Showing posts with label Facebook Settings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook Settings. Show all posts

Sunday, September 8, 2013

How to change your Facebook log in email address


If you are not satisfied about using your current Facebook email address every time you log in to Facebook and want to change it for another email address, this guide will show you how to change your Facebook account primary email in 5 simple steps:

1 To change your Facebook log in email, go first to the Facebook homepage and log in with your registered account email and password.


2 Go to your Facebook Account Settings, on the first page of General Account Settings click on third option which is Email just under the Username in order to edit your Facebook primary email address.

3 Now just under your Primary email used for log in, you'll find the option of add another email click on it, then add your new email address; the email that you want to use as your new Facebook log in email.

Add another email address to your Facebook account.

4 To save the new settings type your Facebook password and click on Save Changes, now a confirmation email will be sent to your new email address in order to confirm it.

Saving your new Facebook email address.

5 Finally, and once you've confirmed your new email address, go back to the Email option on the Facebook Account Settings page and check on your new email address to use it as your new log in email, type your password again and click on Save Changes.

Change your Facebook account primary email address.

Now you did change your Facebook primary email address to a new one that you'll use to log in with your Facebook account in the next times. You can change your log in Facebook email address as many times as you want following the same steps above.

That's all, I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

How can you find and cancel all friends requests you've sent on facebook at once


It's quiet difficult to find again all friends requests that you've sent to people on facebook, facebook can block your Add Friend option because of the several requests you've already sent to people on facebook without at least knowing them, in that case you'll have to find each individual friend request and then cancel it, but to find all friends requests you've already sent them to people on facebook and cancel them at once, follow the next steps:

1 First log in to your Facebook account, and click on the drop down arrow at the top right of the screen.


2 Select Activity Log from the drop down list.



3 Once you are on the Activity Log page, from the left side-bar select more under comments section.

4 Now more options appear on the sidebar click on Friends, then click on Sent friend requests to view all the sent friend requests.



5 Finally, on this page you will find all sent friend requests, all you have to do is to put your Mouse on the friend's name, then click on Sent friend request and select cancel friend request.

That's all, I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

How to take control of your apps on facebook


When you use many applications on Facebook, it will become quiet difficult for you to take control of them and especially when you start to notice plenty invites, posts, notifications..etc coming to you everyday, today i'm going to show you how to take control of your Facebook applications in a very simple and effective way:

First and to start modifying any of your applications that you use on Facebook, go to your account settings and choose Apps on the left sidebar, all the Facebook applications you use will show in this page where you can make some new settings to them.

Choose a Facebook application that you want to modify:

To start editing the application settings, click on Edit at the right side of the application's name:


1 Facebook Applications Posts Privacy

When you choose to use a new application you'll give it a permission to post on your timeline, the application will be able to post on your timeline, if you choose to make the application's posts private, click on Public and select Only Me from the drop-down list.


2 Facebook Applications Additional Settings

Once you install a new application, you may give it also additional permissions such as posting on your behalf and on your timeline whenever you come to make a new high score for games or publish notes on your behalf and set these posts publicly so that everyone can see them even when you're not connected to Facebook, if you don't like the app to do this for you click on the x button at Post on your behalf.


There are other additional options such accessing to your message, new feeds, friends list..ect, if you want to delete any additional option, just click on the x button again.

3 Facebook Applications Notifications

To stop receiving notifications from any of your Facebook applications, scroll down the edit page until you see when to notify you, just click on Never if you want to stop getting any kind of notifications, some other applications have more than just one type of notifications such as invites and updates you'll be able to disable these options individually right from this drop-down list.


4 Facebook Applications Removal



If you want to completely remove the application from your Facebook account, just choose to click on remove app at the top down of the edit box, and confirm the deletion message.

NOTE: This is only a quick guide to take control of a typical Facebook application, other applications may have more settings to deal with.

That's all how you can control your applications on facebook, I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

How to select or change your Facebook language


If you've ever accidentally changed your Facebook language from English to another language and got lost in translation, there are actually two options you have to get your primary language back again:

1 The first one is the easier way, simply click on the link given next, to get you back to the English language or your primary language again: Facebook Language Option, you must be logged in to have access to this page.

2 The second way is a bit complicated for you, because obviously you're in situation where you can't understand the language you're using temporarily, but still you can go to facebook.com and scroll down untill you see the Facebook © 2013, you'll find the language you're using written in its ordinary alphabetic, click on that blue writing and select your language from the list.

