To access the Events application, use the bookmark in the Applications menu at the bottom left of the page. If you do not see an Events bookmark in the menu, type "Events" in the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears. While using the application, you will see the option to bookmark it in the bar at the bottom of the page. You may adjust the order of your bookmarks at any time by dragging them within the Applications menu.

Keep in mind that you can also access individual upcoming events by typing their names into the search box and following the direct link that appears.

In order for an event to appear in the Events section of a group’s page, you will need to set the group as host of the event from the Edit Event page. In order to do this, you will need to be the admin of both the group and the event. You may always request admin status from a current admin. Please note that an event can only be hosted by one group.

To access the Groups application, use the bookmark in the Applications menu at the bottom left of the page. If you do not see a Groups bookmark in the menu, type "Groups" in the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears. While using the application, you will see the option to bookmark it in the bar at the bottom of the page. You may adjust the order of your bookmarks at any time by dragging them within the Applications menu.

Keep in mind that you can also access individual groups by typing their names into the search box and following the direct link that appears.

You will need to be a member of a group before you can add content to it. Also, a group admin may change the setting for who can post photos, videos or links to a group at any time. If you do not see a link to add a certain type of content, it is likely that this setting has been recently adjusted.

To add a friend, just use Facebook Search to find people 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. Also, once you’ve sent a friend request to a particular user, you cannot send another.

While status updates have been removed from the Friends page, they have been added in a separate filter on the home page. If you do not see this filter in your left hand menu immediately, just click the "More" link located beneath the menu.

Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. While you may not have been purposely trying to commercially solicit other users, repeatedly sending the same message or making the same post is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use and is considered a very serious offense.

To protect our users from spam and other unsolicited commercial messages, Facebook has imposed stringent guidelines that flag when a user repeatedly sends or posts the same message, even if you were simply trying to organize a group or event.

Facebook has several recommended alternatives that can ensure these situations don’t arise again. If you were trying to organize an event and were sending out all of the information in messages, we suggest you create a Facebook Event by going to the Events page and then clicking "Create an Event." You can then fill in all the necessary information for the event and invite all your friends using the invite feature within the event. You can also utilize the "Message All" feature, which allows you to message all guests that have RSVP’d ‘yes’ to the event.

If you were trying to promote your group by posting a link to join it in a message, on a wall, or in a discussion board, this can be construed as spam. We suggest making your friends administrators of this group so that they can invite their friends using the Invite functionality built into the group. You can do this by clicking on "Edit Group Members" and then on "make admin" next to the users’ names. Each admin can invite his/her own friends to the group.

You can create a Facebook Page.

Facebook Pages give brands and businesses an opportunity to create a presence on Facebook. Brands and businesses can customize their Facebook Page to maximize user interaction and interest. A Facebook Page will allow brands and businesses to deepen connections with users and give the ability to maximize viral promotion through Social Ads. Click here to create a Page, or simply click on the "Create a page for your business" link at the bottom of any Page.

You can create Social Ads.

Social Ads leverage the power and viral nature of Facebook News Feed by serving relevant stories when users’ friends take actions with a Facebook Page or Application. In addition to providing a more relevant advertising experience for users, Social Ads help brands and businesses maximize reach to a greater percentage of the Facebook audience. To learn more about Social Ads and start creating your campaign, please click here.

You received this warning because a photo or video that you uploaded has been removed for violating Facebook's Terms of Use. Photos and videos containing nudity, drug use, or other graphic content are not allowed, nor are photos or videos that depict violence or that attack an individual or group. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, we are unable to provide further information about the removed content. In order to prevent this from happening in the future, please refrain from posting photos or videos of this kind and remove any that still exist on the site.

We remove content that harasses an individual or group. Facebook also must honor requests to remove content that draws unwanted attention to specific people. To prevent this from happening in the future, please be careful to review the content of any group you administer.

You can find your applications via the Applications menu, which you can access by clicking "Applications" in the bottom-left corner of the page.

The real-time stream on your home page includes stories about your all friends’ activities. To view only your friends’ application stories, use the Filters under the Applications heading in the left sidebar of your home page. For example, if you click on the "Photos" link, only your friends’ Photos stories will appear.

The Groups and Events filters you may see on the left side of your home page will show you recent stories about your friends' groups and events. You can access these applications from the Applications menu at the bottom of the page. You can also type the application name into the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears. In addition, you can type the name of a specific group or event into the search box to access it more quickly.

You can view today’s events and birthdays in the Events section on the right-hand sidebar of your home page. This section is located beneath Highlights. Click the "See All" link to see upcoming events and birthdays, friends’ events and past events.

Any pending requests and invites you have will appear in the Requests section on the right sidebar on your home page. This section is located at the very top, above Suggestions. Follow the links to view details, RSVP, or confirm your requests.

You can create a group by going to the Groups application and clicking "Create a Group" in the upper right corner of the page. On the following page, you will be able to add descriptive information about your group. All groups require a group name, description and group type. Click "Create Group" when you are finished.

After you have added this information, you will then be able to control settings related to your group’s privacy and add a group picture. You can change these settings at any time by clicking "Edit Group" on the group’s main page.

You can control the membership of a group you admin by following the "Edit Members" link on the group’s page. Note that you will not be able to remove the group creator even if you are an admin. If you do not see the option to remove a specific member of your group or to set the member as an admin, please submit a report to Facebook here.

In order to invite the members of this group to an event the group is hosting, go to the event's page and click "Invite People to Come." Check the box at the bottom of the Invite Guests tab to invite members of the host group before clicking "Send Invitations." Note that the group must already be set as the host of the event.

For larger groups, invitations to related events may be delayed. Group members should receive these invitations within a few hours. Guests will not display on the event until these invitations are received. Please note that you will not be able to invite the members of a host group to an event if the group has over 5,000 members.

As a group officer, your name and title will appear on the group's page. Officers have no additional privileges beyond regular members. Only group admins can edit group information, add and remove members, and appoint other admins and officers.

To become an admin, you will need to request this status from a current admin. You can also assume this role if you are a member of a group for which there is no current admin.

In a group with more than one administrator, these requests to join may be confirmed or ignored by any admin. Also, keep in mind that users may cancel their requests to join a group at any time. If a request has been canceled or handled by another admin, the link in the email may take you to your home page or to your other new requests.

While regular members of a group will not be able to search within the list of group members, any group admin should be able to find a member by entering a full name into the search box on the Edit Members page. If you are unable to find a particular member using this process, please submit a report to Facebook here.

You will not be able to remove the creator of a group. This policy is in place to prevent abuse. You may request that the group creator leave the group at any time, but no other admin will be granted creator status. If the creator is unresponsive or unwilling to leave, you will need to create a separate group.

A group administrator, or admin, controls the membership and content of a group. Admins can send messages to the group, appoint other admins and edit group info and settings. They can also remove current members and other admins.

After creating a group, you will automatically be listed as both an admin and the group's creator. Any admin can add additional admins to a group by using the "Make Admin" button next to each member's name in the member list or on the Edit Members tab.

To message all members of a group as the group’s admin, go to the group profile and follow the "Message All Members" link underneath the group photo. Please note that this option is only available for groups with 5,000 people or fewer.

If you have fewer than 5,000 in your group but are seeing an error screen when trying to send a message to all members, please submit a report to Facebook here.

The option to message all members will not appear on a group after it has passed 5,000 members. This measure is in place both for technical reasons and to prevent spam. We understand that this limitation may pose an inconvenience and will keep this in mind as we continue to improve the feature.

Any admin can add officers to a group by going to the Edit Group page and selecting the Officers tab. After clicking "make officer" next to a group member's name, the option to enter a specific position title will appear. Officers have no additional privileges beyond regular members. They are unable to send messages to all members or remove members. Officers' names and positions are displayed on the group's page.

To message all members of a group as the group’s administrator, go to the group’s page and click "Message All Members" beneath the group photo. Please note that this option is only available for groups with 5,000 or fewer members.

When viewing the profile of a group that you administer, you should see a link to "Create Related Event" below the group picture. This will lead you to the event creation page and will also set your group as the host of the event. Check the box at the bottom of the Invite Guests tab to invite members of the host group before clicking "Send Invitations." Please note that this option is not available for groups that have over 5,000 members.

Be sure to verify that you are a current administrator of this group. If your name displays in the "Officers" section only, even with a title of "admin," you are a group officer. While officers’ names and titles display on the group page, officers remain regular group members and do not have editing privileges. If you wish to become admin of this group, you will need to request this status from a current admin. They will be able to make this change using the button next to your name on the member list.

People from any network can join a group if the group's creator has listed its network is "Global." This option is set when the group is created and cannot be edited later. Global groups can have members from any network. When someone is in the same group as you, this does not allow them to see any more profile information than your privacy settings allow.

Unfortunately, you cannot edit the network of a group once it has been created. In order for your network-specific group to be a global group, you must create the group again.

You can invite people who do not have Facebook accounts to join your group if the group is set as global, but they will not be able to join until they register for Facebook.

Click the "Invite" tab on the "Edit Group" page and list your friends’ email addresses in the box labeled "Invite People via Email." Next, click "Send Invitations" to send email invitations to these people.

In order to join the group, they will need to register for Facebook. Instructions for joining Facebook will be included in the email they receive.

Our system automatically deletes groups once they're empty (no members). If you created the group, you can delete the group by removing all members and then yourself. Note that if you were not the first admin and creator of this group, you will not be able to delete the group unless the group creator has left it voluntarily.

Our system automatically deletes groups once they're empty (no members). If you have already left the group, you may contact another admin to request that they remove the members. Please note that if there are no current admins, all group members will have the option of taking the admin role. If the group is an open group and has no admins, you may rejoin the group from the group’s page and make yourself an admin again.

If you are no longer a member of the group, you will need to rejoin it and request admin status from the current admin. If the group has no current admin, you or any other member will be able to take the admin position by clicking "Become Admin" on the right side of the group's page.

When the last admin leaves a group, there may be a delay before you see the option to become the new admin. You will need to check back periodically until the option appears.

To view a list of known issues concerning the Groups application, click here.

Groups and Pages serve different purposes on Facebook. Groups are meant to foster group discussion around a particular topic area while Pages allow entities such as public figures and organizations to broadcast information to their fans. Only the authorized representative of the entity can run a Page.

We are continually looking for ways to enhance overall user experience. The improved functionality of Facebook Groups makes it easier for members of groups to connect, share and even collaborate on a given topic or idea. Prior to the enhancements, users sometimes found that it took a lot of effort to keep up with items that were happening in the various groups that they belong to. By making content from Facebook Groups available in users’ News Feed, we are making it easier for them to stay current on all of the group related information that matter to them.

Facebook Ads for Pages and Events allow users to engage with your ads the same way they interact with other content on Facebook – without leaving the page they are viewing. Ads for Pages include a "Become a fan" link, while ads for Facebook Events include an "RSVP" link. Users who view these ads can connect with your Pages and Events from the ad itself, automatically creating a story on the user’s profile page and possibly even their friends’ home page Highlights, generating free distribution for you.

You can choose to include a "Become a Fan" link when you create a Facebook Ad for a Page. This will allow users to connect with your Page directly from the ad, without interrupting their Facebook experience. They'll still be able to click on your ad and view the Page directly as well. To set up ads with a "Become a fan" link, click "Promote Page with an Ad" when viewing any Page you manage, and this option will be automatically added to the ad creative. Alternatively, you can create ads with this fan link when you choose to advertise your Page through the normal ad creation page.

If you'd like to advertise an Event you've created on Facebook, you can now also choose to let users RSVP directly from the ad. To do so, simply choose to advertise your Event from the Event page itself, or from the ad creation page as above.

You can choose to include an RSVP link when you create a Facebook Ad for an Event. This will allow users to connect with your Event directly from the ad, without interrupting their Facebook experience. They'll still be able to click on your ad and view the Event directly as well. To set up Event ads with an RSVP link, click "Promote Event with an Ad" when viewing any Event you manage, and this option will be automatically added to the ad creative. Alternatively, you can create ads with this link when you choose to advertise your Event through the normal ad creation page.

If you'd like to advertise a Page you manage on Facebook, you can now also choose to let users "Become a fan" directly from the ad. To do so, simply choose to advertise your Page from the Page itself, or from the ad creation page as above.

As with all Facebook Ads, you will bid for Facebook Ads for Pages and Events on a per-click (CPC) or per-impression (CPM) basis. You will never pay more than your maximum CPC or CPM bid. If you choose to pay per click (CPC), this will include clicks on your title, image, or ad body, and clicks on the "Become a Fan" link or "Yes" and "Maybe" RSVPs. You will not be charged when a user clicks on their friends’ names appearing with the ad, or for incomplete or "No" RSVPs.

As with all Facebook Ads, your reports will show you how your ads are performing with impressions, clicks and CTR. Clicks will include clicks on your title, image, body and clicks on the "Become a Fan" link or RSVP "Yes" and "Maybe"s. In addition, you will see a breakdown of your respective friend actions (users becoming fans of your Page, or RSVPing to your Event) so that you can measure how these features are performing for your ads.

Yes. Click on the "I want to advertise a web page." link and you’ll be able to create your own ad: title, body, image and URL which points to your Page but does not include the "Become a Fan" link.

Yes. Click on the "I want to advertise a web page." link and you’ll be able to create your own ad: title, body, image and URL which points to your Event but does not include the "RSVP to this Event" link.

No, friend actions can only be used to promote content within Facebook. This ensures users are clearly aware of the actions they're taking with your ad.

You can join any open group that is set as global or that is limited to one of your current networks. You can search for groups by typing a name in the Search field at the top of the page, and then filtering the results to show only groups by clicking the Groups tab. Alternatively, you can browse groups by category from the Groups main page. To become a member, click the group's name, and then click "Join this Group" under the group picture on the right side of the screen.

Some groups require admin approval for you to join. If you try to join these groups, you will have to wait for an admin to confirm your request before you can join the group. Admins can change the settings for who can join a group at any time, and can also block specific people from joining a group.

Certain groups on Facebook require an invitation in order to join. You cannot request to join these. Only an invitation from a group admin will give you access.

You can join up to 300 groups. If you have already reached this limit, you will need to leave some groups before you will be able to join any new ones.

To leave a group, click "Leave Group" below the group photo. Clicking this link removes you from the group's member list and also removes the group from your list of groups.

The Related Groups section is a list of groups that have the most group members in common with the group that you are viewing. Group admins can choose whether to display this section from the "Customize" tab of the Edit Group page.

Due to restrictive search privacy, a group administrator’s name may be listed in black text and will not appear under the "Admins" section of the member list. To contact this admin, you will need to use the group Wall or discussion board. If they remain unresponsive and you wish to gain admin status, you will need to create a separate group for this purpose.

You can anonymously report any group as offensive. There is a button at the bottom-left of the group that will allow you to submit your complaint. Facebook will process to these reports and take the appropriate action based on Facebook's Terms of Use.

You can report a group that violates Facebook’s Terms of Use by clicking the "Report Group" link at the bottom left of the group’s page. Groups containing drug-related, nudity, or other graphic or sexually suggestive content are not allowed, nor are groups that promote violence or that attack an individual or group.

Facebook reviews every report we receive to determine whether or not the content violates our Terms of Use and will take appropriate action. Rest assured that these reports will be kept confidential.

When you create a group, you can completely control its privacy. There are three different access levels:

1. Open: For "global" groups, everyone on Facebook can view the group and join. If the group is exclusive to a specific network, only the people in that network can view the group or join it. All content (e.g., photos, videos and discussions) is visible to anyone viewing the group.
2. Closed: For "global" groups, everyone on Facebook can see the group, but the administrators must approve all membership requests or personally send invitations. If the group is exclusive to one network, only people in that network can view the group or join it. Only group members can view its Wall, discussion board, and photo or video content. Non-members can view its Info and Recent News. If you are not a member, you will not receive stories about closed groups.
3. Secret: These groups cannot be found in searches or be viewed by non-members. The name of the group will not display on the profiles of members. Membership is by invitation only. Non-members will not receive stories about secret groups.

Group administrators can change these options at any time by clicking "Edit Group" below the group photo.

When someone is in the same group as you, this does not allow them to see any more of your profile information than your privacy settings allow.

Unfortunately, you will not be able to send a second group invitation to the same friend. Please tell the user to contact us directly from the login email address associated with their account. They should also make sure to include the full name and web address (URL) of the group.

To remove the ban on a person that you blocked from a group, follow the steps below:

1. Go to a group that you administrate.
2. Click the "Edit Members" link.
3. Select "Blocked."
4. Select "Remove Ban" next to the name of the person you no longer wish to block from the group.
5. Click "Remove Ban" in the window that appears.

When a person is blocked from a group, they cannot see the group or any stories about it.

To block a person from a group, follow the steps below:

1. Go to a group that you administrate.
2. Click the "Edit Members" link.
3. Select "Blocked."
4. Click the "Block People" link.
5. Enter the name of a person you want to block and click "Find."
6. Select the person and click "Block."

To block a person from an event, follow the steps below:

1. Go to an event that you administrate.
2. Click the "Edit Guest List" link.
3. Select "Blocked."
4. Click the "Block People" link.
5. Enter the name of a person you want to block and click "Find."
6. Select the person and click "Block."

To remove the ban on a person that you blocked from an event, follow the steps below:

1. Go to an event that you administrate.
2. Click the "Edit Guest List" link.
3. Select "Blocked."
4. Select "Remove Ban" next to the name of the person you no longer wish to block from the event.
5. Click "Remove Ban" in the window that appears.

You can create an event from the Publisher on your Home page or profile. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Select the event icon in the Publisher.
2. Fill out the title, location, and time of your event.
3. Click the "Share" button.
4. Select the "Invite guests" link from the resulting story to invite your friends.

When viewing the profile of a group that you administer, you should see a link to "Create Related Event" below the group picture. This will lead you to the event creation page and will also set your group as the host of the event. Check the box at the bottom of the Invite Guests tab to invite members of the host group before clicking "Send Invitations." Please note that this option is not available for groups that have over 5,000 members.

When you create an event, you are automatically listed as an admin. Admins have the ability to invite more people to the event, appoint other admins and edit event content. Any admin can add more administrators to an event by clicking the "Edit Guest List" link on the event's main page. Next to the name of every person who has RSVP'd as attending, there is an option to "Make Admin."

If an admin has listed a valid street address on the Edit Event page, people will be able to view a map and directions to the event’s location by clicking "View Map" below the event’s location. An admin can add an address or change the current address after an event has been created.

To message the event guest list, go to the event’s main page and click "Message All Guests" beneath the event profile photo. You will be able to send a message to all guests, or to different groups of guests based on RSVP status.

Please note that you can only message all guests if the total number of guests who are attending, maybe attending, or who have not yet replied does not exceed 5,000. Also, if an event is hosted by a Page, the Page admin will not see the option to send a message to event guests. Individuals may be added as event admins in order to have this option.

Event admins can select whether videos can be posted to an event. To enable video posting, click "Edit Event" on the event’s main page and then select "Enable Videos" under the Customize tab. If videos are enabled, the admins have the choice to allow either all event invitees or only other admins to post them.

If you are allowed to add videos, you can do this by selecting "Add Videos" from the main page of the group. You can add video that you have posted on Facebook, upload a video from your computer, or record a new video. If this is an open event, the videos will be visible to everyone who views it. The videos posted on closed and secret events are only visible to other people who were invited. Admins also have the ability to remove videos that they do not want to be associated with their event.

You will not be able to send a second invitation to someone who has already been invited to join your group. If a friend accidentally ignored or did not receive your first invitation, please have them contact us directly.

