3. Social Networks and their
uses
Facebook (www.facebook.com)
Sharing photos , videos and other happenings.
Staying connected with family and friends or
reconnecting with old friends.
Learning about and connecting with your
favorite brands.
Twitter (www.twitter.com)
Share links to content you’re currently
interested in—articles, videos, photos, and
more.
Find people who are talking about the same
topics as you by searching with the hashtag
symbol (“#”) to connect or find more
information. For example, “#gardening”. You
can also find friends by email address.
Each tweet is limited to 140 characters.
4. Social Networks and their
Uses(Cont.)
LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com)
Allows users to promote themselves
professionally and post a resume online.
Can help you grow your professional network.
With thousands of industry-related groups,
you can learn from the top leaders in your
field—or establish yourself as one.
Pinterest (www.pinterest.com)
The fastest growing social network in recent
history.
Highly visual—allows users to “pin” content
and images to create virtual “inspiration
boards” that are organized by theme, style, or
color.
Most heavily used by women, with common
inspiration board themes including cooking,
design, weddings, and fashion.
5. Getting Started
Email
All social networks will require you to
sign up with an email address.
Popular free email clients include Yahoo,
Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL
Did you know that you can get a
FREE alumni email address for life?!
Ask us how!
Determine which audiences will have
access to your profiles.
Your accounts can be set so that
ONLY friends and family can view
your information.
6. Getting Started with Facebook
From the Facebook homepage at
www.facebook.com, enter your information in
the boxes below the text “Sign Up”.
Once you’ve entered your information, click
the green box titled “Sign Up”.
You will then be guided through a 3-step
process.
This will allow you to personalize your profile
and help you locate friends
You are not required to fill out any of this
information, however, it may make it easier for
friends to find you if you do.
7. Personalizing your profile
The first step will help you find your friends
and family on facebook.
When you enter your email address,
Facebook checks to see if any of your
email contacts already have an account
and invites them to connect with you.
The second step asks for basic information
including high school, college or university,
and employer.
8. Personalizing your profile (cont.)
The third step allows you to upload or
take a photo of yourself with your
webcam.
Click on “Upload a photo”
You will then see a prompt with a
“choose file” button that will allow you
to select a photo that is saved on your
computer.
9. Success!
You will be taken to your newly-created facebook account, where
you will be prompted to login to your email and confirm your
account.
10. Setting your privacy controls
To keep your account restricted to friends and family, it is essential
to set your preferred privacy settings.
Go to the top right-hand corner of your facebook profile and click
the arrow next to “Home”.
From there, select “privacy settings”.
You can set your profile to be open to the public, only to friends,
or to a custom setting that you select yourself.
11. Setting your privacy controls
(cont.)
You will also have the option to:
Limit the accessibility of others to your profile
Block specific individuals
Control if you are searchable
Limit who can send you messages
Along with many other options
12. Setting your privacy controls
(cont.)
You can even customize the privacy of each status that
you post.
13. Ready to go!
Your news feed will show you what other people
are posting
The message box is used to send private
messages to other users
You can invite friends to events you are
organizing through the events calendar
There are many other beneficial features as well
Now that we’ve hit the basics, you’re ready to
start your facebook experience!
14. Twitter
Enter www.twitter.com to go to Twitter’s homepage to create a new
account.
Look for the section labeled “sign up”
Fill in your e-mail and other required info
15. Twitter (cont.)
If you’ve entered all of your information correctly, you’ll
see a yellow button titled “Create my account”.
16. Tweeting
Tweets are instant messages that have 140 or
less characters
They are posted on your twitter network
Your followers can view your tweets
Links and photos can be attached to a tweet
17. Tweeting
Hashtags “#”
Used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet
A way to categorize messages
Connect “@”
Used to reply to another Tweet or to draw someone’s attention to
your Tweet
Direct Message (“d” followed by the person’s name)
Add this before your tweet to send a private message to
someone’s inbox. They will need to be following you first in order
to send them a private message.
Retweet (“RT” followed by the person’s name)
This allows you to post another person’s Tweet on your page.
Example: RT@MisericordiaU: We hope alumni are having a great time
at Alumni Weekend!”
18. Personalize, socialize and
finalize.
Add a photo
Include a brief, 160 character bio
with your interests, location or
profession.
Similar to Facebook, you can have
Twitter search your email contacts
to find friends and family with
accounts for you to follow their
tweets.
Choose whether you’d like your
profile to be public or private.
Don’t forget to login to your email
to confirm your new Twitter
account to get started!
19. Start tweeting!
Follow friends, family, favorite celebrities, and
brands.
Let people know what you’re doing, what
interests you right now, or get the latest news on
the topics that are most important to you!
Find out what others are saying about your
favorite brands, products and celebrities!
Don’t forget to follow @MisericordiAlum and
@MisericordiaU for the latest Misericordia and
Alumni news!