Amazon Fire Phone: The Missing Manual

Chapter 10. Facebook and Twitter

You’ll learn to:

• Connect your Fire phone to Facebook and Twitter

• Sync Facebook contacts and events with your Fire phone

• Use the Facebook and Twitter apps

SMARTPHONES ARE HOW MORE and more people these days keep in touch with one another. And that usually means using Facebook and Twitter.

You have two ways to use the Fire phone with those popular social networking services. You can either use the phone’s built-in linking capabilities or download apps that offer even more social media savvy.

With Facebook, you can use the Fire phone’s built-in linking features to sync all your Facebook friends’ information and calendar events with the Fire phone’s Contacts and Calendar apps. To keep up with your friends’ activities, post your status, and so on, though, you must download the Facebook app.

When you link Twitter to your Fire phone in the same way, you only get a quick way to share photos and other content on Twitter. But you can download an app that lets you make full use of Twitter right on the phone.

Facebook

FACEBOOK HAS MORE DAILY users than any other social network. Millions of people around the globe use it to keep in touch with friends, play games, and do business. If you’re one of them, you’ll be glad to know you can sync your Facebook information with the Fire phone’s own Contacts and Calendar apps. There’s also an app so you can use all of Facebook’s features ...