Facebook

Setting up your Account

Recap

Facebook origins, background and facts

What Facebook can do and what you can do with it

What would you like to do with Facebook?

Any thoughts, concerns, questions or ideas after

last week?

Remember!

Blog - www.is40480computerclasses.wordpress.com

Facebook page - www.facebook.com/is40480computers

Let’s get started…

Step 1

Go to the Facebook homepage

Type www.facebook.com into the address bar

Press Enter

Step 2Under the words Sign Up, on the right hand side, there are boxes

Put your corresponding personal details into these boxes

Click into a box and type in the relevant information/choose the appropriate response from the dropdown menu and click it/click the appropriate buttons

Click into the next box and continue with these steps until all of the necessary information is provided

Choose a password that you will easily remember

The most secure passwords contain both letters and numbers

Make a note of the password you chose so you don’t forget it

Click the green button that says Sign Up

It can take a minute or two for sign up to complete

Remember your email addresses from the previous sessions?

This should be the email address that you enter into the relevant box

You will need to open a new tab and log into your email to access confirmation emails sent by Facebook

Step 3

The page that appears will have a message at the top that asks you to check your email to confirm sign up

Sign in to your email

There should be an email there from Facebook asking that you click a link to complete sign up

Step 4Click on the words Confirm Your Account to complete the Sign Up process

This will open a new tab with your account on it - work from this tab now

Your account is now created and ready for you to start personalising and using

Note

Ignore the background to the message, my page might look different to yours but the message will be the same regardless

Note

You will receive a follow up email from Facebook welcoming you. You don’t have to do anything with this message

Step 5

Familiarise yourself with the Interface of the page, clicking on things if you want to discover what they do

You can’t break it or do anything wrong at this stage but do ask if you need any assistance

Step 6

Practise logging In and Out of your Account

On the Homepage top right there should be a downward facing arrow

Click it

Choose Log Out from the drop down menu that appears

Click it

You should now be Logged Out and once again see the Homepage

Step 7

To log back in enter your Log In details in the boxes on the top right of the facebook.com Homepage

Type the email address that you provided when signing up into the box on the left

Type the password that you provided when signing up into the box on the right

Click the Log In Button

For next week

Log in and out a few times until it becomes second nature

Have a look at your homepage - we will go into the layout of it in more detail next week

Remember!

www.is40480computerclasses.wordpress.com

Blog post this week will have a short video taking you through the process again

Any questions?

Contact me

edel.king@ucdconnect.ie

Next week - getting to know your Interface

See you next week!!