An event is deleted once all of the admins remove the event from their Events lists. This can be done on the Event Profile itself or on the Events page. Alternatively, an admin has the option to cancel an event. A "Cancel This Event" link can be found on the Event page. If you cancel the event, an email will be sent to everyone who was invited. You have the option of writing a personal note that explains why you are canceling the event.

To invite guests from a recent event you attended to an upcoming event, follow the steps below:

1. Create an event by going to the Events page and clicking "Create an Event" in the upper right corner.
2. When inviting friends to your event, select the "Filter Friends" menu.
3. Choose an event under the "Recent Events" heading.
4. From here, you can individually select friends or click "Select All" to invite all your friends who attended the recent event.

This tool is especially useful for recurring events with the same group of people (e.g. book club meetings, sports practices, etc.).

We are currently working with people whose accounts have been affected by money transfer scams

The money transfer scam is characterized by cybercriminals using Facebook in an attempt to trick your friends into sending them money. Most frequently, these criminals will gain control of a Facebook account, and use the Chat or Status features to claim that you are stuck in a far away location and in need of financial assistance.

It is possible that your email account was compromised as well, as obtaining access to a victim’s email is one of the primary ways these cybercriminals have been operating. Please take the following steps to ensure the security of your Facebook account:

1. Select a unique and complex password for your Facebook account and keep this entirely to yourself. You can do this from the Account Settings page of your Facebook account or by using the "Forgot Password" link on the login page.



2. Select a new, unique password for any email address associated with your account, making sure to avoid using the same password for any account.



3. Verify that you control all of the email addresses associated with your account on the Contact Email section at:

https://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php


4. Add a security question to your account from the Account Settings page if you have not done so already.



5. Visit the following page for more information about Facebook security and how to report suspicious material:

http://www.facebook.com/security

If you require further assistance in securing your account, please enter your account information in this form so that we can make sure your account is secure.

It is possible that malicious software was downloaded to your computer or that your password was stolen by a phishing website designed to look like Facebook. Please carefully follow the steps provided:

1. Run anti-virus software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove these harmful programs and keep your information secure.
   • For Windows:
     http://www.microsoft.com/protect/viruses/xp/av.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/default.mspx
   • For Apple/Mac OS:
     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222


2. Reset password: From the Account Setting page, you will need to create a new password. Be sure to use a different password than you use for other sites or services, made up of a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. Do not use words found in the dictionary.


3. Never click suspicious links: It is possible that your friends could unwillingly send spam, viruses, or malware through Facebook if their accounts are infected. Do not click this material and do not run any ".exe" files on your computer without knowing what they are. Also, be sure to use the most current version of your browser as they contain important security warnings and protection features. Current versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer warn you if you have navigated to a suspected phishing site, and we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the most current version. You can also find more information about phishing and how to avoid it at http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html and http://onguardonline.gov/phishing.html.
   
   Phishing is an online attempt to trick a user by pretending to be an official login page or an official email from an organization that you would have an account with, such as a bank or an email provider, in order to obtain a user’s login and account information. In the case of a phishing login page, the login page may look identical to the login page you would normally go to, but the website does not belong to the organization you have an account with (the URL web address of the website should reflect this). In the case of a phishing email, the email may look like an email you would get from the organization you have an account with and get emails from, but the link in the email that it directs you to takes you to the above phishing login page, rather than a legitimate login page for that organization.
   
   To prevent your account information from being obtained in a phishing scheme, only log in to legitimate pages of the websites you have an account with. For example, "www.facebook.example.com" is not a legitimate Facebook page on the "www.facebook.com" domain, but "www.facebook.com/example" is a legitimate Facebook page because it has the "facebook.com" domain. When in doubt, you can always just type in "facebook.com" into your browser to return to the legitimate Facebook site.

If you are still unable to access your profile, please send us more information regarding the issue so we can investigate. Please submit your report here.

If your account has been hacked and you can still access your login email address, please attempt to reset the password to your account by selecting the "Forgot your password?" link that appears above the Password field on the Facebook Login page. An email will be sent to you with steps for completing the process.

If your account has been hacked and the login email on your account has also been compromised or has been changed, please send us information about the account so we can look into it further and hopefully restore access. Please submit your report here.

It is possible that malicious software was downloaded to your computer or that your password was stolen by a phishing website designed to look like Facebook. Please carefully follow the steps provided:

1. Run anti-virus software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove these harmful programs and keep your information secure.
   • For Windows:
     http://www.microsoft.com/protect/viruses/xp/av.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/default.mspx
   • For Apple/Mac OS:
     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222


2. Reset password: From the Account Setting page, you will need to create a new password. Be sure to use a different password than you use for other sites or services, made up of a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. Do not use words found in the dictionary.


3. Never click suspicious links: It is possible that your friends could unwillingly send spam, viruses, or malware through Facebook if their accounts are infected. Do not click this material and do not run any ".exe" files on your computer without knowing what they are. Also, be sure to use the most current version of your browser as they contain important security warnings and protection features. Current versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer warn you if you have navigated to a suspected phishing site, and we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the most current version. You can also find more information about phishing and how to avoid it at http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html and http://onguardonline.gov/phishing.html.
   
   Phishing is an online attempt to trick a user by pretending to be an official login page or an official email from an organization that you would have an account with, such as a bank or an email provider, in order to obtain a user’s login and account information. In the case of a phishing login page, the login page may look identical to the login page you would normally go to, but the website does not belong to the organization you have an account with (the URL web address of the website should reflect this). In the case of a phishing email, the email may look like an email you would get from the organization you have an account with and get emails from, but the link in the email that it directs you to takes you to the above phishing login page, rather than a legitimate login page for that organization.
   
   To prevent your account information from being obtained in a phishing scheme, only log in to legitimate pages of the websites you have an account with. For example, "www.facebook.example.com" is not a legitimate Facebook page on the "www.facebook.com" domain, but "www.facebook.com/example" is a legitimate Facebook page because it has the "facebook.com" domain. When in doubt, you can always just type in "facebook.com" into your browser to return to the legitimate Facebook site.

If you are still unable to access your profile, please send us more information regarding the issue so we can investigate. Please submit your report here.

Please note that is not technically possible to hack a Facebook group. As long as the current administrators of a group keep their login details secure, keep their account enabled, and do not allow any suspicious people to become admins, then the group will remain secure. Please note, however, that if a group is left without an admin, any member will be able to assume that role. If this situation occurs, we encourage you or the former admin of this group to contact the current admin to resolve this matter. Unfortunately, Facebook is not able to add you back as an admin for any group.

In addition, as long as the group does not contain information that violates our Terms of Use, we will not take any action it. For more information on conduct prohibited by Facebook, please read ourStatement of Rights and Responsibilities, which can be accessed by clicking on the "Terms" link at the bottom of any Facebook page.

Phishing is an online attempt to trick users into providing login and account information by pretending to be a login page or email from an official organization. Common examples include banks or email providers.

In the case of a phishing login page, the login page may look identical to the login page you would normally go to. However, in these instances the website does not belong to the organization you have an account with (the URL web address of the website should reflect this).

In the case of a phishing email, the email may look like an email you would receive from the organization you have an account with. However, the links provided in these emails typically direct you to the above phishing login page, rather than a legitimate login page for that organization.

To prevent your account information from being obtained in a phishing scheme, please double check the URL of the websites you have an account with. For example, "www.facebook.example.com" is not a legitimate Facebook page on the "www.facebook.com" domain, but "www.facebook.com/example" is a legitimate Facebook page because it has the "facebook.com" domain. When in doubt, you can always just type in "facebook.com" into your browser to return to the legitimate Facebook site.

Please note that current versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer warn you if you have navigated to a suspected phishing site, and we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the most current version. You can also find more information about phishing and how to avoid it at http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html and http://onguardonline.gov/phishing.html.

Make sure that when you access the site, you always log in from a legitimate facebook.com domain. A good rule of thumb is if a URL ends in facebook.com, it is owned by Facebook. For example, "en-gb.facebook.com" ends in facebook.com and is therefore safe and legitimate.

When in doubt, just type "facebook.com" into your browser's address field. It's a good idea to bookmark the facebook.com address so that you don't have to enter it manually.

Other URLs that look like Facebook but do not follow this criterion could be illegitimate phishing websites. Never submit your login credentials to a site that looks suspicious.

Facebook has enabled third-party websites to use Facebook’s login and authentication system through a program called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows users to take their Facebook identity, network, and privacy settings with them as they browse and interact with the rest of the Web.

Connect-enabled sites often provide an option to log in to Facebook directly from the site itself. When you see this, you should make sure that the login opens in a separate browser pop-up window, and that the Web address (URL) for the pop-up contains the proper "www.facebook.com" domain. If it does, you’ll know that it’s a legitimate Facebook page and not a phishing attempt, and you can log in safely and securely.

Note: if you’re logged in to Facebook, the Facebook Connect partner site should only ask you to "authorize" that site.

A message "thread" is created when one message is sent to multiple recipients. If you respond to the message and click the blue "Reply" button, your response will be sent to everyone that is included in the thread. If you would like to reply to one person that has responded to the thread individually, just click the "Reply" link located to the right of that person’s message. This conversation will begin a new thread between you and the recipient.

If you would no longer like to receive Updates from a public profile, group, or event, click on any Update it has sent to your Inbox. Next, click the "Unsubscribe" link located below the Update.

To ensure that all of your Notifications are turned off, please follow these steps:

1. Go to the Notifications section of your Account Settings page.
2. Under the "Facebook" section, click the "Show More" link.
3. Select "Off" for all of the Notification types that are listed.

You can control who is allowed to see specific elements of your profile from your Privacy Settings page, which you can access by selecting the "Settings" link at the top of every Facebook page.

Keep in mind that your Wall does not allow anyone to see any actions or content that they normally wouldn't be allowed to see. For example, if you post a photo that is only visible to friends, non-friends will not see a story about that photo post when they view your Wall.

To remove a particular Wall story:

1. Hover your mouse over the right corner of the Wall story
2. Click the "Remove" button

To prevent certain types of stories from being published about you:

1. Go to the Privacy Settings page from the Settings drop down menu
2. Click on the "News Feed and Wall" link.
3. Uncheck the story types you don’t want published. For example, if you uncheck the box next to "Write on a Friend’s Wall," no one will ever see a News Feed or Wall story when you post to someone else's Wall.

To turn off Wall stories published by specific applications:

1. Click on the Applications menu in the bottom left corner of any Facebook page
2. Select the "Edit All" link.
3. Click on the "Wall Permissions" filter to see a list of all the applications that can publish stories on your Wall.
4. Click "Edit" to the right of each application to adjust its settings.

The "Wall-to-Wall" link is only available for people who are permitted to see the profiles of both individuals. This link allows you to see the history of Wall posts between two people. While it cannot be removed, you can restrict who can view this link on your profile by editing your Wall privacy. To do this, go to the "Profile" section of the Privacy Settings page and scroll down to "Wall Posts."

Privacy on Facebook is controlled primarily from the Privacy Settings page, which you can access from the Settings link at the top of any Facebook page. From here, there are settings for Profile, Search, News Feed and Wall, and Applications.

Profile privacy refers to the visibility of your profile information. You can control each type of profile content separately. Click the question mark to the right of any content type to learn more about what it includes. If you click "Edit Custom Settings" for any content type, you can exclude specific friends or Friend lists from viewing content by typing the first few letters of the friend or list in the "Except these People" field. There is also a "Contact Information" tab on this page for editing each element of your contact information.

Search privacy refers to who can find your Facebook profile, and what they can see and do when they reach it. On this page, you can select what groups of people can find you in search, and control how your profile looks to someone who can search for your profile but is not your friend. For example, you can prevent anyone who is not your friend from sending you a message or friend request. You can also enable or disable a public search listing, which is a basic Facebook page that people can find if they search for you on the Internet.

News Feed and Wall privacy allows you to control whether actions you take on the site could appear on your profile page or on your mutual friends’ News Feeds. The "Facebook Ads" tab on this page provides additional information about how your information or actions can sometimes be shown near advertisements.

Applications privacy is where you can control what profile information users can see when they participate in third party applications with you.

For any changes to your privacy settings, be sure to click "Save Changes" when your changes are complete.

To restrict the visibility of specific content from a group of people, you will want to create a Friend List to organize those people. You can do this from the Friends page or from any privacy setting. From a privacy setting, follow these steps:

1. Click the drop-down next to the setting that controls the content you want to restrict and select "Customize."
2. You will see a pop-up that contains the section "Except These People." Add three or more people to this section.
3. Click "Okay."
4. Enter a name for your new friend list.

The people on this friend list will now be unable to view the content in question.

In addition to being able to restrict content from specific people, you can also choose to show content to a select group of people. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Profile section of the Privacy page.
2. Click the drop-down next to the setting that controls the content you want to adjust and select "Customize."
3. Under the section "Who Can See This", select the Some Friends option.
4. Enter the name of a friend or Friend List to whom you want to show the content.

You can do this for as many friends or Friend Lists as you like. Only the friends in this section will be able to view the content.

Please make sure that you also adjust your Networks visibility, as the Friends section only affects your list of friends on Facebook. These two sections are independent from one another.

When you are creating content, you can also set the privacy settings for that specific piece of content. For example, if you are uploading a new photo album, you can control the privacy settings for the album during the first step of the album creation process.

Facebook is committed to protecting your information. We have industry standard and proprietary network monitoring tools constantly running in our system in order to prevent security breaches and protect the security of your data.

In addition, Facebook always posts to a secure page when users are logging in and employs industry standard encryption. This may not always be apparent from the URL (web address), but rest assured our logins are secure.

Facebook does not allow users to track profile views or see statistics on how often a particular piece of content has been viewed and by whom without your consent.

If an Application claims to provide this functionality, you can report an application for abuse by going to the application’s About page and clicking "Report Application" at the bottom of the page, or by clicking "Report" at the bottom of any canvas page within the application.

You can remove the Developer application here. Select "Authorized" from the dropdown, find the "Developer" application, and click the "X" next to it to remove it. This will also remove you from the Developer group.

You can personalize your Facebook URL (web address) by selecting a unique username. It will appear in the location bar of your browser after "http://www.facebook.com/" when you view your profile.

Not at this time. Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period ("."). We're looking at how we may potentially support non-romanized characters in the future.

Usernames are available only for Facebook profiles and Pages. It is not possible to claim a username for a group or event created with these Facebook applications.

Facebook encourages all users to utilize the "Report" links when they find abusive content. You can report an abusive username by selecting the "Report this Person" link located on the bottom left side of that person's profile. This takes you to a form where you can specify the type of abuse and make a detailed report. Facebook investigates these reports and makes a determination as to whether or not the content should remain on the site. All abuse reports on Facebook are confidential.

If your account was compromised and a username was selected without your consent, please report the issue here.

Please make sure that the email associated with your account is secure. If you're having trouble logging in with your normal email and password, try resetting your password using the link on the login page. An email will be sent to you with steps for completing the process. If the email on your account has been changed, or if you are unable to access your profile, please send include information about the account in your report so we can look into it further and hopefully restore access.

After reactivating your account, it may take a few hours before all your groups, events, notes and other content is completely restored. If this content has not been restored within 24 hours of reactivation, report the issue here.

When trying to view previously created notes, some people are not seeing their notes in the ‘My Notes’ and ‘Drafts’ sections. Please note that after reactivating your account, it may take up to 24 hours for your content (Notes, Groups, Events) to be restored.

After selecting the "Write a New Note" link, some user’s pages refresh and are not redirected to the Write a Note page. If you are experiencing this issue, please submit your report to Facebook here.

To access the Notes application, use the bookmark in the Applications menu at the bottom left of the page. If you do not see a Notes bookmark in the menu, type "Notes" in the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears. While using the application, you will see the option to bookmark it in the bar at the bottom of the page. You may adjust the order of your bookmarks at any time by dragging them within the Applications menu.

The option to create a regional network-specific (e.g., San Francisco) group or event has been removed as this setting was confusing and prevented users from inviting friends in other networks to groups or events. If you created a regional network-specific group or event, it has been made Global. This will give you the ability to invite all of your friends to join your group or event, regardless of what network(s) they have joined.

Regional networks have been removed from groups and events to give admins greater flexibility in customizing their groups and events. If you were the admin of a group or event that was regional network-specific (e.g., San Francisco), it has been made Global. This will allow you to invite all of your friends to your group or event, regardless of what network(s) they have joined.

After reactivating your account, it may take a few hours before all your groups, events, notes and other content is completely restored. If this content has not been restored within 24 hours of reactivation, please submit a report here.

If you are seeing a message that your group or event is unavailable right now, this is a temporary result of site maintenance, and is not related to the content of your group or event. Please try accessing it in a few hours, when it should be available again with all content restored. If it has been more than 24 hours and you are still unable to access your group or event, please submit a report here.

When sending messages or event invitations to a group, delivery may be delayed. Group members should receive these messages within a few hours. Guests will not display on an event until they have received these invitations. We are continually working to shorten these delays. If it has been more than 24 hours since you first tried sending a message or invitation to your group and members have still not received it, please submit a report here.

We recently removed the option to reply directly to individual Discussion Board posts. To reply to a post, click the "Reply to Topic" link located at the top of each individual topic. Every new post will now be considered as a reply to the whole thread.

If you are seeing a group or event invitation on your home page that still appears after you have taken action on it, or that does not allow you to take action, please follow these instructions to clear your browser's cache and cookies. If the invite remains after you have taken these steps, please submit a report here.

You may not be a member. First click "Join Group" under the profile picture to become a member of the group and then you will be able to write on the Wall.

If a group's Wall has no recent posts from admins or members of the group, it may appear blank.

Go to the Links page by selecting "Links" from your Applications menu. While there, click "My Friends' Links" under "Subscribe to Links." You will then be able to obtain a RSS feed for all of your friends' links that you can save to your bookmark folder.

When you are viewing a specific friend's Links page, you can click the button on the right that says "Friend's Links" under "Subscribe to these Posts". You will then be able to obtain a RSS feed for all of the specific friend's links that you can save to your bookmark folder.

The Atom feed or RSS feed of your friends' notes, statuses, or links or an individual user's notes, statuses, or links contains that content only, whereas News Feed contains stories about photo postings, relationship changes, etc. Also, your News Feed won't show a story every time one of your friends posts a note to Facebook; your News Feed only contains the stories we think you'll be the most interested in. The RSS or Atom feeds of a user's notes or your friends' notes, for example will contain every note posted. And finally, even though most web browsers display Atom or RSS feeds readably, you'll typically want to use a news aggregator to keep track of them.

At this time you cannot upload photos directly to a group or event from iPhoto. Please keep in mind you can always move photos from an album to a group or event by clicking "Add Photos" and then selecting the "Add from My Photos" tab.

If you see a Page that interests you – either on a friend’s profile or in a News Feed story – you can click on the link to that particular Page to learn more. Once on the Page, you click the "Become a Fan" button that appears next to the Page name.

You can also search for Pages by visiting our Pages Directory. You can browse to easily see your Pages, your friends' Pages, and view all Pages on the site.

Lastly, when you search for a term or name on Facebook, you can filter the results to show only Pages by clicking the "Pages" link in the left column. Each Page search result will show a "Become a Fan" link to its right.

You can remove yourself as a fan of a Page by taking the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Page by entering its name into the search bar in the upper right corner.
2. Click the "Remove me from Fans" link located on the lower left hand side of the screen.

Pages can only be created to represent a real organization, business, celebrity, or band, and may only be created by an official representative of that entity. Groups can be created by any user and about any topic, as a space for users to share their opinions and interest in that subject. Groups can be kept closed or secret, whereas Pages are intended to help an entity communicate publicly.

