Facebook allows you to publish actions you take on other websites to your profile. For example, after you put something up for auction on eBay or purchase tickets to see a movie on Fandango, you can grant Facebook permission to generate a story that will show up on your friends’ home pages. Affiliate websites can only generate stories about your actions if you are logged in to Facebook at the same time. Keep in mind that affiliate websites never have access to your profile information, nor does Facebook receive any personal data about you from an affiliate site.

You have control over your information and who sees it. Affiliate websites can only generate stories about your actions if you are logged in to Facebook at the same time. You will always be notified when another website wants to publish a story about you. To opt out of having a story published, simply click "No, thanks."

If you change your mind after you’ve granted permission, you will have one more opportunity to opt out before the story is published on Facebook. You will also have the option to specify whether you want that website to always publish stories, notify you before publishing stories, or never publish stories about you.

Keep in mind that affiliate websites never have access to your profile information, nor does Facebook receive any personal data about you from an affiliate site.

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 You can click 'Close' or simply ignore the notification in which case the story will be sent to Facebook, but will not be published on the site.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.

You can edit your privacy settings any time you are notified that an affiliated site has a story it would like to send to Facebook directly from that notification. You can also edit your privacy settings at any time directly on the Privacy Settings for External Websites page. On this page you have the option to specify for each website whether you want that website to always publish stories, notify you before publishing stories, or never publish stories for you. If you select "Always" publish stories, you will still be notified on that website via a pop-up when you generate a story, but instead of needing to approve it again on your home page, it will go straight to your profile.

You can opt-out of this feature entirely by going to the Privacy Settings for External Websites page. Simply select the 'Don't allow any websites to send stories to my profile' option.

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.

These stories will not be published in your Mini-Feed or in the News Feeds of your friends. The stories will be removed from your queue of stories and you will not see a notification about those particular stories on your home page again.

When you leave the home page or choose to ignore the home page notification, 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.

Checking the box "Always publish stories sent to my profile from this site" means that you will no longer be notified twice about stories being sent to your profile for that particular site. You will still be notified by a pop-up on the site generating the action, but you will no longer see the second notification on your home page.

This program is no longer available to new sites. To integrate actions into your website, you can use Facebook Connect.

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.

To appear in search, your application will need to first be submitted and approved for the Application Directory.

First, make sure your application is visible to users from the applications settings page. If it is, but it is not showing up in the directory, click here.

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.

You can sign up for a username starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, 2009, by visiting www.facebook.com/username. After selecting one for your application or company name, you will see a green check mark indicating that the name is available before you actually claim it. In some cases, your desired username may not be available because someone has already selected it or because we've reserved certain names that have been brought to our attention in an effort to help third parties protect their intellectual property and other rights. If your username is unavailable or you wish to report that another username infringes your intellectual property rights, please click here.

Be sure to check out this FAQ for answers to other common questions.

Pages are for organizations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to broadcast great information to fans in an official, public manner. Like profiles, they can be enhanced with applications that help the entity communicate with and engage their fans, and capture new audiences virally through their fans' recommendations to their friends.

You can create and manage a Facebook Page for your organization from your personal account. You can create a Page here. Please note that only the official representative of an organization, business, celebrity, or band is permitted to create a Page.

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.

You can become a fan of up to 500 Pages.

Any Page with content that is age sensitive will not be available to those who do not meet that age requirement.

The Pages that you become a fan of will be displayed on the bottom of the Info tab of your profile. If your search visibility allows Pages to be displayed to non-friends, they will also see this information when they find you in search. You can control this from the Search section of your Privacy Settings page.

We currently do not allow users to hide the pages they are fans of from their friends. However, we plan to provide more robust privacy controls for Pages in the future.

Profiles represent individuals and must be held under an individual name, while Pages allow an organization, business, celebrity, or band to maintain a professional presence on Facebook. You may only create Facebook Pages to represent real organizations of which you are an authorized representative. Fans of your Page won't be able to see that you are the Page admin or have any access to your personal account.

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.

The Page administrators will decide which applications they wish to include on their Page. They can add content to their Page, as well as allow their fans to add content to any or all of the applications on their Page.

When you become a fan of the Page, a story will be published on your Wall and may be published in your friends’ News Feeds. Any action that you take on a Page will abide by the privacy settings you currently have set for News Feed and Wall. You can adjust these settings at any time by visiting the News Feed and Wall section of your Privacy Settings page.

Pages cannot see the profiles of their fans. They can only see the profile photo and name of each of their fans. In addition, Pages do not receive a News Feed with information about what their fans are doing. Pages can communicate with their fans through updates in your Inbox, but they have no additional access to your personal information.

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

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.

You can access your Page by typing your Page name into the search bar in the top right corner of the any Facebook page and selecting it from the drop-down that appears.

Alternatively, you can click "Advertising" at the bottom of any Facebook page, and then click the "Pages" tab on the following page.

Page Admins can update their fans about new Page content, promotions, upcoming events, and more. Pages can send messages to either their entire fan base or target their update to fans in a specific demographic. The messages Pages send their fans will appear in the "Updates" tab of a user’s Inbox.

In order to upload music to your Page, we need you to submit a valid form of identification that identifies you, the admin of the Page. By submitting a valid form of identification you are confirming that you either own the copyright to the content you will be uploading or that you are authorized by the copyright owner to upload that copyrighted content to your Page.

Please note that you can black out any sensitive information on your identification if you wish, other than your name and picture. We currently only accept photo passports, school IDs, and drivers licenses. If you do not wish to upload a form of identification, you will not be able to upload music.

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.

It’s not currently possible to edit the name of a Page. If you would like to change your Page name, you will need to delete your Page and recreate it. The Facebook team isn't able to change Page names for you.

To delete your Page, please click on "Edit Page" and then on "Delete Page" at the top of the page.

For questions and answers regarding usernames for your Page, click here.

There is no limit to the number of admins a Page can have.

To appoint other users as Page Admins, please select the ‘Edit Admins’ option when you are viewing the Page you currently administer. Simply choose the names of any users on your friends list that you would like to add as Admins. These users will then be able to help you manage the Page. Every Admin can manage the Page from their own Facebook account using the ‘Page Manager’ application. If the individual you wish to invite to admin your Page is not presently a member of Facebook, simply type their email address in the "Reqest Admins via Email". They can then register for the site and will be able to accept the admin request as soon as they join Facebook.

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.

Facebook Pages do not currently have an Inbox, and can't be used to contact individual fans directly. We may add this feature in the future but don't have a date for when this might happen. At this time, if you choose to send a personal message to a user, it will appear to come from you and not from the Page. Similarly, users aren't able to contact Page admins through the Page.

Your Page can now post status messages - short text-only messages like those found on user profiles. Soon, these statuses will appear in fans’ News Feeds.

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.

At this time, it is not possible to message all the fans attending an event you have created on your Page. You will need to use the Page’s "Updates" feature in order to send out a message to your fans.

Mousing-over the ‘people’ icon, which will appear at the bottom of any post published with custom settings, will display which fans a post was published to.

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

The information fields that are available for you to write in are determined by the Page category that you selected when you first set up the Page. You aren't able to change the category of your Page after you've created it, so if you would like different fields, you'll need to delete your Page and create a new one.

Unfortunately, we do not yet provide notifications of activity on your Page. In the future we may provide alerts for certain activities on the Page.

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.

: 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.

If your city or town does not appear after typing it into the City/Town field on the Edit Event page, please submit your request here.

The option to message all guests will not appear on an event after it has passed 5,000 guests. This includes guests who are listed as attending, maybe attending, or not yet replied. This measure is in place both for technical reasons and to prevent spam.

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.

We understand that these limitations may pose an inconvenience and will keep this in mind as we continue to improve the feature.

To invite people to your event, first click "Invite People to Come" beneath the event's photo.

