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101 FACEBOOK TIPS

Introduction

Facebook is a great platform for meeting friends, creating a following for 

your hobby, service, or project, and for relaxing. There’s an app for 

every taste, and several of them are incredibly fun and addictive. 

These 101 tips will get you navigating Facebook like a pro in no time.

Part 1 – finding friends and influencing people

Depending on why you join Facebook, you may find it easy to make 

friends, or may only have it to stay in touch with friends in distant parts 

of the world. No matter what you do, signing up can be a process that 

will take up to a couple of hours (including your profile).

1. Signing up

Your own name

You should use your own name or your nickname if people use it more 

commonly, to sign up. It’s important to ensure that your friends, family 

and colleagues can find you easily.

2. Your email

Facebook sends out a lot of notifications once you start signing up with 

various groups and fan pages, apps and even comments. But people 

can also find you by your email, so you should probably use a personal 

email account. Check it frequently for friend requests and more. It has 

to be real though, because Facebook uses it and sometimes your 

mobile number to verify who you are.

3. Read the terms and conditions

You should always read the terms and conditions on any site, and 

Facebook is no exception, though, it should be noted that Facebook 

frequently updates it’s TOS causing a lot of outrage in the community. 

Know where your rights are and read their documentation.

4. Search your email

In some cases when you sign up for Facebook, especially if you use a 

‘free’ email system such as hotmail or Gmail, Facebook can search 

your email addresses and see if anyone in your address book is already 

on Facebook. 

5. Profile information – school, university, company

The first piece of profile information Facebook asks for is your School 

(leaving year), University (leaving year) and Company – this starts the 

first basic groups links so you can find Alumni and colleagues from work 

– if you don’t want to find anyone there, leave it empty and click skip.

6. Profile information – picture

your photo or avatar doesn’t need to be of you, but it’s usually a good 

idea to use a shot of yourself so that people that aren’t sure they’ve 

found you can add you. Many people change their profile photos 

weekly though, so you can use just about any image you hold copyright 

to.

7. Profile information – basic information

Once you’ve gotten into Facebook, you can fill in any or all personal 

information on the basic information box, and depending on your 

security settings, people will be able to see this – it’s sometimes the 

difference between knowing whether it’s you or another person that 

they’ll friend, so this information can be useful.

8. Profile information – is Facebook a dating site?

One of the core pieces of information that Facebook asks about on 

signup is what you’re ‘looking’ for on the site, along with your religious 

standing. Don’t be afraid to mark ‘friendship’ in that box, even if you are 

actively seeking a relationship – it makes little difference to people 

adding you. Facebook is not a dating site, though there are groups on 

there for finding partners.

9. Profile information – personal information

Many people don’t list all of their hobbies- instead list the ones you’re 

interested in attracting friends for. If you’ve got a ‘guilty pleasure’ 

remember that people may be able to access your information, even 

before you add them, so you may not want to publish that. The boxes 

in this section are entirely optional.

10.Contact information

One of the boxes you can fill in is ‘contact information’. Be aware that 

depending on your security settings (see security and privacy) you may 

then place your ID out in the ‘open’ which can open you up to spam or 

bot contact. 

11. Profile information – Network

If you’re interested in chatting with, or meeting up with people in your 

region, you can add where you life and join that ‘uber-group’. Some 

require email addresses or other information that ‘proves’ affiliation, but 

Facebook has recently improved that interface, so it works very well. 

Your network affiliation is listed on your profile, unless you change the 

security settings (see security and privacy)

12.Profile information – friends

As we’ll explain later, you can keep those that you’ve added from 

appearing in your search, but your friends list is always visible. Be 

careful when adding ‘controversial’ people in your life, as it’s very easy 

for other friends to use your list to find others to add – the only 

exception to this is if you add someone with extremely tight security 

settings

13. Profile information – relationships

Facebook allows the listing of relationships in your profile – but until the 

person you’re in a relationship confirms it; you will only be listed as in a 

relationship. Otherwise you will be tagged as ‘in a relationship’ but not 

with whom.