Pages also allow people to maintain a personal-professional distinction on Facebook. If you're a group admin, your name will appear on that group, while Pages will never display their admins' names. Additionally, when you take actions on your group, such as posting on your group's wall, these actions will appear to come from you as an individual. However, if you post or take other actions on a Page you own, it will appear to come from the Page.

You can create a Page using this form or create a group here.

Friend Lists provide organized groupings of your friends on Facebook. For example, you can create a Friend List for your friends that meet for weekly book club meetings. You can filter your view of each list’s stream of activity separately on the home page. Friend Lists are easy to manage and allow you to send messages and invites to these groups of people all at once.

To create and customize your own Friend Lists, please follow these steps:

1. Click the "Create" link that appears beneath the filters on the left side of your home page or your Friends page. Or, click the "Create New List" button from the "All Friends" tab of the Friends page.
2. Type the title of your list and hit enter.
3. Add friends to the list by typing their names into the "Add to List" field or selecting them from the list.
4. Select "Save List" to store your changes.

In addition, if you have more than two Friend Lists, you can easily add or remove friends from lists by using the drop-down menu that appears next to their names on the "All Friends" tab of the Friends page.

You can use Friend Lists to create different privacy levels for different groups of your friends. This allows you to selectively open more of your profile to the people closest to you. On the Profile section of your Privacy Settings page, clicking "Edit Custom Settings" will open a field for "Except these people." Adding a friend or Friend List name here will hide the information in question from these people when they view your profile.

If you add a user to more than one Friend List, and those Friend Lists have conflicting privacy settings, the more restrictive of the privacy settings will always be respected.

If you enter three or more friends as an exception, you’ll have the option to create a new Friend List to group these people. You can create, edit and delete Friend Lists from your Friends page.

You can edit the name of a Friend List by selecting the list you want to edit, and then clicking the "edit" link on the right. You can then type the new name into the field.

With recent changes to the site, the friend details that were already established on your account have been converted to Friend Lists. You can filter your view of each Friend List’s stream of activity separately on the home page.

To create and customize your own Friend Lists, please follow these steps:

1. Click the "Create" link that appears beneath the filters on the left side of your home page or your Friends page. Or, click the "Create New List" button from the "All Friends" tab of the Friends page.
2. Type the title of your list and hit enter.
3. Add friends to the list by typing their names into the "Add to List" field or selecting them from the list.
4. Select "Save List" to store your changes.

In addition, if you have more than two Friend Lists, you can easily add or remove friends from lists by using the drop-down menu that appears next to their names on the "All Friends" tab of the Friends page.

When on the invite page for a group or event, you can enter the name of your Friend List into the field on the right. After selecting the Friend List you want to invite, the friends that qualify to be invited will appear in the invitation queue. Please note that a friend may not qualify to be invited if he or she is not a member of the network a group is registered under.

You can choose to advertise a web page or content you’ve created on Facebook, like a Page or application. On this page, please choose where you’d like users to be directed when they click on your ad. To link your ad to any external website, use the "I have a website I want to advertise" option. To link your ad to any page within Facebook, including a Facebook Page or application, use the "I have something on Facebook I want to advertise" option. If you do not already have a Facebook Page, you can create one by clicking on the "Help me make a Page" option.

If you are the creator or admin of a group, event, application, Page, or Marketplace listing, you can have your ad link directly to it. Any items that are eligible to be advertised will appear in the drop-down menu when you select the "I have something on Facebook I want to advertise" option when creating your ad.

Facebook takes appropriate precautions to protect users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Facebook always posts to a secure page when users are logging in and employs industry standard encryption. This may not always be apparent from the URL (web address), but rest assured our logins are secure.

When you send a friend request to a person, public stories about them (stories that have the privacy set to "Everyone") may appear in your News Feed. This way you don’t have wait for them to respond to your friend request to see their public updates. Please note that News Feed will never show stories that a non-friend wouldn’t ordinarily be able to see. People who have yet to accept your friend requests will also appear on the Friends page. Here, you can add them to Friend Lists.

If you don’t want to see stories from a person who has yet to accept your friend requests, you can hide them from your News Feed by placing your cursor to the right of a story about them and clicking the "Hide" link that appears. Alternatively, you can remove them as a friend by clicking the "X" next to their name on the Friends page.

Joining a group does not expose the content of your profile to any group members who would not normally be able to see that information. The privacy settings for your account control the openness of your profile, regardless of the groups you join.

To hide your account within a group, you will need to completely restrict your search settings so that "Only Friends" can find your account. Once this is done, only friends will be able to view your name in the list of group members. However, if you still choose to write Wall posts, start discussion topics, or add photos or videos to the group, other members will be able to see that content and determine that you are also a member.

Your ad cannot prompt an immediate download or link to a file that requires an additional program or application to run in order to open or run the content. The destination URL cannot initiate automatic downloads, malware or spyware.

The destination URL must function properly and be able to be viewed from all browsers.

Facebook ads are reviewed from a variety of locations, and if your website is restricted to only users in certain regions, your ad may be disapproved.

The destination URL of your ad must not return an error page, be under construction or have visitor IP restrictions. Ads are reviewed from multiple international locations, so no destinations may be geographically IP gated.

We suggest that you double check your spelling and formatting of your destination URL when creating your ad to make sure you entered the correct information that allows users to visit your active desired destination page.

The destination URL of your ad cannot employ fake closing behavior that prompts a user with a popup message or separate window when they attempt to close the destination window. Users should be able to leave your site uninterrupted.

The destination URL of your ad cannot employ pop-ups or pop-unders when a user opens or closes the destination URL. This includes browser trapping behavior when a user attempts to close the destination window. Pop-ups are defined as windows that open in addition to the original window.

It is currently impossible to upload photos directly to a group or event from iPhoto. Please keep in mind that you can always move photos from an album to a group or event by clicking "Add Photos" and then selecting the "Add from My Photos" tab.

The "Edit Options" link will only appear if you have hidden something in your News Feed or Live Feed.

Please provide feedback on this issue here.

You can send a message to another user on Facebook by following these steps.

1. Initiate a message in any of the following ways:
a. While viewing someone's profile, click the "Send a Message" link under their profile picture.
b. Type someone’s name into search and click the "Send a Message" link that appears on the right side of any search result.
c. Select "Compose" from your Inbox, and type the name of a friend, friend list, or email address you would like to message.


2. Type a subject and a message.


3. Click "Send." The person or people you send the message to will be notified the next time they log in.

You can message up to twenty Facebook friends or email addresses at once. However, if you are contacting someone on Facebook you are not friends with via a Facebook message, you can only message him or her individually.

Alternatively, if you are an admin of a Facebook group, you can message all the members of your group by going to the group profile and following the "Message All Members" link underneath the group photo. Note that this option is only available for groups with 5,000 people or fewer.

When you select "Send To All," everyone who was originally messaged will see your response. When you reply to a specific person, only he or she will see your response.

The impact of this on your Inbox is that all the "Send To All" messages will be kept in a single thread, and any individual conversations that you start from within that thread will create a new thread entirely. For example, if you select "Send To All" for a message originally sent to you and Amy from Paul, both Amy and Paul will see your reply. If you click the "Reply" link under Paul’s name, then only Paul will see your response and the conversation between you and Paul will be its own thread in your Inbox.

Our default is to allow anyone on Facebook to contact you via a message. This means that even people who cannot see your profile can message you. If you don't want people who are not your friends and not in any of your networks messaging you, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Search section of the Privacy page.
2. Under the "Search Result Content" section, uncheck the box next to "A link to send me a message."

There are two main ways to include a photo, video, or link attachment in your message.

1. Click the appropriate button in the "Add" section below the message field. Next, follow the on-screen instructions and click "Send."
2. When you are not on Facebook, use our Share functionality (either in the form of our Share Bookmarklet or the Share on Facebook Links) to send a message with the link to the site included in the message.

You currently cannot attach files to your messages. However, you can include links to anything on the internet.

You can pick which applications appear on your profile by clicking ‘Applications" at the bottom of any Facebook page, and selecting "edit." From the "edit" page, you will be able to change the visibility of each application on your profile by clicking the "Edit Settings" link.

We no longer support the addition of profile links underneath one's profile picture.

Go to the developer app, under the My Applications box click the "See My Applications" link, if the app isn't submitted you will see a 'submit' link in the text underneath the Directory Status.

You can share your application’s URL with your friends, who can then use the application. When your application has at least ten monthly active users, you can submit it for approval into the Application Directory. Please keep in mind that a monthly active user (MAU) is an individual who has interacted with the app during 30 days. If a user authorized your app more than 30 days ago but hasn’t interacted with it since, you will see them listed as a user but this does not affect your MAU total.

Once a user has authorized an application or connected with a website, they can add a Profile Box or Profile Tab to their profile. But to do this, your application must provide support for profile boxes and/or profile tabs.

Profile Boxes can appear on either the left-hand side of the wall/info tabs on a user profile, or within the Boxes tab. Users can add these from within your application or website via the fb:add-section-button FBML tag. Your application must first set the profile calling the method profile.setFBML. This method is also used to update the profile box for the user. See http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:add-section-button and http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Profile.setFBML

Profile Tabs are manually added by the user to their profile via the "+" shown when the user is viewing their profile. This list will only show tabs for applications that the user has authorized. You must specify a URL for the application tab in the developer app for it to appear in this list. A tab is basically a full page that displays content from your application for the user to share with their friends on their profile. For more details, see here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/New_Design_Tabbed_Profile

The changes announced today do not affect any canvas page or canvas page URLs. Canvas page URLs will continue to live on the domain http://apps.facebook.com at their current URLs. At the present time, the new username-specific URLs cannot point to canvas pages.

Every Facebook Page or application profile that has more than 1,000 fans as of May 31, 2009, can get one username-specific URL associated with the page. If there are multiple administrators of a Page, the first username selected by any one of the administrators will be associated with the page. If you're an administrator, you can get more details here.

For your application profile, we recommend you choose a username that closely matches the name of your application. For a Facebook Page you maintain to promote your development company, you might choose your company name as your username.

Just click on the Like link next to something that you enjoy on Facebook as an easy way to let someone know that you like it, without leaving a comment. Just like a comment though, the fact that you liked it is noted beneath the item.

For example, if you click a Like link beneath a friend's video:

• it'll be noted beneath the video that you liked it
• a story will be posted to your Wall that you liked your friend's video
• your friend will get a notification that you liked his or her video

Yes, just click the Unlike link that appears afterward.

Clicking the Like link next to something that you enjoy on Facebook is an easy way to let someone know that you like it, without leaving a comment. Just like a comment though, the fact that you liked it is noted beneath the item.

For example, if you click a Like link beneath a friend's video:

• it'll be noted beneath the video that you liked it
• a story will be posted to your Wall that you liked your friend's video
• your friend will get a notification that you liked his or her video

After reactivating your account, it may take a few hours before all your groups, events, notes and other content is completely restored. If this content has not been restored within 24 hours of reactivation, please submit a report here.

When inviting groups or friend lists to an event, some users are experiencing an invitation delivery delay. Guests should receive these invitations within a few hours, but will not display on the event until they have received these invitations. We are continually working to shorten these delays. If it has been more than 24 hours since first trying to send invitations, and guests are still not displaying on your event, you can submit a report here.

: If you are seeing a group or event invitation on your home page that still appears after you have taken action on it, or that does not allow you to take action, try clearing your browser's cache and cookies by following the instructions here. If the invite remains after you have taken those steps, please submit a report here.

Please try copying and pasting the full link you received into your address bar. Some email clients will separate the link onto several lines, so be sure to copy the entire link. If you're still having problems, please click here.

It is currently not possible to convert Facebook groups into Pages. We recommend that you create a Page and notify your group members about it. Note that you will not be able to send your group a message if your group has more than 5,000 members.

If you are an admin of a Page, you can add a Page to your "Favorite Pages" section. To add a Page to your "Favorite Pages" section, click on "Add a Page to Fans" found in the top, right corner underneath the "Become a Fan" link. That Page will then appear in your "Favorite Pages" section. Please note that the "Add a Page to Fans" link will only be visible if you are an admin of a Page.

To remove a Page from your "Favorite Pages" section, you will first need to view the Page you’d like to remove from this section. Then, click on the "Remove from my Page’s Favorites" link found at the bottom of the Page.

As a Page admin you can select who is able to search for and become a fan of your Page. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Click the "Edit Page" link beneath the Page’s photo.
2. Click the pencil icon in the Settings section and select "Edit" from the drop-down menu that appears.
3. Make country and/or age restrictions.
4. Click the "Save Changes" button.

The "Find Us on Facebook" badge provides your business a way to promote your Page off of our website, and help direct your customers to your presence on Facebook. This Badge can be applied in-store or on location, on the web, and in print collateral. You can learn how to create a badge for your Page from the "Promotion Guidelines" link, in the "Promote your page" section when you are editing your Page, or by clicking here.

Page Admins are welcome to build merchandising, ticketing, and downloading applications, or to use those provided by 3rd party developers. On the canvas pages of these applications, they may choose to run paid 3rd party advertising pursuant to the Platform Terms of Service. The off-network website of any artist, business, or brand may be linked prominently on any Page, so traffic can be directed to an external monetizing site.

Facebook Pages come pre-installed with custom functionality for each Page category. These are the applications and information fields Facebook believes will be most relevant to the category you have selected when creating your Page. For instance, a Band Page comes pre-installed with a music player, video player, discography, reviews, tour dates, and a discussion board.

To control settings and add content to applications, click "Edit Page" when you view your Page. You will see applications currently available, as well as a link to add more at the bottom of the page.

Unfortunately, Facebook cannot provide support for applications not built by Facebook. In order to reach the application developer, please visit the application's Page and click the "Contact Developer" link at the bottom left of the screen.

Any applications you aren't seeing on your Page in the new format have probably been moved to one of the tabs on the Page, such as the "Photos" or "Boxes" tab. You can click the pencil icon in the upper right corner of most application boxes and choose to move these applications to another tab. Rest assured old applications have not been removed from your Page in the new format.

To change which tab fans or non-fans will see first when arriving at your Facebook Page, first click the "Wall" tab on your Page, then click the "Settings" link that appears below the blue "Post" button.

Only the official representative of a public figure, brand, or organization is permitted to create a Facebook Page. We block a variety of Page title terms to prevent the creation of fake, unauthorized, or otherwise abusive Pages.

If you are the authorized representative of your desired Page subject, please contact us through the form linked from the error message you see when trying to create the Page.

If you aren't the authorized representative and would like to create a space for fans of a certain topic or figure to share their thoughts and opinions, we suggest you create a Facebook group.

You can choose to advertise a web page or content you’ve created on Facebook, like a Page or application. On this page, please choose where you’d like users to be directed when they click on your ad. To link your ad to any external website, use the "I have a website I want to advertise" option. To link your ad to any page within Facebook, including a Facebook Page or application, use the "I have something on Facebook I want to advertise" option. If you do not already have a Facebook Page, you can create one by clicking on the "Help me make a Page" option.

If you are the creator or admin of a group, event, application, or Page, you can have your ad link directly to it. Any items that are eligible to be advertised will appear in the drop-down menu when you select the "I have something on Facebook I want to advertise" option when creating your ad. You may also see the option to create ads directly from the page you're viewing; for example, with Facebook Pages that you manage, you'll see an option to "Promote Page with an Ad" on the left-hand side.

When attempting to view certain profiles, some users are seeing an error that says: "The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive." If you would like to submit a report about this issue, please click here.

Your problem is most likely related to your Internet browser. To upgrade your Internet browser, or clear its cache and cookies, please follow these instructions. If you continue to experience this issue after doing so, it’s possible this may be related to antivirus software you have installed on your computer. We recommend that you temporarily turn this software off and see if this resolves the issue. If you continue to experience problems, please send us the name of your anti-virus software. More detailed information will help us investigate the issue further.

To resolve this issue, please follow these instructions to clear your browser's cache before attempting to log in. If you continue to experience problems, please report this issue here.

Facebook allows you to quickly and easily import an external blog from another website.

1. On the Notes page, click the Import a blog link on the right side of the page.
2. Enter the URL (web address) of your blog into the text box, and check the box underneath that states that you agree to our Terms of Use.
3. To complete the process, click on "Save Settings." Once you do this, your previous posts will appear as notes and any new posts you make will automatically display.

This is a web page that can be easily checked by software tools called news aggregators that can notify you when any new content is available from a particular source. For example, if you subscribe to the feed of your friends' Notes, you can easily find out when one of your friends writes a new note.

A news aggregator lets you keep track of all the feeds you care about. Our current favorite is Bloglines, a web-based application that requires no installation. If you follow the link to a feed in most web browsers, you'll find that you can easily subscribe to the feed. Whenever your friends' write new notes, Bloglines will let you know.

If you are unfamiliar with these programs, choose the Atom feed. It contains additional information, such as links to the public profiles of the authors of notes. Both Atom and RSS are XML formats for syndication, and the differences between them are insignificant. You can view more detailed information about these programs on their websites: Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0.

Each person that can see your notes on Facebook is given a different RSS or Atom feed web address (URL) that is unique for them. Only the notes that they are allowed to see will be syndicated via that URL. If you change your privacy settings or friend links, then all the feeds will be appropriately updated.

Atom and RSS feeds from Facebook include the Bloglines Feed Access Control extension , and we set the access parameter to "deny" for all of our feeds. We also indicate in our robots.txt that feeds should not be visited or indexed by bots. The major aggregators and search engines (Bloglines, Technorati, Google, Yahoo!) all appear to respect these directives. If you are very concerned about the possibility of someone seeing your Notes that you don't want him or her to see, we've added a privacy option that you can set on your Notes privacy page which will prevent any of your Notes from being syndicated in any RSS or Atom feed.

Yes. This is the only way that we can maintain your privacy settings on a per-viewer basis.

Once a user has authorized an application or connected with a website, they can add a Profile Box or Profile Tab to their profile. But to do this, your application must provide support for profile boxes and/or profile tabs.

Profile Boxes can appear on either the left-hand side of the wall/info tabs on a user profile, or within the Boxes tab. Users can add these from within your application or website via the fb:add-section-button FBML tag. Your application must first set the profile calling the method profile.setFBML. This method is also used to update the profile box for the user. See http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:add-section-button and http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Profile.setFBML

Profile Tabs are manually added by the user to their profile via the ""+"" shown when the user is viewing their profile. This list will only show tabs for applications that the user has authorized. You must specify a URL for the application tab in the developer app for it to appear in this list. A tab is basically a full page that displays content from your application for the user to share with their friends on their profile. For more details, see here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/New_Design_Tabbed_Profile

You do not need to submit your app to the directory in order to add it to your Page. Go to the app profile page, click the "more" link, then "add to page".

If "add to page" isn't there, you haven't enabled your app for Pages, and you'll need to do that first.

You'll need to add the "meta" tags as described here.

There is currently no way to take away admin status from the creator of a Page. However, Page admins can add or remove other admins by following these steps:

1. Click the "Edit Page" link below the Page’s photo.
2. On the right hand side, click the "Add" link in the Admin section.
3. Select the friend you would like to add as an admin.

If you are seeing a message that your Page is unavailable right now, this is a temporary result of site maintenance, and is not related to the content of your group or event. Please try accessing it in a few hours, when it should be available again with all content restored. You can also report the issue here.

When a Page admin "Likes" a post on their Page, the post may appear as if "Liked" from the Page admin's personal account. No further reports of this issue are needed.

Some users are experiencing this duplicate tagging. If you would like to submit a report, please click here.