1. From the "Guest List" tab of the Edit Event page, simply begin typing the name of the person you wish to invite in the box in the upper right. Facebook will suggest possible matches from your Friend List. You can also invite your friends quickly by scrolling down the Friend List provided and checking the boxes next to the names of the people you want to invite. When you are done adding names to this list, make sure to click the "Send Invitation Emails" button to complete the process.
2. If you have friends that are not on Facebook, you can invite them by entering their email addresses into the box on the "Guest List" tab of the Edit Event page. You can also look up your friends' email addresses using Facebook's Friend Finder.
3. As an Event admin, you can invite more people or edit the guest list at any time from the Events page.

You can invite people to an event who do not have a Facebook account. From the Guest List tab of the Edit Event page, list your friends' email addresses (separated by commas) in the box labeled "Invite People who are not on Facebook via Email" and click "Add". Click "Send Invitations" to complete the process.

By receiving this invitation, they will be able to view the event information and RSVP. They will not be able to see any other Facebook pages unless they create an account.

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.

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.

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.

A musical artist, business, or brand can create Facebook Pages to share information, interact with their fans, and create a highly engaging presence plugged into Facebook’s social graph. These Pages are distinct presences, separate from users’ profiles, and optimized for these presences’ needs to communicate, distribute information/content, engage their fans, and capture new audiences virally through their fans’ recommendations to their friends. Facebook Pages are designed to be a media rich, valuable presence solution for any artist, business, or brand that can be integrated seamlessly into the user experience with socially-relevant applications.

Click here to create a Page for an organization of which you are an authorized representative.

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.

To learn more about the specific features available to Page and Event advertisements, please click here.

The home page ad placement, located just to the right of the News Feed, is similar to existing Facebook Ads and will display a combination of an image and text. This placement is currently only available to a limited set of advertisers. As this space continues to evolve and improve, we’ll provide more details regarding its availability.

Some users are being sent back to their home page or another page when trying to comment on a photo. We are aware of this issue and are working to resolve it. If you would like to submit a report about this problem, please click here.

This issue is due to your application settings being too restrictive. In order to resolve the problem, please follow these instructions:

1. Select Applications Settings from the Settings drop-down menu at the top of every Facebook page.
2. Click "Edit Settings" to the right of the Photos application.
3. In the Edit Photos Settings pop-up box, select the Profile tab.
4. Adjust the privacy setting to something other than "Only Me" and then click "Okay."

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.

In order to add a photo to the Profile Pictures album, you must upload that photo as your current profile picture.

For more instructions on how to upload a profile picture, please click here.

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 can use any available HTML application (like this one) to put your code directly into a box or tab on your page.

Any application you create yourself can also be added to a page if you have marked its settings as installable to users and Pages.

You can find out more about creating a special tab for your application here: Profile Tab documentation

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

Please follow the instructions on the Share Partners page.

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.

Some users have not been able to log in and are receiving this error message. We are aware of this problem and are working on resolving the issue soon. Please report this issue here.

Unfortunately the name of an event cannot be changed after it has confirmed guests. If you have decided that you don't like the name for your event, you can always apologize to guests using the event Wall.

Some users have not been able to log in and are receiving this error message. We are aware of this problem and are working on resolving the issue soon. Please report this issue here.

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.

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.

Some Internet Explorer users are seeing the Facebook footer menu in the middle of the page. For a quick fix, please follow these instructions to upgrade your browser.

There's a setting to control who sees your Wall Posts on the Profile section of the Privacy page. It is most likely on the "No One" setting. You can add your Wall to your profile page by adjusting the setting so that it's no longer on the most restricted level.

It is possible that your account has been compromised. Please visit the Security section of the Help Center for assistance with this issue.

There are four main ways to link external content to your profile:

• Click "Share Link" in the Publisher, which is located on your home page and on your profile. Enter a URL from an external site into the bar, and select the "Preview" link. Make changes if necessary and click "Post."
• Go to the Links page, enter a URL from an external site into the box in the right sidebar, and click "Post." Make changes if necessary, and select "Post."
• 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."
• 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."

If a preview is not displaying correctly for your URL, you may need to contact the webmaster of the site you are trying to share to check whether it meets Facebook's requirements.

In order to generate a Share preview successfully, a website must include the following three meta tags in its source HTML:

<meta name="title" content="Article headline here" />
<meta name="description" content="Article summary here" />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.example.com" />

Please make sure that this site includes these tags in the section of its HTML. Also, note that these tags are case-sensitive and URLs must be absolute. For more information, click the "How do I make sure the Share Preview works?" link at the bottom of http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php.

If you have determined that this site includes all of the necessary metatags but it is still not generating the correct preview, please submit a report here.

To post content from Facebook on your profile, follow the steps below:

1. Click the "Share" link beneath any item.
2. Select the Post to Profile tab.
3. Click the "Post" button.

Selecting this option will post the content and any comments you have made to the "Links" section of your profile. Please note that the owner’s privacy settings will still apply to this content.

To ensure that links are published when you click "Share", please verify that you have allowed the Links application to publish these stories. To check, follow the steps below:

1. Go to the Application Settings page, accessible from the Settings tab at the top of any Facebook page.
2. Click "Edit Settings" to the right of the Links application.
3. Click the Additional Permissions tab.
4. Make sure that the "Publish to streams" box is checked.

Additionally, please make sure that your "Status and links" privacy setting allows your friends to view your status and shared links. You can adjust this setting from the "Profile" section of your Privacy Settings page.

Unfortunately, this functionality is not currently available. It is not possible to edit the description of a shared link after it has been posted.

Group admins can select whether links can be posted to a group.

If you are allowed to post links, follow the directions below:

1. Go to a group.
2. Copy and paste the web address (URL) in the Links section of the group’s page.
3. Click "Post."

If this is an open group, the links will be visible to everyone who views the group. The links posted on closed and secret groups are only visible to other members. Please remember that admins have the ability to remove links that they do not want to be associated with their groups.

Event admins can select whether links can be posted to an event.

If you are allowed to post links, follow the directions below:

1. Go to an event.
2. Copy and paste the web address (URL) in the Links section of the event’s page.
3. Click "Post."

If this is an open event, the links will be visible to everyone who views the event. The links posted on closed and secret events are only visible to other members. Please remember that admins have the ability to remove links that they do not want to be associated with their events.

No, you can provide lots of functionality to users and get their basic information without authorizing your application. Please see Automatic Authentication: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Automatic_Authentication

Automatic authentication is a very lightweight authentication model that replaced the concept of "adding" Platform applications. It was announced on the developers blog.

Automatic authentication means that if a user visits an application canvas page (whether it's an FBML- or iframe-based canvas page), Facebook will pass that visitor's user ID to the application, even if the user has not authorized the application. The UID also gets passed when a user interacts with another user's application tab.

The user ID is passed along to canvas pages as the fb_sig_canvas_user parameter. You can access it from the new version of the PHP client using: $fb->get_canvas_user();

More information is available here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Automatic_Authentication

Our best recommendation is to create a splash page for your application that users who come to your app will see if they have not authorized the application. Then you can use the Authorize popup dialog to get them to access the application. This is considered a better method than prompting them to go to an install page first.

Please see: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Automatic_Authentication and http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Authorizing_Applications.

If you maintain a Facebook Connect site and one of your users deactivates his or her Facebook account, you can contact that user to see if the user wants to create a new account on your site. For more information, see http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Reclaiming_Accounts

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.

You can add a comment by clicking the title of a note and scrolling to the bottom of the page. When you have written your comments in the box, click "Comment." In some cases, the person who wrote the note may have privacy settings in place that prevent others from adding a comment.

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.