I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

How to create a Facebook Friends List

One of the things you should know once you become active in adding new facebook friends is how to create a facebook friends list in order to organize your friends as you like.

How to create a Facebook Friends List ?

1 Well first go to your facebook Home page, look in the left sidebar of your Home page and you'll find your “FRIENDS” section, Click on “MORE”.

Home page sidebar.

2 Once you land on the Friends page, Click the “Create List” tab.



3 After clicking the “Create List” tab a small window will pop up, Now you have to give your new list a name, and start adding new friends to this list by entering their name in the empty Members box, don't forget to include the @ before entering the name of this list's memebers.



4 Click on “Create”, Now your new list has been created successfully and you can add new friend to it at any time you want.



NOTE: You can always edit your list again by clicking on the the pen icon to the right of the list name.

I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

How can you post a video on facebook without breaking facebook copyrights law


Many times when you post an uploaded video on facebook and it immediately gets removed by facebook owners because it violates facebook's copyright infringements, actually facebook doesn't allow or accept its users to upload copyrighted materials such as the ones including video clips, songs, TV programs, movie scenes..ect no matter how strong is the privacy set to this video, facebook will know about it and delete it right off, why? because the american law considers that a crime of unauthorized distribution of a cpyrighted material and facebook can be sued for it, you as well will be disabled from uploading videos on facebook. therefore and before posting any of your videos on facebook here are some tips that you should consider:


If you want to include copyrighted movie scenes or a music part, just make sure that the content shouldn't pass 30 seconds.

If you want to add a full background song to your video content, consider using only edited music that's not lyriced.

Download free music that's not necessarily copyrighted elsewhere.

I hope that you find this article helpful for you.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

How to unlike many facebook pages at once

If you want to remove the like button from many Facebook pages at once, there is only one easy quick way to do that, in order to do it follow the next 6 steps:

1 Log in to your Facebook account, and go to your profile.

2 Click on the likes box at the the right side among the boxes.



3 At the top right of the likes page, click on the “Edit” button.



4 Now you pages you've already like appear in categories, to start removing the like button click on the x at the top right corner of each page box.



5 Repeat the same process to remove all other pages that you don't like anymore.

6 once you've finished unliking all pages, click on the “Done Editing”  button at the top right corner to save changes.




This is the fastest way to unlike Facebook pages and remove them from your profile, I hope you find this article helpful for you.

How to delete your Facebook account permanently

 

Note: Deleting your Facebook account is a permanent action, and it cannot be undone. Make sure you have backed up any important data or information you want to keep before proceeding.

  1. Log in to your Facebook account: Go to Facebook and log in using your email address and password.

 

  1. Backup your data: Before you delete your account, you may want to download a copy of your Facebook data. This includes your posts, photos, videos, messages, and more. To do this:
    • Click the downward arrow in the upper-right corner of Facebook (on the desktop version).
    • Select "Settings & Privacy" > "Settings."
    • In the left sidebar, click "Your Facebook Information."
    • Click "Download Your Information."
    • Choose the data you want to download and set other options.
  2. Click "Create File." Facebook will notify you when your data is ready to download.

 

  1. Deactivate your account: If you're not ready to delete your account permanently but want to take a break from Facebook, you can deactivate it temporarily. To do this:
    • Click the downward arrow in the upper-right corner of Facebook (on the desktop version).
    • Select "Settings & Privacy" > "Settings."
    • In the left sidebar, click "Your Facebook Information."
    • Click "Deactivation and Deletion."
    • Choose "Deactivate Account" and follow the on-screen instructions.

 

  1. Delete your account: If you're sure you want to permanently delete your Facebook account, you can initiate the process as follows:
    • Click the downward arrow in the upper-right corner of Facebook (on the desktop version).
    • Select "Settings & Privacy" > "Settings."
    • In the left sidebar, click "Your Facebook Information."
    • Click "Deactivation and Deletion."
    • Choose "Delete Account" and follow the on-screen instructions.

 

Facebook will ask you to confirm your decision and may require you to enter your password. After confirming, your account will be deactivated for a few days before it is permanently deleted. During this period, you can cancel the deletion request by logging in to your account.

Remember that once your account is deleted, you won't be able to retrieve any of your data, and your Facebook profile will be gone permanently. Make sure you've backed up any important information you want to keep and that you're certain about your decision before proceeding.