14. Fill as much of it in as possible

Remember, you can always come back and add, or subtract 

information. It’s usually something people don’t do often though, so 

spending those extra few minutes at sign up to create a proper profile is 

well worth it.

15. Security from the outset

We talk more about security later, but some people join Facebook 

simply to keep up with a tiny group of friends – if you’re one of these 

people, then you will want to ensure your security is as tight as can be 

(see security and privacy)

16. Finding friends, colleagues and ‘fan’ pages

Facebook has made it fairly easy to find people and add them, but in 

the mix with the people you can find are fan pages – which are like mini 

profiles (we talk about these more in section) and groups. It’s important 

to remember that people, such as authors or local personalities may 

have multiple listings in search results, so you may need to contact 

them and ask which to add. You also have to take one extra step to 

make sure people can find you. You can currently have 5,000 friends 

total.

17. Searches

Searching by name may bring back dozens of results, so if you know 

the person well enough, find out what email they use and add them via 

that. Adding people via email is often easier than searches too 

because it means you’re certain you’ve got the right person, without 

opening yourself up to unwanted attention. If you add someone that 

isn’t actually the person you wanted to add, they can see your profile.

18. Adding people via friends

If you’re a close knit group of friends, or a new group that met through 

University or similar pursuit, it’s normally ok to go through another 

friend’s list and find those that you know, but don’t abuse this – adding 

everyone from every friend’s list can get you flagged as a spammer by 

Facebook.

19.More than one profile?

Be careful not to create more than one Facebook page – it’s against 

their TOS and can lead to confusion when people add you. It is possible 

to create a main account and make the rest of your ‘accounts’ as 

pages, but again be careful – Facebook has a policy about fake pages, 

fake names or abusing that facility.

20.Fan pages too much for you?

You can hide fan page (and app, and even ‘friend’ updates) from view 

easily by setting your feed up (we talk more about this in the feed 

management section). Hiding fan pages, even temporarily, can let you 

get your Facebook reading back under control, and let you decide 

whether you want to follow them long term.

21.Removing friends, or pages

Removing friends is easy – you just go into your friends list and click the 

x beside their name. You can find your friend list by looking at the left 

column of your main feed based Facebook page. Or you can go to 

‘Account’ and then ‘edit Friends’

You can remove pages in a similar way, in ‘Edit friends’ then scrolling 

down to around the middle of the page and clicking on ‘pages’ (it has an 

orange flag next to it)

22. Using friends lists to organize your reading

Facebook introduced a concept called ‘friends lists’ recently, allowing 

people to sort their friends into groups, sorting them onto groups of your 

choosing. Have workmates, best friends, limited profile – the choice is 

yours. You can also edit en masse by selecting ‘Account’ then ‘edit 

friends’ – your whole list will appear there with drop down arrow lists, 

including your pages. Simply filter them onto a list you’re comfortable 

with and then you can control your feed.

Posting using groups – Your friends list doesn’t just allow you to filter 

your reading - these groups can simply control what you’re reading or 

allow you to customize who sees what. If you don’t want your Granny 

seeing your wild nights out, simply filter her into a group and then, when 

you post, click on the little light blue padlock. Enter your level of 

access, and exclude using the bottom box. You can set this as your 

‘custom’ privacy build for your posts, or a one off. (see more in security 

and privacy)

23. Been Blocked?

Facebook is hard to contact in case of problems, but you can 

sometimes email them at whatever published email contact they 

currently have, and ask them to review your case – if you’ve done 

nothing wrong you should be reinstated. If you were hacked, you 

should contact support urgently and follow their instructions to regain 

control and become unblocked.

24. Got badge?

One of Facebook’s nicest widgets is the ability to create badges and 

display them on your webpage or site. If you’ve got a reasonably public 

profile, you can use these easily – if your profile is highly protected and 

privacy locked, you may want to consider whether you want to use it at 

all.

