Setting Up Your Facebook Profile
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In this article, we are going to set up your Facebook Profile. If you’ve already set up a Facebook Profile for yourself, you can go ahead and skip this tutorial. This may be a good time to review what’s already in your own Profile.
Whomever is going to be managing your business’/school’s Facebook Pages and/or Groups need to set up a Profile. This means that if you are going to be the one managing your school’s Pages/Groups, you must first set up a Facebook Profile.
Setting Up Your Profile:
To start, open your web browser and go to: www.facebook.com
On the right you will see a form asking you to “Sign Up”. Once there, enter your full name, email address and desired password into the boxes provided for you. It’s probably a good idea to write this information down somewhere (especially the email address and password) so that you have the info to reference in the future.
Underneath, you will then enter your sex and birth date. If you are nervous about listing your birthday information online, don’t worry. This information is for security purposes only and you can choose later as to whether or not you want your birthday information displayed on your Profile. My profile, for example, shows that my birthday is October 14th, but it doesn’t say which year. For now, just enter your birth date and click the “Sign Up” button underneath.
You’ll then be asked to enter a security code. This is to ensure you are indeed a real person registering for an account and not computer software programmed to automatically create Facebook Profiles with fictitious names. Follow the on-screen instructions and press “Sign Up”.
After entering the correct security code, you will be directed to a page that says, “Confirm Your Email Address”.
Now it’s time to go check your email for a message from Facebook. It may take a few minutes for this email to arrive. But once it does, open the email up and click on the confirmation link inside.
When you click the confirmation link in the email, you will then be directed back to the Facebook website where you should find a screen asking whether or not you’d like to find new Facebook friends using your email address. I usually skip this step because I don’t want to give out my email and password information, nor do I want Facebook emailing everyone in my email directory and telling them I just signed up for a Facebook account. Instead, I’ll find my Facebook friends more organically through the methods I’ll discuss in future articles. For now, I recommend just clicking “Skip this step” in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
Step 2 is to enter your education and career information. You will want to enter the name of the high school you graduated from and select the year in which you graduated. You will do the same for your college by first selecting the name of the college or university and then selecting the year that you graduated.
The third box on this page asks for your company information. This is where you want to enter the name of the business/school you are currently working for. Enter this information and then click “Save”.
You will then be directed to a page with a bunch of tiny Profile pictures on it. Based on the school and company information you entered in the previous step, Facebook makes a suggestion as to who you may or may not know on Facebook. If you see anyone on the list that you know and that you’d like to become friends with, go ahead and click on their photo. After you’ve found everyone you know, click “Add as Friends”. This will send a message to these individuals’ asking whether or not they know you… and whether or not they would like to become your friends.
The third and final step is to enter the name of your local network. This is where you want to enter the city that you (and your business/school) are currently located in. By joining a network, you will better be able to find and connect with people in your immediate locale. So go ahead and enter the name of your city and state and then click “Join”.
After that, you’ll be directed to a page asking you whether you would like to find friends by manually typing in their names or whether you would like to beef up your profile. What you want to do is click on the link to “View and edit your profile”. We will discuss how to further customize your profile in the next module!
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