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How You Can Benefit from New Facebook Options
How to use Facebook's new options for variety of features
Have you used Facebook for socializing? Or, do you hope to use Facebook for business reasons? In the previous article, Linda provided fifteen reasons why you might choose to use Facebook. In this article, she'll show you how Facebook's new options can provide you with a variety of features yet with a wide range of options for privacy. You can exhibit your knowledge and skills while you learn how to build your network one step at a time.
Your Stream
Your "stream," allows you to post updates, much like you would post an entry in Twitter. If you're not familiar with Twitter, all you need to do is post something that you want to say, and Facebook allows you to add a link, photograph or video . But, that's not all you can do. The "settings" link located below the "Write something" space allows you to import your information from other spaces:
You can import your Flickr images, your blog RSS, Google Reader, Pandora and more. The possibilities of sharing you life with your friends and co-workers are endless...or not, depending upon what you want to share.
Here are a few other options to help keep your sanity and to feel secure:
1. Say that you really like a person, but you don't want to hear that individual's constant rackin' frackin' about everyone's faults. All you need to do is click the "hide" feature next to their input and poof! Their updates are removed.
2. If someone comes to your page to view your friends, they cannot see your friends' pages unless they become a friend with that person. So, your girlfriend is safe from your mother and vice-versa – unless they decide to become friends.
3. You always can remove a post that you've created. When you hover over your entry, a "remove" button will show to the right (just like the "hide" button in #1).
4. Finally, you are allowed to open more than one Facebook account. So, if you want to be wild on one account with your friends and demure on another account with business associates, then – by all means – carry on with your dichotomous self.
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.