If you are using Firefox, you have probably changed your browser settings to block Facebook images. To resolve this problem, please follow these steps:

1. Go to the "Tools" menu.
2. Choose "Options."
3. Click on the "Content" tab.
4. Across from "Load images automatically," click "Exceptions."
5. Highlight the Facebook URL.
6. Click "Remove site."
7. Close the Exceptions window.
8. Click "OK."
9. Restart your browser.

If you don't see an "Options" selection in the "Tools" menu, you will need to follow these steps:

1. Go to the "Firefox" menu.
2. Choose "Preferences."
3. Click on the "Content" tab.
   
4. Across from "Load images automatically," click "Exceptions."
5. Highlight the Facebook URL.
6. Click "Remove site."
7. Close the Exceptions window.
8. Click "OK."
9. Restart your browser.

If you continue to experience this problem, please submit your report to Facebook here.

The "Add More Photos" link will disappear from an album when you have added 200 photos to it. Please create a new album for more photos, or move photos in the current album to another to allow photos to be added to the existing album.

Photo album privacy differs from the Photos profile privacy setting on the Application Settings page. The latter setting only controls who can see the Photos tab or box on your profile.

To edit your photo album privacy, just go to the Photos tab at the top of your profile. On this tab, select the "Album Privacy" link in the photo albums section, edit the setting for each album, and click "Save Settings." You can also adjust the album privacy setting every time you create a new album.

Keep in mind that some people may be able to see your albums even when they cannot view them on your profile if your album privacy settings are open. These less restrictive settings include "Everyone," "All of My Networks," "Some of My Networks" and "Friends of Friends." Please note that the "Everyone" privacy setting allows anyone on Facebook to view the album if they are linked to it.

You are able to see the photo album of someone who is not your friend if the album owner has selected an open album privacy setting. These less restrictive settings include "Everyone," "All of My Networks," "Some of My Networks" and "Friends of Friends." Please note that the "Everyone" privacy setting allows anyone on Facebook to view the album, if they are linked to it. If an album has a more restrictive privacy setting, only people who are allowed to see the album will be able to see stories about photo comments or tags linking to that album.

You may receive an email from Facebook asking you to confirm your email address. You must confirm your account to verify that you have access to the email address you entered during registration. Confirming your account will enable you to send messages, write on your friends’ Walls, post in discussions, poke, tag your friends, comment, join groups, and fan pages.

If you do not have an account on Facebook and received a confirmation email in error, you can deactivate the account in question by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

Report this issue here.

You can view your current email address and add or delete addresses from the Settings tab of the Account Settings page. Your Facebook email notifications will only be sent to the address you designate as your "Contact Email," so be sure this information is accurate.

To change your contact email, just click the "change" link next to Email. Select any other email address you have listed on your account and click the "Change Contact Email" button to finish.

If you would like to add another email address to your account, just enter that new address in the open field next to "New Email." Once you confirm the address, you can go back and set it as your contact email.

Please report this issue here.

Please follow the steps below to resolve this issue.

1. First, try logging in (with the email address you signed up with).
2. If you are unable to log in, please copy and paste the full URL (web address) of the link that you received in the confirmation email into your browser.
3. If you're still having trouble after the above steps, click here.

If you have received a Facebook account confirmation email in error, it's likely that someone has mistakenly attempted to register using your email address. As long as you do not click the link contained in the email, no action will be taken, and no account will be created.

From our Sign Up page, just provide us with your full name, email address, desired password, gender, and date of birth.

If you are a current high school student, you will have the option to join one of our supported high school networks. If you are no longer in high school, you can join one of our college or workplace networks.

After you complete the sign up form, we will send an email to the address you provided. Clicking on the confirmation link will complete the sign up process.

Facebook Mobile requires a phone with an internet browser. On most phones, you can access the internet browser from your phone's menu, and open the URL (web address) m.facebook.com. To save time, be sure to add Facebook to your phone’s bookmarks.

Unfortunately, many mobile browsers are unable to display the full Facebook site. This link exists for phones with full browsers, such as the iPhone, NokiaN95, etc. Please continue to use http://m.facebook.com to access Facebook from your phone. Sorry for any inconvenience.

You can use the main features of the site with m.facebook.com (i.e. pokes, messaging, wall posts).

Unfortunately, many mobile browsers are unable to display the full Facebook site. This link exists for phones with full browsers, such as the iPhone, NokiaN95, etc. Please continue to use http://m.facebook.com to access Facebook from your phone. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Your number is only shown if you entered the number in your profile contact info. You can determine what contact information is displayed on your profile and who is permitted to see this information by selecting the "Edit Information" link on the Info tab of your profile.

You can change your phone by following the "Edit Preferences" link on the Mobile page when logged in from a computer.

In order to learn more about how to upload photos on your phone, please visit the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?ref=pf

This is likely a cache or cookies problem. To fix it, please follow the instructions below carefully:

1. Please clear your mobile device’s cache and cookies (even if you have already done this). You can usually do this from an option menu when your mobile browser is open. Please consult your phone's user guide to determine how to do this on your particular device.
2. Enter m.facebook.com as a new URL, rather than using a bookmark or a link. Log out of Facebook if you have the option.
3. Enter your normal login details to log in. Please note that passwords are case sensitive.

Repeat steps 1 through 3, if needed.

This is likely a cache or cookies problem. To fix it, please follow the instructions below carefully:

1. Please clear your mobile device’s cache and cookies (even if you have already done this). You can usually do this from an option menu when your mobile browser is open. Please consult your phone's user guide to determine how to do this on your particular device.
2. Enter m.facebook.com as a new URL, rather than using a bookmark or a link. Log out of Facebook if you have the option.
3. Enter your normal login details to log in. Please note that passwords are case sensitive.

Repeat steps 1 through 3, if needed.

If you are noticing abusive behavior from a person who is currently on your Friend List, we recommend that you remove this user from your Friend List and report them using the 'Report/Block' link that appears at the bottom of their profile.

If this doesn't resolve the issue, we further recommended that you block the abusive user by listing their name or email address in the "Block List" that appears at the bottom of the Privacy page. You can read more about how to block someone here.

1. Never click suspicious links: It is possible that your friends could unwillingly send spam, viruses, or malware through Facebook if their accounts are infected. Do not click this material and do not run any ".exe" files on your computer without knowing what they are. Also, be sure to use the most current version of your browser as they contain important security warnings and protection features. Current versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer warn you if you have navigated to a suspected phishing site, and we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the most current version. You can also find more information about phishing and how to avoid it at http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html and http://onguardonline.gov/phishing.html.
   
   Phishing is an online attempt to trick a user by pretending to be an official login page or an official email from an organization that you would have an account with, such as a bank or an email provider, in order to obtain a user’s login and account information. In the case of a phishing login page, the login page may look identical to the login page you would normally go to, but the website does not belong to the organization you have an account with (the URL web address of the website should reflect this). In the case of a phishing email, the email may look like an email you would get from the organization you have an account with and get emails from, but the link in the email that it directs you to takes you to the above phishing login page, rather than a legitimate login page for that organization.
   
   To prevent your account information from being obtained in a phishing scheme, only log in to legitimate pages of the websites you have an account with. For example, "www.facebook.example.com" is not a legitimate Facebook page on the "www.facebook.com" domain, but "www.facebook.com/example" is a legitimate Facebook page because it has the "facebook.com" domain. When in doubt, you can always just type in "facebook.com" into your browser to return to the legitimate Facebook site.


2. Have a unique, strong password: From the Account Settings page, be sure to use a different password than you use for other sites or services, made up of a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. Do not use words found in the dictionary.


3. Run anti-virus software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove harmful programs and keep your information secure.
   • For Windows:
     http://www.microsoft.com/protect/viruses/xp/av.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/default.mspx
   • For Apple/Mac OS:
     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

You can reset your password here. When choosing a new password, be sure to use a different password than you use for other sites or services, made up of a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. Do not use words found in the dictionary.

1. Never click suspicious links: It is possible that your friends could unwillingly send spam, viruses, or malware through Facebook if their accounts are infected. Do not click this material and do not run any ".exe" files on your computer without knowing what they are. Also, be sure to use the most current version of your browser as they contain important security warnings and protection features. Current versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer warn you if you have navigated to a suspected phishing site, and we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the most current version. You can also find more information about phishing and how to avoid it at http://www.antiphishing.org/consumer_recs.html and http://onguardonline.gov/phishing.html.
   
   Phishing is an online attempt to trick a user by pretending to be an official login page or an official email from an organization that you would have an account with, such as a bank or an email provider, in order to obtain a user’s login and account information. In the case of a phishing login page, the login page may look identical to the login page you would normally go to, but the website does not belong to the organization you have an account with (the URL web address of the website should reflect this). In the case of a phishing email, the email may look like an email you would get from the organization you have an account with and get emails from, but the link in the email that it directs you to takes you to the above phishing login page, rather than a legitimate login page for that organization.
   
   To prevent your account information from being obtained in a phishing scheme, only log in to legitimate pages of the websites you have an account with. For example, "www.facebook.example.com" is not a legitimate Facebook page on the "www.facebook.com" domain, but "www.facebook.com/example" is a legitimate Facebook page because it has the "facebook.com" domain. When in doubt, you can always just type in "facebook.com" into your browser to return to the legitimate Facebook site.


2. Run anti-virus software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove harmful programs and keep your information secure.
   • For Windows:
     http://www.microsoft.com/protect/viruses/xp/av.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/default.mspx
   • For Apple/Mac OS:
     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

We suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the "Blocking People" box at the bottom of the Privacy page. If this does not resolve the problem, please report the user by clicking the 'Report/Block person' link that appears at the bottom of the user's profile. To report a user for a message you have received, use the report link located next to the message in your inbox.

We suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the "Blocking People" box at the bottom of the Privacy page. If this does not resolve the problem, please report the user by clicking the 'Report/Block person' link that appears at the bottom of the user's profile.

Please ask your friend to report this user. Your friend can submit a report using the 'Report/Block' link that appears at the bottom of the abuser's profile. Rest assured that this report will be kept confidential.

You can report any photo that you feel is offensive by using the "Report" link provided underneath the image. Facebook will monitor these complaints and remove photos as necessary. All reports will be kept confidential.

If you see an objectionable advertisement and the URL in your browser window begins with "http://apps.facebook.com/", this may be an advertisement running within a third-party application and not through Facebook. To confirm this, make sure that the advertisement is not located in the right-most column of the page, under the word "Advertise".

Once you have confirmed that the advertisement is running within a third-party application, you can report it to the developer of that application and to Facebook by clicking on the "Report" link at the lower-left of the page.

Please note that this application is not built or operated by Facebook. However, Facebook works to ensure that all third party developers are following our Terms of Service.

Facebook takes the safety of its users very seriously and takes significant efforts to make sure that the interactions encountered on the site are done so in a safe manner. We strongly urge all users to report suspicious people and inappropriate content when they come across it on the site. You can notify Facebook of any inappropriate people or content by clicking on the "Report" link located throughout the site. Users under the age of 18 are also encouraged to talk to a parent or a responsible adult immediately if someone online says or does something to make them feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way.

If you are living in the United Kingdom, under 18, and believe that an adult is acting inappropriately towards you on Facebook, please submit an online report to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). If you are a parent or other adult and concerned about a minor, you can also submit a report by clicking on the link above.

More information about safety on Facebook can be found here.

This is likely a cache or cookies problem. To fix it, please follow the instructions below carefully:

1. Please clear your mobile device’s cache and cookies (even if you have already done this). You can usually do this from an option menu when your mobile browser is open. Please consult your phone's user guide to determine how to do this on your particular device.
2. Enter m.facebook.com as a new URL, rather than using a bookmark or a link. Log out of Facebook if you have the option.
3. Enter your normal login details to log in. Please note that passwords are case sensitive.

Repeat steps 1 through 3, if needed.

You may request up to five (5) new codes. If you have not reached this limit, you may request a new code by selecting the "Verify" link found below the "word in the box" (i.e., the captcha) that you see when poking, messaging, or sending friend requests.

Please click here if the information above did not answer your question.

For photos to appear under the "View Photos of" profile link, you will need to be tagged in the photos. To tag yourself in a photo that you have uploaded, just go to the photo and click the "Tag This Photo" link beneath it, then select "me."

However, to simply create an album and upload photos:

1. Go to your profile.
2. Select "Add Photos" from the Publisher box at the top of the Wall tab.
3. Provide an album name, description and privacy level, and click "Create Album."
4. You will be prompted to install a small application that allows easy uploading of your photos. Please click "Trust" to any prompts that appear while the application is uploading. If you are having any trouble installing or using the photo upload application, try the simple version located at the bottom of the "Add More Photos" tab.

To set one of the photos you have already uploaded as your profile picture, select "Make Profile Picture" at the bottom right when you are viewing the photo. You can change or remove your profile picture at any time by moving your mouse over your profile picture and selecting the "Change Picture" link that appears in the upper right-hand corner. You will see options to upload a new photo, take a picture with your webcam, choose an existing picture from the album, edit the thumbnail version or remove the picture.

To add a profile picture if you do not currently have one, navigate to your profile and click one of the links under the silhouette to upload a picture from your computer or take one with your webcam. If you choose to take a picture using your webcam, you may first have to allow your Flash player to access your webcam.

If you are having trouble adding or changing your profile picture, please note that you cannot upload a photo if it is more than three times as tall as it is wide. If you are still experiencing this problem, please report the issue here.

You can share a Facebook photo with any of your friends on Facebook by clicking on the "Share" link located under a photo or photo album. Please note that in order to send a photo to a friend in a Facebook message, the photo needs to exist either in a Facebook album or elsewhere on the internet. If it exists elsewhere on the internet, copy the URL (web address) of the photo and paste it into your message to that person, and a preview of the photo will appear. If the photo does not exist on the internet, upload the photo to one of your Facebook albums. Then, click the "Share" link below the photo to send a link and preview of the photo to your friend. For instructions on how to upload, please see the answer above.

Identify the people in your photos by tagging the images. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Photos page and select "My Photos."
2. Click on the "Edit Album" link of the album that you want to tag.
3. Click on a person’s face in the photo and then select their name in the box that pops up. If their name is not in the box, you can type it in the text field.
4. Repeat this process for everyone in the photo that you would like to tag. If you need to tag yourself, select "me."
5. After you have finished tagging your photos, click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.

Please note that when you tag a friend in a photo, it will be accessible from the "View Photos of" link beneath their profile picture.

You can also tag someone else’s photos while browsing them. To do this, click on "Tag This Photo" from the actions listed under the photo.

You can identify people in your photos by tagging the images.

To tag your photos, please follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Photos page and select "My Photos."
2. Click the "Edit Album" link of the album that you want to tag.
3. Click on a person’s face in the photo and then select their name in the box that pops up. If their name is not in the box, you can type it in the text field. If you need to tag yourself, select "me."
4. Repeat this process for everyone in the photo that you would like to tag.
5. Click "Save Changes" when you are done.

Please note that when you tag a friend in a photo, it will be accessible from the "View Photos of" link beneath their profile picture. You can also tag someone else’s photos while browsing them. To do this, click on "Tag This Photo" from the actions listed under the photo.

To remove the tag from a photo that someone else has uploaded and tagged you in, simply view the photo, and then choose "remove tag" at the bottom next to your name. The photo will no longer be linked to your profile. Please note that if you tag a user in a photo that you did not upload, you cannot remove or edit the tag. Only the owner of the photo and the tagged user will be able to do so.

Please note that you can set your notifications so that you always know when someone tags you or one of your photos. If you wish to remove a tag made on a photo that you uploaded, please select the "remove tag" link when viewing the photo.

To post a photo on your own Wall, follow the steps below:

1. Click "Write something…" and select the "Photo" link when it appears.
2. Select "Upload a Photo."
3. Click the "Browse" button and select an image to upload.
4. Add an optional comment.
5. Click the "Share" button.

To post a photo on a friend’s Wall, follow the steps below:

1. Click "Write something…" and select the "Photo" link when it appears.
2. Select "Upload a Photo."
3. Click the "Browse" button and select an image to upload.
4. Add an optional comment.
5. Click the "Share" button.

To edit your album privacy, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the photo album.
2. Click the "Edit Photos" link at the top of the screen.
3. Select the Edit Info tab.
4. Update your album privacy.

Please also take note that if the photo resides in an album you do not own, then the owner of the album will need to adjust the album privacy. This may affect the visibility of photos in "View More Photos of Me" under your profile picture.

Note that you can also access the photo album privacy settings by going to your Privacy Settings page, clicking "Profile", and then clicking "Edit Photo Albums Privacy Settings" in the section titled "Photos tagged of you."

To access the Photos application if you do not see it in the Applications menu, type "Photos" into the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears. While using the application, you will see the option to bookmark it in the bar at the bottom of the page. You may adjust the order of your bookmarks at any time by dragging them within the Applications menu.

You can also edit the settings for an application at any time by selecting "Application Settings" from the Settings drop-down menu at the top of the page.

When you are viewing your album, you will see a "public link" at the bottom of the page. Sending this link to friends or posting it on a website will allow everyone who clicks on it to view that album. Remember, this link will always work, even if you add photos or change your album privacy settings.

Anyone who can view your profile will be able to view your profile pictures. If you want to remove any of your profile pictures, you can do this by moving your mouse over your profile picture and selecting the "Change Picture" link that appears in the upper right-hand corner.

Photo album privacy differs from the Photos profile privacy setting on the Application Settings page. The latter setting only controls who can see the Photos tab or box on your profile.

To edit your photo album privacy, just go to the Photos tab at the top of your profile. On this tab, select the "Album Privacy" link in the photo albums section, edit the setting for each album, and click "Save Settings." You can also adjust the album privacy setting every time you create a new album.

Keep in mind that some people may be able to see your albums even when they cannot view them on your profile if your album privacy settings are open. These less restrictive settings include "Everyone," and "Friends of Friends." Please note that the "Everyone" privacy setting allows anyone on Facebook to view the album if they are linked to it.

You can remove one of your photos while viewing it by clicking on the "Delete This Photo" link located beneath the photo. You can also delete photos from the "Edit Photos" tab. The delete option is also underneath every thumbnail.

If you want to delete an entire album, you can do so by clicking on the "Edit Photos" tab when viewing the album and then selecting "Delete Album."

To remove the tag from a photo that someone else has uploaded and tagged you in, simply view the photo, and then choose "remove tag" at the bottom next to your name. The photo will no longer be linked to your profile. Please note that if you tag a user in a photo that you did not upload, you cannot remove or edit the tag. Only the owner of the photo and the tagged user will be able to do so.

To add photo captions, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Photos page and select "My Photos."
2. Click the "Edit Album" link of the album that you want to add captions to.
3. Add captions in the box to the left of each photo.
4. Click "Save Changes" when you are done.

If you have permission to comment on a photo, follow the steps below:

1. Go to a photo and find the text box below it that reads, "Write a comment…"
2. Type your comment in the text box and click on the "Comment" link.

This comment will be visible to anyone who views the image. Please note that you can only comment on your friends' photos or other photos in which you have been tagged.

To see all the comments on photos you have uploaded, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Photos page.
2. Click "My Photos" link.
3. Click the "View My Photo Comments" link.

To get photos to appear in "View Photos of Me," follow the steps below:

1. Click on the "Tag This Photo" link when you are browsing a photo album.
2. Click on your face in the album.
3. Select "me."
4. Click the "Done Tagging" button at the top of the page once you've finished entering your tag.

You can identify people in your photos by tagging the images.

To tag your photos, please follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Photos page and select "My Photos."
2. Click the "Edit Album" link of the album that you want to tag.
3. Click on a person’s face in the photo and then select their name in the box that pops up. If their name is not in the box, you can type it in the text field. If you need to tag yourself, select "me."
4. Repeat this process for everyone in the photo that you would like to tag.
5. Click "Save Changes" when you are done.

