have to 

add people, and they’ll never be able to do it 

themselves. If you don’t want people knowing 

you’re on Facebook, this is an ideal solution

29. Know your settings!

Understanding what the different settings mean 

for privacy and posting is what makes or breaks 

your Facebook usage. There are four settings –

‘Everyone’, ‘Friends of friends’, friends only and 

custom. Friends of friends means that any 

information you share on your profile can be 

visible by anyone that has friend any of your 

friends, opening your profile up to a lot more 

exposure.

30. Your name, date of birth, address and 

other information

Keeping as much of your information private as 

you can means that you can protect yourself 

against identity fraud – this also means not 

adding random people and practicing safe login 

and logout practices. Facebook is rife with 

mistakes that have opened people up to identity 

fraud, but knowing your way around security 

settings will stop this.

31. Privacy – profile information

In ‘Account’, Privacy Settings, you can choose 

to set your different parts of your profile and 

information to one of several settings - you can 

also customize them so that only your own lists 

of friends get to see certain things. This extra 

layer of security is incredibly powerful and worth 

the time it takes to set up.

32. Being harassed by a colleague that you 

just don’t want to add?

Sometimes people don’t take no for an answer –

if you find that someone is continually asking 

you for an ‘add’ go to their profile page, scroll 

down to the bottom and then hit ‘Report/Block 

this person’. Blocking them will stop any 

unwanted advances – they won’t be able to see 

you at all (or you, them)

33.Apps getting you down?

Did an app you added suddenly change its 

posting policies? Are you finding that some 

apps are more invasive than you wanted? Go to 

‘Account’, then ‘Application settings’. There, you 

can remove any you no longer want to use, 

change posting policies (in some cases) and 

more. Since Facebook changed how apps 

notify people, their ‘notification’ feeds have been 

a lot less cluttered, but notifications now appear 

in the left side bar, which confuses some 

people.

34. Don’t let Google see you

If Google using what little of your profile is 

visible after you’ve adjusted your security 

settings to your perfect level of privacy makes 

you nervous, you can tell all search engines that 

you don’t want them to view your profile by 

going to ‘Account, privacy settings, search and 

search engines’ and unchecking the box beside 

‘public search engine’. If you’ve got good 

security settings and are happy for your name 

and photo to appear, have a look at the preview 

before checking it. There is very little on the 

average profile, including no updates.

35. Hacked?

Sometimes, people lose control of their 

Facebook account – this could be because of a 

virus, or worse. You can regain control by 

following the instructions by following 

Facebook’s own guidelines. It’s important to do 

a virus scan as soon as you discover you’ve 

been hacked – just in case – do that before 

returning to the site to reclaim your profile.

36. Photos and videos – don’t appear where 

you don’t want to

Along with all other privacy settings – be 

especially careful about your movie and photo 

settings. It’s important that you keep your video 

and photo settings as private as you can – if 

you’re tagged in either, it displays them to the 

‘world’ at large based on your settings. If you 

lock your video and photo options to minimum, 

friends only, you can be sure that embarrassing 

items will be kept to just your circle, rather than 

any Google Cache.

37. The best phone app?

There is no one ‘best’ app for Facebook on each 

mobile platform, so look around and see if you 

can find a highly recommended one –

sometimes phones come with bundled apps, or 

built in API access – which, if you’re a social 

animal your phone can be a lifesaver. Be aware 

that most apps are limited, as are most phone 

based browsers.

38. Tweetdeck?

Tweetdeck is a twitter poster that has expanded 

to take in other places like Facebook, and 

comes highly recommended on any PC or 

laptop. It has a tiny memory footprint and gives 

you unparalleled access to a lot of feeds at 

once. Beware its API call on twitter though (at 

150 an hour). Facebook currently has no 

limitations.

39. Automatic posting?

Some people use automatic posting to allow 

them to post information at set times, though 

Facebook’s TOS seems to be a little grey about 

this. Being careful and only posting relevant 

information will allow you to connect and 

network in a way it was designed to allow.

