Facebook How-Tos and Tips
How to Collect $10 From Facebook
Facebook settled a class action lawsuit that sets aside $20 million for users whose image or name was featured in Sponsored Stories advertisements. Here's how to find out if you qualify for a paycheck.
How to Use Your iPhone to Make Free Calls Via Facebook
Facebook Messenger for iPhone now lets you place free VoIP calls to your friends--as long as they, too, have downloaded the app. Here's how the new feature works and how to use it.
How to Give a Gift on Facebook
If you have last-minute holiday shopping to do, you might want to check out Facebook Gifts. Here's how the service works.
How to Ensure Facebook Posts You Want to See Aren't Hidden
A change to Facebook's algorithm means you're probably not seeing posts from businesses and brand pages you've liked. Here are step-by-step instructions for changing these settings.
How to Stop Unwanted Facebook Updates in Apple's iOS 6
When you upgrade your iPhone or iPad to iOS 6, your Facebook friends' contact information and birthdays are automatically synched with your Contacts and Calendar. Here are step-by-step instructions for cleaning up the clutter.
How to Block Annoying Political Posts on Facebook
Tired of the political flame wars that pop up in your Facebook News Feed? Here's a Google Chrome extension that deletes them from sight.
4 New Websites for Cool Facebook Cover Photos
Searching for the perfect cover photo to complete or spruce up your Facebook profile? These four new sites offer stock images, original designs and customized photo collages.
Inside Facebook's Hackathons: 5 Tips For Hosting Your Own
Facebook's all-night innovation sessions, which have produced features such as Timeline, Chat and the Like button, attract hundreds of employees. See what Facebook has learned from its hackathons and how those lessons can apply to your business.
How to Add Organ Donor Status to Facebook
Facebook's new App Center is set to launch, but are you ready to be seen? Here are four steps you, and all Facebook developers, must follow to ensure your app is included.
Facebook Developers: How to Get Admitted Into the New App Center
Facebook launched a new profile feature that it hopes will solve the organ donation crisis. Here's how to sign up to be a donor and add it to your profile.
4 Facebook Tips to Cut News Feed Noise
As Facebook green-lights more Timeline apps, expect your News Feed to get even more crowded. Here are four easy ways to bury the clutter and bring to the surface more of what's important to you.
How to Use Facebook 'Offers' to Market Your Business
Facebook's newest feature lets business page admins create and target coupons and discounts for their Facebook audience. Here's how to get started with Offers, plus six handy tips for creating a successful campaign.
5 Tips for Using Facebook's New Promoted Posts
Promoted Posts is the newest advertising feature to hit Facebook business pages. Here's what you need to know about it, plus tips from Facebook on how to use it successfully.
5 Websites for Cool Facebook Cover Photos
If you're looking to add a unique, personal touch to your Facebook Timeline, check out these sites for stock images, original designs and customized photo collages.
How to Use Facebook's New 'Interest Lists'
Facebook's new "Interest Lists" feature lets you subscribe to user-generated lists on topics that matter to you. While it has potential, it also has glaring problems Facebook needs to fix.
A How-to Guide for the New Facebook Business Pages
Timeline has finally come to Facebook Pages. Here's a look at how the features differ from your personal Timeline and how you can best optimize them to market your business and communicate with your customers.
5 Facebook Timeline Changes You Can't Wait to Make
Facebook gives you seven days to make changes to your Timeline before it goes live for all to see. Here are five things you should do in that time, from aesthetics to removing content.
4 Facebook Security Tips to Stay Safe in 2012
As Facebook hackers execute more sophisticated attacks, you need to be sure you're protected. Here are four tips from a security expert to keep your Facebook account -- and your personal information -- safe in the coming year.
3 Facebook Tricks to Personalize Your Posts
If you want to get fancy with what you share with your Facebook friends, these three tips let you further customize tags, edit links and collaborate with others.
Facebook Privacy Tip: How to Disable Sharing in Social Reader Apps
Some Facebook users are unintentionally broadcasting their reading habits to their network. Here's how to find out if you've added one of these social reading apps and how to adjust your privacy settings.
Facebook Tip: How to Create a List for Subscriptions
Have Subscriptions overrun your Facebook News Feed? One way to separate subscription updates from your friends' updates is to create a list. Here's how to make one in five quick steps.
Facebook Tip: How to Block Annoying App and Event Invites
If your Facebook account is overwhelmed with miscellaneous application and event invitations, here's how to quickly and permanently remove them.
Facebook Tip: How to Restore Your Email Notification Settings
If you noticed you're no longer receiving emails when people friend you or post to your wall, you're not alone. Here's what Facebook changed, and to bring back your original settings.
Facebook Subscriptions: 5 Warnings
Curious about Facebook's new Subscribe button? Beware these five pitfalls before jumping in.
Facebook's New Friend Lists: 6 Things You Need to Know
Facebook just launched a new feature that lets you quickly group friends into lists to make sharing with certain people easier. Here are six important facts you should know before you get started.
Facebook Video Calling: How to Get Started and Adjust Privacy Settings
Facebook has some new features, including a partnership with Skype that will bring video calling to users. Here's what you need to know about the new video feature and how to adjust your privacy settings.
10 Essential Facebook Tips and Tricks for All Users
Make your account more secure, manipulate your personal settings and more, with these ten Facebook tips and tricks that every user should know.
Are You Exposing Your Private Facebook Lists?
Here's how I discovered my "Limited Profile" list was visible, and how you can ensure yours is private.