25. Looking for more?

If you have just recently joined Facebook, instead of searching for 

everyone by name, go to another friend’s profile and find the people 

you’re looking for by checking their ‘friends’ box, on the left hand side, 

below information. Be careful not to add too many people though – it 

can be seen as spamming and may be picked up by Facebook.

26. Security and privacy

There’s a lot of options in Facebook that you have to pay attention to, 

especially if you don’t want to put your information in public. There are 

options to protect everything that you have on Facebook, creating a 

stripped out, bare public profile, but you DO need to change your 

settings, it’s not automatic on creation.

27. Use fine grained controls

don’t want your family accessing your photos – lock them out. Want to 

only allow reading access to your status updates to people closest to 

you? You can do that too (though remember, apps use your default 

posting, which is your overall status posting setting). Go to ‘Account’ 

then ‘privacy settings and explore your options there.

28.The tightest locks

If you put everything in your security to ‘friends’ and remove yourself 

from search engine results, and then start using Facebook, you’ll have 

to add people, and they’ll never be able to do it themselves. If you don’t 

want people knowing you’re on Facebook, this is an ideal solution

29. Know your settings!

Understanding what the different settings mean for privacy and posting 

is what makes or breaks your Facebook usage. There are four settings 

– ‘Everyone’, ‘Friends of friends’, friends only and custom. Friends of 

friends means that any information you share on your profile can be 

visible by anyone that has friend any of your friends, opening your 

profile up to a lot more exposure. 

30. Your name, date of birth, address and other information

Keeping as much of your information private as you can means that you 

can protect yourself against identity fraud – this also means not adding 

random people and practicing safe login and logout practices. 

Facebook is rife with mistakes that have opened people up to identity 

fraud, but knowing your way around security settings will stop this.

31. Privacy – profile information

In ‘Account’, Privacy Settings, you can choose to set your different parts 

of your profile and information to one of several settings - you can also 

customize them so that only your own lists of friends get to see certain 

things. This extra layer of security is incredibly powerful and worth the 

time it takes to set up.

32. Being harassed by a colleague that you just don’t want to add?

Sometimes people don’t take no for an answer – if you find that 

someone is continually asking you for an ‘add’ go to their profile page, 

scroll down to the bottom and then hit ‘Report/Block this person’. 

Blocking them will stop any unwanted advances – they won’t be able to 

see you at all (or you, them)

33.Apps getting you down?

Did an app you added suddenly change its posting policies? Are you 

finding that some apps are more invasive than you wanted? Go to 

‘Account’, then ‘Application settings’. There, you can remove any you 

no longer want to use, change posting policies (in some cases) and 

more. Since Facebook changed how apps notify people, their 

‘notification’ feeds have been a lot less cluttered, but notifications now 

appear in the left side bar, which confuses some people.

34. Don’t let Google see you

If Google using what little of your profile is visible after you’ve adjusted 

your security settings to your perfect level of privacy makes you 

nervous, you can tell all search engines that you don’t want them to 

view your profile by going to ‘Account, privacy settings, search and 

search engines’ and unchecking the box beside ‘public search engine’. 

If you’ve got good security settings and are happy for your name and 

photo to appear, have a look at the preview before checking it. There is 

very little on the average profile, including no updates.

35. Hacked?

Sometimes, people lose control of their Facebook account – this could 

be because of a virus, or worse. You can regain control by following 

the instructions by following Facebook’s own guidelines. It’s important 

to do a virus scan as soon as you discover you’ve been hacked – just in 

case – do that before returning to the site to reclaim your profile.

36. Photos and videos – don’t appear where you don’t want to

Along with all other privacy settings – be especially careful about your 

movie and photo settings. It’s important that you keep your video and 

photo settings as private as you can – if you’re tagged in either, it 

displays them to the ‘world’ at large based on your settings. If you lock 

your video and photo options to minimum, friends only, you can be 

sure that embarrassing items will be kept to just your circle, rather than 

any Google Cache.