40. Facebook connect

Facebook connect is a handy extension of the 

Facebook login and API, tying various things 

back to your profile, or allowing you to interact 

with other sites, or programs using your 

Facebook credentials. This can be a good and 

a bad thing – if the interaction causes constant 

posting to your feed, people may find it 

annoying, but it also means you’ve got a 

centralized login.

41. Lifestreaming

Lifestreaming allows you to pull all of your feeds 

into one place and Facebook offers several 

widgets based on what you need for your site 

– go to Facebook’s widget page - or search the 

internet for information on how to use your feeds 

in interesting ways offsite.

42. Posting updates

The main basis of Facebook is the ability to post 

short (420 character) updates – you can tag 

friends in these by going @ (name) or simply tell 

people what you’re up to. Some people take 

part in mini games in these too – the choice is 

only limited by character length.

43. Auto subscribing

Commenting or liking someone’s status or notes 

or anything else in their feed will automatically 

‘subscribe’ you to notifications about any future 

activity. You can reply to this however, from 

your email, which means you don’t need to log 

into the site constantly.

44. The notification bar

At the top of the page, there is a blue bar with 

four icons – this is your quick overview of any 

activity aimed at you. This includes anything 

you’ve subscribed to by participating in it.

45. Your newsfeed

Your news feed comes with several options –

you can read the most ‘important’ stuff (based 

on Facebook’s algorithm), or the most recent 

posts. Missing friends? Scroll to the bottom 

and click ‘edit options’. Put 5000 in the bottom 

box – it’ll remove all limitations on your feed.

46. Not interested in a friend’s updates right 

now?

If for whatever reason, you don’t want to see a 

friend’s update (for example, their updates are 

only about games you don’t play) you can hover 

over their update, and a box will appear saying 

‘hide’ – you’ll get different options based on 

what sort of update you’ve hovered over.

47. Walls

You can have a public discussion by posting 

something on someone’s wall. This appears in 

your feed and there, so is great for 

congratulating someone, or wishing them a 

happy birthday. Walls are public though, based 

on the person’s settings.

48. Boxes and tabs

Various apps will allow you to add boxes and 

tabs to your profile. Boxes appear on a page, 

and are small – tabs are headings much like a 

filing cabinet. These can give you the ability to 

display key information on your pages, or in 

separate ‘sub pages’ but can also clutter your 

profile page – be careful what you place and 

where.

49. A box on your profile

There is a box on your profile, (when you click 

view profile) which can be readily edited and 

contains some key information that you choose. 

Some people use it to show others their 

calendar; others display a quote or some mini 

information. Use this as best you see fit to give 

your friends and new adds something interesting 

to read.

50. Left hand side – your profile

Your profile has several key areas to interact 

with – the middle where your feed is, your left 

hand side, to access your stuff) and the right 

hand side which has suggestions, your gifts and 

other items from apps, and some other things, 

such as pokes.

51. Messages – your messages are your 

internal email inbox. 

This gives you the opportunity to message 

people without writing on their wall (see the 

previous tip) or start a discussion between 

friends – if you’re doing this frequently see our 

tips on pages and groups.

52. Events

You can set up events – a bit like a calendar, 

people can RSVP and you can use it to invite 

friends to anything you’re doing, from a birthday 

party at your place, to a gaming party or Guild 

event in your favorite MMORPG. Use it to 

organize social events without worrying about 

lost emails.

53. Removing events you can’t attend

Once you have declined an event, you can then 

remove it from your events list – simply open up 

the event, optionally leave a note apologizing for 

not attending then directly below the image on 

the right hand side, there is an option ‘remove 

from my events’.

54. Photos and videos

Your photos and videos list item will let you 

access any photos that are tagged of you 

(remembering your privacy settings) and review 

them. You can also remove tags at any time –

which means even though you are in the photo, 

it won’t list in your stream.

55. Applications

All of your applications are accessible from this 

tab – it will take you through to a list of most 

used and when, and will also give you options to 

access others. This is a great tab to review 

what apps you do – and don’t - use and remove 

them to save them cluttering your feed, or visit 

them and check what’s new. You can also 

search for new apps from there.