Please note that when you tag a friend in a photo, it will be accessible from the "View Photos of" link beneath their profile picture. You can also tag someone else’s photos while browsing them. To do this, click on "Tag This Photo" from the actions listed under the photo.

To remove the tag from a photo that someone else has uploaded and tagged you in, simply view the photo, and then choose "remove tag" at the bottom next to your name. The photo will no longer be linked to your profile. Please note that if you tag a user in a photo that you did not upload, you cannot remove or edit the tag. Only the owner of the photo and the tagged user will be able to do so.

Please note that you can set your notifications so that you always know when someone tags you or one of your photos. If you wish to remove a tag made on a photo that you uploaded, please select the "remove tag" link when viewing the photo.

You can tag anyone in a photo, regardless of whether they have a Facebook profile. While tagging your photos, if you type in the name of someone who is not on your Friend List, you have the option of listing their email address. When you are done tagging, they will receive an email that provides a link to the image. They will be able to see the photos in which they are tagged, but nothing else on the site unless they register.

To tag another person’s photos, follow the steps below:

1. Click on the "Tag This Photo" link when you are browsing someone else's album. 2. Click on a person's face in the photo.
2. Select their name in the box that pops up. If their name is not already in the box, you can provide it. If you need to tag yourself, select "me."
3. Repeat this process for everyone in the photo.
4. Click the "Done Tagging" button at the top of the page once you've finished entering your tags.

Unfortunately, the functionality of approving a photo tag is not currently available. When you are tagged in a photo by one of your friends, or they tag someone in one of your photos, the tag request will be automatically approved. Please note that you can set your notifications so that you always know when someone tags you in a photo or tags one of your photos. You can control this setting from the "Notifications" tab on the Account Settings page.

If you wish to remove a tag from a photo that you are tagged in, please select the "remove tag" link when viewing the photo. If you wish to remove a tag made on a photo that you uploaded, please select the "remove tag" link when viewing the photo.

To remove the tag from a photo that someone else has uploaded and tagged you in, simply view the photo, and then choose "remove tag" at the bottom next to your name. The photo will no longer be linked to your profile. Please note that if you tag a user in a photo that you did not upload, you cannot remove or edit the tag. Only the owner of the photo and the tagged user will be able to do so.

Please note that you can set your notifications so that you always know when someone tags you or one of your photos. You can control this setting from the "Notifications" tab on the Account Settings page.

To see all the comments on photos in which you've been tagged, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Photos Page.
2. Click the "Photos of me" link.
3. Click the "View Comments" link.

You can "report" any photo that you feel is offensive (a link is provided underneath the image). Facebook will monitor these complaints and remove photos as necessary. All reports will be kept confidential. You can also report this here.

View the photo and click the "remove tag" link next to your name. It will no longer be linked to your profile.

Remember that you can only tag your friends. If you are having problems with someone constantly tagging you in embarrassing photos, just remove them as a friend (from the Friends page).

If you don't want the photo to be shown at all, please talk to the person who posted it. They should be respectful enough to remove unwanted photos. Unfortunately, Facebook CANNOT make people remove photos that do not violate our Terms of Use.

You can report a photo that violates Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities by clicking the "Report This Photo" link underneath the image. Photos containing drug use, nudity, or other graphic or sexually suggestive content are not allowed, nor are photos that depict violence or that attack an individual or group.

Facebook reviews every report we receive to determine whether or not the content violates our Terms of Use and will take appropriate action.

The Publisher lets you share content on Facebook. It is located at the top of both your home page and your Profile page. Both locations offer the same functionalities.

Typing in the Publisher text box and clicking "Share" updates your status. Clicking inside the text box displays additional types of content that you can share:

• Link (add a web address to external content)
• Photos (upload a photo, create an album, or take a webcam photo)
• Video (upload a video or record a webcam video)
• Note (add from Facebook’s Notes application)
• Import (add external blogs or RSS feeds)
• Gifts (add from Facebook’s Gift Shop)

Once you have added content, you will still need to click "Share" in order to publish a story. To exit the submenu for a specific type of content, simply click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the Publisher box.

If you type in the Publisher box and then add content (e.g., a link or a video), the text will appear as a comment above the content you have shared. It will not appear as a new status update or replace your current status.

Now you can tag your friends and other things you’re connected to in your Facebook status and other posts. This feature works with the Publisher box that appears on your home page and profile page.

1. Type the "@" symbol in the Publisher text field, either to start the post or as a new word with a space before it.
2. Directly after the "@" symbol, type any part of the name you would like to tag. A new drop-down menu will appear with all matching entries. You can tag friends, Pages, groups, events and applications.
3. Click the name you would like to tag. It will appear as a blue link in your post. You can tag multiple different names in the same post.

People who can see your post will be able to click through to view the profile, Page, group or event you tag, but only if the existing privacy settings permit this.

Tagging allows you to more actively mention your friends and other things you are connected to on Facebook. It also lets you direct a post at specific people while still keeping the conversation open. Friends you tag will receive a notification and Wall story that you have tagged them, and also when someone else comments on a post they are tagged in.

You can tag the following things in a post:

• Your confirmed friends
• Pages you are a fan of
• Events you are attending
• Your groups
• Applications you’ve used

To tag any of these things, enter the "@" symbol followed by the name.

Groups will show a group icon next to their name in the drop-down menu, and events will show a calendar icon. Pages will show the Page photo, and profiles will show the profile photo.

When you tag an application, the link in your post will lead to the application’s Page. You can only tag applications that you have used.

Unfortunately, there is currently no way to filter out these notifications. If you do not want to see notifications from a certain application, just uncheck the box next to the application's name on the right side of the "Notifications" tab. You will not receive any more notifications from that application unless you check the box again.

If you believe that a third-party application is misusing the Notifications feature, you can report the application for abuse by going to the application’s About page and clicking "Report Application" at the bottom of the page, or by clicking "Report" at the bottom of any canvas page within the application. Be sure to give a detailed, accurate description of the problem and include links (URLs) to the relevant pages. We also recommend that you check the "I would like a copy of this report to be sent to the developer of the application" box to bring this matter to the attention of the developer.

You can determine which applications generate Wall stories, and what kinds of stories they generate, by clicking on the "Applications" button at the left end of the Chat bar at the bottom of any Facebook page and then clicking on the "Edit" link in the Applications menu. Next, click on the "Wall Permissions" tab to see a list of applications that are authorized to publish Wall stories.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Facebook is not responsible for the support provided by this developer. However, Facebook works to ensure that all third-party developers are following our Terms of Service. Please report this application by going to the application’s About page and clicking "Report Application" at the bottom of the page, or by clicking "Report" at the bottom of any canvas page within the application.

Be sure to give a detailed, accurate description of the problem and include links (URLs) to the relevant pages. We will then investigate your report and take appropriate action based on our Platform Developer Terms of Service. We also recommend that you check the "I would like a copy of this report to be sent to the developer of the application" box to bring this matter to the attention of the developer.

Please remember that applications on Facebook Platform are maintained by third-party developers, and they can link to content outside of Facebook. We recommend that you keep your anti-virus software up to date and run its virus removal feature if you suspect your computer has been infected. Keep in mind that you can always remove and/or restrict applications from the "Applications" section of the Privacy page.

Unfortunately, blocking someone on Facebook does not extend to elsewhere on the Internet and may not prevent all interactions in applications not built by Facebook. You may want to check with the developer to see if this application has its own blocking feature.

To prevent further harassment from a user in an application not built by Facebook, we recommend that you remove the application and block it, if necessary. To remove an application's association with your account, take the following steps:

1. Select the "Edit Applications" link from the Applications menu in the bottom left corner of any Facebook page.
2. On the following page, click the "X" next to the application you want to remove.
3. In the window that appears, click "Remove" to confirm the removal of that application from your profile, bookmarks, and the Edit Applications page.

If you want to block an application, go to the Application Directory and find the application you wish to block. Once found, click on the picture for the application to see its About page. On the About page you will have the option to "Block this Application" on the right side of the screen.

If you are the official representative of an organization, business, celebrity, or band, you can create a Page here.

Only the official representative of an organization, business, celebrity, or band may create a Facebook Page. The Page creator can then add other representatives to help them manage the Page. Each Page admin will be able to update and edit their Pages from their own accounts.

If you would like to create a Facebook presence for a celebrity or organization and you are not officially authorized to do so, we suggest you create a Facebook group instead, as these may be created and maintained by any user.

The name I’d like to create a Page for is blocked. How can I create a Page for this artist, brand, or business?

Only the official representative may create a Page for an artist, brand, or business. If you are the authorized representative, you will need to contact us from an address associated with this artist. If you're not able to create your desired Page, please contact us through the form linked from the error message you see.

If you aren't the authorized representative and would like to create a space for fans of a certain topic or figure to share their thoughts and opinions, we suggest you create a Facebook group.

There’s already a Page for the artist, brand, or business I represent. How can I gain access to it?

Only the official representative may create or gain access to a Page for an artist, brand, or business. If you are the authorized representative, you will need to contact us from an address associated with this artist. If you're not able to create your desired Page, please contact us through the form linked from the error message you see. Please submit this form with all requested information.

I don’t have a Facebook account. Can I still create a Page?

Yes, you can create a business account. To create a business account, follow the steps below:

1. Create a Facebook Page by clicking here.
2. After entering the required information, you will be prompted to log in to an existing Facebook account or create a new one. If you do not currently have a Facebook account, please select "I do not have a Facebook account."
3. Enter your email address and date of birth.

I can’t find the "Create Page" button.

To get started, please click here.

Once you have filled out your Facebook Page and are ready to show it to the public, you need to "publish" your Page to have it display on the site to all users.

While your Facebook Page is "unpublished," you will see a dialog at the top of your Facebook Page indicating that your page is not currently visible to users. There is a link there to ‘publish your page’. This will instantly set your Facebook Page to ‘published’ and make it visible to all users. You can also set your Page to "published" from the Edit Page while editing your Facebook Page.

You can set your Facebook Page to "unpublished" at any time. Setting your Facebook Page to "unpublished" will hide it from all users, including your supporters. Your Facebook Page will only be visible to the administrators of the Page while it in unpublished. Your Page will not be visible to users until you set it back to "published".

You can set your Page to "unpublished" in the Settings section of the Edit Page for your Facebook Page.

Page Admins can choose whether they wish to send an update to their entire fan base or to target their update to fans in a specific demographic. The "Target this update" option will allow Page Admins to target their update by location, sex, and age. Only fans in the target group selected will receive the update from the Page.

Yes, you can publish posts, links, photos, and videos to fans based on location and language. This is controlled via the ‘Customize’ option, located in the dropdown next to the ‘Share’ button in the publish box. A post that is published to Facebook users in a specific location or language will only be visible to those users. All other users will never see the post in the News Feed, on your Page, or anywhere else across Facebook.

It will only be visible to that fan’s friends if they are also part of the group you specified when selecting custom settings.

If you click on the "Create Your Profile" button, you will be asked to provide additional information to allow you to transform your business account into a personal account. You will be required to enter your full name, a security question, and an answer to your security question. Once this final registration step is completed, these changes cannot be reverted. You will then permanently have a personal account on the site.

If you convert your business account into a personal account, you will still be able to manage all the Pages and Socials Ads you’ve created by clicking the "Ads and Pages" link in the left hand navigation menu entitled "Applications." The fans of your Pages will not have visibility or access to your personal profile. Any actions that you take as a Page administrator on your Page will show the Page’s name as the actor and not your personal name. However, if you wish to restrict your privacy so that other Facebook members cannot find you in search or add you as a friend, you can do so by clicking on "privacy" at the top any Facebook page.

No, once you provide the final registration information for creating a user profile, you cannot revert back to your business account.

If you convert your business account into a user profile, you will still be able to manage all the Pages and Socials Ads you’ve created by clicking the Ads and Pages link in the left hand navigation menu entitled 'Applications'. The fans of your Pages will not have visibility or access to your personal profile. Any actions that you take as a Page administrator on your Page will show the Page’s name as the actor and not your personal name. However, if you wish to restrict your privacy so that other Facebook members cannot find you in search or add you as a friend, you can do so by clicking on "privacy" at the top any Facebook page.

You can confirm your Facebook account in any of the following ways:

• Follow the link in your sign up confirmation email.
• Use the Friend Finder tool to see which of your email contacts have profiles on Facebook. To get to Friend Finder, simply roll over the Friends drop-down menu and click "Find Friends."
• Follow the link in any email notification you receive from Facebook.
• To confirm your account with your mobile phone, you must be able to receive Facebook’s confirmation text on your mobile device. Enter your mobile phone number and we’ll text you a special code to confirm that it’s your phone. Start by going to the Mobile Texts page.

If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

You must confirm your account to verify that you have access to the email address you entered during registration. Confirming your account will enable you to send messages, write on your friends’ Walls, post in discussions, poke, tag your friends, comment, join groups, and fan pages.

While your account is unconfirmed, you will not be able to send messages, write on your friends’ Walls, post in discussions, poke, tag your friends in photos or notes, comment on content, join groups, or fan Pages. This limit is in place due to security reasons.

You can confirm your account and enable the ability to take the above actions in any of the following ways:

• Follow the link in your sign up confirmation email.
• Use the Friend Finder tool to see which of your email contacts have profiles on Facebook. To get to Friend Finder, simply roll over the Friends drop-down menu and click "Find Friends."
• Follow the link in any email notification you receive from Facebook.
• To confirm your account with your mobile phone, you must be able to receive Facebook’s confirmation text on your mobile device. Enter your mobile phone number and we’ll text you a special code to confirm that it’s your phone. Start by going to the Mobile Texts page.

If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

The yellow banner indicates that your Facebook account is still unconfirmed. Once you confirm your account, the banner will disappear. You can confirm your account in any one of the following ways:

• Follow the link in your sign up confirmation email.
• Use the Friend Finder tool to see which of your email contacts have profiles on Facebook. To get to Friend Finder, simply roll over the Friends drop-down menu and click "Find Friends."
• Follow the link in any email notification you receive from Facebook.
• To confirm your account with your mobile phone, you must be able to receive Facebook’s confirmation text on your mobile device. Enter your mobile phone number and we’ll text you a special code to confirm that it’s your phone. Start by going to the Mobile Texts page.

If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

Follow these steps to correct your email address:

1. Click the "Email Settings" link that appears on the right side of the yellow banner at the top of your home page.
2. Enter your correct email address in the "New Email" field.
3. You will be prompted to enter your password. Click "Confirm" after typing it in.
4. Another confirmation email will be sent to the address you enter. Follow the confirmation link in that email to confirm your account.

Note that confirming the new email address will replace the incorrect address you originally signed up with.

You can confirm your Facebook account in any of the following ways:

• Follow the link in your sign up confirmation email.
• Use the Friend Finder tool to see which of your email contacts have profiles on Facebook.
• Follow the link in any email notification you receive from Facebook.
• To confirm your account with your mobile phone, you must be able to receive Facebook’s confirmation text on your mobile device. Enter your mobile phone number and we’ll text you a special code to confirm that it’s your phone. Start by going to the Mobile Texts page.

If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

You must confirm your account to verify that you have access to the email address you entered during registration. Confirming your account will enable you to send messages, write on your friends’ Walls, post in discussions, poke, tag your friends, comment, join groups, and fan pages.

While your account is unconfirmed, you will not be able to send messages, write on your friends’ Walls, post in discussions, poke, tag your friends in photos or notes, comment on content, join groups, or fan Pages. This limit is in place due to security reasons.

You can confirm your account and enable the ability to take the above actions in any of the following ways:

• Follow the link in your sign up confirmation email.
• Use the Friend Finder tool to see which of your email contacts have profiles on Facebook.
• Follow the link in any email notification you receive from Facebook.
• To confirm your account with your mobile phone, you must be able to receive Facebook’s confirmation text on your mobile device. Enter your mobile phone number and we’ll text you a special code to confirm that it’s your phone. Start by going to the Mobile Texts page.

If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

The yellow banner indicates that your Facebook account is still unconfirmed. Once you confirm your account, the banner will disappear. You can confirm your account in any of the following ways:

• Follow the link in your sign up confirmation email.
• Use the Friend Finder tool to see which of your email contacts have profiles on Facebook.
• Follow the link in any email notification you receive from Facebook.
• To confirm your account with your mobile phone, you must be able to receive Facebook’s confirmation text on your mobile device. Enter your mobile phone number and we’ll text you a special code to confirm that it’s your phone. Start by going to the Mobile Texts page.

If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

You may receive an email from Facebook asking you to confirm your email address. You must confirm your account to verify that you have access to the email address you entered during registration. Confirming your account will enable you to send messages, write on your friends’ Walls, post in discussions, poke, tag your friends, comment, join groups, and fan pages.

If you do not have an account on Facebook and received a confirmation email in error, you can deactivate the account in question by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

Follow these steps to correct your email address:

1. Click the "Email Settings" link that appears on the right side of the yellow banner at the top of your home page.
2. Enter your correct email address in the "New Email" field.
3. You will be prompted to enter your password. Click "Confirm" after typing it in.
4. Another confirmation email will be sent to the address you enter. Follow the confirmation link in that email to confirm your account.

Note that confirming the new email address will replace the incorrect address you originally signed up with.

What type of network are you trying to add?

A work network:

Please note that if your company does not distribute official email addresses to employees, we will be unable to create a workplace network for you.

If you have a work email address that has the company domain, please click this link.

If you’re not receiving the confirmation email, please check your email application's spam or junk folder or filter.

A college network:

In order to join one of our college networks, you need to have a valid email address from one of the schools we support. This email account needs to be set up to send or receive external emails. To accommodate alumni, we accept school affiliated alumni email addresses, which are available at many schools (often for free) through their school or alumni association.

If your school does not provide you with an email address, you will not be able to join that network at this time.

If you have an email address from your school, but aren’t able to receive the confirmation email, please check your spam and junk-related folders and filters.

If you’re still unable to add a college network, please click here.

If you cannot add your college or university because it is not supported, please click on this link.

A high school network:

If you do not have an option to add a high school network to your account, then you may be ineligible to register with a high school at this time. If you currently attend high school and are between the ages of 13 and 18 but have not provided this information accurately, please use the link at the bottom to contact us – we’ll then be able to update your account. If you are over the age of 18, you will need to add your high school information to the Education section of your Profile, as you are no longer eligible to add a high school network. Note that people will still be able to find you in a Classmates Search.

If you are unable to add your high school network because you have recently switched high school networks, you may need to wait until the block expires before adding a new high school. If you are registered in a high school that you do not currently attend, please use the form below to contact us – we’ll then be able to update your account.

If you are unable to add your high school network because we do not support your high school, we can help to add the network to Facebook. Please click here to contact us with your high school information.

If you no longer want to be affiliated with one of your networks, simply go to the Networks tab of your Account Settings page. From there, click on the "Leave Network" link to the right of the network that you wish to leave. Leaving this network means that you will no longer be able to see the profiles of non-friends there. It also means that you will be removed from all groups and events that you have joined and created on that network.

If you sign up for Facebook without a network you will only be able to see the profiles of confirmed friends, whereas users with networks will be able to browse profiles within their networks. Being affiliated with a network also allows you to see groups and events that are specific to your network. If you're worried about who can see your profile, you can always control this from the Privacy page.

To add a network affiliation, just go to the Networks tab of your Account Settings page, which can be accessed from the Settings drop-down menu at the top of every page.

You can change your primary network by going to the Networks tab of your Account Settings page. Simply click on the "Make Primary" link to the right of the network that you want to identify yourself with the most.