Part 2 – Access, API and apps offsite

Off Facebook access

It’s important to take advantage of any software or apps that you can 

use, simply because Facebook can become time consuming if you only 

access it at a primary terminal. Using apps to speed up your access 

will mean in most cases, your time won’t be devoured by social 

networking (until you get into games)

37. The best phone app?

There is no one ‘best’ app for Facebook on each mobile platform, so 

look around and see if you can find a highly recommended one –

sometimes phones come with bundled apps, or built in API access –

which, if you’re a social animal your phone can be a lifesaver. Be 

aware that most apps are limited, as are most phone based browsers.

38. Tweetdeck?

Tweetdeck is a twitter poster that has expanded to take in other places 

like Facebook, and comes highly recommended on any PC or laptop. 

It has a tiny memory footprint and gives you unparalleled access to a lot 

of feeds at once. Beware its API call on twitter though (at 150 an hour). 

Facebook currently has no limitations.

39. Automatic posting?

Some people use automatic posting to allow them to post information at 

set times, though Facebook’s TOS seems to be a little grey about this. 

Being careful and only posting relevant information will allow you to 

connect and network in a way it was designed to allow.

40. Facebook connect

Facebook connect is a handy extension of the Facebook login and API, tying various things back to your profile, or allowing you to interact with 

other sites, or programs using your Facebook credentials. This can be 

a good and a bad thing – if the interaction causes constant posting to 

your feed, people may find it annoying, but it also means you’ve got a 

centralized login. 

41. Lifestreaming

Lifestreaming allows you to pull all of your feeds into one place and 

Facebook offers several widgets based on what you need for your site –

go to Facebook’s widget page - or search the internet for information 

on how to use your feeds in interesting ways offsite.

Part 3 – The basics of the site

Facebook’s basics are easy to master, but if you skip learning them, it 

can slow you down massively – there are several functions on the site 

that most people don’t use, and could, to get more out of their 

networking, and sharing with friends

42. Posting updates

The main basis of Facebook is the ability to post short (420 character) 

updates – you can tag friends in these by going @ (name) or simply tell 

people what you’re up to. Some people take part in mini games in 

these too – the choice is only limited by character length.

43. Auto subscribing

Commenting or liking someone’s status or notes or anything else in 

their feed will automatically ‘subscribe’ you to notifications about any 

future activity. You can reply to this however, from your email, which 

means you don’t need to log into the site constantly.

44. The notification bar

At the top of the page, there is a blue bar with four icons – this is your 

quick overview of any activity aimed at you. This includes anything you’ve subscribed to by participating in it.

45. Your newsfeed

Your news feed comes with several options – you can read the most 

‘important’ stuff (based on Facebook’s algorithm), or the most recent 

posts. Missing friends? Scroll to the bottom and click ‘edit options’. 

Put 5000 in the bottom box – it’ll remove all limitations on your feed.

46. Not interested in a friend’s updates right now?

If for whatever reason, you don’t want to see a friend’s update (for 

example, their updates are only about games you don’t play) you can 

hover over their update, and a box will appear saying ‘hide’ – you’ll get 

different options based on what sort of update you’ve hovered over.

47. Walls

You can have a public discussion by posting something on someone’s 

wall. This appears in your feed and there, so is great for congratulating 

someone, or wishing them a happy birthday. Walls are public though, 

based on the person’s settings.

48. Boxes and tabs

Various apps will allow you to add boxes and tabs to your 

profile. Boxes appear on a page, and are small – tabs are headings 

much like a filing cabinet. These can give you the ability to display key 

information on your pages, or in separate ‘sub pages’ but can also 

clutter your profile page – be careful what you place and where.

49. A box on your profile

There is a box on your profile, (when you click view profile) which can 

be readily edited and contains some key information that you choose. 