56. Games

Much like the applications menu option, the 

games option shows you when you’ve played, 

whether your friends play (and how many) and 

allows you to explore popular games amongst 

your friends and the wider Facebook population 

that you may not have seen yet.

57. Ads and pages

We talk more about ads and pages in their own 

section (Part 5 – ads and pages) but this is how 

you access them quickly, and if you choose to 

advertise them, set up Adsense like adverts.

58. Groups

Your groups’ menu item is actually the access to 

your pages and groups, two columned lists with 

each showing recent activity and more. You can 

easily view the things you may have missed 

simply by checking the recent activity on these 

pages.

59. Notes

Notes are a bit like mini blogs, or can be used 

by you to import RSS feeds and automatically 

post. Its Facebook’s own solution to 

lifestreaming, but only allows you to import one 

RSS feed at time. You could build a Yahoo pipe 

of everything you wanted to import and use that 

as your ‘uber feed’ if you had a lot of blogs 

though, so it works out well.

60. Links

Your links menu option is a lot like Del.icio.us –

every time you post a link, it’s added to this list, 

and you can view what your friends have been 

posting recently, or just keep track of your own 

stuff.

61. Right hand side

The right hand side of your page contains any 

application items (such as gifts – be aware that 

these build up really fast), friend suggestions, 

information on inactive friends, pokes and event 

listings (that you’ve accepted).

62. Gifts and application notices

Facebook has suggested that eventually these 

will all be incorporated into the left bar of the 

site, where your games are listed, but for now 

you will still get listings of any gifts, invites to 

games or any other requests (including friend 

requests) in that top right corner. You should 

keep on top of them – 20 invites a day leads to 

140 at the end of a week and it can be time 

consuming to prune them weekly.

63. Application notices out of control

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try your 

application lists will get out of control. You can 

either dedicate time to fixing them, or quit from 

the app in question – by clicking ‘ignore app’. 

You can also ignore a friend’s invites, but not 

the friend themselves... Reload the page and 

any you’ve ignored should be gone.

64. Suggestions

Facebook has an algorithm that chooses 

information to show you – when people friend 

other people, sometimes you will have 

suggestions – as they do with pages and 

groups. These suggestions and they can’t see 

your profile (and until they add you, you won’t 

see their whole profile). Suggestions can be 

hidden or ignored.

65. Poking

Poking allows a person to see your profile (even 

if they aren’t their friend). If they are your friend, 

it will give them a message the next time they 

log into their Facebook in the right hand bar of 

their page. Any pokes you’ve received will be 

here too for you to respond to.

66. Events

You will see a list of any events you’re 

confirmed to attend in your sidebar – this is a 

great feature because you can simply align your 

diary by reading that area and booking it into 

your time management system of choice. You 

can also click through and turn down events, or 

see who else is attending.

67. Ads

If you have used Facebook to place an ad, you 

will find that they appear in the right hand bar. If 

you keep seeing an ad, you can report it so 

Facebook can fix their algorithm for showing 

them, or hide them entirely from you.

68. Under the picture

You can view their profile by clicking on their 

picture in your feed. Once there, you can poke 

them, view videos and photos of them, or send 

them a message. Below that is information that 

they’ve made available to friends lists, including 

relationship status. It’s a good way to catch up 

with someone you haven’t seen in a while, then 

reach out and contact them.

69. Commenting on their wall

You can leave people public messages on their 

walls – as they can do on yours – just click in 

the status box and write what you’d like them to 

see – remember though, it also posts in your 

feed, so be careful what you say.

70. Adding apps or boxes your friend has

If you see something really interesting that your 

friend has, click through – and add the app 

they’re using by following the instructions. If 

you’ve seen a Facebook page that is exactly 

how you’d like yours to be, click through and 

create items as you can.

71. Commenting

You can comment from your own feed, or if 

you’ve gone over to a friend’s profile (which is a 

good idea just in case they’ve been bumped out 

of your algorithm based feed) and comment 

there. Comments have a length limit, but you 

can split it over several boxes and it will stack 

correctly.

