subject: How To Use Facebook - 3 Top Things About Using Facebook For Social Networking [print this page] Facebook is a very popular social networking website on the internet today and has lots of great things about it. If you are new to Facebook, you may want to know a bit more about it before deciding whether to use it. Below are three of the best things about Facebook.
1. It is sociable
Whilst social networking may conjure up images in your mind of geeky forums and chat rooms, Facebook is far from this. Many people who wouldn't usually use the internet to communicate with their friends have discovered that Facebook is a great way to connect with the friends they already have. To communicate with your friends, you simply search for their names and then 'add' them as Facebook friends.
Once you have done this, there is a range of routes through which you can interact with them.
For example, you can write a quick post on their 'wall', which is a public notice board on their profile or alternatively you can write something more personal to them in a private message which they alone can read.
2. It is flexible
There are so many ways to use Facebook - it is not simply about writing messages to your friends.
For example, you can update your 'status', which is a short personal message about how you are feeling or what you are thinking. It shows up in the newfeed of all of your friends when they are on Facebook so it is a great way of letting them know how you are.
Other things you can do include playing games on Facebook, using the instant messaging service and joining the Facebook community of groups and fan pages. You can even use Facebook as a place to write your own blog.
3. It is great for photos
A great thing about Facebook is that you can share all of your digital photos with friends on the site quickly and easily. Once you have uploaded photos onto the site, you can then 'tag' people in an image, connecting them to the photo so that people can tell who is in the given photo. There is also functionality for commenting and for people to show which photos they like or dislike. It is much easier than other more traditional ways of sharing digital images.
There are just so many things to write about Facebook that they cannot possibly all be described here. However, as you can see, the best things about Facebook are that it is a great, flexible way to connect with your friends and to share information and photos with them.
