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Facebook For Dummies, 7th Edition
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Facebook For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Carolyn Abram, Amy Karasavas
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
11h 24m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 8

Finding Facebook Friends

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Understanding what friending someone means

check Finding friends on Facebook

check Organizing and controlling your Friend List(s)

Hundreds of sayings abound about friendship and friends, and most can be boiled down into one catch-all adage: friends, good; no friends, bad. This is true in life and also true on Facebook. Without your friends on Facebook, you find yourself at some point looking at a blank screen and asking, “Okay, now what?” With friends, you find yourself at some point looking at photos of a high school reunion and asking, “How did that last hour go by so quickly?”

Most of Facebook’s functionality is built around the premise that you have a certain amount of information that you want your friends to see (and maybe some information that you don’t want all your friends to see, but that’s what privacy settings are for). So, if you don’t have friends who are seeing your posts, what’s the point in sharing them? Messages aren’t that useful unless you send them to someone. Photos are made for viewing, but if the access is limited to friends, well, you need to find some friends.

On Facebook, the bulk of friendships are reciprocal, which ...

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