Some people use it to show others their calendar; others display a quote or some mini information. Use this as best you see fit to give 

your friends and new adds something interesting to read.

50. Left hand side – your profile

Your profile has several key areas to interact with – the middle where 

your feed is, your left hand side, to access your stuff) and the right hand 

side which has suggestions, your gifts and other items from apps, and 

some other things, such as pokes.

51. Messages – your messages are your internal email inbox. 

This gives you the opportunity to message people without writing on 

their wall (see the previous tip) or start a discussion between friends –

if you’re doing this frequently see our tips on pages and groups.

52. Events

You can set up events – a bit like a calendar, people can RSVP and 

you can use it to invite friends to anything you’re doing, from a birthday 

party at your place, to a gaming party or Guild event in your favorite 

MMORPG. Use it to organize social events without worrying about lost 

emails.

53. Removing events you can’t attend

Once you have declined an event, you can then remove it from your 

events list – simply open up the event, optionally leave a note 

apologizing for not attending then directly below the image on the right 

hand side, there is an option ‘remove from my events’.

54. Photos and videos

Your photos and videos list item will let you access any photos that are 

tagged of you (remembering your privacy settings) and review them. 

You can also remove tags at any time – which means even though you 

are in the photo, it won’t list in your stream.55. Applications

All of your applications are accessible from this tab – it will take you 

through to a list of most used and when, and will also give you options 

to access others. This is a great tab to review what apps you do – and 

don’t - use and remove them to save them cluttering your feed, or visit 

them and check what’s new. You can also search for new apps from 

there.

56. Games

Much like the applications menu option, the games option shows you 

when you’ve played, whether your friends play (and how many) and 

allows you to explore popular games amongst your friends and the 

wider Facebook population that you may not have seen yet.

57. Ads and pages

We talk more about ads and pages in their own section (Part 5 – ads 

and pages) but this is how you access them quickly, and if you choose 

to advertise them, set up Adsense like adverts.

58. Groups

Your groups’ menu item is actually the access to your pages and 

groups, two columned lists with each showing recent activity and more. 

You can easily view the things you may have missed simply by 

checking the recent activity on these pages.

59. Notes

Notes are a bit like mini blogs, or can be used by you to import RSS 

feeds and automatically post. Its Facebook’s own solution to 

lifestreaming, but only allows you to import one RSS feed at time. You 

could build a Yahoo pipe of everything you wanted to import and use 

that as your ‘uber feed’ if you had a lot of blogs though, so it works out well. 

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60. Links

Your links menu option is a lot like Del.icio.us – every time you post a 

link, it’s added to this list, and you can view what your friends have 

been posting recently, or just keep track of your own stuff.

61. Right hand side

The right hand side of your page contains any application items (such 

as gifts – be aware that these build up really fast), friend suggestions, 

information on inactive friends, pokes and event listings (that you’ve 

accepted).

62. Gifts and application notices

Facebook has suggested that eventually these will all be incorporated 

into the left bar of the site, where your games are listed, but for now you 

will still get listings of any gifts, invites to games or any other requests 

(including friend requests) in that top right corner. You should keep on 

top of them – 20 invites a day leads to 140 at the end of a week and it 

can be time consuming to prune them weekly. 

63. Application notices out of control

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try your application lists will get out 

of control. You can either dedicate time to fixing them, or quit from the 

app in question – by clicking ‘ignore app’. You can also ignore a 

friend’s invites, but not the friend themselves... Reload the page and 

any you’ve ignored should be gone.

64. Suggestions

Facebook has an algorithm that chooses information to show you –

when people friend other people, sometimes you will have suggestions 

– as they do with pages and groups. These suggestions and they can’t 

see your profile (and until they add you, you won’t see their whole 

profile). Suggestions can be hidden or ignored.