I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

How to change your Facebook password

If you ever feel insecure about loosing your password or you think that you're hacked, in this case you need to change your password in order to do that go first log in to your Facebook account with the old e-mail and password:

1 Click the gear buttonand select Account Settings.



2 Look for the password option and click Edit to the far right.


Enter your new Facebook account password and re-write it again then click Save Changes.



Now your password has been changed successfully, and if you ever forget to log in with new password next time, you'll be reminded that you've changed your password at a certain time.

I hope you find this article helpful for you.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Editing your Facebook Profile


As you start connecting on Facebook for the first time, you must start with building your own Facebook Profile that allows your friends in real life to find you and connect with you on Facebook, your Facebook profile must include different informations about you, so while filling out your personal informations you must be careful about which personal informations you want to share and which not, you must also remember that you need to modify your privacy controls for some of your private informations in order to secure yourself from any misuse.

Editing Your Profile

Go to facebook.com and log in with the registered e-mail and password. 

To start editing your profile go to your Profile page and click on the left box About link under your profile picture, or click on Edit Profile button back out on the Welcome page.

Info page will show up on your screen, where you should edit your personal informations by clicking on Edit on one of the sections displayed (while editing the informations you can leave any of the fields blank as you want).

Work and Education

Living

Relationship and Family

About You

Favorite Quotations

Basic Info

Contact Info




Work and Education:

This section enables you to add more details about your occupation, graduation, class year..ect, When you first created your account you may have added your Work and Education informations, but if you skipped that step at the begginng, you can edit this section now by clicking on Edit at the top side of this box's corner.




Basic Information:

This section includes your basic informations such as your gender, birthday, relationship status..

  • Sex: From the drop-down list you choose whether you're male or female.
  • Birthday: If you accidentally gave Facebook the wrong date through your sign up process, you can change that here, and if you don't want to display your whole birthday, you can either select from the drop-down-list: “Show only month & day” or “Don’t show my birthday”.
  • Interested In: Check on one of the two boxes men or women, or both of them.
  • Languages: This will make it easier for people to contact you in different languages that you speak, for example: American English, Spanish.. ect.
  • Political views: Share your political opinion by indicating your best party, candidate, organization..ect, (you can add a description in which you explain more about your views). 
  • Religious Views: If you want to share a religious view, then start typing in the empty field and Facebook will give you suggestions you may choose, (you can add a description in which you explain more about your views). 


 Living:

  • Current City: Adding this piece of information can help your neighbors and friends find you.
  • Hometown: Adding this piece of information can help you find your old pals.





Relationships and Family:


  • Family Members: Here you can list any family member who's on Facebook by typing his or her name and then select a relativity from the drop-down list: Father, Oncle, brother ..ect, you can add as many people as you want by clicking on “Add another family member”.
  • Relationship Status: You can select any of the options from the drop-down list: married, single, you can also add your partner's name in the empty box, for example: married to.. in relationship with.. ,You can also use this option to mention your availability or unavailability for a new relationship.


About You:

In this empty text box you are free to speak more about yourself sharing your ideas and expressing your views about your life, beliefs, projects, things you wanna do..ect.
 


Contact Info: 

This is where you can keep in touch with your friends outside the social network, some these informations are not required by adding the contact informations below:


  • Emails: Click on the "Add / Remove Emails" link to add your e-mail address and to contact your Facebook friends via e-mail, or delete your previous e-mail address.
  • Mobile Phones/Other Phones: I don't recommend people to use their own number-phones on a Facebook profile, unless you want to set privacy settings to hide them from everyone by choosing Only Me or Personalize.
  • IM Screen Names: Add any messaging program address such as instant messaging (AIM, AOL) or MSN and Skype address so your friend will be able to contact you later without Facebook.
  • Address, City/Town, Zip, Neighborhood: You probably wouldn't like to share these specific details which includes your private residence and location on your Facebook profile.
  • Website: You can share as many Websites as you want with your friends by filling the empty box with your website URL.




Favorite Quotations: 

Here you can add some inspiring Quotations that you'd like to share with you friends: poems, song lyrics.. ect.

Once you've finished filling the fields, click Save to save the perosnal informations or you can delete the changes by clicking on Cancel. If you want to make sure that your changes were fully saved on your profile click on View My Profile button.

Now you've built your first Facebook profile that will help your friends to find and connect with you, remember that you can always change or modify these personal data by clicking the Edit button at any time you want.

That's all, I hope you find this article helpful for you.