Facebook may use the email addresses you upload through the Friend Finder to help you connect with friends, including sending some of your contacts emails about your recent Facebook activity. If you don't want us to store this information, visit this page

To control what email notifications Facebook sends to you, simply go to the Notifications tab of the Account Settings page.

If the notification is from an application, you can block any application on Facebook. To block an application, navigate to the application’s about page. At the top right of the page will be a "Block Application" option.

Report this issue here.

To control what email notifications Facebook sends to you, simply go to the "Notifications" tab of the Account page.

If the notification is from an application, you can block any application on Facebook. To block an application, navigate to the application’s about page. At the top right of the page will be a "Block Application" option.

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.

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.

This message is part of a false chain letter and did not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook. This message can be safely disregarded and deleted. For more information on current scams, chain letters, and how to avoid them, please visit our Security Page's Threat section.

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.

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.

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.

To add someone to your Limited Profile list, follow the steps below:

1. Select "All Friends" from the Friends drop-down menu.
2. Click on the "Limited Profile" Friend List in the left sidebar. If you do not see a "Limited Profile" friend list in this section, you can create one by clicking the "Make a New List" button and then naming the list.
3. Type your friend’s name into the "Add to List" field. You must be friends with a person to add him or her to the Limited Profile list.

To prevent users on this list from seeing certain content, please follow the steps below:

1. Click the "Privacy Settings" option in the Settings drop-down menu at the top of any Facebook page.
2. Go to the Profile section.
3. Select any Profile privacy setting and click "Edit Custom Settings."
4. Enter the name of your limited profile friend list in the "Except These People" section to restrict these users from viewing the profile content you selected.

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.

Your privacy settings allow you to determine how much of your profile other users are permitted to view.

To see how your profile currently appears to one of your friends, you can use the "View As" mode. To do so:

1. Click the "Privacy Settings" option in the Settings drop-down menu at the top of any Facebook page.
2. Select the Profile section.
3. At the top of this page, you’ll see the prompt "See how a friend sees your profile." Enter the name of any of your friends in the search field next to the prompt.

Once you’ve selected a friend, you’ll be sent to a special view of your profile that lists their name and any relevant privacy details, including their networks and the friend lists to which you’ve added them. Please keep in mind that you will always see the top frame containing your friend’s information if you are in "View As" mode.

Your privacy settings allow you to determine how much of your profile other users are permitted to view.

To see how your profile currently appears to one of your friends, you can use the "View As" mode. To do so:

1. Click the "Privacy Settings" option in the Settings drop-down menu at the top of any Facebook page.
2. Select the Profile section.
3. At the top of this page, you’ll see the prompt "See how a friend sees your profile." Enter the name of any of your friends in the search field next to the prompt.

Once you’ve selected a friend, you’ll be sent to a special view of your profile that lists their name and any relevant privacy details, including their networks and the friend lists to which you’ve added them. Please keep in mind that you will always see the top frame containing your friend’s information if you are in "View As" mode.

If you do not see this information, then you are not viewing your profile as your friend, but rather as you see it while logged in to your own account.

Keep in mind that only the presentation of the information is changing — no additional information about you or other people is shared outside of what was already available in current search listings.

You can customize who can find you in search from the Search section of the Privacy Settings page. You will always have the option not to appear in search listings at all.

Anyone who is able to find you in search will always be able to click on your search listing in order to view your name and networks. You can further control the information that these users see by changing the options underneath the title "Search Result Content." There are five listed options: see your picture, send you a message, view your friend list, add you as a friend, and view the Pages you are a fan of. Un-checking any of these boxes will prevent the user from being able to perform the action.

Please note that you may see a different version of the site than others when you perform searches from your own account. You will always be able to find your profile in search because you can always view your own profile. However, users who do not have this permission will not be able to find your profile using search.

While you can restrict the visibility of an email address on your profile, there is no way to prevent individuals from locating you on the site via an email address attached to your account. However, you can adjust your email address preference from the Account Settings page, if you would prefer to operate your account under a different email address (one which you would not mind be located through on the site).

If you would like to create an RSS Feed for your Facebook Notifications you can do so by going to your Inbox and selecting the Notifications tab. On the following page will be the option to "Subscribe to Notifications" on the right. After clicking "Your Notifications", Facebook will generate an RSS Feed that you can save to your bookmarks folder and view in your browser. You will now have an auto-updating RSS Feed that alerts you of important things on Facebook involving your account (i.e. Wall posts, photo tags etc).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anyone who is allowed to see the Basic Info section of your profile will be able to view family members you list on your profile. To edit your profile privacy settings, please visit the Profile section of the Privacy page.

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.

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.

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.

The following terms are used in your Advertising Performance report. Not all terms will appear in every report.

Date: The date on which the activity reported in the 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.

Campaign or Ad Name: The name of the ad/campaign reported in the row.

Campaign or Ad ID: The unique ID number of the ad/campaign reported in the row.

Impressions: The total number of times the ad referenced was shown has been shown on the site.

Clicks: The total number of clicks on the ads tracked by that row in the report.

Clicks Rate: The click rate for an ad is calculated as the number of clicks the ad received divided by the number of impressions (times the ad was shown on the site) in the given time period.

Actions: The number of times users have become a fan of your Page or RSVP'ed positively to your Facebook Event. (This data will only appear for Facebook Ads for Pages or Events.)

Actions Rate: The action rate for an ad is calculated as the number of actions the ad received divided by the number of impressions (times the ad was shown on the site) in the given time period.

CPC: The average cost per click in your account's selected currency for the given row.

CPM: The average cost per thousand impressions for the given row.

Spent: The total cost for the activity in the given row.

Unique Impressions: The number of distinct users who viewed the ad(s) tracked by the given row of the report.

Unique Clicks: The number of distinct users who clicked on the ad(s) tracked by the given row of the report.

Unique Clicks Rate: The unique click-through rate. This rate is calculated as the number of unique clicks the ad(s) received divided by the number of unique ad impressions.

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.

Currently, you can only add parents, siblings, and children to your profile. These options may be expanded in the future.

Your Wall has most likely been hidden from view on your profile. To display your Wall again:

1. Go to the Profile section of the Privacy page.
2. From the drop-down menu next to "Wall Posts," select any setting other than "No one" or "Only Me."
3. Check the box next to "Friends may post to my Wall."

Some users are finding that Flickr stories are no longer importing to their Walls. No further reports are needed at this time.

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.

When you open an advertising account in a new currency you are given the option to copy all of the existing ads from your original account. If you choose to do so, your ads will be copied to the new ad account and their bids and budgets will be converted to the new currency at the current exchange rate. All ads in your original ad account will be paused. Historical campaign performance data will remain in the original account and will not be copied to the new one.

When you create a new account in a new currency, the daily spend limit from your previous account will be transferred over to your new account, and your original account's spend limit will be reduced to the minimum. We aren't able to manually raise this limit for you for any reason.

Currently we are only able to offer advertising credits or coupons for accounts using US dollars. If you choose to switch to another account currency and currently have an outstanding advertising credit on your account, you will forfeit any remaining value as we are unable to transfer credits between accounts. We recommend you wait until you've used your ad credits before copying existing ads to a new account.

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.

An unconfirmed account can remain on the site for a maximum of seven days. You will need to confirm your account before this time has lapsed. Confirming your account is an important security measure, and it also enables you to use the full range of site features.

As long as your account remains unconfirmed, Facebook will provide email notifications and on-screen prompts containing detailed instructions for confirming your account.

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.

Please follow the steps below to resolve this issue:

1. Check your email application's spam or junk folder or filter.
2. Please note that some emails may be blocked by your ISP (internet service provider).
3. If you're still having trouble after the above steps, please click here.

You can change your login email address at any time in the Settings tab of the Account page. Please note that you can log in with any email address you have added to your account. However, if you no longer have access to an email address associated with your Facebook account, you will need to contact your email service provider in order to regain access to that address.