65. Poking

Poking allows a person to see your profile (even if they aren’t their 

friend). If they are your friend, it will give them a message the next time 

they log into their Facebook in the right hand bar of their page. Any 

pokes you’ve received will be here too for you to respond to.

66. Events

You will see a list of any events you’re confirmed to attend in your 

sidebar – this is a great feature because you can simply align your diary 

by reading that area and booking it into your time management system 

of choice. You can also click through and turn down events, or see who 

else is attending.

67. Ads

If you have used Facebook to place an ad, you will find that they appear 

in the right hand bar. If you keep seeing an ad, you can report it so 

Facebook can fix their algorithm for showing them, or hide them entirely 

from you.

Part 3 – Clicking on a friend’s profile

When you view a friend’s profile, there are a couple of neat things you 

can do to interact with them, or see what they’ve posted and you may 

have missed.

68. Under the picture

You can view their profile by clicking on their picture in your feed. Once 

there, you can poke them, view videos and photos of them, or send them a message. Below that is information that they’ve made available 

to friends lists, including relationship status. It’s a good way to catch up 

with someone you haven’t seen in a while, then reach out and contact 

them.

69. Commenting on their wall

You can leave people public messages on their walls – as they can do 

on yours – just click in the status box and write what you’d like them to 

see – remember though, it also posts in your feed, so be careful what 

you say.

70. Adding apps or boxes your friend has

If you see something really interesting that your friend has, click through 

– and add the app they’re using by following the instructions. If you’ve 

seen a Facebook page that is exactly how you’d like yours to be, click 

through and create items as you can.

71. Commenting

You can comment from your own feed, or if you’ve gone over to a 

friend’s profile (which is a good idea just in case they’ve been bumped 

out of your algorithm based feed) and comment there. Comments have 

a length limit, but you can split it over several boxes and it will stack 

correctly. 

72. Tagging

You can tag a friend, or yourself in most photos you have access to –

be aware that some people dislike being tagged in photos, so if your 

friend frequently removes tags of him or herself, maybe you shouldn’t

tag them. Any tags of people in videos or photos or notes will appear in 

their stream.

Part 5 – Your own page, or groups

In addition to having your own profile, Facebook allows you to keepbasic groups and pages, for fan purposes, or you can set up a group to 

talk about your passions, your interests or both. You can also join 

others – some places suggest there is a limit to the amount of pages 

and groups you can add.

73. Group or page?

A page is basically a mini profile – a group has a more group centric 

feel to its ‘front’ page, but there’s very little difference between them in 

reality. There are no current accurate figures posted on limits to pages 

and groups, so there may not be any – but be careful to join an ‘official’ 

group or fan page belonging to the official entity – there are many 

unofficial fans and groups on Facebook, and it’s not highly policed at 

present.

74. Pages and apps

Some apps can post to pages as if they were profiles – much like fully 

fledged Facebook profiles, pages can have most of the features of a 

‘real’ profile, so adding apps to them may be a possibility, depending on 

the app in question. Explore your options carefully though, because if 

an app is posting to your main profile, and your page, people following 

both will get duplicate content.

75. Groups

Groups are like clubs offline – you choose who can join and how wide 

its access is. Much like other parts of Facebook, it has its own wall, 

which everyone can post to. Pages have two – one for the owner to 

post to, one for fans to post to, and then it all feeds into one 

amalgamated stream.

76. Running both

Many people consider Facebook to be a place for allegiances – groups 

would then represent (casual) memberships and interaction in clubs, pages could be considered a greater endorsement or badge of interest, 

so running both isn’t a bad thing.

77. Causes

There are specific apps for causes on Facebook, but if you’re 

passionate about something, starting a group, or page is a great way to 

go – remember to make others admin (in edit membership on the group 

or page’s main page) so you’re not the only one in charge.

78. Ads

You can place your own ads on Facebook – and they run a lot like 

Adsense ads in most cases. You’ll need to condense whatever 

message you want to ‘send’ into very short sentences, but these ads 

are targetable and very powerful.

