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NEW - Facebook Chat

Facebook Chat enables users to communicate in real-time without any additional installation and without having to create a separate buddy list. FAQ.

Updated Privacy Controls

The updated privacy controls work towards the goal of giving users the control they need in order to share information comfortably on Facebook. The two ways main updates: a standardized privacy interface across the site, and new privacy options available through this interface. FAQ.

Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads is an ad system for businesses to create a presence on Facebook, spread information virally and to target advertising to the exact audiences they want. Facebook Ads consist of three elements: Facebook Pages, Facebook Beacon, and Social Ads. FAQ.

Networks

Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a region, workplace, or school. Being a member of a network grants users permission to view most of the profiles in that network and join most of the groups.

Profile

The Profile page contains all the information about users that their friends and people in their networks can see.

Pages

Facebook Pages allows local businesses, brands, musicians, and all types of organizations to create a presence on Facebook for free. Users can interact and affiliate as a fan of a business or organization in the same way they interact with other user profiles. Once a fan of a business on Facebook, users can share information about that business with their friends.

Inbox

The Inbox is where all users’ messages are kept. All messages are visible only to the sender and recipients. All Facebook messages are private between the recipients.

Friends

The Friends page is the main source of finding information about Facebook friends. From the Friends page, users can find all of their Facebook friends, update their friend details and quickly navigate to specific friends' profiles.

Applications

Photos

Facebook allows users to upload unlimited photos and create photo albums from them. Each photo album can contain up to sixty photos. While adding an album, users can rotate photos, add captions, and tag the people in their photos. Users’ friends can then view their photos and leave comments. Users can set specific privacy settings for each of their albums, making them visible to certain networks and friends.

Notes

The Notes application allows users to share their lives through writing. Users can even tag their friends in a note, just like a photo. From the Notes page, users can also view all of their friends' notes, as well as find the notes that people have written about them and their friends. Users can also import an external blog if they want to publish it on Facebook.

Groups

With the Groups application, users can see groups their friends have joined, as well as navigate to their own groups, and create new groups. Users can always search and browse for groups to join from this page as well.

Events

The Events application is a great resource to let friends know about interesting things coming up in the community and to organize social gatherings. The Events page contains all of the important information about a user’s Facebook events. From the Events page users can create a new event, check out relevant upcoming events for them and their friends, and view past events.

Posted Items

Posting items to a profile is an easy way to share anything on the Internet using Facebook. Users can post websites, blogs, videos, and songs. Users can also post any content on Facebook, like profiles, photos, notes, groups, and events.

Video

Facebook’s Video application allows users to upload video files to their profile and send video messages. Users can view videos of their friends or videos made by their friends.

Marketplace

Marketplace is Facebook's self-service application for listing items for sale, housing for rent, jobs available, and so on. Users can use Marketplace to find things they want to buy or use, as well as list anything they are in the market for purchasing, renting, etc.

Gifts

Facebook Gifts are icons that can be purchased for $1 and sent to friends on Facebook. The icons are designed by Susan Kare, the designer of the original icon set for the Macintosh computer in 1983.

Features

News Feed

News Feed is a constantly updating list of news stories about users’ friends' activities on Facebook, and is the main section of the homepage. For example, when users upload new photo albums, the friends of these users may receive a story about this in their News Feeds.

Mini-Feed

Mini-Feed allows users to quickly and easily see what the people they care about have been up to. When looking at a profile, Mini-Feed will show the most recent Facebook actions by that user. The stories that are listed are all actions that a friend would have been able to see by clicking around the site.

Share

Share buttons are located on Facebook pages, or on partner websites. If users click on a Share link next to any piece of content, they will have the option to send that content in a message or post that content to their profile. If they send the content in a message, the recipients will see it in their Inbox and be able to reply to them. This is how users can send messages with media attachments. If they post it to their Profiles, it will display in their Posted Items box.

Wall

The Wall is a forum for users’ friends to post comments or insights about them. Users can always remove comments they don't like from their own Walls. They can restrict who their Wall is visible to, or turn it off entirely, by going to the "Profile" section of the Privacy page.

Importing stories into Mini-Feed

Importing stories into Mini-Feed is a feature that allows users to import activity from other sites into your Mini-Feed (and into your friends' News Feeds). The option to import stories from other sites can be found via the small "Import" link at the top of your Mini-Feed.

Lexicon

Lexicon is a tool to follow language trends across Facebook. Specifically, Lexicon looks at the usage of words and phrases on profile, group and event Walls. For example, you can enter "love, hate" (without quotations) to compare the usage of these two words on Facebook Walls. You may enter up to five terms, where each term can be a word or two-word phrase consisting of letters and numbers.

Mobile

There are three mobile options for using Facebook on the go: Mobile Web, Mobile Uploads, and Mobile Texts. Facebook Mobile Web is an alternate version of Facebook specially designed for mobile phones. It includes just about everything from the regular site, and it fits on a little screen. Facebook Mobile Uploads allows users to upload photos and notes from their mobile phone straight to Facebook. Facebook Mobile Texts allow users to connect with friends and look up info on Facebook by using their phones to send and receive text messages.

Public Search Listing

A public search listing provides, at most, the name and profile picture of any Facebook member that has their search privacy settings set to “Everyoneâ€. When someone who is not logged-in searches Facebook, they will see only public search listing results. Public search listings show less information about a person than results of a search performed by someone logged in to Facebook.

Facebook Platform for Mobile

Facebook Platform for Mobile enables any of Facebook’s 80,000 developers to extend their applications to work with mobile phones. Facebook users may opt-in to sending and receiving text messages from applications, or interact with applications on Facebook’s mobile site in a similar manner as they have already done on Facebook. FAQ.