If you forgot your password or would like it reset, click here to reset your password.

If you’re still unable to log in or change your login email address, click here.

If you are having trouble accessing an existing account on the site, please do not create another account, as this is a violation of our Terms of Use and may delay resolution of the issue.

You can change your password from the "Settings" tab on the Account page.

Facebook strives to create relevant and interesting advertisements to you and your friends. Here are the facts about Facebook Ads:

* Facebook Ads are sometimes paired with social actions (e.g., becoming a fan of a Page) that your friends have taken.
* You only appear in Facebook Ads to your confirmed friends. If a photo is used, it is your profile photo and not from your photo albums.
* Facebook doesn't sell your information to advertisers.
* Facebook actively enforces policies that help protect your experience with third party applications and ad networks.

With Facebook Ads for Pages and Events, you may see stories about actions your friends have taken on Facebook attached to ads you see. For example, you might see a story about a friend becoming a fan of a Page related to the ad you're seeing. Similarly, your friends might see stories about you that relate to the ads they're seeing. Such stories will only be shown to friends, and will adhere to any privacy settings you've set for your account.

You can see examples of these kinds of ads here.

Facebook does not give advertisers access to the personal information you choose to put on the site. Advertisers will be subject to all of the privacy settings you have in place on your account, and will only be able to see your profile or other information if you've allowed them to do so.

Facebook's ad targeting is done automatically and anonymously by our system. When advertisers choose to target their ads to an audience that includes you as a user, the system automatically matches those ads to your data, without exposing either advertiser or user data to the other.

Facebook runs advertisements from its own advertising system that let your friends know if you have a direct connection with a product or service, in the same way that your friends learn through your News Feed if you're connected with another friend or an organization's Facebook Page. For example, if one of your friends becomes a fan of a Page, you may see an ad with your friend's profile photo next to it, indicating the action that friend has taken with that Page.

These social ads always require that you and your friends have taken an express action to indicate your connections with the product or service and that no data be shared with the third party. Such stories will adhere to any privacy settings you've set for your account.

You can see examples of these kinds of ads here.

Facebook does not give third party applications or ad networks the right to use your name or picture in ads. The ads you see running within application pages are served by ad networks outside of Facebook, and not by Facebook itself.

You can report concerns you have about the content or behavior of any platform application directly to the developer of that 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.

Please note that your privacy settings for Facebook Ads do not control application behavior, but we will take action on applications that violate our Terms of Use or SSR.

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.

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 requires all users to provide their real date of birth. We do this as a safety precaution and to help ensure that the site is useful for people.

This does not mean that you have to display your full date of birth on your profile. You can control what information shows by visiting the Info tab of your profile, then clicking the pencil icon for the "Basic Information" section. Please note that if you hide your birthday completely, your friends will not receive reminders when it's approaching. If you still want them to receive these reminders, you will need to at least make the month and day visible.

To protect account security, it is not possible to update your account’s security question once you have added one. If you have not yet created a security question, you will see this option on the Account Settings page.

Yes. Don’t post content that infringes on the copyrights of others or that is against our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Also, use discretion when posting content, and if you’re considering posting something that could be damaging to you or your friends (no matter who has access to it), don’t.

We currently accept the following payment methods for the currencies indicated:

US Dollars – Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB
Japanese Yen – Visa, Mastercard, JCB
Other currencies – Visa, Mastercard

These credit cards are the only accepted method of payment for ads. You may also pay with a co-branded debit card. Unfortunately pure debit cards unassociated with these brands will not be accepted. Additionally, we are currently unable to perform invoicing for advertising campaigns. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Your CSC credit card code isn’t validating.

Unfortunately, the error message that you are receiving indicates that your credit card is not passing our fraud protection system. Please confirm that the information you have input is correct and accurately reflects the information that your bank has on file for your account. If you are still unable to make a purchase using your card, please either try using a different credit card or contacting your credit card issuer. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

You have an outstanding balance.

To resolve your balance, please go here.

For more information about creating an advertising account in another currency, or managing a current account, please click here.

When you attempt to add a card to your account we match the address you enter in our system with your credit card billing address. If you receive this message, please confirm that the credit card zip code you have entered on our site is exactly the same as the zip code that appears on your billing statement. If you have verified that this information is correct, please contact your bank in order to determine why they are not accepting this zip code on Facebook.

If you continue to receive an error message after double-checking your inputted information, it is possible that your credit card issuing bank is declining your card authorization. If this is the case, you will need to contact your bank for details about why they have declined the particular transaction.

Your daily spend limit works like a credit limit on a credit card. This is separate from the daily budgets that you set for each of your campaigns. The daily spend limit represents the most that our system will ever allow you to spend in one day. Our system will never charge you more than the total of the daily budgets that you have set for your active campaigns.

Under normal circumstances, your daily spend limit will automatically increase as you make successful payments. In some cases, we may be able to manually increase your daily spend limit. If you'd like to request a spend limit increase, please fill out this form.

We require you to enter your credit card information so that we have a funding source to charge if your Facebook Ads continue to run after your advertising credits have been fully redeemed. Rest assured that we will first draw from your advertising credit to pay for your ad charges, and will only bill your card for charges that exceed the amount of your credit.

Some users are finding that Flickr stories are no longer importing to their Walls. No further reports are needed at this time.

You can invite friends on your AIM Buddy List by first clicking "Find Friends" from the Friends drop-down at the top of any Facebook page. On the following page is the option to use the AIM Instant Messenger Friend Finder. Once you have selected this option, you will then need to enter your AIM Screen Name and AIM Password into the appropriate fields. You can then select which of your friends you want to send friend requests to or invite to Facebook.

Please make sure that the file follows the format below:

1. First line contains the words "Email Addresses"
2. The following rows only contain email addresses and no other type of information (name, location, etc.)

If you continue to experience problems, please submit a report here. Please note that Facebook may need a copy of your address book (e.g. comma separated value - .csv file) to troubleshoot the problem. However, we will not send any invitations on your behalf.

To add someone back to your News Feed, follow these steps:

1. Scroll down to the bottom of your News Feed and click "Edit Options."
2. If you are looking for a friend, scan the list to find that person. If you are looking for a public profile, select the Public Profiles tab.
3. Click "Add to News Feed" to see their posts again.
4. Click "Close" to save your changes.

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.

An unconfirmed account can remain on the site for a maximum of seven days. You will need to confirm your account before this time has lapsed. Confirming your account is an important security measure, and it also enables you to use the full range of site features.

As long as your account remains unconfirmed, Facebook will provide email notifications and on-screen prompts containing detailed instructions for confirming your account.

It is possible that the coupon code you are trying to use is invalid, may have already been used, or has expired. Please make sure you've read the terms, conditions or procedures applicable to your credit. If these situations do not apply please contact us using this form.

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.

We require you to enter your credit card information so that we have a funding source to charge if your Facebook Ads continue to run after your advertising credits have been fully redeemed. Rest assured that we will first draw from your advertising credit to pay for your ad charges, and will only bill your card for charges that exceed the amount of your credit.

No. Data you collect directly from users (see "Independent Data") "belongs" to your app and is not subject to Facebook's data storage policy. However, any such data must be typed or uploaded to your app directly by users. If you pull user data from the API, it always remains subject to Facebook’s data policy. The policy does allow for certain exceptions, but those can only be authorized by users through standard Facebook controls (which currently aren't available), or through Facebook's written permission. For more information please see this blog post: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=234

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.

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.

The fans of your Pages will not be able to see 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.

A Page can have multiple administrators. Each Page admin will need their own business account or personal profile. Only the official representative of an artist, business, or brand may create a Facebook Page. The Page creator can then add other admins to help manage the Page. Each Page admin can edit the Page from their own accounts by selecting the "Ads and Pages" icon from the Applications menu in the lower left corner of any Facebook page. The creator has the power to add and remove other Page admins. Admins cannot, however, remove the creator of the Page.

