Facebook Tutor

Networks

A network in Facebook represents a social group.  There are four types of networks:

• Regional:
  The regional network represents the area where you live.  For USA, Canada, and UK, the scope of the regional network is a city.  For all other countries, you can only select the entire country as your regional network.  You can only be a member of one regional network.
• Work:
  The work network represents the company for which you work.  Joining a work network requires that you have a valid e-mail address at that company; Facebook will send a confirmation e-mail to that address to verify you work for that company.
• College:
  The college network represents a college you’re attending or have attended.  This includes universities as well as community and technical colleges.  You must have a valid school e-mail account in order to join a college network; Facebook will send a confirmation e-mail to that address to verify this.
• High School:
  The high school network represents a high school you’re attending.  Facebook treats this network specially when joining.  Facebook requires that you become affiliated with the high school you’ve joined and provides a grace period for which to do so.  If you have a valid e-mail address at the high school or have been invited to Facebook by someone from that high school network, you will become automatically affiliated.  Alternatively, you can still join Facebook without either of those two conditions.  Your Facebook account will be valid for up to 60 days until someone in the high school network approves you as a member of that network at which point you will become affiliated.

It is important to belong to networks for a couple reasons.  First, networks can be used to search for people.  If you belong to a company but have not joined their network, other employees may not find you when searching for people in that network. Second, much of the privacy settings in Facebook are based on networks.  For example, if someone creates a Facebook group specifically for a regional network, you will not be able to join that group if you do not belong to that network.

Primary Network
You can choose which of the networks you belong to should be your primary network.  Your primary network should be the one you feel most connected to.  This network will appear alongside your name in search results.  Also, when searching the results that belong to your primary network will be a higher priority in the search results.

Photos

How to tag photos

To tag photos, navigate to the photo you want to tag. In the action links below the photo, you’ll see “Tag This Photo”. Clicking this enables tagging mode where you can use your mouse cursor to select a point in the photo where you want to tag someone (usually on their face). Clicking that point will open up a little window where you can select which of your friends that point represents. (If the tagged person doesn’t have a Facebook account or you don’t have them as a friend, you can just type their name in manually. This is strictly for annotation purposes for the photo and does not become associated with that person’s Facebook account.) You can continue this process for other people in the photo. Once you’re done, be sure to click the “Done Tagging” button at the top of the photo.

Removing a tag

In case you’re not happy with being tagged by someone else in a photo, you can remove your tag from that photo. Just navigate to the offending photo. Under the photo, you’ll see the list of tagged people in that photo. Next to your name will be a “remove tag” link. Clicking this will remove the tag from the photo so that this photo will no longer be associated with your Facebook account. It does not remove the photo.

It would be nice if Facebook allowed you to approve tags that people have made of you. This could help prevent some potentially embarrassing moments since a story entry is created on your profile every time you become tagged. To suggest this feature, visit Facebook’s Suggestions page.

Is there a way to cancel a friend request?

There is no way to cancel a friend request once it has been sent.

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How do I add a friend?!

Use Facebook Search to find the person you know and then click on the “Add as Friend” button to the right of their search listing. A friend request will be sent to that person. Once they confirm that they actually are friends with you, they will show up on your Friends List.

Please note that privacy settings may limit your ability to see the “Add as Friend” link for some users.