72. Tagging

You can tag a friend, or yourself in most photos 

you have access to – be aware that some 

people dislike being tagged in photos, so if your 

friend frequently removes tags of him or herself, 

maybe you shouldn’t tag them. Any tags of 

people in videos or photos or notes will appear 

in their stream.

73. Group or page?

A page is basically a mini profile – a group has a 

more group centric feel to its ‘front’ page, but 

there’s very little difference between them in 

reality. There are no current accurate figures 

posted on limits to pages and groups, so there 

may not be any – but be careful to join an 

‘official’ group or fan page belonging to the 

official entity – there are many unofficial fans 

and groups on Facebook, and it’s not highly 

policed at present.

74. Pages and apps

Some apps can post to pages as if they were 

profiles – much like fully fledged Facebook 

profiles, pages can have most of the features of 

a ‘real’ profile, so adding apps to them may be a 

possibility, depending on the app in question. 

Explore your options carefully though, because 

if an app is posting to your main profile, and 

your page, people following both will get 

duplicate content.

75. Groups

Groups are like clubs offline – you choose who 

can join and how wide its access is. Much like 

other parts of Facebook, it has its own wall, 

which everyone can post to. Pages have two –

one for the owner to post to, one for fans to post 

to, and then it all feeds into one amalgamated 

stream.

76. Running both

Many people consider Facebook to be a place 

for allegiances – groups would then represent 

(casual) memberships and interaction in clubs, 

pages could be considered a greater

endorsement or badge of interest, so running 

both isn’t a bad thing.

77. Causes

There are specific apps for causes on 

Facebook, but if you’re passionate about 

something, starting a group, or page is a great 

way to go – remember to make others admin (in 

edit membership on the group or page’s main 

page) so you’re not the only one in charge.

78. Ads

You can place your own ads on Facebook – and 

they run a lot like Adsense ads in most cases. 

You’ll need to condense whatever message you 

want to ‘send’ into very short sentences, but 

these ads are targetable and very powerful.

79. Farmville

Farmville is one of the most popular game apps 

on Facebook and allows you to run your own 

farm, grow your own (virtual) crops, tend 

animals and more. Its simplistic interface allows 

anyone to play easily. A similar game is Farm 

Town, but the mechanics are only slightly 

different.

80. Crops

Try to think about how often you check your 

Facebook – if you’re planting crops, make sure 

you’ll be able to come online to harvest them, or 

they are a waste of space and coins. As the 

more crops you harvest and the more crops you 

plant has a relation to your level, planning your 

crops carefully will allow you to maximize your 

game play, and afford items you may need.

81. Harvesting

When you harvest your crops in Farmville they 

sell 

automatically – the same can be said for 

animals or 

trees. Farm town stores all of 

your harvests in a box 

and you can go to 

market and sell them.

82. Vehicles and storage

As soon as you can, get a harvester, seeder and 

tractor – they will allow you to manage much 

larger farms, but require fuel. You can save up 

coins to buy them instead of paying real money 

for Farmville cash. The same thing can be said 

for buildings – some are limited edition though, 

so can only be bought with cash.

83. Fuel

Fuel is used to run vehicles – but it’s finite and 

rechargeable. You can also buy fuel using 

cash, but larger farms use up fuel before you’ve 

finished your harvesting, plowing and planting, 

so remember that whatever you choose to do, 

you’ll have to still do some ‘manual’ work.

84. Is Farmville cash worth it?

Depending on many factors, including how 

competitive you are, and whether you want 

exclusive items, any app that allows you to buy 

special credits can be worth it. Don’t buy them if 

you’re a casual player though.

85. Collectables, and projects

Farmville has a mechanism to build things like 

stables – your friends list has to send you 

component parts, and then you can build a 

stable, or expand your storage. This can be 

frustrating however if they need a lot of pieces. 

Patience will get you there, and until then keep 

posting about it every few days by clicking on 

the building and sharing via that box.

86. iPhone app

Bejeweled’s iPhone app links with the game on 

Facebook (via connect) and allows you to post 

your score to Facebook. It is well worth the 

money, giving you four mini games in one – and 

another way to play while you’re waiting 

somewhere without computer access.