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.

At this time, it’s not possible to edit a Page category. If you would like to change the category, you will need to delete your current Page and create another one under the correct category.

If you click on the "Create Your Profile" button and fill out the additional information, you will create a personal account to correspond with your business account. Once this final registration step is complete, these changes cannot be reverted. Deactivating your personal account will cause you to loose access to any Pages and Social Ads you've created.

After you have created a personal account, you can manage all the Pages and Socials Ads you’ve created by selecting "Ads and Pages" from the Applications menu, which is located on the bottom right side of your home page. The fans of your Pages will not be able to view 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.

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.

Some users are currently not seeing their Pages in Search results. Please report this issue here.

Some users are currently not seeing the Pages section on their Info tab. We hope to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Please report this issue here.

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 comments on a fan’s photo, the comment may appear as if it was posted from the admin’s personal Facebook account. No further reports of this issue are needed.

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.

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.

Each business account or personal account on the site should only be used by one individual. This individual should be the owner of the email address used as the login email address for the account.

A Page can have multiple administrators. Each Page administrator will need to have their own business account or personal account. Every admin can manage the Page from their own Facebook account using the "Page Manager" application that will appear in the left hand column of the Applications section once they become an admin for a Page. Every admin has equal access to and the same abilities as the other admins for a Page, however the original creator of the Page may never be removed by other Page admins.

Personal accounts are optimized for individuals, not artists, businesses, or brands. Facebook Pages allow artists, businesses, and brands to showcase their work and interact with fans. These pages come pre-installed with custom functionality designed for each category. For example, a band Page has a music player, video player, discography, reviews, tour dates, a discussion board that the artists can take advantage of. Third party developers will also build an array of applications that they will compete for Page Admins to add to their Pages. Facebook Pages are also not subject to a fan limit and can automatically accept fan requests.

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.

Every Page will appear in search results on Facebook. Users will also display any Page that they fan in their "I'm a Fan of..." box on their profile. Each "I'm a Fan of…" box lists a user’s Pages by Page category. Additionally, all Pages can be found in the Page Directory. You can browse to easily see your Pages, your friends' Pages, and view all Pages on the site.

Organic promotion refers to the News Feed stories automatically generated from the actions taken by users on your Facebook Page. You can increase the distribution of these stories to your fans' network of friends with Social Ads.

Powerful reporting and insight tools are provided free to Page Admins. On a cumulative and week-over-week basis, these granular reports will measure reach (e.g., impressions, clicks), viral impact (e.g., fan adds), responder insights (e.g., gender and age), and engagement (e.g., video plays and wall posts) of visitors to the Page. One advantage of using the applications designed by Facebook is the ability to receive these free, regular, detailed updates on the growth of the page.

Page admins now have the ability to see information about their fan base and the fans who interact with their content. For privacy reasons, Facebook will not provide demographic data (such as age and gender) or geographic data (such as country, city, and spoken language) unless there is a significant number of fans in each statistical category. To increase your number of fans and active fans, you may want to write on your Page's Wall, post photos or videos to your Page, or create other content that your fans will find engaging.

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.

The fan dashboard graph shows trends in fan acquisition and News Feed content distribution:

• Total Fans / Unsubscribers: Total number of fans over time, overlaid with the total number of fans who have chosen to hide your posts in their News Feed (unsubscribe).



• New / Removed Fans: The number of people who have become a fan of your Page or stopped being a fan of your Page.



• Unsubscribes / Re-subscribes: Number of people who have chosen to hide your posts (unsubscribes) in their News Feed, compared to the number of people who have purposely undone that action (re-subscribes).

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.

If you are an administrator of a Facebook Page, you will be able to choose your username at facebook.com/username just like a user selecting a username for their profile. There will be an interface for you to choose usernames for the Pages you administer.

All Pages are eligible to claim usernames if they have more than 25 fans.

If you are an administrator of a Page, you will be able to choose a username for each Page at http://www.facebook.com. There will be an interface for you to choose usernames for the Facebook Pages you administer.

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.

Usernames were created to make it easier for Facebook users to identify their profile and share with others. As a public figure, business or brand with a Page on Facebook, your username should be straightforward and easy to remember. Facebook encourages you to consider the following when creating a username for Pages:

• Create a username that is as close as possible to your public figure or business name (e.g. AshtonKutcher, PizzaHut).
• If you own the rights to a given name, make it your username so that others cannot obtain it.
• Usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a period (".").
• Choose a username you will be happy with for the long term. Usernames are not transferable.
• Your username must adhere to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

No. Once you have claimed a username by clicking the "Confirm" button, it is not possible to edit it, or to transfer your username to a different account on Facebook. Additionally, when an account is removed from the site, its username will not be made available to other users for security reasons.

No. Only one username is allowed per Page.

If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, please fill out our username IP infringement form. For all other reports of intellectual property infringement, including Page names, please click here.

If you wish to report that someone’s username infringes your rights, all you need to do is fill out our username IP infringement form here.

At this time, generic words are not available as usernames. Facebook encourages all users and Page administrators to create a username that closely matches the true identity of their name or business.

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

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.

Page admins now have the ability to see information about their fan base and the fans who interact with their content. For privacy reasons, Facebook will not provide demographic data (such as age and gender) or geographic data (such as country, city, and spoken language) unless there is a significant number of fans in each statistical category. To increase your number of fans and active fans, you may want to write on your Page's Wall, post photos or videos to your Page, or create other content that your fans will find engaging.

Page admins who post engaging, high quality content will have interactive fan bases capable of virally spreading content through the social graph. The Fan Interaction Graph shows how fans are engaging with your posts and consuming your material.

• Interactions: Total number of comments, Wall posts, and likes.



• Interactions Per Post: Average number of comments, Wall posts, and likes generated by each piece of content you post.



• Post Quality: Score measuring how engaging your content is to Facebook users. A higher Post Quality indicates material that better engages users.



• Posts: Number of posts your Page has made either on the Wall or in video.



• Page Views: Number of times your Page has been viewed by Facebook users.



• Stream CTR / ETR: This graph is a measure of the Click Through Rate and Engagement Rate for your content appearing in the Facebook News Feed. If a user clicks on one of your posts, that will be counted as Stream CTR. If a user likes or comments on one of your posts, that will be counted in the Stream ETR. Please note that Stream data is based on a sample and therefore is an estimate of your Stream CTR and ETR. (Coming soon)



• Media Consumption: This graph tracks how many photo views, audio plays, and video plays your content have received.



• Discussion Posts: Total number of discussion posts written by fans.



• Reviews: Number of times your Page has been rated in the Reviews application.

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).

With Facebook Ads for Pages and Events, you may see stories about actions your friends have taken on Facebook attached to ads you see. For example, you might see a story about a friend becoming a fan of a Page related to the ad you're seeing. Similarly, your friends might see stories about you that relate to the ads they're seeing. Such stories will only be shown to friends, and will adhere to any privacy settings you've set for your account.

To set your language, go to the bottom of the page you are on and click the current language in the left corner. You may then select your language from the menu that appears.

You can also update your language by going to the Account page, and then the "Language" tab there.

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.

If you have checked the box to display your alternate name on your profile, it will appear in parentheses next to your Full Name at the top of your profile. It will also be displayed in search results and in any friend requests you send.

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 change your date of birth:

1. Navigate to your own profile by clicking Profile at the top of any page.
2. Click on the "Info" tab.
3. Click on "Edit Information" at the top.

If you are under 18, please click here.

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.

There is no limit to the number of Pages you can manage. You can manage as many Pages as you have been given the authority to manage. The Page Admin who initially creates the Page reserves the right to add or remove other Page Admins at their discretion.

