1. Online Life:
Facebook and Twitter
Michelle Vonderhaar
Technology Training Coordinator
March 12, 2014

2. Social Networking?
Social media is a category of sites that is based on
user participation and user-generated content.
They include:
o social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook or Google+
o Social News sites like Digg or Reddit
o Other sites that are centered on user interaction like Twitter.
searchenginewatch.com/define

3. Let’s Start with Facebook?

4. Define Facebook
hallman.nccommunities.org/glossary
Facebook is a social networking
website or a gathering spot, to
connect with your friends and
with your friends friends.

5. Facebook hits 1 BILLION

6. Are we obsessed?
http://alextrimpe.com/

7. So let’s look at a TYPICAL
Facebook user’s page, shall
we…

8. Meet Ms.Typical 
Your Timeline

9. Your Timeline

10. The News Feed

11. Other Fun Features
Facebook Chat:
Chat with your
Facebook
Friends that are
online when
you are.
Games to Play: Everyone
should try Candy Crush
Saga or Angry Birds!
Fan Pages, Community pages
and Facebook Events: You can
even RSVP to the event through
FB!

12. Your Friends
Search for both people that are
currently real life friends and
people you have not seen in a
while.

13. The Never-ending Search
for Friends

14. Your Profile: What others can
see

15. Your Privacy Settings

16. Sign Up for Facebook
www.facebook.com

17. What About Twitter
• What is it?
• Who is using it?
• How do I get
involved?

18. What IS Twitter?
An information network.
Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the
latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you
find interesting. Simply find the accounts you find most compelling
and follow the conversations.
https://twitter.com/about

19. Who Uses Twitter?
• 15% of adults online use Twitter
o Celebrities
o Authors
o News sources

20. Oprah’s Twitter Feed

21. Nelson DeMille (find
YOUR favorite author)

22. Up to the MINUTE news

23. Home

24. Tweet? What do I say?
• What’s on your mind?
• What are you doing?
• Where are you going?
• Is there something you’d like to share?
• What do you need to know…immediately?
• But…you only have 140 characters!

25. Anatomy of a Tweet

26. @Mention

27. ReTweet, Links, Hashtags!

28. Direct Message
• A private message between two people who follow
one another

29. Why is it so confusing?
Twitter is about
conversation
• Sometimes you only see half of the conversation
• Sometimes you start in the middle of a conversation
• Remember: Only 140 characters

30. Twitter
It’s like Instant Messaging the
whole world at once

31. HELP!!!
Facebook
Twitter

32. Facebook and Twitter
Help
• All Facebook – www.allfacebook.com: an
“unofficial” Facebook blog that provides
• Facebook Help –
www.facebook.com/help
• The Facebook Guide by Mashables –
http://mashable.com/guidebook/facebo
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• The Twitter Guide by Mashables –
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
• Twitter Help – https://support.twitter.com/