Facebook Tutorial

Welcome to our Facebook tutorial!

In this series of free Facebook tutorials, we will start from the ground up with a Facebook tutorial for beginners, which will cover the very basics, like signing up to get a free Facebook account, how to tweak your profile, invite friends, etc. We'll then move on to more advanced topics and show you how you can customize your Facebook account and profiles, go over some of the main privacy settings and explain where to find the others.

Free Facebook Tutorials for Beginners

Let's start at the beginning: the first thing you'll need to do is go through Facebook sign up to get your free profile; while it is possible to access Facebook without an account, what you can do at that point is very limited. But, as you'll see, getting your profile takes less than 5 minutes - in fact, if you only enter the minimum amount of information required (and leave for later adding more details), the Facebook sign up process takes about a single minute!

Create a Facebook account - the first step, which allows to you enjoy all the goodies Facebook has to offer; and signing up for a Facebook profile is absolutely free.
Facebook sign in - this tutorial explains how to sign in to your Facebook account, and the options you can use to make sure that you stay logged in (which spares you from having to manually sign in every time).
Facebook login - in this tutorial, you will learn how the Facebook login works behind the scenes, which will help you stay safe and keep your account secure.
Facebook logout - Signing out of Facebook is as important, if not more, as signing in: especially if you are checking your Facebook account or editing your profile from a public computer (at the library, school, at work, etc.) you will want to ensure that no-one can access your account after you step away from that computer.

Working with pictures in your Facebook account

Picture sharing and photo albums creation are a big part of your Facebook activity, and have their own series of tutorials to help you get started:

Add or change the picture of your Facebook profile - Facebook profiles that don't show a picture won't get much attention; make sure that you include some kind of image for all to see when they land on your public profile - this tutorial explains how.

You can also hide or remove your profile picture on Facebook, either completely delete the picture, hide it from all users, or hide it from some users only.
Send a friend request - this Facebook tutorial explains how to request friendship from another Facebook user: once you've sent a friend request, the other user can either ignore the request, or approve it, in which case you then become Facebook friends.

If you change your mind and decide that you no longer want to become friends with someone, here is an explanation on how to cancel and unsend a friend request.

Facebook Email Tutorial

Once you have signed up with Facebook, you will have access to all messaging tools that social networking site has to offer: "Facebook Messaging" includes the real time chat and "Facebook Mail", or the email service we'll cover in this tutorials. (A separate site discusses in details the built-in chat client: see our Facebook Chat Tutorial and Tips.)

See our Facebook Email Tutorial for a breakdown of topics, including sending messages, reading them, marking them as "New" or "Read", how to send video messages using your webcam, etc. This feature is actively developed by Facebook, and it would not be surprising to see Facebook offer a webmail service to compete with Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, or Gmail. Ironically, the current iteration of Facebook Mail is bare-bones and very limited in terms of third-party integration (you can't check your emails from a regular mail application, for example), it also features quite advanced features not found in other webmail providers.

These free Facebook tutorials are regularly updated with new content: make sure to come back often to check for new Facebook tips and tricks to let you make the most of your favorite social networking website for Windows, Mac, and Linux!