From your Page Manager you can view all of the Facebook Pages that you created or admin.

You can always access your Page Manager at http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/.

We are currently working with people whose accounts have been affected by money transfer scams. Please use caution around messages from friends claiming to be stranded and asking for money.

Your friend's Facebook account may have been compromised by cybercriminals attempting to impersonate them. Most frequently, these criminals will gain control of a Facebook account, and use the Chat or Status features to claim they are stuck in a far away location and in need of financial assistance.

If you have received a message like this, please enter your friend's account information in this form so that we can make sure your friend's account is secure.

If you are having general trouble logging in to your Facebook account, please click here for more information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you give users the option to become a fan of your Page, or RSVP to your event directly from the ad they're viewing, you give them a chance to easily connect with your Page or Event without interrupting their Facebook experience. They'll still be able to click through your ad to view the Page or Event itself, but this second option may be less disruptive to their Facebook experience, and increase engagement with your ad.

Once they've become a fan of your Page, or RSVPed to your Event, you'll be able to contact them with updates and other news, just as you can any other fan. In addition, when other users view the same ad, they will see friends who have already become a fan of your Page or are attending your Event, increasing the relevancy of the ad for them.

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.

If you choose to promote your Page or Event with an ad, we require you to use the Page or Event name as your ad title. If you'd like to change the title of your ad, you won't be able to include friend actions with your ad. We require advertisers use the name of their Page or Event as their ad title so that users are clearly aware of what they're engaging with when they become a fan or RSVP to an Event from within the ad.

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.

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.

Please read the details here and on the Facebook Connect Page here.

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.

Please select the option that best describes your issue:

• I'm already registered, but I need to change my name: Please submit your name change request and allow 24 hours for the submission to be approved. Facebook reviews each name change request that is submitted. Due to the volume of requests we receive, your request may not be processed immediately. If you have already submitted the request and the 24 hours have expired, please submit your report to Facebook.


• I'm trying to sign up for a new account to use as a personal profile: While signing up for a personal profile, please ensure that your full name does not contain any invalid punctuation and that it contains a full last name. If you're still having problems signing up for a personal profile, please submit a report.


• I'm trying to register a presence for a business, product, or public figure: We do not allow these entities to maintain personal profiles, but you can create a Facebook Page. Pages can only be created to represent a real public figure, artist, brand or organization, and may only be created by an official representative of that entity. Find out more about Facebook Pages.

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."

At this time, you cannot delete all Wall posts with a single click. However, you can control the visibility of posts by others by following these steps:

1. Go to the "Profile" section of the Privacy Settings page.
2. Scroll down to the "Wall Posts" section. The drop-down menu will allow you to choose who can view the content that is posted to your Wall by your friends. If you want to prevent people from posting to your Wall, uncheck the box next to the "Friends may post to my Wall" option.

You can also control which stories appear about you from the "News Feed and Wall" section of the Privacy page.

You can read about what some other advertisers have achieved with Facebook Ads on our Facebook Ads Page here.

We encourage all advertisers to become fans of the Facebook Marketing Page and the Facebook Ads Page to get examples of what other brands are doing to reach their desired audience.

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.

Though cities and regions are no longer considered networks, they still appear in your profile. If you were previously affiliated with a regional network, this location is now listed in the "Current City" or "Current Region" field of your profile. You can edit this information by hovering over the "Contact Information" section and clicking "Edit."

If you restricted any of your privacy settings to "My Networks and Friends," then only confirmed friends and people that are in shared networks (high school, college, or work) can see this content. If you’d like to open your content to a broader audience, you can always edit your settings from the Privacy page.

Unfortunately, there is no way to retract a report after you have submitted it. Please be aware a Facebook administrator looks into each report thoroughly in order to decide the appropriate course of action. If no violation of our Terms of Use has occurred, then no warning will be sent. If a violation has occurred, then a warning or more severe actions are taken.

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.

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.

Please note that any of the email addresses associated with your account can be used as login email addresses. You can add or edit your email addresses from the Settings tab of the Account page. If you are having trouble accessing an existing account on the site, do not create another account, as this is a violation of our Terms of Use and may delay resolution of the issue.

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.

No. After you graduate you will still have access to Facebook. However, we strongly recommend that you keep your contact email address current as it is the only way we can get in touch with you. If your contact email address is not current, you can update it from the "Settings" tab on the Account page.

You may also add a work network to your account if your organization utilizes an email address that we support. You can add this affiliation from the "Networks" tab of the Account page.

You can read about what some other advertisers have achieved with Facebook Ads on our Facebook Ads Page here.

We encourage all advertisers to become fans of the Facebook Marketing Page and the Facebook Ads Page to get examples of what other brands are doing to reach their desired audience.

While you are not guaranteed any number of clicks or impressions, there are often a variety of easy ways to improve your ads. Here are some simple techniques that may help you optimize your ad and increase your return on investment:

Bid Competitively
-For any given ad unit, we select the best ad to run based on the cost per click or cost per thousand impressions and ad performance. Therefore, if you are not receiving as many clicks or impressions as you would like, we suggest increasing your maximum cost per click or maximum CPM.

Be Relevant
-One way to do this is by targeting users who have interests listed in their profile that are related to your business. Make sure you are using relevant keyword targeting, but also think outside the box. Find related keywords of users who may not explicitly mention your product but are interested in similar products/services.

Encourage Action
-Make sure that your ad text includes a strong call to action such as "Click Here!" or "Order online today!". By doing so, you are giving the user an idea of what to expect if they click on your ad.

Get Visual
-Use relevant and compelling images that directly related to the product/service you are promoting. Make sure this images are eye catching and speak directly to your audience.

Think Simple
-Make sure that the landing site you are advertising is easy to navigate and that the landing page presents information related to the ad prominently and clearly.

Rinse, Wash, Repeat
-Find what works and what doesn't work continue to iterate on your campaigns. Constantly refresh your creative after a couple of days to ensure that your ads do not become stale. This could be as simple as using a different image or ad title.

When you visit your friends' profiles near their birthdays, you may see the option to give them a gift rather than write on the wall as usual. If you'd like to write on their wall without sending a gift, simply click "Write" above the gift box.

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.

To optimize your Facebook experience, please download the most up-to-date version of your Internet browser. For more information on upgrading your browser, follow the instructions listed here.

If the problem persists:

1. Click out of the application (e.g., click Profile or Inbox at the top of any Facebook page), and then re-open the application.
2. Refresh the page (Ctrl + R on PCs; Cmd + R on Macs)
3. If the above steps did not resolve the issue, please contact the developer of the application through their "About" page.

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.

If the issue is only occurring with one application, please contact the developer of the application. In order to contact the developer, please go to the application’s About page.

If the issue is occurring with multiple applications, please submit a report here.

Please note that although we're unable to reply to every bug report at this time, we may contact you for more details about the issue as we investigate the report. Thank you for taking the time to improve the site.

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.

Facebook uses an algorithm to determine which people and Pages show up in the Suggestions section on your home page. If we do not find enough people or Pages that you are likely to know, then this box will not appear in the space. You can still utilize this feature from the "Find Friends" option in the Friends drop-down menu. Just scroll down to the Suggestions section in the middle of the page.

To make changes to your campaign's daily budget from the "All Campaigns" view, click on the budget amount for the campaign you'd like to change. A pop-up box will appear that allows you to modify your daily budget. When you've made your desired changes, click "Save".



Alternatively, you can click the checkbox to the left of any campaign you’d like to edit. Above the list of campaigns, you’ll see a button with the option to "Edit # Rows". Click this and you’ll be able to change the name, status or budget of any checked campaign. When you’re finished, click "Save".



From the individual campaign view, you can make changes to the campaign’s budget by clicking "edit" next to the "Daily Budget" listed at the top of the campaign details.