Facebook is committed to providing the best user experience possible and we continue to investigate ads and applications that violate our policies. If you are being asked to download a file, and the web address (URL) in your browser window begins with "http://apps.facebook.com/", then please submit a report to Facebook by clicking on the "Report" link at the lower-left of the page.

If you clicked on an advertisement on Facebook and downloaded a file, please follow the instructions listed here to report the advertisement.

When someone who is not a Facebook user searches for your profile outside of Facebook, they will see your public search listing. Your public search listing contains the same information as your regular search listing within the site - your name and profile picture thumbnail. The listing will also contain your friends' thumbnails if available, as well as your username URL if you have created a username. Your public search listing will only be available if you allow "Everyone" to search for you and have the "Create a public search listing for me and submit it for search engine indexing" box checked. You can adjust these settings from the Search section of the Privacy page.

Also note that people who do not yet use Facebook will not be able to interact with you or view your full information without registering for the site. Your public search listing will not affect any of your normal Search privacy settings. A non-Facebook user viewing your result would see the same search result if they registered with the site.

Your public search listing will also appear in search engine indexes if this box is checked, making it even easier for your friends to connect with you. By more efficiently connecting people, we hope that we can make your experience more meaningful on the site.

The public search listing shows the profile picture thumbnail and links to interact with you on Facebook. People will have to register in order to message or add you as a friend. You can also restrict what information shows in your public listing by going to the Search privacy page and editing the section called "How Can People Contact You?" For instance, if you do not want your profile picture to be shown, you can uncheck that box.

When users post content to an open forum on the site (i.e., Facebook Pages, the "Questions and Answers from Users" section of the Help Center, "Open" Groups), this material may also be indexed by search engines.

Unfortunately, Facebook does not have control over content that has already been indexed and cached in search engines. If you no longer wish for this content to appear in search engine results, please delete it from the forum to which you originally posted it. Doing so will render the link that appears in search engine results invalid.

Please keep in mind that once you have changed your settings on Facebook, there may be a delay until the external search directory updates. During this time period, your public search listing link may appear in an external search engine result, but users will be unable to actually view the public search listing. Clicking the search result link will not display your public search listing.

However, this information may still be saved in the search engine’s cache or search memory. Unfortunately, Facebook does not have control over content that has already been indexed and cached in search engines. To request the immediate removal of this search listing, you will have to contact the specific search engine’s support team.

Please contact the appropriate support team using one of the links below:

• Google
• Bing
• Yahoo

When you share or publish content to "Everyone," it will visible to anyone on the internet. People may be able to find your content through public links, or through their friends sharing content with them. When you publish content to "Everyone," you should be comfortable with it being publicly available.

For any content that you can edit (e.g., photo albums, videos, or notes), you can retroactively change the Publisher Control setting by finding the content you wish to edit and then changing the privacy setting.

For content that can't be edited (e.g., status updates or links), you cannot change the Publisher Control after you click "Share." Instead, you can delete the content from your Wall, which will remove it from your friends' home pages. To delete a post, hover over it on your Wall and click the "Remove" button. You can then republish the same content with the correct privacy controls.

Note that retroactive steps you take to change the setting or remove the content won’t prevent any further distribution off of Facebook that may result from the prior privacy setting enabling others to have access to and share the content.

The Billing Manager link can be found in your Ads Manager on the left side of every page. The Billing Manager provides you with a comprehensive summary of charges in the Billing Summary tab. It also references your Funding Sources including your primary and secondary sources of payment along with credit allocations if applicable.

You can find your Billing Summary under the Billing link in your Ads Manager. The Billing Summary will show you a list of all of your past ad charges. Clicking on each description link will take you to a detailed breakdown of that credit card charge, including the dates that the charge covers, and the specific ads that ran during that period.

A campaign is a grouping of ads you create in your account. All of the ads in a campaign share the same daily budget and schedule, but the individual ads have separate bids and targeting.

Campaigns are useful because they allow you to group ads according to whatever criteria are useful to you. For example, if you're running ads for two different businesses, you may choose to maintain a separate campaign of ads for each business. You can pull reports on a campaign level and see how that group of ads is performing.

Keyword targeting allows you to refine your ad's target audience based on the content they've included in "Personal Info" section of their profiles. This includes sections like Interests, Activities, Favorite Music, Movies and TV Shows. Keywords may also be drawn from the titles of users' Groups and Pages.

Users won't be shown the ad because they search for the keyword you've targeted, or as a result of other site activity.

Yes. You can add family members who do not have Facebook accounts. Once added, their names will appear as black text rather than as blue links.

To create a badge, just click on the "Create a Profile Badge" link at the bottom of the left-column on your profile page. This will take you to your Facebook Badge page. On this page, select the "Create Badge" option. Follow the on-screen steps to create a badge.

Yes, you can make different badges to post on multiple sites. Once you have saved your first badge, you will see a "Create a New Badge" link on the top of the page. When you click on that link you can make as many badges as you want.

To add family members to your profile, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Info tab of your profile.
2. Select the "Edit Information" link.
3. In the Family field, use the drop-down menu to select the relationship you are adding.
4. Type your family member’s name. If you are entering children that are not on Facebook, you can include their dates of birth.
5. Click "Add another family member" to add more relatives.
6. Select "Save Changes" when you are finished.

Please note that your family member will need to confirm this relationship before their name appears as a blue link on your profile.

To write a note, please take the following steps:

1. Go to the Notes application. If you do not see it in the Applications menu, type "Notes" into the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears.
2. Click the "Write a New Note" button located at the top right side of the page.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to write your note.
4. To control who can see your note, use the drop-down privacy menu near the bottom of the page.
5. When you're done writing, clicking "Publish" will generate a story about your note and save the note in your My Notes section.

To edit your Notes settings, go to the Notes application and click the "Edit notes privacy" link that appears in the Notes Settings box. Note that anyone who can see your notes can post comments or subscribe to them.

You can also edit the privacy of your notes individually when you write them; just select your preferred privacy setting from the drop-down menu near the bottom of the page.

To add photos to a note:

1. While you are writing or editing a note, click "Choose File" below the body of the note.
2. Click "Browse" to find and upload the image you want from your computer. Once the image is uploaded, you will be given the option to write a caption. The photo will then be assigned an identifier, like "Photo 1."
3. Move this identifier text to the place in the text where you would like the image to appear. Next to the photo thumbnail, you will have the option to determine how you want the image aligned on the page (centered, right, side of the page, etc...)
4. Click the "Publish" button when you are finished, or "Save Draft" to make more changes in the future before publishing your note. To view drafts at a later date, click the "My Notes" link on the Notes main page, and then click the "Drafts" tab.

By default, anyone who can see your notes can comment on them. To edit this setting, click the "Edit notes privacy" link located in the right column of the Notes main page. On the following page, select your preferred privacy setting and click "Save."

To view saved drafts of notes you have written, please take the following steps:

1. Go to the Notes application. If you do not see it in the Applications menu, type "Notes" into the search box at the top of the page and follow the link that appears.
2. Click the "My Notes" link at the top of the page.
3. Select the "Drafts" tab.

To change the privacy settings on each video you have uploaded, follow the steps below:

1. Select a video that you have uploaded.
2. Click "Edit this Video" beneath the video.
3. Choose a setting next to "Privacy."
4. Click "Save" when you are done.

To edit the privacy of videos tagged of you, follow the steps below:

1. Click on the "Privacy Settings" link in the Settings drop-down menu.
2. Select "Profile."
3. Choose a privacy setting next to "Videos Tagged of You."
4. Click "Save Changes" when you are done.

To record a video on your friend’s Wall, follow the steps below:

1. Go to your friend’s profile.
2. Select "Add Video" from the Publisher bar.
3. Record a video.
4. Click "Post."

You will need a webcam and a computer that has the latest Adobe Flash Player installed.

To post a video from YouTube or another video site on your friend’s Wall, follow the steps below:

1. Go to your friend’s profile.
2. Select "Share Link" from the Publisher bar.
3. Type a link from an external site into the bar.
4. Click "Preview."
5. Make changes if necessary and click "Post" when you are done.

There are four main ways to post external content, like videos, to your profile:

1. Click "Share Link" in the Publisher on your profile. Type a link from an external site into the bar and select the "Preview" link. Make changes if necessary and click "Post."
2. Go to the Links page, type a link from an external site into the box in the right sidebar, and click "Post." Make changes if necessary and select "Post."
3. Find "Share on Facebook" links on partner websites. Clicking on those links will generate a Share Box in a pop up window, where you can select "Post to Profile" and click "Post."
4. Go to the Links page and drag the "Share on Facebook" bookmarlet to your browser’s bookmarks bar. Whenever you are on a site and find something you'd like to share, click on the bookmarklet, select "Post to Profile, and click "Post."

Facebook supports almost all video file types. Here's the complete list:

• 3g2 (Mobile Video)
• 3gp (Mobile Video)
• 3gpp (Mobile Video)
• asf (Windows Media Video)
• avi (AVI Video)
• dat (MPEG Video)
• flv (Flash Video)
• m4v (MPEG-4 Video)
• mkv (Matroska Format)
• mod (MOD Video)
• mov (QuickTime Movie)
• mp4 (MPEG-4 Video)
• mpe (MPEG Video)
• mpeg (MPEG Video)
• mpeg4 (MPEG-4 Video)
• mpg (MPEG Video)
• nsv (Nullsoft Video)
• ogm (Ogg Media Format)
• ogv (Ogg Video Format)
• qt (QuickTime Movie)
• tod (TOD Video)
• vob (DVD Video)
• wmv (Windows Media Video)

The aspect ratio of the video has to be between 9x16 and 16x9, and the video cannot exceed the file size or length that the upload page suggests.

If you’re having trouble uploading a video, please contact us using the contact form linked to at the bottom of this page.

When viewing or editing any of your videos, click the "Delete" link at the bottom of the page.

All of the videos tagged of a particular user will be accessible via the "View Videos of" link located below their profile picture. As always, you have the option to remove the tag for any videos that you’ve been listed in by viewing the video and clicking on the "remove tag" link next to your name.

View the video and click the "remove tag" link next to your name. It will no longer be linked to your profile.

Remember that you can only tag your friends. If you are having problems with someone constantly tagging you in embarrassing videos, just remove them as a friend (from the Friends page).

If you don't want the video to be shown at all, please talk to the person who posted it. They should be respectful enough to remove unwanted videos. Unfortunately, Facebook CANNOT make people remove videos that do not violate our Terms of Use.

You can report a video that violates Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities by clicking the "Report Video" link beneath the video, selecting the appropriate category, and clicking "Submit." The following video categories are prohibited on the site:

• Videos containing nudity or pornography
• Videos with excessive gore or violent content
• Videos with racist/hate speech
• Videos containing drug use
• Videos that target an individual
• Videos that are not personal in nature

Facebook reviews every report we receive in order to determine whether or not the content violates our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, and will take appropriate action. Rest assured that these reports will be kept confidential.

If you see a video on Facebook you own the copyright to, select the "Report" option below the video and click the "Is this your copyrighted content?" link. You’ll be directed through the reporting process.

Alternatively, you can report content that you own the copyright to from the Copyright page.

When you click "Friends" at the top of any Facebook page, you will be directed to the "Find Friends" tab by default. In addition to finding and inviting friends, the Friends page allows you to organize and view your Friend Lists, browse your networks for friends, and easily access your friends’ mobile phone numbers. Simply navigate to the All Friends tab from the menu on the left side of the page to view all of your friends. Check out the Browse, Phonebook, Recently Added, and Lists tabs to see filtered groups of friends.

Your Friends page displays your Friend List, your Fan of List, and your Connections List. Your Friend List is made up of your friends, your Fan of list is made up of Pages that you have become a fan of, and your Connections list includes both.

To create and customize additional Lists, which can contain both profiles and Pages, please follow these steps:

1. Click the "Create" link that appears beneath the filters on the left side of your home page or your Friends page. Or, click the "Create New List" button from the "All Friends" tab of the Friends page.
2. Type the title of your list and hit enter.
3. Add people or Pages to the list by typing their names into the "Add to List" field or selecting them from the list.
4. Select "Save List" to store your changes.

With recent changes to the site, friend details have been converted to Friend Lists. To simplify the conversion process, any extra data you filled out after checking the box may have been lost.

Friend Lists provide organized groupings of your friends on Facebook. You can filter your view of each Friend List’s stream of activity separately on the home page. In addition, you can easily send messages and invites to these groups of people.

If you would like to remove a friend, navigate to the person’s profile and click the "Remove from Friends" link at the bottom of the page. If you select this option, you will be removed from the person's Friends List as well. You will need to repeat the friend confirmation process if you wish to be friends with this person again.

No, but all friend links are reciprocal, so you will be removed as a friend from their Friend List as well.

Unfortunately, Facebook cannot provide any support for applications built by external developers. If you continue experiencing issues with the Gifts feature on one of your applications, we recommend contacting the developer, via the "Contact Developer" link on the application's page.

You can only change a gift from public to private. Once a gift is private, it cannot be made public. To make a public gift private, click on the 'Make it Private?' option on the gift in the recipient's Received Gifts page, accessible by clicking on the 'See All' link in the recipient's Gift Box.

Because the Gifts application was created by Facebook, you will not be able to completely remove it from your account. However, you can remove all integration points for it. This will remove Gifts from your bookmarks, and remove any profile tabs or boxes. It won't prevent users from sending you gifts, but only your friends can send you gifts. To do this, please take the following steps:

1. Select the "Edit" link from the Applications menu in the bottom left corner of any Facebook page.

2. On the following page, find the Gifts application and click "X".

3. In the window that appears, click "Remove" to confirm the removal of that application from your profile, bookmarks, and the Applications page.

I don’t see the Gift Box on my profile.

To display this application on your profile again, click on the "edit" link next to Applications in your left navigation column. Next, click "Edit Settings" to the right of the application’s name. Change the "profile" privacy option for this application to any setting other than "No one" and the application should reappear on your profile.

However, your Gift Box will not be visible if you have not received any gifts. If you haven’t received any gifts yet, the Gift Box will be visible once you have received a gift.

The name I’d like to create a Page for is blocked. How can I create a Page for this artist, brand, or business?

Only the official representative may create a Page for an artist, brand, or business. If you are the authorized representative, you will need to contact us from an address associated with this artist. If you're not able to create your desired Page, please contact us through the form linked from the error message you see.

There’s already a Page for the artist, brand, or business I represent. How can I gain access to it?

Only the official representative may create or gain access to a Page for an artist, brand, or business. If you are the authorized representative, you will need to contact us from an address associated with this artist. If you're not able to create your desired Page, please contact us through the form linked from the error message you see.Please use this form to contact us with all requested information.

I don’t have a Facebook account. Can I still create a Page?

Yes, you can do so by creating a Business Account. To get started, you will need to first create a Facebook Page. To start this process, please click here. Once you’ve entered in the required information, you will be asked to log in to an existing Facebook account, or create a new one. If you do not currently have a Facebook account, please select ‘I do not have a Facebook account.’ You will then need to enter your email address and date of birth. Please be aware that managing multiple accounts is a violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use. If we determine that an individual has more than one account, we reserve the right to terminate all of their accounts.

I can’t find the "Create Page" button.

To get started, please click here.

If you click on the "Create Your Profile" button, you will be asked to provide additional information to allow you to transform your business account into a personal account. You will be required to enter your full name, a security question, and an answer to your security question. Once this final registration step is completed, these changes cannot be reverted. You will then permanently have a personal account on the site.

If you convert your business account into a personal account, you will still be able to manage all the Pages and Socials Ads you’ve created by clicking the "Ads and Pages" link in the left hand navigation menu entitled "Applications." The fans of your Pages will not have visibility or access to your personal profile. Any actions that you take as a Page administrator on your Page will show the Page’s name as the actor and not your personal name. However, if you wish to restrict your privacy so that other Facebook members cannot find you in search or add you as a friend, you can do so by clicking on "privacy" at the top any Facebook page.

No, once you provide the final registration information for creating a user profile, you cannot revert back to your business account.

If you convert your business account into a user profile, you will still be able to manage all the Pages and Ads you’ve created by clicking the Ads and Pages link in the left hand navigation menu entitled 'Applications'. The fans of your Pages will not have visibility or access to your personal profile. Any actions that you take as a Page administrator on your Page will show the Page’s name as the actor and not your personal name. However, if you wish to restrict your privacy so that other Facebook members cannot find you in search or add you as a friend, you can do so by clicking on "privacy" at the top any Facebook page.

To add a friend, just use Facebook Search to find people 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.

After confirming a friend request from a new user:

1. Click the "Suggest friends that he/she knows" link to bring up a window of all of your friends.
2. Use the search bar to find a particular person, select the "Filter Friends" tab to sort your friends by network or Friend List, or simply scroll through your complete Friends List.
3. Select a friend’s profile photo to add them to the "Selected" tab. You will see the number of selected friends in parentheses.
4. Once you make all of your selections, click the "Send Suggestions" button to send a suggestion to each user that they add the new user as a friend.

The suggestions will appear on your friends' home pages, and will allow them to quickly send a friend request to the new user. Please note that you can also suggest a friend by clicking the "Suggest Friends for [Name]" found at the bottom of any friend's Profile page.

Unfortunately, a list of pending friend requests is not available. You can, however, determine the status of your friend request with another user when you find them in search. The "Add as Friend" link will appear if you have no pending friend request with them. If you have a pending request with them, "Friend requested" will appear instead. If the "Remove friend" link appears, you two have confirmed your friendship.

You can view recent conversation history by opening a chat window with your friend. You cannot view older conversations at this time or conversations with friends who are not currently online.

To clear your chat history just click the "Clear Chat History" link at the top of your Chat window. While message history is saved from page to page, and even between login sessions, please note that it is not logged permanently.

You can open a dedicated Facebook Chat window by opening the chat menu in the bottom right of your browser and clicking "Pop Out Chat" link. Your conversations will return to the main window when you close the dedicated chat window.

You can turn off specific types of pop-up notifications if you don't want to receive them. When a notification appears, click the "X" to close it. You will be asked if you want to permanently turn off future notifications of that same type. For example, if you choose to permanently delete a notification about posted links, you won't receive any future notifications about posted links from your friends.

At this time you can only chat with people on a one-to-one basis. Group chat is unavailable.

When people take actions on Facebook related to you, like commenting on a photo of you or posting on your Wall, a red notification will appear on the Facebook Chat icon (even if you're offline). Clicking the notification dialog will allow you to see stories related to these actions and you can quickly view the content by clicking the links in the stories.

To let your confirmed Facebook friends know that you are available to chat, click the Chat icon in the bottom right corner of your browser window when signed into Facebook and choose the "Go Online" option from the window that appears. You can click the "Go Offline" link at any time to stop receiving messages through Facebook Chat.

If you are logged in to Facebook and take an action on an affiliated site, the website will alert you that it has a story it would like to send to your Facebook profile. You can then choose to take the following actions:

1. You can click the ‘Learn More’ link to find out more about that story or edit your privacy settings for these external stories.
2. You can click the ‘This isn’t me’ link if the Facebook account does not match the person using the external site. In this case, Facebook will never publish the story or otherwise share any information with the user’s friends on Facebook.
3. You can click ‘No Thanks’ in which case Facebook will never publish that story or otherwise share any information with your friends on Facebook.
4. You can click 'Close' or simply ignore the notification in which case the story will be sent to Facebook, but will not be published on the site. Next time you navigate to the Facebook Home page after interacting with an affiliate site, you’ll receive a second reminder that the affiliate website would like to publish a story on your behalf. There are three things you can do with this story—approve the story by clicking Okay, remove the story by clicking "Remove", or ignore the entire message by doing nothing. If you approve the story and click "Okay", the story will be published in your Mini-Feed and may appear in your friends' News Feeds. If you remove the story using the "Remove" link next to it, the story will never appear in your Mini-Feed or a friend’s News Feed. If you ignore the whole message, it will go away after a few days and nothing will be published to Mini-Feed or News Feed. However, when you ignore a story, it remains queued, so that the next time you generate a Beacon story, this home page message will have two stories, instead of one.

