Facebook Tips Often Overlooked

Published on: June 4, 2012

Posted by Ching Ya | Repost by Carie Statz, DCTC Marketing and Sales Instructor

This is a must read for those interested in getting the most out of their Facebook presence. For information on promoting using Facebook, take DCTC’s Social Media Marketing certificate or AAS degree offered this August.

20+ Facebook Security Tips and Timeline Features

For Personal Profiles:

#1 To View Upcoming Birthdays

Facebook has been great in ‘remembering’ our friends’ birthdays. You can view upcoming birthdays via this link (visibility depends on your friends’ privacy settings) and even the option to export the info.

#2 To Hide Likes from Your Timeline

For those who have yet hidden their ‘Likes’ from Public before the launch of Timeline (but wanted to), go to this Favorites -> ‘Favorites’ -> Scroll down to locate ‘Other Pages You Like‘ -> Adjust your audience selector.

#3 To Secure Your Facebook Account

Go to your Account Settings -> General -> Password ->Edit. Make sure ‘Log me out of my apps and other browsers’ is ticked at ALL times.

#4 To Review Your Security Information

You can edit all your security info here except your security question.

#5 To Declutter Your News Feed with Acquaintances List

You can add friends to your Acquaintances List to see them less in your news feed. Go to this link –> select ‘Acquaintances’ and start configuring your list.

#6 To Find Out Who Your Friends Subscribe to

Get Suggested Subscriptions from your friends based on the people they subscribe to.

In the mean time, I’d love to connect with you on Facebook as well:

#7 To Remove All Imported Contacts

If you had previously allowed Facebook to import your contacts from your email services to find friends, you may consider removing all those info here.

#8 To Disable Tag Suggestions from Friends

Go to this link -> Timeline and Tagging -> Edit Settings -> ‘Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?’ -> set to ‘No One’.

#9 To Setup Tag-Review and Manage Tagged Items

To enable review before a tag from a friend goes live, go to your Privacy Settings -> Timeline and Tagging -> Edit Settings -> Turn ‘On’ both ‘Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline‘ and ‘Review tags friends add to your own posts on Facebook’.

This privacy setting is not enough to stop friends from posting the tag on his/her own Timeline, including others whom their names had been tagged along with yours and approved it. That’s why you need to un-tag yourself sometimes. Select ‘Remove tag‘ in your Timeline and choose one of the options:

Remove the tag,
Request to take the post down,
Block your friend.

#10 To Download Your Personal Info and Enhanced Archive

Besides your personal info, there’s an extra enhanced archive you should know about. Go to Account Settings -> Download a copy of your Facebook data -> Request to download archive. Secondly, click ‘expanded archive‘ as shown below and proceed with the second request.

#11 To Hide Your Chat Status

Access ‘Advanced Settings’ to adjust your online status to stay visible/invisible to a selected group of friends.

#12 To Convert New Page Back to Personal Account

Only use this form if you accidentally converted your personal account into a Page. Also, make sure you’re adhering to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, that is, personal profile is only for individual person and not a brand name.

#13 To Follow Up Your Pending Friend Requests

I have been using this tip for quite some times now and so far, everything works great so thought I’ll give this another shout out: lists rock!

For Facebook Pages:

#14 To View All Latest Photo Comments

Do you know you can switch to ‘Comment view’ for your photos? Go to Page Photos -> select the photo album -> click ‘Comment View’.

#15 To Hide Your Page Update from News Feed

When ‘Use Facebook as your page‘, an option ‘Hide from News Feed‘ is available to adjust your posting. I ran a test with it earlier and found it to be useful if want to squeeze in past events in your page Timeline.

#16 To Highlight a Comment via Permalink

Particularly useful if you want to refer to a specific comment in a long comment thread.

#17 To Assign a Destination Tab is Possible… in Facebook Ads

You can assign a landing tab for your target audience when using Facebook Ads! Go to your page’s Build Audience -> Create an Ad to look for the option.

#18 To Add a Page to Interest List

Interest Lists are different from friend lists, they can be public viewable (unless you set them private). Encourage your fans to add you to their interest list or configure a resourceful list for your fans (with your page in it) to subscribe to.

#19 Useful, Official Facebook Links

Newsroom: Facebook’s latest news, announcements and media resources

#20 Practical Ways to Improve Your Facebook Page

Enhance Your Page with Custom Apps and theseTimeline Ready Apps (not forgetting to secure your personal profile with essential Privacy Settings),

Make Full Use of your Cover Photo,
Improve Fans Engagement with Facebook Applications and Creative Page Updates.

Repost by Carie Statz, DCTC Marketing and Sales Instructor

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About the Author: Carie Statz

Carie Statz is a marketing and sales instructor. She began teaching at DCTC in 1998. Carie is pursuing her doctorate in business administration (DBA), has a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a bachelor's degree in from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she minored in Spanish and majored in mass communications with an emphasis on advertising and public relations. At the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, she pursued general studies in Spanish and anthropology. She also attended the Grantsmanship Training Program at Marquette University. Carie continues her education through software upgrades and Web applications. She also attends seminars, courses, and conferences covering new trends in marketing and graphic design. Her nonprofit marketing experience includes supervisory positions at DCTC, UWM, and the Community Action Program of Janesville, Wisconsin. Her for-profit experience includes work for Walt Disney World, Oscar Mayer Foods, and TCF Bank of Wisconsin. Carie published "How the News Media Affects the Public's Perception of Crime" as her thesis. In 2003 and 2007, Carie was nominated as "DCTC Instructor of the Year." As DCTC's marketing director, she won several awards for marketing materials, including radio and television commercials as well as viewbooks and catalogs. In 2003, she won the Silver IABC Award for designing the college's 2002-2003 viewbook. Regarding her teaching philosophy, Carie strives to "bring the real world into the classroom as much as possible so students are prepared for work upon graduation." The best part of her job as a DCTC instructor is hearing from internship supervisors about how they would rather hire a prepared student from DCTC than another student from a four-year college. Carie is a member of the American Marketing Association and does volunteer work for Treasurers of the Heart and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.

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