Part 4 – The best ways to play

There are a myriad of apps on Facebook that make it, not just a social 

networking site, but a hub where you can share games with your friends 

and family. Everything from Farmville to Bejeweled currently runs on 

Facebook’s app system – here are a few tips to jumpstart your play in 

some of the most popular games.

79. Farmville

Farmville is one of the most popular game apps on Facebook and 

allows you to run your own farm, grow your own (virtual) crops, tend 

animals and more. Its simplistic interface allows anyone to play easily. 

A similar game is Farm Town, but the mechanics are only slightly 

different.

80. Crops

Try to think about how often you check your Facebook – if you’re 

planting crops, make sure you’ll be able to come online to harvest them, 

or they are a waste of space and coins. As the more crops you harvest and the more crops you plant has a relation to your level, planning your 

crops carefully will allow you to maximize your game play, and afford 

items you may need.

81. Harvesting

When you harvest your crops in Farmville they sell automatically – the 

same can be said for animals or trees. Farm town stores all of your 

harvests in a box and you can go to market and sell them.

82. Vehicles and storage

As soon as you can, get a harvester, seeder and tractor – they will allow 

you to manage much larger farms, but require fuel. You can save up 

coins to buy them instead of paying real money for Farmville cash. The 

same thing can be said for buildings – some are limited edition though, 

so can only be bought with cash. 

83. Fuel

Fuel is used to run vehicles – but it’s finite and rechargeable. You can 

also buy fuel using cash, but larger farms use up fuel before you’ve 

finished your harvesting, plowing and planting, so remember that 

whatever you choose to do, you’ll have to still do some ‘manual’ work.

84. Is Farmville cash worth it?

Depending on many factors, including how competitive you are, and 

whether you want exclusive items, any app that allows you to buy 

special credits can be worth it. Don’t buy them if you’re a casual player 

though.

85. Collectables, and projects

Farmville has a mechanism to build things like stables – your friends list 

has to send you component parts, and then you can build a stable, or 

expand your storage. This can be frustrating however if they need a lot 

of pieces. Patience will get you there, and until then keep posting about 

it every few days by clicking on the building and sharing via that box.Bejeweled

Bejeweled is a tactical game of destroying gems. There is no ‘right 

way’ to play, but a couple of tips include:

86. iPhone app

Bejeweled’s iPhone app links with the game on Facebook (via connect) 

and allows you to post your score to Facebook. It is well worth the 

money, giving you four mini games in one – and another way to play 

while you’re waiting somewhere without computer access.

87. Sign up for the competition

Bejeweled offers a free competition and includes the scores from your 

iPhone app in the updates on site – which allows you to simply join in 

on the draw, even when you’re not on Facebook. 

88. Two different styles of game

Bejeweled onsite recently introduced special bonus crystals and more, 

giving another variation to the one minute blitz style game. Using the 

ones that fit with your play style can maximize your score. Bejeweled 

on the iPhone hasn’t had these introduced yet.

89. Bejeweled posts

Bejeweled will post to your profile whenever you reach a points target –

sometimes you’ll post a lot in a row, which can be annoying. If you’re 

planning on playing for a while, you can cancel posting (as you can with 

any other app) and post the last one. Your friends will appreciate this.

90. Mafia Wars/Vampire Wars

Both Mafia Wars and Vampire wars are basically the same game, with 

some minor variations – again, like Farmville, you can buy cash or 

credits to use in special parts of the game, but unlike Farmville, you 

don’t ‘grow’ crops or care for animals.

91. Finish jobs even if you’re leveled upMafia wars and vampire wars allow you to move onto another level (set) 

of quests, but you should stay on the lower level ones and complete 

them if you can – it’s a long process in most cases, but it does mean 

that you get extra skill points, and sometimes, in game cash. Maxing 

out the completion also gives you cool titles and other stuff that you 

can’t otherwise earn.