Please be aware that all changes made to a campaign will affect all the individual ads within that campaign. However, you can also make changes to your ads one at a time. To do this, click on the title of the campaign you’d like to manage. On the resulting page, you’ll be able to make changes to individual ads.

Changes should be effective within a few minutes. Any ad charges you've already accrued that day will be included in your new budget so as not to overcharge your account.

To make changes to a campaign, click on the option you'd like to edit (name, status, or budget). When you've made your desired changes, click "Save".

Alternatively, you can click the checkbox to the left of any campaign you'd like to edit. Above the list of campaigns, you'll see a button with the option to "Edit # Rows". Click this and you'll be able to change the name, status or budget of any checked campaign. When you're finished, click "Save".

You can also make changes to your ads one at a time. To do this, click on the title of the campaign you'd like to manage. On the resulting page, you'll be able to make changes to individual ads.

If your campaign is currently paused, the ads in the campaign cannot be unpaused until the entire campaign is active again. To resume the campaign, click the "edit" link next to the campaign status, and set it to "Active". You should then be able to resume the individual ads.

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.

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.

If you are importing a blog into Facebook, edits or additions to your external blog should update your Facebook notes within three hours. If you are having problems getting your notes to import or update, please tell us more here.

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.

If you allow an application to place a box on your profile, you will find it on the Boxes tab. We’ve created this tab to help you to keep all of your added applications in a single, organized space. You can change the layout of this page by placing your mouse cursor over an application box title, clicking the box title, holding and dragging the box to a new location on the page.

If there are specific applications you really like that you want to feature on your profile, you can move them to the left-column of your Wall and Info tab. You can feature three applications in this column – the column will appear identically when viewing either the Wall or Info tab. To move the application, go to the Boxes tab where your application appears and click the pencil icon at the top-right of the box. Select "Move to Wall" tab to feature the application. 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).

You can also create a new tab for a specific application by clicking the "+" icon that appears to the right of the tabs. You will then be able to select an application from the menu that appears and create a dedicated tab for that application.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The best way for you to ensure that images are accessible for everyone is to include a caption with your images. The caption will allow you to briefly describe the image and will ensure that users who are unable to see the image have an alternative text description of the image.

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.

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.

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.

Facebook is probably not able to import your blog because of a privacy setting on your account. Blogs written from sources with restricted viewing will not export to Facebook. If you would like to import your blog, you will need to change this privacy setting to something less restrictive.

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.

To control what email notifications Facebook sends to you, simply go to the "Notifications" tab of the Account page.

If the notification is from an application, you can block any application on Facebook. To block an application, navigate to the application’s about page. At the top right of the page will be a "Block Application" option.

If you are experiencing problems with Facebook Chat, you may need to upgrade your browser.

If you’re using Internet Explorer 6.0, you can still use chat by popping out the chat window. Just click the Chat button near the top right of any page on Facebook to start chatting.

To resolve this issue, please complete the following steps:

1. Go to "Page" on your IE8 taskbar.
2. Select Compatibility Settings.
3. Next to facebook.com click "Add".
4. Restart your browser

Sometimes while chatting with friends, it will appear that they have signed off of Facebook. To submit a report about this, please click here.

If the Chat menu does not expand when you click on it, please restart your browser and try again. If you are using an old browser such as Internet Explorer 6, you will need to upgrade your browser to be able to see the Chat menu. If you continue to have problems, please submit a report here.

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.

The issue you are experiencing is caused by your screen resolution. We recommend that you adjust your resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher. To do so, please try the following these instructions.

The Pages section on the Info tab is not appearing for some users. We are currently working to resolve this issue, no further reports are needed.

Your inquiry relates to an application that was not built by Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook cannot provide service for applications built by third parties. In order to contact the developer who created this application, please go to the application’s About page. The About page includes a description of the application as well as a discussion board and wall. If you post your inquiry on the discussion board or wall, you’ll often receive a response from other users or the application’s developer.

Facebook is not responsible for the support provided by this developer. If you continue to have problems, please note that you can remove and/or restrict applications from the "Applications" section of the Privacy page.

We are aware of this issue and hope to resolve it as soon as possible. Please be aware this information can only be seen by you, and other users viewing your profile will not be able to see this information.

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.

Because this application was not built by Facebook and is operated by an outside developer with its own technical resources, you will need to contact the developer who created the application. You can report this to the developer by going to the application’s About page and clicking "Contact Developer" at the bottom of the page, or by clicking "Contact" at the bottom of any canvas page within the application.

Facebook is not responsible for the support provided by this developer. However, Facebook works to ensure that all outside developers are following our Terms of Service. If you find that the developer is unresponsive to your inquiry, please 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.

To prevent further harassment, we also recommend that you block both the application as well as the user. Blocking an application will prevent you from receiving invites to add it and will disable the application from using your information. This means your friends will no longer be able to communicate with you using this application. It will also prevent the application from publishing stories in your News Feed.

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.

To block a user, go to the Privacy Settings page and enter the name of the person you want to block in the "Block People" search field at the bottom of the page. Blocking allows you to prevent all interactions with someone on Facebook. They won't be able to find you in searches, view your profile, or contact you, and will not be notified that you blocked them.

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 also contact the developer directly with questions about the application by going to the application’s About page and clicking "Contact Developer" at the bottom of the page, or by clicking "Contact" at the bottom of any canvas page within the application.

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.

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

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 are most likely in Sandbox mode. You can disable Sandbox mode from the Advanced tab of your application's "Edit Settings" page.

Yes you can. Test accounts make it easier for you to test your applications. See http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Test_Accounts for details.

We believe that rendering a user's profile picture on every page of your Connect site makes for the best implementation so that a user recognizes that they are logged in with their Facebook account. It is required to indicate that the user is logged in with their Facebook account in some way on the page.

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.

The stories that appear on your friends’ home pages are based on the content you publish, the settings of your Publisher Control, and your friends’ filter preferences. While your friends can always choose to hide content that you publish, you can ensure that they have to option to view your stories by changing the settings on your Publisher Control.

The name you enter as your electronic signature should match the name on your account. If you have a business account with no name or profile, or are trying to create an account when you create your Page, please enter your legal first and last name as your electronic signature.

We are currently experiencing an issue with this feature that may result in an error when you try to create your Page. We are working to resolve this issue, reports are no longer needed.

To view a list of known issues concerning the Home Page, please click here.

To view a list of known issues concerning the Profile Page, please click here.

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.

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.

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.

Some users are experiencing issues with the home page not loading properly. Please report this here.

The stories that appear on your friends’ home pages are based on the content you publish, the privacy settings of everyone involved, and your friends’ filter preferences.

Because your friends can always choose to hide content that you publish, there is no way to guarantee that your stories will always appear on their home pages.

You can control the content that appears on your home page by adjusting the filters on the left side of your screen. Click here to learn more about filters.

The stories that appear on your friends’ home pages are based on the content you publish, the settings of your Publisher Control, and your friends’ filter preferences. While your friends can always choose to hide content that you publish, you can ensure that they have to option to view your stories by changing the settings on your Publisher Control.

Learn more about the Publisher Control here.

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.

Facebook Pages may only be used to represent real entities, and may only be created by authorized representatives of the Page subject. If you believe your Page was removed in error and you can confirm that you are or officially represent this entity, please report this here.

You can control the content that appears on your home page using the filters on the left side of the page. You can filter by application type or by Friend List. You can also reorder filters by dragging your most used ones to the top of the left column.

To change your date of birth:

1. Navigate to your own profile by clicking "Profile" at the top of any page.
2. Click on the "Info" tab.
3. Click on "Edit Information" at the top.

If you are under 18, please click here.

