Facebook is the wildly popular, free social networking site that combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, clever applications, and interaction among friends. The one thing it doesn't have is a user's guide to help you truly take advantage of it. Until now. Facebook: The Missing Manual gives you a crystal clear and entertaining look at everything this fascinating Facebook phenomenon has to offer. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each page in this Missing Manual is uniquely designed to help you with specific Facebook tasks, such as signing up, networking, shopping, joining groups, finding or filling a job, and a whole lot more. You'll discover how to create your page and make connections with other members in no time -- everybody who went to your school, for example, or those who work at your company or play on your soccer team. Then, bingo! Instant access to the personal and professional details of all the folks you're connected with, the people they're connected with, and so on, and so on. With Facebook: The Missing Manual, you learn to:

• Join a network, whether it's where you went to school, work-related, or based on other interests

• Look up old friends, find new ones, and decide who you'd like to keep track of

• Contact members by virtually poking them, or leaving notes on their message boards

• Get automatic updates from Facebook friends and send updates of your own

• Participate in groups of particular interest and meet up with members face-to-face

• Buy and sell using Facebook's marketplace and classified ads

• Find a job or hire employees by combing through the member pool

• Use Facebook as a collaboration tool to keep team members, co-workers, clients, and projects up to date

• Play it safe by using a multi-pronged approach to ensuring your privacy

Think of Facebook as a 30-million-plus-entry searchable Rolodex on steroids! With help from this guide, you'll quickly get into the Facebook experience -- without getting in over your head.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 21 Ratings

Outdated - nearly worthless - 2009-08-19
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I am surprised that Amazon still sells this book without posting a disclaimer that it is so outdated as to be nearly worthless. Again and again readers are advised to go to menus that do not exist, or to click on links "at the top of any page" that no longer appear anywhere, on even one page. To make matters worse, the index omits many essential terms, so when the text refers you to a nonexistent feature, there is no way to tell whether it is simply a misprint, or if the same feature is discussed elsewhere in the book.

Some of the basic information is still usable, but for optimizing your use of Facebook, you would be far better off saving your money and putting your questions to random middle schoolers on the nearest street corner.

Out of Date - 2009-09-27
Reviewer Rating:
This book is hopelessly out-of-date. Very few of the screen-prints and menu options in the book are still accurate.

Do NOT buy this book: outdated in spades - 2009-11-11
Reviewer Rating:
Published in Jan 2008, this book no longer describes Facebook as it has made radical changes to the site recently. The book's pictures of screens and menu items are mostly not there. Should be pulled from circulation.

EXCELLENT BOOK! - 2009-08-10
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I read this book from cover to cover I learn a lot about Facebook. I became sorta addicted to Facebook. After four weeks I had to find a way to block facebook. [...]

Your Never Too Old to Learn Facebook - 2009-07-11
Reviewer Rating:
My two grown children kept telling me I HAD to get on Facebook. Now I know nothing of the likes of it so I was not eager. My daughter came by to set me up on Sunday and give me a few pointers. Two days later I went to book store and saw Facebook: The Missing Manual and thumbed through it, came home and immediately ordered it through Amazon. It is a GREAT resource for those of us who did not grow up with MySpace, Twitter, etc. I have expanded my Facebook account with so many things, like keeping track of the books I read, playing Scrabble with my daughter long-distance and just keeping up with the goings-on of the whole family. Without The Missing Manual, I would have kept to the front page and left the rest to those who know how. Definitely a MUST-HAVE!

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