Chapter 4
Reading News Feed and Posting
IN THIS CHAPTER
Reading your News Feed and viewing posts
Interacting with friends’ posts using comments, likes, and reactions
Posting your own thoughts using the share box
Sometimes after we’ve explained to people about the basics of Facebook — it’s a website that lets you connect and share with your friends — they follow up with an obvious question: “But what do you do with it?”
The answer to that question is both simple — you keep up with your friends — and complicated. So many tiny actions and interactions on Facebook add up to a sense of being surrounded by your friends — and that sense of friendship keeps people coming back to Facebook day after day (and, with smartphones, minute after minute).
This book tells you how to do virtually everything you could ever want to do on Facebook, but chances are you won’t do some of them — such as create a photo album or plan an event — every single day. As you go about your day online — reading articles, watching videos, shopping, and more — you’ll check in on Facebook, find out news big and small from your friends and the Pages you follow, share a few of your thoughts or observations, and go on your ...
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