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IN THIS CHAPTER

Reading your News Feed and viewing posts

Interacting with friends’ posts using comments, likes, and reactions

Posting your own thoughts using the share box

Sometimes after we’ve explained to people about the basics of Facebook — it’s a website that lets you connect and share with your friends — they follow up with an obvious question: “But what do you do with it?”

The answer to that question is both simple — you keep up with your friends — and complicated. So many tiny actions and interactions on Facebook add up to a sense of being surrounded by your friends — and that sense of friendship keeps people coming back to Facebook day after day (and, with smartphones, minute after minute).

This book tells you how to do virtually everything you could ever want to do on Facebook, but chances are you won’t do some of them — such as create a photo album or plan an event — every single day. As you go about your day online — reading articles, watching videos, shopping, and more — you’ll check in on Facebook, find out news big and small from your friends and the Pages you follow, share a few of your thoughts or observations, and go on your way. This chapter covers these basic activities in depth.

The main way people find out news and generally keep in touch on Facebook is through their News Feed, the constantly updating content people post to their timelines. If your friends create stories, which are a certain type of post that disappears after 24 hours, you can see what they are up to right this moment, more or less. We talk about News Feed at length in this chapter and about the ways you interact with what you see there. Your News Feed isn’t just about reading the posts you see there; it’s also about comments and likes.

You can also keep up with friends by sharing your own content — status updates, photos, links to articles you read, and more. You can post your own content and create your own stories from the top of your News Feed. And your friends will, in turn, be able to see, like, and comment on what you posted.