iPhone For Seniors For Dummies, 9th Edition

Chapter 15

Socializing with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

IN THIS CHAPTER

Learn some social media dos and don’ts

Find and install social media apps

Create a Facebook account

Customize Facebook settings

Create a Twitter account

Create an Instagram account

Social media apps keep us in close digital contact with friends, family, and the rest of the world, and have become as important a digital staple as email, if not more so for some folks. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are some of the most popular social media apps, and therefore I focus on obtaining and setting up these apps for use with your iPhone in this chapter.

Facebook is a platform for sharing posts about your life, with or without photos and video, and allows you to be as detailed as you please in your posts. Twitter, on the other hand, is meant to share information in quick bursts, allowing users only 280 characters ...