If your friends do not have any upcoming birthdays, you will not see a Birthdays section on your home page. In addition, we will never show your own birthday in this box, but rest assured that we will notify your friends of your upcoming birthday if your privacy settings are set to allow them to view it.

Please also keep in mind that you may be unable to see some notifications depending on a user’s privacy settings. You can update the visibility of your birthday while editing your profile.

Some users are seeing an issue where clicking on a friend request refreshes the home page. If you are seeing this on the site, please report it here.

This filter allows you to view stories about your friends joining and posting content to groups.

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.

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 problems, your security software may be blocking sites that you must be able to access to use Facebook. Be sure to enter "www.facebook.com" and http://fbcdn.net" into your antivirus program's or browser's "safe" list of websites.

Some users are experiencing issues with the pages not loading properly. Please report this here.

Have users fan your Page and then you can post to your Page and it will appear in the streams of all users who are fans. If you require direct user communication, you can request the extended permission for ""email"" and then email the user directly.

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.

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.

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.

Keep in mind that only the presentation of the information is changing — no additional information about you or other people is shared outside of what was already available in current search listings.

You can customize who can find you in search from the Search section of the Privacy Settings page. You will always have the option not to appear in search listings at all.

Anyone who is able to find you in search will always be able to click on your search listing in order to view your name and networks. You can further control the information that these users see by changing the options underneath the title "Search Result Content." There are five listed options: see your picture, send you a message, view your friend list, add you as a friend, and view the Pages you are a fan of. Un-checking any of these boxes will prevent the user from being able to perform the action.

Please note that you may see a different version of the site than others when you perform searches from your own account. You will always be able to find your profile in search because you can always view your own profile. However, users who do not have this permission will not be able to find your profile using search.

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.

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 are seeing these error messages it is because when we attempted to charge your card on file for accrued advertising charges, your credit card or issuing bank declined the charge. Here you can find the most common reasons a charge might be declined:

*Card reached its limit

*Card exceeded its maximum amount allowed for a single charge

*Card exceeded the maximum number of charges card it can receive in a period

*Card doesn’t accept charges from ‘Facebook’ or other online sources for fraud protection reasons

*Card doesn’t allow for automated billing

*Card doesn’t allow for international transactions

It is possible that these charges were accrued before you stopped your ads. Sometimes charges can be delayed through your bank and the post date of the charge may not match up directly with your campaign end dates.

You can access detailed invoices from your Billing Manager. From the Ads Manager page, click the ‘Billing’ tab at the top of the screen. This will take you to a list of all charges organized by month. To see a more detailed breakdown of each credit card charge, please click on the description next to the charge you would like more information about. In this detailed breakdown, you can view the ads and click dates associated with each charge.

We have recently added a new option to your profile privacy settings so that you can share content with everyone on the internet. This setting can be applied in the Profile section of your Privacy page, which you can access from the "Privacy Settings" option from the Settings dropdown menu. From here you may select "Everyone" from the drop-down menus for the portions of your profile that you would like to share with everyone on the internet.

To change your high school network, simply go to the go to the Networks tab of your Account Settings page and identify the school that you’ve moved to. Note that you can only change networks once every six months.

Also, note that if you move to a school that you do not attend and are reported for doing so, you will be permanently banned from the site.

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.

It is possible that these charges were accrued before you stopped your ads. Sometimes charges can be delayed through your bank and the post date of the charge may not match up directly with your campaign end dates.

You can access detailed invoices from your Billing Manager. From the Ads Manager page, click the ‘Billing’ tab at the top of the screen. This will take you to a list of all charges organized by month. To see a more detailed breakdown of each credit card charge, please click on the description next to the charge you would like more information about. In this detailed breakdown, you can view the ads and click dates associated with each charge.

Your daily spend limit works like a credit limit on a credit card. This is separate from the daily budgets that you set for each of your campaigns. The daily spend limit represents the most that our system will ever allow you to spend in one day. Our system will never charge you more than the total of the daily budgets that you have set for your active campaigns.

Under normal circumstances, your daily spend limit will automatically increase as you make successful payments. In some cases, we may be able to manually increase your daily spend limit. If you'd like to request a spend limit increase, please fill out this form.

The Suggestions feature has been expanded to help you engage with your confirmed friends on Facebook in addition to finding people or Pages that you are likely to know.

Please report this information here so that we can memorialize this person’s account. Memorializing the account removes certain more sensitive information like status updates and restricts profile access to confirmed friends only. Please note that in order to protect the privacy of the deceased user, we cannot provide login information for the account to anyone. We do honor requests from close family members to close the account completely.

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.

Please tell us more here. Please make sure to provide your mobile number, including the country code.

Sure -- insert your XFBML via JavaScript, then call FB.XFBML.Host.parseDomTree. This re-parses the DOM and updates the page with any new XFBML.

Once you have claimed a username by clicking the "Confirm" button after checking for a username's availability, it is not possible to transfer your username to a different account on Facebook. Additionally, when an account is removed from the site, its username will not be made available. Facebook does this for security reasons.

You should make sure it is something you like and that it’s appropriate for friends, family, co-workers, and anyone else who might use it to find you.

No. Your username will adhere to the privacy settings you created for your profile.

Yes. People can set one and only one username for their personal profile. Similarly, Facebook Page administrators can only have one and only one username for each Page they administer.

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

Just because you have recorded content onto your own recording device, this does not necessarily mean that you own the copyright to that material or that you are authorized to use it. Disclaiming ownership of that content cannot protect you from infringing on the true owner's copyright. If you have any question whatsoever as to whether you are legally authorized to post any content, consult an attorney before uploading it to the Facebook website.

We appreciate your concern for your child's use of our website, but unfortunately we cannot give you access to the account or take any action on the account at your request. We are generally forbidden by privacy laws against giving unauthorized access to someone who is not an account holder. Please note that all users ages 13 and older are considered authorized account holders and are included in the scope of this policy.

We encourage parents to exercise any discretion they can on their own computers and in overseeing their kids' internet use. If you are a parent, you might also consider using software tools on your own computer in order to do so. Please do a search for computer-based Internet control technology on your preferred search engine to discover options that you may wish to pursue.

Please also talk to your kids, educate them about internet safety, and ask them to use our extensive privacy settings.

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.

There is no set cost for Facebook Ads, but you can estimate the cost for your ads in the ad creation interface. If you'd like to see what we recommend you bid for each click (CPC) or thousand impressions (CPM), just enter your targeting criteria and go through to Step 4 of ad creation (you won't have to enter any payment information until the next step, so you can do this without purchasing an ad). The "bid estimator" will show you the range of bids that are currently winning the auction among ads similar to yours. Based on this, you can determine how much you wish to spend per click or per thousand impressions.

We do recommend that you enter your true maximum cost per click or CPM when creating an ad – this will increase the likelihood that you do not miss out on clicks or impressions that you otherwise could have received as the required bid range fluctuates. The cost per click or CPM associated with an ad, along with the ad quality, influences how often it is shown.

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

Facebook stores information to send invitations and reminders to non-users. To request that we remove this information from our database, please click here.

Here are some business models that we've seen developers use to successfully monetize their applications: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Common_Business_Models_for_Facebook_Applications. You can also check out these articles that we think are really interesting and helpful: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Articles_About_Application_Monetization, and this list of third party providers who can help you monetize http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Third_Party_Providers_to_Help_You_Monetize. Finally, check out this topic in the Developer Forum for extensive discussion of application monetization: http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewforum.php?id=8

We are aware of the problem that you described and hope to resolve it as soon as possible. However, please keep in mind that you can narrow your search results by using more targeted Search features, such as Profile Search.

Unfortunately you cannot remove Facebook Chat at this time. To appear offline to everyone:

1. Click on "Chat" in the bottom toolbar.
2. Choose "Options."
3. Select "Go offline" at the top of the list.