87. Sign up for the competition

Bejeweled offers a free competition and includes 

the scores from your iPhone app in the updates 

on site – which allows you to simply join in on 

the draw, even when you’re not on Facebook. 

88. Two different styles of game

Bejeweled onsite recently introduced special 

bonus crystals and more, giving another 

variation to the one minute blitz style game. 

Using the ones that fit with your play style can 

maximize your score. Bejeweled on the iPhone 

hasn’t had these introduced yet.

89. Bejeweled posts

Bejeweled will post to your profile whenever you 

reach a points target – sometimes you’ll post a 

lot in a row, which can be annoying. If you’re 

planning on playing for a while, you can cancel 

posting (as you can with any other app) and 

post the last one. Your friends will appreciate 

this.

90. Mafia Wars/Vampire Wars

Both Mafia Wars and Vampire wars are 

basically the same game, with some minor 

variations – again, like Farmville, you can buy 

cash or credits to use in special parts of the 

game, but unlike Farmville, you don’t ‘grow’ 

crops or care for animals.

91. Finish jobs even if you’re leveled up

Mafia wars and vampire wars allow you to move 

onto another level (set) of quests, but you 

should stay on the lower level ones and 

complete them if you can – it’s a long process in 

most cases, but it does mean that you get extra 

skill points, and sometimes, in game cash. 

Maxing out the completion also gives you cool 

titles and other stuff that you can’t otherwise 

earn.

92. Adding friends 

It’s important to remember that not everyone 

wants to play these games, so if you invite 

people, don’t do it constantly. If you’re new to 

Facebook, and your friends are inviting you, look 

out for those that play, and ask them to add you, 

or sign up and invite them.

93. Gifts

Sending gifts or elements from a game will also 

invite people to the game – so be careful who 

you send gifts to – they may have either blocked 

the game, or will remove you as a connection. 

Similarly, you can only send one a day, so 

choose wisely – if a friend is completing a 

collection go for that.

94. Posting your achievements

Most games allow you to post your 

achievements, levels, or important milestones –

if that’s all that makes up your feed, you may 

find that your friends complain – or don’t read 

anything you post at all. 

95. Removing games 

Like every other app, you can remove any apps 

that are interfering with your profile, or posting 

too often – you may find that your friends 

complain if it posts too often – if that happens, 

you can simply change the app’s posting 

privileges, or if you’re not playing at all, remove 

it by going to Account, application settings and 

hitting the X beside the game name.

96. Networked blogs lets you share your 

blog

Did you know that Networked Blogs also allows 

you to post to your own page (we talk about 

pages in Section 3)? Be careful though – those 

that have you as a friend and have fanned you 

will get more double updates from your blogs.

97. Network blogs also allows you to follow 

other blogs

Including your friends and some of the biggest 

blogs on the web. If you have a list of friends 

that you like to read, consider following them on 

Facebook – if they’re there, their blogs will be 

inserted into your feeds easily.

98. Networked Blogs or importing notes?

(See 2nd section for more information on notes) 

Notes are a great way of simply posting a lot of 

content to your feed, while Networked Blogs has 

features that blend importing RSS with a group 

– you can have people fan and rate your blog, 

have a discussions area and more. It all

depends on your community needs.

99. Integrating other networks

Facebook has a lot of ‘bridge’ applications, 

which allow you to integrate external social 

networking sites, such as Flikr and twitter into 

your feeds. These powerful tools can take a 

while to set up, but are well worth it if you 

regularly use the sites you’re linking up. 

100. Horoscopes and more

Like everywhere else on the web, Facebook has 

facilities to post horoscopes and more – if you’re 

interested in that sort of thing, find one that your 

friends use and post it.

101. Developing your own

Facebook has a powerful API that allows you to 

develop just about anything based on a 

framework – so developing something that you 

think other people might like to play is easy. It’s 

also good advertising for the ‘cause’ or company 

of choice.

Have fun

While all these tips cover the mechanics of 

networking and beyond, it’s important to 

remember that you should always try to enjoy 

yourself. Facebook is a social site – be social