Facebook Quick Tips: How to Hide Recent Activity; Shorten Status Tags
Facebook's newest features unclutter your activity stream and simplify tagging. Here's why it's useful and how it works.
Facebook's Constant Tweaks: 5 Ways to Stay Up to Date
For Facebook users, the only constant is change: The social network tweaks its security and privacy settings and features all the time. Check out these five official Facebook groups that help keep you in the know.
Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition
Facebook now automatically recommends that your friends tag you in photos when it recognizes your face. Here's how to opt-out of this feature.
Facebook Combats Spam, Clickjacking, With Four New Security Features
Facebook beefs up its security measures to ward off spammers, clickjackers and malware. Here's what you need to know about Facebook's latest efforts to protect users from malicious software.
Your Guide to Facebook's Social Inbox: What You Need to Know About Messages
Facebook's take on unified communications -- it's new Messages platform -- has many skeptical of its relevancy and use. As more users are gaining access to the feature each day, here's what you need to know before you make the change.
Facebook Updates Profile Pages: Navigate the New Features
Facebook introduced an entire overhaul of profile pages that features a new interface and several new additions. Here's a tour of what's new and how you can upgrade.
New Facebook Groups: 5 Key Facts
Facebook announced Groups, a new feature that lets a small number of people share and chat privately. Yes, privately. Here's what you need to know about Groups.
Facebook Quick Tip: Clean Up Your News Feed
Your Facebook News Feed can get littered with a lot of junk: annoying FarmVille updates, friend confirmations and inane fan page announcements. Here's how to take control and see only what you want.
Facebook Tips: How to Stay Safe While Using Games and Apps
The maker of the popular FarmVille game has agreed to change its practices that subjected Facebook users to some scammy offers. But the more games and apps that you use on Facebook, the higher your risk for malware, phishing scams and hacking. Here are four tips for staying secure.
Facebook Tips: How to Get Your Facebook Vanity URL
This weekend, Facebook will make it possible for you to have a customized URL of www.facebook.com/yourname. But think carefully, because you only get once chance at this. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to change it tonight.
The New Facebook: Three Easy Tips for Sorting Through the Noise
Thanks to Facebook's recent redesign, a massive amount of content continually flows down the middle of your Facebook homepage. How can you keep up with it, never mind find the bits you really want? From Friend Lists to RSS feeds, here are three great ways to ignore what you don't want and find what you do.
How to Improve Your Facebook Profile: Play it Smart With Friends and Potential Employers
Think LinkedIn is the only social network that potential employers use to find and judge you? Wrong. Here's how to improve your Facebook profile to be more considerate to your friends, plus play it safe and smart with present and future work colleagues.
Facebook Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts
Facebook and other social networking sites can create an uncomfortable overlap between your personal and professional life. We show how to manage your Facebook profile so it can work for both business and pleasure.
Facebook How-To Tip: Do Damage Control on Unwanted Photos
While it's easy to control what information ends up on your Facebook profile, you can't control someone from posting a photo of you (even the not so flattering ones). In this Facebook tip of the week, we look at how you can minimize the damage.
Facebook How-To Tip: Manage Applications on the New Facebook
Confused by all those new tabs in Facebook? In this Facebook tip of the week, learn how to manage Facebook applications wisely and ditch apps that you no longer want.
Facebook How-To Tip: Manage E-mail Notifications
In this Facebook tip of the week, learn about e-mail notifications, how to set them, and the important option that can help you stop damage from photos before it starts.
Facebook's New Search Engine: What You Need To Know
Facebook just made changes to its search tool that take clear aim at making the social network an alternative to Twitter for real-time conversations. But the best news is more the ability to search for content in your Facebook network of immediate friends.
Facebook News
Facebook Users to Take a Break From the Social Network
According to the Pew Research Center, 61 percent of Facebook users have taken a voluntary break from the social network. This year, 27 percent plan to spend less time on the site. Here's a look at those and other statistics from its most recent report.
When Worlds Collide: Do More Facebook Friends Mean More Stress?
A new report finds that the more Facebook friends you have, the more stressful your life likely is. Is it difficult for you to manage your Facebook persona?
Facebook Wants to Build Dissolving Data Centers
Are cardboard computers in our future? Facebook and Purdue University are partnering to take green IT a step further by developing the first biodegradable server chassis.
Dumping Facebook: Why More People Are Leaving
A report from Capstone Investments finds that the number Facebook users has declined over the last several months. Have your habits changed?
It's a Small World: Facebook Slices Separation to 4.74 Degrees
According to a new study by Facebook, the social network has cut the degrees of separation between people from six to 4.74, making the world of Facebook smaller than it may seem. Take that, Kevin Bacon.
Facebook Tops 1 Billion Users and Hits Mobile Milestone
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the social network reached 1 billion active monthly users. Here's a look at the video Facebook produced to commemorate the occasion, plus several new statistics.
Facebook Redesigns Messages, Adds Search and More
To fix its clunky messaging platform, Facebook is rolling out a redesigned interface and a few features intended to make it more user-friendly. Here's what to expect.
Facebook Employees React to IPO on Facebook
What did those in the middle of the action have to say about Facebook's historic IPO? Take a look at some of their Facebook posts.
15 Fun Facebook Facts and Stats on IPO Day
How well do you know the $100 billion social network? From private planes to petabytes, here are some of the most surprising Facebook tidbits.
Facebook Launches 'Offers,' Adds Coupons to Your News Feed
Facebook Offers, the social network's newest feature, lets businesses you like send you coupons and deals through posts that appear in your News Feed. Here's what you need to know about the feature and how to manage it.