The Preliminaries

Preface to the Second Edition

Hello, and welcome to the shiny new second edition of Facebook Me! And pardon my Swedish, but boy howdy have things changed since I wrote the first edition in the fall of 2008. In those days, people over 35 were just discovering Facebook; these days it’s one of the most popular sites on the web. Its tools for sharing content have made it one of the first places people turn for news and info, while its population has rocketed past the half-billion mark.

And all the while, Facebook has been steadily adding new features to its site, and redesigning the old ones. In response, this book has been fully updated and expanded with new content to bring you up to speed on everything that’s changed. It responds ...

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