If you ignore the pop-up box, the story generated will be sent to Facebook, but will not be published. The next time you visit your home page, you’ll see a message remind you that this story is being sent. You can then choose to approve the story and publish it, remove the story and never publish it, or ignore the story and act on it at a later time. What happens if an action I take triggers In this case, unless you have selected to always publish stories from that website from the "External Websites" section of the Privacy page, you will have another chance remove the story the next time you go to your home page. A home page announcement lets you know that there is a story about to be published, and you can click the "Remove" link next to it. This prevents the story from being published and the story will never appear in your Mini-Feed or a friend’s News Feed.

In this case, unless you have selected to always publish stories from that website from the "External Websites" section of the Privacy page, you will have another chance to remove the story the next time you go to your home page. A home page announcement lets you know that there is a story about to be published, and you can click the "Remove" link next to it. This prevents the story from being published and the story will never appear in your Mini-Feed or a friend’s News Feed.

In this case, unless you have selected to always publish stories from that website from the "External Websites" section of the Privacy page, you will have another chance remove the story the next time you go to your home page. A home page announcement lets you know that there is a story about to be published, and you can click the "Remove" link next to it. This prevents the story from being published and the story will never appear in your Mini-Feed or a friend’s News Feed.

There are a number of ways to do this. The best way is to use Feed Forms where a user can decide what to share on their wall (or friends' wall) and confirm posting. In addition, you can use stream.publish to publish to a user's stream as long as the user has granted the "publish_stream" permission. To publish activities to a user's wall, use feed.publishAction.

Links:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed_forms
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Stream.publish
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Feed.publishUserAction

In order to use a different currency for Facebook Ads, you'll need to create a second advertising account in the new currency within your existing Facebook account. To do so, visit the Settings tab in your Ads Manager and click the "edit" link next to your listed currency, then follow the steps to create a second account. You can maintain up to two advertising accounts within your Facebook Ads Manager, under a single login.

After you create your new account, you will have the option to copy your existing campaigns and ad settings to the new account and currency. The ads in your original account will automatically be paused and your daily spend limit will be reduced to the minimum.

To switch between accounts, click the "Account" link at the top of your Ads Manager and select the account you'd like to view from the drop-down menu. The account will be identified by the currency of the account.

If you have a webcam attached to your computer you can use it to add a new profile picture. To use the webcam:

1. Go to your profile.
2. Hover your mouse over your current profile picture and click the "Change Picture" link that appears.
3. On the following page you will have the option to use a webcam if one is available.
4. Click the Camera button at the bottom of the preview image.
5. Smile.
6. Select 'Save Picture' once you are satisfied with the image.

The "Thumbnail Version" of your profile picture is used in certain places around the site, such as the upper left hand corner of your application (e.g., photos) pages. To adjust what part of your profile picture serves as the thumbnail, hover your mouse over your current profile picture and click the "Change Picture" link that appears. Next, select the "Edit Thumbnail" option.

Suggestions may appear on the home page, in the new user orientation, on the Friends page, and in ad space around the site. To see more Suggestions, click the "See All" link.

First off, check your Connect URL in your Developer application settings. The domain of the Connect URL needs to exactly match the domain of your site – even blah.com and www.blah.com don't match. If that doesn't work, then try using Firebug. Go to the Net tab and see what's happening the Cross Domain communication library. Verify that the calls were made to login_status.

You can find the technical details where connect.registerUsers is described. This is a more illustrative description.

You create a hash of email addresses for users on your site and send it to Facebook. Facebook compares your hash to a hash of all their user's email addresses and looks for matches. It does this comparison for every email address listed in each user's Contact Info on Facebook.

Initially, only Facebook knows that Jane Smith on your site is the same Jane Smith who's on Facebook. Your site will know they're the same person once she accepts the Connect request. This protects her accounts from being linked without her knowledge.

Your ad is more likely to perform better and continue running successfully if it is being displayed to the users who are most likely to be interested in your product or service. Because of this, we recommend targeting your ads to smaller, more specific groups of users at one time. This will also allow you to write ad text that is more personalized, making your ad more appealing to the users you are reaching.

Keywords are based on interests, activities, and favorite books, TV shows, movies, or job titles that users list in their Facebook profiles. They may also come from the names of groups or Pages users belong to or are fans of. For example, if you choose to target the keyword "Dave Matthews Band," then your ad will only display on users’ accounts that have listed Dave Matthews Band in the "Favorite Music" section on their profile, or are members of a Dave Matthews Band group or Facebook Page.

Connections targeting allows you to target your ads to users who have become a fan of your Page, a member of your Group, RSVP’d to your Event or authorized your Application. If you are the admin of a Page, Group, Event or Application, use the type-ahead to target your connections or exclude your connections from seeing your ad.

It's not currently possible to target users who have connections with Facebook content for which you are not an admin.

You can target your ad to current fans of your Page using Connections targeting. To do so, simply look for the "Connections: Target users who are connected to:" field in the ad targeting interface. As you begin to type the name of your Page in the field, the names of Pages and other eligible content you manage on Facebook will appear in the type-ahead. This targeting would be useful for advertisers trying to reach their current fans about things like special offers or new products, for example.
This targeting option can also be used to reach members of a Group you manage, or those who have RSVP’d to your Event or authorized your Application.

"Friends of connections" targeting allows you to target friends of your connections. Connections are fans of your Page, users who have RSVP’d Yes or Maybe to your Event, members of your Group, and users who have interacted with your Application.

In addition to harnessing the social graph by targeting your connections’ friends, every "Friends of connection" targeted ad promoting a Page or Event includes social content about a friend’s interaction with your business, amplifying the relevancy of your ad. Let’s take a look at an example. Annie is a fan of the Etsy Page. When Etsy wants to promote their Facebook Page, they can choose to target an ad to Annie’s friends by selecting the "Friends of connection" filter. Annie’s friends will receive the Etsy ad with the following sentence: "Annie Ta is a fan of this Page." Annie’s friends are naturally more interested because Annie’s interaction with Etsy is showcased directly in the ad.

To take advantage of this targeting capability, simply look for the "Friends of connections: Target users whose friends are connected to:" field in the ad targeting interface. As you begin to type the name of your Page, Application, Group or Event in the field, the names of eligible content that you manage on Facebook will appear in the type-ahead. You must be an admin of the Page, Application, Group or Event. It's not currently possible to target users who have connections with Facebook content for which you are not an admin.

Click on any filter to see all of the posts on your home page focus on that type of content or group of people. For example, you can filter down to just photo posts, or just statuses. You can also filter down to Friend Lists—customized sets of friends that you can create.

Your name will always display as a blue link when someone finds you in search. When you see the name of someone on the site whose profile is not open to you, their name will still display as a blue link.

However, If your profile is restricted from someone, they will only see the information contained in your search listing and your full-sized profile photo when they click on your name.

You can further restrict your profile by using the settings in the "Profile" section on the Privacy Settings. page. You can control who can find you in search and restrict access to your search listing in the "Search" section on the Privacy Settings page.

To verify your account with your mobile phone, select the "Verify" link found below the "words in the box" (i.e. captcha) that you see when poking, messaging, or sending friend requests.

You should be able to verify your account via your mobile phone even though your carrier is unsupported. Simply select the "Verify" link found below the "word in the box" (i.e., the captcha) that you see when poking, messaging, or sending friend requests. Next, select your country code and enter your mobile number.

If you are trying to activate Facebook Mobile Texts, your carrier will need to be supported. To see if your carrier is supported, please click here.

Usernames allow public entities to easily promote your presence on Facebook with a short URL (http://www.facebook.com/companyname). This username can be used in your marketing communications, company website and business cards.

You can set a daily limit by visiting the following link: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/?settings=1.

You can select when Facebook Mobile Texts sends you SMS notifications by visiting the following link: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/?settings=1.

Please note that these settings will apply to all applications that send you texts from FBOOK (32665). (Note: All actions will always appear on the website.)

You can select what actions cause Facebook Mobile Texts to send you SMS notifications by visiting the following link: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/?settings=1.

Set Facebook texts to "on" or "off" using following the link: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/?settings=1.

Alternatively, just text "on" or "off" to FBOOK (32665) from your mobile phone.

Some advertisements that run on third-party applications link to services that ask for your cell phone number and subsequently send text messages to your phone. While Facebook is not responsible for these advertisements, we recommend that you send a text message containing the word "STOP" (without the quotation marks) to the number from which you're receiving the messages in order to cancel the service.

You may report an application containing these advertisements to its developer(s) and to Facebook by clicking on the "Report" link that appears in the lower left corner of any page within the application. Unfortunately, we have no control over your mobile service. We suggest you contact your mobile provider and explain the situation to them.

In order to subscribe to your friends’ status updates, you first need to make sure you’ve activated Facebook texts on your mobile device. To activate Facebook texts, go to the Mobile tab on the Account Settings page and follow the on-screen directions. If your carrier is not listed in the drop-down menu it means that they are not currently supported for Facebook Mobile Text. We encourage you to talk to your mobile operator to let them know that you are interested in this service.

After you’ve activated Facebook texts, you can subscribe to a friend’s status updates by going to his or her profile and clicking the "Subscribe to SMS updates" link beneath the profile picture.

There are three different ways to unsubscribe from your friends’ status updates:

• When you receive a status update text, simply respond with the word "Unsubscribe." You will then receive a confirmation text notifying you that you have successfully unsubscribed to that friend’s status updates.
• Alternatively, you can navigate to your friend’s profile on the site and click the "Unsubscribe from SMS updates" link below his or her profile picture.
• Another way to unsubscribe is from the Friends page. Select the "SMS Subscriptions" filter from the left hand column. From here, click the drop-down menu to the right of your friend’s name and un-check them from the "SMS subscriptions" list.

You can submit a name change request through the "Name" section of your Account Settings page. Please note that Facebook reviews each name change request that is submitted. Due to the volume of requests we receive, your request may not be processed immediately.

Please note that Facebook account names must adhere to the following authenticity standards:

• Your full first and last name must be listed. Nicknames can be listed if they are a variation of your first or last name, but only in the format "First Name ‘Nickname’ Lastname."
• Accounts are for personal use only. To represent a celebrity, business or brand, please create a Facebook Page. Pages are for representing a real public figure, artist, brand or organization, and may only be created by an official representative of that entity. For more information about Facebook Pages, please click here.
• Professional and religious titles are not allowed in account names.
• You can list your maiden name as your alternate name on the Account Settings page. Please note that account names that include "was," "nee" and "formerly" are not allowed.
• Accounts can represent one person only. Accounts representing groups, families or couples are not allowed.

Facebook reviews every name change request before it is approved. If your name change request is rejected, it could be because our systems have mistakenly prevented the change. If your real, full first and last name has been rejected, you can submit your request for further review by clicking here.

Please note that Facebook account names must adhere to the following authenticity standards:

• Your full first and last name must be listed. Nicknames can be listed if they are a variation of your first or last name, but only in the format "First Name ‘Nickname’ Lastname."
• Accounts are for personal use only. To represent a celebrity, business or brand, please create a Facebook Page. Pages are for representing a real public figure, artist, brand or organization, and may only be created by an official representative of that entity. For more information about Facebook Pages, please click here.
• Professional and religious titles are not allowed in account names.
• You can list your maiden name as your alternate name on the Account Settings page. Please note that account names that include "was," "nee," and "formerly" are not allowed.
• Accounts can represent one person only. Accounts representing groups, families or couples are not allowed.

Facebook reviews every name change request before it is approved. If your name change request is rejected, it could be because our systems have mistakenly prevented the change. If your real, full first and last name has been rejected, you can submit your request for further review by clicking here.

To edit your graduation year, simply go to the "Networks" tab of the Account page. If you click on the "Edit Info" link to the right of your school, you will be given the option to edit your Class Year.

To change your school status, simply go to the "Networks" tab of the Account page. If you click on the "Edit Info" link to the right of your school, you will be given the option to edit your School Status.

Please visit http://facebook.com/legal/copyright.php. If you have proof of trademark ownership, we are happy to assign you the associated canvas URL.

The Promotion Guidelines document outlines all of the requirements and resources you can use to promote your application or fan page externally. This includes a "Find us on Facebook" logo badge which you may use in the color given or in black and white.

If you want to add a link or button to your site to make it easier for your content to be shared on Facebook, please visit the Share Partners resource for icons, links, share buttons and troubleshooting.

When you are invited to an event, a notification will be posted on your home page and you will also receive a notification email. To respond to the invitation, simply follow the link in either notification and choose whether you are "attending," "maybe attending," or "not attending."

You can export your Facebook events into many other scheduling programs, such as Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Calendar. To do this, please follow the directions below:

1. Click the "Export" button that appears below the photo on any particular event‘s page, or go to the Events page and click the "Export Events" link to export all of your upcoming events.
2. Save the events to your computer as an ".ical" file, and import the events using your preferred scheduling program.

When exporting individual events, clicking the "Export" button may automatically import the event to your computer’s default scheduling program.

Facebook has enabled third-party websites to use Facebook’s login and authentication system through a program called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows users to take their Facebook identity, network, and privacy settings with them as they browse and interact with the rest of the Web. Connect-enabled sites often provide an option to log in to Facebook directly from the site itself. When you see this, you should make sure that the login opens in a separate browser pop-up window, and that the Web address (URL) for the pop-up contains the proper "www.facebook.com" domain. If it does, you’ll know that it’s a legitimate Facebook page and not a phishing attempt, and you can log in safely and securely. Note: if you’re logged in to Facebook, the Facebook Connect partner site should only ask you to "authorize" that site.

Every Facebook user has the ability to customize his or her privacy settings. Users are able to limit who can view their profile (e.g., everyone, only their friends, etc.) and to choose who can see specific parts of their profile (e.g., their contact information, their personal favorites, their work history, etc.).

Privacy settings can be accessed through the "Privacy Settings" link from the "Settings" drop-down available at the top right side of any page on the site.

Facebook takes the safety of its users very seriously and makes a significant effort to take down any objectionable material that may be posted on the site. We encourage users to report offensive profiles, messages, groups, events, shares, notes and photos. Reported items are then reviewed by Facebook administrators and removed if deemed in violation of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Users also have the option of "blocking" other users, which will ensure that they are unable to find them in a search, view their profile or send them a message.

There is no API query you can use for this; however, you can track post-install and post-remove URL hits and maintain your own list.

Follow this link for a list of example sites currently implementing Connect: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect_Live_Sites

Please try copying and pasting the full link you received into your address bar. Some email clients will separate the link onto several lines, so be sure to copy the entire link. If this does not work, click "Resend Confirmation Email" on the Settings tab of the Account page. If you are still receiving this error message, please report this issue here.

Facebook sends a notification to every email address associated with an account when someone has been able to register one of the addresses on the account. This happens when a person clicks on a link sent to the email address when creating a new account, or when adding the address to an existing account.

If you still own the email address in question, you can add it back to your account by going to the "Settings" tab on the Account page and following the same process. You may want to change the password for the email address, as someone else may have been able to access it in order to confirm the contact change.

If you no longer own the address, you will not be able to add it back to your account. If you still own the email address but are unable to access it, please contact your email provider for assistance with regaining access to the address.

It is possible that malicious software was downloaded to your computer or that your password was stolen by a phishing website designed to look like Facebook. Please carefully follow the steps provided:

1. Run anti-virus software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove these harmful programs and keep your information secure.
   • For Windows:
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   • For Apple/Mac OS:
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2. Reset password: From the Account Setting page, you will need to create a new password. Be sure that you use a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. Do not use words found in the dictionary.
3. Never click suspicious links: It is possible that your friends could have unwillingly sent you spam, viruses, or malware through Facebook if their accounts were infected. Do not click this material and do not run any .exe files on your computer without knowing what they are. Also, be sure to use the most current version of your browser as it will contain important security warnings and protection features.

If you are still unable to access your profile, please send us more information regarding the issue so we can investigate. Please submit your report here.

Facebook Pages enable artists, businesses and brands to communicate through the viral distribution mechanism that leverages Facebook users’ authentic social connections and rich communication channels, including News Feed, Mini-Feed, and Inbox. Because Facebook’s user profiles are authentic and their connections with other users are real, the social influence of these stories is tremendously powerful.

Users want to know what their friends are listening to and try out their recommendations. Whether it’s playing a track, watching a video, writing on the wall, writing a review, or attending an event, a fan’s interaction with a Page can generate News Feed stories to his friends. Since users can immediately click through to that Page and interact with it, engaging Pages will benefit from a virtuous cycle of user attention. Additionally, Pages will be publicly viewable, so Facebook users searching for a particular artist or company on the World Wide Web will find a presence for that group in an environment they know and trust.

An interaction occurs when a fan writes on your Wall, comments on your posts, or likes your content. The total of these actions aggregated over seven days is displayed in this section.

When you create compelling content, your fans may choose to interact with the material by commenting, liking, or writing on your Wall. These fans help to spread your content virally throughout Facebook, as their engagement leads to organic stories being published in their friends' News Feed.

To increase the number of Interactions and improve your Post Quality you may consider:

• Making sure that your posts, whether they are Status Updates, photos, links, or videos, are relevant to your fans. Posting engaging content is the best way to get people to interact with your Page.



• Posting frequently, but not posting an overwhelming amount of content that users may find spammy or burdensome to consume.



• Increasing your total fan base to generate more interactions.

Currently, you can only export data from the older version of Page Insights. In order to access this material, click the "Switch to the Old Insights" link near at the top of the page and you will see an "Export Data" link.

You can choose to stop receiving updates from a Page at any time by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link that appears when you view the individual update. Additionally, you can click on the "Edit Updates Settings" link found in the bottom right corner of the Updates tab in your Inbox.

To report a Page for content that violates our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, please click on the "Report this Page" link found in the bottom, left corner of every Page.

You can download a guide that explains your exportable reports here. From that site, click the link to download the .pdf file that will help you understand your reporting options.

Date: The date on which the activity reported by that row of the report took place. Please note that monthly reports will be dated on the first of each month and weekly reports will be dated on the Sunday that marks the beginning of the week.

Ad/Campaign Name: The name of the ad/campaign being tracked by that row.

Ad/Campaign ID: The unique ID number of the ad/campaign being tracked by that row.

Demographic: This is how he data is summarized for the current row you’re looking at. For instance, if it says "gender_age", then this row will tell you about how a certain gender and age respond to your ad. Other options include "country" (partitioned by country) and "region" (partitioned by states/regions within countries).

Bucket 1/Bucket 2: These columns give further information about what demographic is being reported in the row. The values in these columns depend on the value of "demographic" column in the row. For instance, if the row is a "gender_age" row, these columns will give you information about what gender and what age is being reported. However, if the row is a "region" row, it will tell you what country and what state is being reported.

% of Impressions: The percentage of unique user impressions served to the demographic reported, as compared to the total number served. Note that this column may be blank if there were not a sufficient number of impressions served to this group. We do this to protect the privacy of our users. This does not necessarily mean that 0 impressions were served to this demographic.

The Post Quality score measures how engaging your Posts have been to Facebook users over a rolling seven-day window.

