January 2008
Beginner
268 pages
6h 20m
English
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Chapter 5. Exchanging Automatic Updates
Remember what keeping up with your friends used to require? Time-consuming emails (Sorry it’s been so long...), potentially intrusive instant messages (hello? u there?), even the occasional in-person visit. No more. Thanks to Facebook’s easy-to-activate broadcast and subscription tools, staying in touch is easier than ever. Subscriptions and notifications, for example, alert you when, say, your best friend uploads a new picture, your softball coach gets off work, or your study buddy posts his analysis of Macbeth. This chapter shows you how to sign up for and tweak these handy updates.
Types of Updates
Facebook offers four different ways you can get details about your friends’ activities. Three (news feeds, mini-feeds, and notifications) appear automatically—on your home page, your profile, and your notification inbox, respectively.
Note
Although the news feed, mini-feed, and notifications are all hard-wired into your account, Facebook lets you customize the details you see in all three. Read on for details.
If you prefer to keep up with your pals without having to log in to Facebook, you can choose to sign up for customized Web feeds called subscriptions
Note
Facebook offers one other kind of automatic update: It tells you when friends’ birthdays are coming up. If you check the Birthdays section of your home page (it’s on the right-hand side) every time you sign on, you’ll never again forget a friend’s birthday.
News Feeds: What Others Are Doing
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