In VampireWars, you need to create minions to feed your powers –

these powers can be bought and upgraded to do better things once a 

day (though it takes several days to increase them to each level). 

Keeping your minions to at almost three times the amount you need to 

pay, as when you get into fights, you will lose blood.

In Mafia wars, there’s a similar mechanism – you need to buy 

properties, and support your illegal items. When you fight, you lose 

money. In Mafiawars you have to stop back and collect your take – in 

VampireWars it’s automatic.

Once you’ve completed the jobs/missions, you should always try to fight 

– be careful to pick someone near your level, or you will most probably 

lose – beating people of your level and slightly lower will let you level up 

and win more cash/blood to level with. 

Limited edition items are available in VampireWars by playing Akem’s 

Gamble and with Mandy’s wheel – both are either free or cost a little 

blood and have a cool down. In Mafiawars there is a daily lottery, and 

collections. Collections give bonuses and work a bit like talents – they 

drop every so often when completing jobs.

Other games

There are a myriad of other games that you can play, each based 

around the things that you like to do best – there are various designs of 

games, but most allow you to send gifts, and add friends to exchange 

‘stuff’.

92. Adding friends 

It’s important to remember that not everyone wants to play these 

games, so if you invite people, don’t do it constantly. If you’re new to 

Facebook, and your friends are inviting you, look out for those that play,and ask them to add you, or sign up and invite them.

93. Gifts

Sending gifts or elements from a game will also invite people to the 

game – so be careful who you send gifts to – they may have either 

blocked the game, or will remove you as a connection. Similarly, you 

can only send one a day, so choose wisely – if a friend is completing a 

collection go for that.

94. Posting your achievements

Most games allow you to post your achievements, levels, or important 

milestones – if that’s all that makes up your feed, you may find that your 

friends complain – or don’t read anything you post at all. 

95. Removing games 

Like every other app, you can remove any apps that are interfering with 

your profile, or posting too often – you may find that your friends 

complain if it posts too often – if that happens, you can simply change 

the app’s posting privileges, or if you’re not playing at all, remove it by 

going to Account, application settings and hitting the X beside the game 

name. 

Part 5 – An app for all seasons

Apps aren’t just games – there’s a tonne of functions that you can find 

in some great apps that you can use to add functionality to your new 

social media hub. We’ve featured a couple here.

96. Networked blogs lets you share your blog

Did you know that Networked Blogs also allows you to post to your own page (we talk about pages in Section 3)? Be careful though – those 

that have you as a friend and have fanned you will get more double 

updates from your blogs.

97. Network blogs also allows you to follow other blogs

Including your friends and some of the biggest blogs on the web. If you 

have a list of friends that you like to read, consider following them on 

Facebook – if they’re there, their blogs will be inserted into your feeds 

easily.

98. Networked Blogs or importing notes?

(See 2nd section for more information on notes) Notes are a great way 

of simply posting a lot of content to your feed, while Networked Blogs 

has features that blend importing RSS with a group – you can have 

people fan and rate your blog, have a discussions area and more. It all 

depends on your community needs.

99. Integrating other networks

Facebook has a lot of ‘bridge’ applications, which allow you to integrate 

external social networking sites, such as Flikr and twitter into your 

feeds. These powerful tools can take a while to set up, but are well 

worth it if you regularly use the sites you’re linking up. 

100. Horoscopes and more

Like everywhere else on the web, Facebook has facilities to post 

horoscopes and more – if you’re interested in that sort of thing, find one 

that your friends use and post it.

101. Developing your own

Facebook has a powerful API that allows you to develop just about 

anything based on a framework – so developing something that you 

think other people might like to play is easy. It’s also good advertising 

for the ‘cause’ or company of choice.Have fun

While all these tips cover the mechanics of networking and beyond, it’s 

important to remember that you should always try to enjoy yourself. 

Facebook is a social site – be social and enjoy everything it has to offer!

I Hope This Was A GOOD Read 

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