Post Quality is an important indicator for how fans gauge your posts. This score is calculated with an algorithm that takes into account your number of posts, total fan interactions received, number of fans, as well as other factors. Post Quality scores can potentially be improved by:

• Making sure that your posts, whether they are Wall posts, photos, or videos, are relevant to your fans. Disseminating interesting and meaningful content is the best way to get people to interact with your Page.



• Not posting an overwhelming amount of low quality content. It is better to provide interesting posts, less frequently than it is to rapidly publish less engaging material.



• Increasing your total fan base to garner more total interactions (create an ad link).

You may report abuse by using the proper "Report" link that appears next to many pieces of content on the site. You may also report another user by using the "Report/Block" link that appears at the bottom of a user's profile page. If this does not resolve the issue, we suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the "Blocking People" box that appears at the bottom of the Privacy page.

If you have already blocked an offender or have been blocked by an offender posting abusive content, please have another user report the abusive content or the offender through the one of the various "Report" links available on the site.

If someone has created an account to impersonate or imitate you, please go to the impostor profile and click "Report this Person" in the left column. Check the "Report this Person" box, choose "Fake Account" as the reason, and add "Impersonating me or someone else" as the report type. Be sure to add a valid web address (URL) leading to the real profile so that we can review the information.

You can report a profile that violates Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities by clicking the "Report/Block this Person" link in the left column of the profile, selecting "Fake profile" as the reason, and adding the appropriate information. The following categories of profiles are prohibited on the site:

• Profiles that impersonate you or someone else
• Profiles that use your photos
• Profiles that list a fake name
• Profiles that do not represent a real person
• Profiles that have been hacked

Be sure to choose the correct report type to help us verify the information. Facebook reviews every report we receive in order to determine whether or not the content violates our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, and will take appropriate action. Rest assured that these reports will be kept confidential.

You can report any photo that you feel is offensive by using the "Report" link provided underneath the image. Facebook will monitor these complaints and remove photos as necessary. All reports will be kept confidential.

Unfortunately, Facebook did not develop the third-party poker application and cannot assist you in restoring any lost poker chips. This application is developed and operated by a third party that runs its own technical resources, and we do not have access to this data.

Please reset your password immediately for security reasons, and contact the developer of this application in regards to your situation. In order to contact the developer who created this application, please go to the application's About Page and click on the "Contact Developer" link at the bottom of the page. Facebook is not responsible for the support provided by this developer. If you continue to have problems, please note that you can remove and restrict applications from the "Applications" section of the Privacy page.

To enable the notification sound, please follow the steps below:

1. Select the chat menu button in the lower right corner of any Facebook page.
2. Click the "Settings" link.
3. Check the box next to "Play Sound for New Messages."

If you are still unable to hear the sound, please log out of your account and sign back in.

Here's the list of actions which will add a unique user to your MAU count:

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• accepting a request
• viewing a profile tab
• publishing something via a publisher

We currently do not count application profile views.

Also note:

1. A user does not need to have granted access to the app to be counted as an active user
2. A user does need to be logged in *to Facebook* to be counted
3. We don't pass any special parameter to the app to indicate whether the user is an active user. Basically, they should always be counted, except if they're logged out of Facebook entirely (but keep in mind that an app has no way to distinguish between a) a user who has logged out of Facebook and b) a user who has not granted the app access).

You can access your account by entering one of the following into the "Email" field, followed by your password, and then clicking the Login button:

• Any email address that is currently listed on your Facebook account
• Your username. A username is your personalized Facebook URL (web address) and appears in the location bar of your browser after http://www.facebook.com/ when you view your profile.

You can view today’s events and birthdays in the Events section on the right-hand sidebar of your home page. This section is located beneath Highlights. Click the "See All" link to see upcoming events and birthdays, friends’ events and past events.

Any pending requests and invites you have will appear in the Requests section on the right sidebar on your home page. This section is located at the very top, above Suggestions. Follow the links to view details, RSVP, or confirm your requests.

When you enter a search on Facebook, you will land in the "All Results" filter by default. This filter includes all of the most relevant content from Facebook in addition to the web. To refine your search, select a filter from the menu on the left side of the search results page. Selecting one of these filters will display search results exclusively from that filter, and will also give you the option to narrow your search even more.

Search filters include:

• People: helps you find people you know on Facebook. To narrow your people search, just type a location, school, or workplace in the appropriate field and click the "Filter Results" button.
• Pages: helps you find Pages that interest you on Facebook. To narrow your Pages search, select a Page type from the drop-down menu and click the "Filter Results" button.
• Groups: helps you find groups on Facebook that are related to your search. Groups that can be seen by everyone are viewable in search results; secret groups are not viewable in search results. To further refine your groups search, select a group type from the drop-down menu and click the "Filter Results" button.
• Applications: helps you find applications by outside developers that interest you.
• Events: helps you find events on Facebook that are related to your search. Events that can be seen by everyone are viewable in search results; secret events are not viewable in search results. To narrow your events search, select a date and/or event type from the drop-down menus and click the "Filter Results" button.
• Web Results: helps you find relevant web information outside of Facebook that is related to your search.
• Posts by Friends: helps you find status updates and other content your friends have posted that are related to your search. To narrow your search, select a post type from the drop-down menu or type in a location that interests you and click the "Filter Results" button.
• Posts by Everyone: helps you find status updates and other content from anyone who enables their posts to be viewed by people other than friends. To narrow your search, select a language and/or post type from the drop-down menus and click the "Filter Results" button.

Any pending requests and invites you have will appear in the Requests section on the right sidebar on your home page. This section is located at the very top, above Suggestions. Follow the links to view details, RSVP, or confirm your requests.

You can view today’s events and birthdays in the Events section on the right-hand sidebar of your home page. Click the "See All" link to see upcoming events and birthdays, friends’ events and past events.

Facebook does not accept advertisements that promote online gambling through our self-service advertising channel.

Gambling advertising may be available through a direct sales partnership with Facebook. These partnerships require a minimum monthly spend of $30,000 USD. Please contact us if this is something you are interested in.

Sites offering gambling tips or information may be acceptable, but are not permitted to link to or promote any other site that offers online gambling. We may also accept ads for casinos and other location-based gambling. All of these ads must be targeted to users over 18 years of age.

Facebook does not allow advertising containing or promoting hateful or violent content directed at an individual or group.

Ad content may not advocate hate or violence against any group, whether based upon the race, sex, creed, national origin, religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or language of such individual or group.

Lexicon is a tool to follow language trends across Facebook. Specifically, Lexicon looks at the usage of words and phrases on profile, group and event Walls. For example, you can enter "love, hate" (without quotations) to compare the usage of these two words on Facebook Walls. You may enter up to five terms, where each term can be a word or two-word phrase consisting of letters and numbers.

You can zoom in on a group of associations by clicking and dragging with the mouse. Press SHIFT to zoom out, or drag an area with no associations. You can use the slider at the bottom to explore the associations of the topic for different dates. Click individual associations on and off above the graph to see how those associations change over time. Roll over a bubble to see the exact number of mentions of the association alongside the topic in the given time window.

Lexicon shows the number of users that posted each term per day on a profile, event or group Wall. It does not count repeated terms by the same user on the same day. This is to account for the seasonality of Wall posting in general; for example, there are fewer overall posts in the month of December. The text of each Wall post is also "cleaned" before it gets counted. For example, every word is converted to lower-case, and apostrophes are removed (so "You’ll" turns into "youll").

If you want to exclude people who are not your friends, as well as people who are not in your networks from messaging you, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Search section of the Privacy Settings page.
2. Under the "Search Result Content" section, uncheck the box next to "A link to send me a message."

To report a user for a message you have received, use the report link located next to the message in your inbox.

You now have a variety of application settings to fine-tune your interactions with applications on Facebook. To get started, click on the "Applications" button at the left end of the Chat bar at the bottom of any Facebook page. In the menu that appears, click on the "Edit" link and you’ll be taken to the Edit Applications page, where you will see:

1. Bookmarks. Edit the settings of your bookmarked applications.
2. Authorized. Edit the settings of applications that you have used and allowed to access your information.
3. Wall Permissions. Determine what types of stories you want to appear related to these applications.
4. Additional Permissions. Adjust an application's ability to email you or access your data while offline (for example, a friend of yours might want to use an application with you even while you're not logged in to Facebook).
5. External Website Settings. Change your settings for external websites here.

If an application supports profile boxes, you can control whether or not it displays on your profile by editing the application’s settings. To do this, click on the "Applications" button at the left end of the Chat bar at the bottom of any Facebook page. In the menu that appears, click on the "Edit" link and you’ll be taken to the Edit Applications page. On this page, click on the "Edit" link to the right of the application in question and then click on the "Profile" tab in the window that appears. Please keep in mind that not all applications will support a profile box or tab, even if this setting appears (i.e. Facebook Events does not have a Profile Box, even though it has a "Profile Box" privacy setting).

Bookmarking an application adds it to the Applications menu at the left end of the Chat Bar at the bottom of your screen. Your top 6 bookmarked applications will also appear in the Chat Bar by themselves. A bookmarked application is one that you can easily access at any time.

If you are using an application and have not yet bookmarked it, you will see its icon in the Chat Bar with a green plus sign on it. Clicking this icon will add bookmark the application. You can manage your bookmarks at any time by clicking on the "Applications" button at the left end of the Chat bar at the bottom of any Facebook page and then clicking on the "Edit" link in the Applications menu. Next, click on the "Edit" link to the right of the application in question and then click on the "Bookmark" tab in the window that appears.

The Boxes tab serves as a home for your applications.

If an application supports profile boxes, you can choose to add it to your profile by editing the application’s settings. To add a box, follow the steps below:

1. Click the "Applications" in the bottom left corner of any page.
2. Select the "Edit" link.
3. Click the "Edit" link to the right of any application.
4. Select the "Profile" tab of the window that appears.
5. Click the "add" link next to "Box."

You can remove an application you have authorized to your account by clicking on the "Applications" button at the left end of the Chat bar at the bottom of any Facebook page. In the menu that appears, click on the "Edit" link and you’ll be taken to the Edit Applications page. From there, click on the "Edit" link to the right of the application in question. Finally, click on the "Remove" link to the right of the application in question.

If you deactivate your account from the "Deactivate Account" section on the Account page, your profile and all information associated with it are immediately made inaccessible to other Facebook users. What this means is that you effectively disappear from the Facebook service. However, if you want to reactivate at some point, we do save your profile information (friends, photos, interests, etc.), and your account will look just the way it did when you deactivated if you decide to reactivate it. Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and expect their information to be there when they return to the service.

If you do not think you will use Facebook again and would like your account deleted, please keep in mind that you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added. If you would like your account permanently deleted with no option for recovery, log in to your account and then submit your request by clicking here.

If you are currently unable to access your account, you will need to reset your password in order to log in. In order to do so, click the "Forgot your password?" link that appears above the field where you would normally enter your password. Once you’ve followed the instructions to reset your password and can log in, you can deactivate or delete your account using the steps outlined above.

Facebook reports valid clicks. Many third-party reporting tools instead count page visits or views, which may not correspond directly to clicks. Additionally, your third-party reporting tool may not count certain clicks because the tool requires that your browser have cookies, Javascript, and/or images enabled in order to record statistics. Your third-party tools may also count clicks that we have already identified and filtered out of your reports and charges. Please remember that statistics measured at daily intervals may be based on different time zones, resulting in different daily totals.

If your ad links directly to the site you're advertising, and you're trying to track clicks on that ad by looking at page visits with facebook.com as the source, it's likely that your statistics will be different than the reports we provide to you. This is an expected discrepancy, as many of the page visit sources will be lost with this kind of tracking process. If you’d like more information about how to successfully use third-party systems to track your page visits, we recommend contacting the tracking company directly.

There are three ways to block someone:

1. Go to the Privacy Settings page. Enter the name or email address of the person you want to block in the Block People search field at the bottom of the page and then click "Block."
2. If you cannot find someone using the Block People search field, but you are able to click to their profile page, you can block them by navigating to the "Report this Person" link at the bottom of their profile page. Once you click on the link, check the "Block this person" box and then click "Submit."
3. Lastly, please note that you can block someone through the "Report" link located next to messages in your Inbox.

People will not be notified when you block them. If you are unable to block someone using any of the methods listed above, it is possible that they have left Facebook or have restricted their privacy settings. Please note that if you cannot block someone and would like to prevent them from viewing your profile, you can adjust your Privacy Settings accordingly. For more information on editing your Privacy Settings, click here.

Blocking allows you to prevent most interactions with someone on Facebook. People you block won't be able to find you in searches, view your profile, or contact you with pokes, Wall posts, or personal messages. In addition, they will not be able to see your Wall posts, comments on mutual friends’ Walls, or that you are a member of the same group as them.

They will, however, see your comments on content that is posted by a mutual friend. You will see their comments as well.

If you block a user, some content that they posted before you blocked them will remain on your profile and on other areas of the site. This content includes:

• Messages in your Inbox (You will not be able to click to view the blocked user’s profile).
• Wall posts the user had previously made on your Wall.
• Stories about the blocked user that are posted on your mutual friends’ Walls (e.g., If the blocked friend tagged one of your mutual friends in a photo).
• Photos that both the blocked user and one or more mutual friends are tagged in.
• Groups that the blocked user has created. (You can still request to join these groups. The of the blocked user will appear as a "Creator" and will show up in black, but the user will not show up in the list of officers).
• Photos previously tagged of you by the blocked user.
• Messages that the blocked user sends to a thread that you are both a part of.
• Messages that the blocked user sends to a group of which they are an admin and you are a member.
• Invitations to an event that is affiliated with a group in which the blocked user is an admin and you are a member.
• Comments made by the blocked user on a photo that was added by a mutual friend.
• Photos the blocked user adds to a group you are both in.

Facebook sends a notification to every email address associated with an account when someone has been able to register one of the addresses on the account. This happens when a person clicks on a link sent to the email address when creating a new account, or when adding the address to an existing account.

If you still own the email address in question, you can add it back to your account by going to the "Settings" tab on the Account page and following the same process. You may want to change the password for the email address, as someone else may have been able to access it in order to confirm the contact change.

If you no longer own the address, you will not be able to add it back to your account. If you still own the email address but are unable to access it, please contact your email provider for assistance with regaining access to the address.

Some users are getting fake email notifications that look like they are being sent from Facebook. These emails include false notifications for things like friend requests, messages, events, photos, and videos, as well as false accusations of Facebook site abuse. Do not click on any links contained within an email that you believe looks suspicious. Visit our Security Page for further information.

Please report this issue here.

Facebook takes appropriate precautions to protect users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Facebook always posts to a secure page when users are logging in and employs industry standard encryption. This may not always be apparent from the web address (URL), but rest assured that our logins are secure.

Ads will generally be reviewed within 12 hours of being purchased, and often much sooner during regular business hours (Pacific time). You can access and manage your Facebook Ads at any time by clicking the ‘Ad Manager’ or ‘Ads and Pages’ link appearing in your Applications menu, or at http://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/.

To change the start/end dates of your campaign, simply click the "edit" link next to the ad campaign in question. You should then be able to edit the dates, or set your ads to run continuously. When creating your ad, please keep in mind that you cannot create ads for a date that is more than 30 days in the future.

Your ad is more likely to perform better and continue running successfully if it is being displayed to the users who are most likely to be interested in your product or service. Because of this, we recommend targeting your ads to smaller, more specific groups of users at one time. This will also allow you to write ad text that is more personalized, making your ad more appealing to the users you are reaching.

At this time, credit cards are the only accepted method of payment for Facebook Ads. We hope to make more payment options available in the future. If you need a printed invoice, you can access and print one from within your account. When viewing your ad campaigns, simply click the "Account Billing Summary" link at the bottom of the page. On the summary page, you can click on each charge to see more detailed information.

At this time, credit cards are the only accepted method of payment for Facebook Ads. We hope to make more payment options available in the future. If you need a printed invoice, you can access and print one from within your account. When viewing your ad campaigns, simply click the "Account Billing Summary" link at the bottom of the page. On the summary page, you can click on each charge to see more detailed information.

If this is your first time advertising through Facebook’s online advertising system, or you wish to create a new Facebook Ad, you can activate your coupon code and then redeem your advertising credits at the final page of the ad creation flow. If you already have a credit card stored to your advertising account, simply click the "I have a coupon to redeem" link located directly above the "Place Order" button. If you do not have a credit card stored to your advertising account, you will need to first enter your credit card information and then click the "I have a coupon to redeem" link.

Please login to your Facebook advertising account by clicking on the "Ads and Pages" link in the Applications column. Click on the "Billing" tab at the top of the Ads Manager. Then click on the "Funding Sources" tab on the Billing Summary page. Click on the "Enter Coupon Code" and enter your coupon code as shown.

Coupon credits cannot be applied to charges you accrued before you added the coupon to your account. Only new charges will be deducted from the coupon.

The security of your account may have been compromised. Please select a unique and complex password that is different from other passwords that you use on the Internet, and keep this information completely to yourself. You can reset your password by using the "Change Password" field on the Account page.

You should also make sure that all email addresses associated with your account are secure. Remember that anyone who can read your email may be able to also access your Facebook account. Additionally, please make sure that you log out of your Facebook account after each use and "quit" your browser when you’re done using the site. Never check the "Keep me logged in" box when logging in from a public computer or someone else’s mobile device, as this will keep you logged in even after you close your browser window.

Finally, please make sure that when you access the site, you always log in from a legitimate Facebook page with "facebook.com" in the domain part of the URL (web address). For more information about protecting your account, please visit the Facebook Security Page.

If you are unable to log in to your account and are receiving a warning that your account appears to be compromised, Facebook has detected suspicious activity on your account and has temporarily suspended it as a security precaution. It is possible that your password was "phished," or stolen by a website designed to look like Facebook. You will be able to regain access to your account once you complete the automated security verification process. When you regain access to your account, please be sure to follow all of the suggested security precautions, including:

1. Password Protection: You should select a unique and complex password for your account and keep this entirely to yourself. Be sure that you use a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. It should also be different from other passwords you use elsewhere on the internet.
2. Private Browsing: Please make sure that you log out of your Facebook account and quit your browser when you’re done using the site. This is especially important when using a public computer or someone else's mobile device. You should also never check the "Keep me logged in" box when logging in from a public computer, as this will keep you logged in even after you close your browser window.
3. Secure Email: Since anyone who can read your email can probably also access your Facebook account, you should make sure that any email addresses associated with your account are secure. To ensure security, you should change the password for all of your email accounts and make sure that no two are the same. By varying your passwords, you can greatly decrease your account’s risk of being compromised in the future.
4. Security Question: If you have not done so already, you should add a security question to your account from the Account Settings page. You should choose a question and answer that you will remember, and no one else should be able to answer the question that you choose.
5. Log in at Facebook.com: Make sure that when you access the site, you always log in from a legitimate Facebook page with the facebook.com domain. Do not click any unfamiliar links and do not run any executable files (files ending in .exe) on your computer without knowing what they are. If something looks or feels suspicious, go directly to www.facebook.com to log in.
6. Run Anti-Virus Software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove these harmful programs and keep your information secure.
   
   For Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/protect/viruses/xp/av.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/default.mspx
   
   For Apple http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
7. Learn More: You should visit the following page for more information about Facebook security and how to report suspicious material in the future: http://www.facebook.com/security

In addition to posts from your friends, you’ll see photo tags, friend requests, event RSVPs and group memberships in your home page streams.

High school networks are for current high school students only. Unfortunately, you cannot affiliate with a high school network as an alum.

High school alumni can list the school that they graduated from in the Education Information section of their profile. To edit this information, go to your profile’s Info tab and select the "Edit" link that appears in the Education Information section. Also, you can search for other people who have listed a specific high school on their profile by using Classmate Search.