This is the page that welcomes new comers to Facebook.
If you are not a facebook newbie, then edit your profile by clicking on the ‘edit profile’ located just below your profile photo.
For the newbies, let us leave the part to search for people at this moment. Let’s put some information about ourselves first. There won’t be many people who would accept someone who don’t have any information about themselves except a name that sound familiar.
So let’s jump to the next link that says “View and edit your profile”, indicated with an arrow in the image above. Clicking on this link brings you to a page like the one given below.
This is the page that you are going to personalize with information about yourself. There are four kinds of information that you need to add which are of course not mandatory.
A little word of caution; you can add as much or as little information about yourself. But information like your phone numbers or personal emails or any other information that can be used against you or information that can be abused by others should not be entered here. The information that you enter in your profile will be seen by anyone who checks out your profile. Who sees your information or what they see etc will be covered in tutorials regarding security settings. So for now, let us just add some basic information about yourself, so that your friends and relatives will recognize you.
There are four types of information we will be entering here:
Basic Information
Personal Information
Contact Information
Education and Work
Let’s have a look at the Basic Information first.
1. Sex: Choose Male or Female.
Below this says, “Show my sex in my profile” with a small check box. If check, your sex will be visible to others who view your profile. If unchecked, your profile won’t show whether your are male or female.
2. Birthday: Enter your date of birth here.
In the combo box you can choose not to my your birthday public, or choose to show only the day and month.
3. Hometown: Enter the name of your hometown.
This information can be a great way for meeting people from the same place. I have personally seen some people who enters things like “Heaven”, “Somewhere on this earth”, or “Virtual world”. If you are really serious about socializing and meeting people, you better enter your real hometown and expect a message like “Hey!! you too from that place??”
4. Home Neighborhood: Your neighborhood.
5. Family Members: Add your family members here if you want to. First select a relation type, say father or mother, from the drop down menu and enter their name in the textbox provided. If you want to add another member, just click on the ‘Add another family member’ link. Then a new drop down menu and textbox will appear where you can enter another family member. Continue the process to add more family members.
6. Relationship Status: Choose a relationship status from the drop down menu, that best matches your current relationship status.
7. Political Views: You can enter your political view here, e.g. Democratic, Republican etc..One interesting entry i have seen in “What is politics?” 
8. Religious View: You can enter your religious view here.
Now, we are done with the Basic information. Check all your entries once again and if you are satisfied click on the save changes button.
Let’s move on to the next part, i.e. Personal information. Click on the ‘Personal Information’ link. You will see a page like the picture given below, with some keywords and textboxes next to them. Fill them one by one, so that people who checks out your profile will know more about more and find some common interests.
Once you are done adding information, save the changes you have made.
Move on to the third part, Contact Information but clicking on the ‘Contact Information’ link. In the page that loads, add your informations, which again is not mandatory.
1. IM Screen Name(s): Here you can enter the screen names that you use in some of the most popular IM’s. Enter your screen name and choose the IM’s name by selecting it from the drop down menu. To Add more screen names click on add another screen name and continue the process.
2. Moblie Phone: Enter your mobile phone number here starting with a +(country code)(mobile number).
3. Land Phone: Enter you Land-line phone using the format given above.
4. Address: Enter your Address, City/Town, Neighborhood and Zip code.
5. Website: Enter site/blog url that you own. You can also enter urls or site that you like, but this can be done in a better way which will be shown in ‘How to Manage Your Facebook Wall’
Now just above the ‘save changes’ button, you will find a link called “Create a Facebook Badege for your Website”. Facebook badge will look something like this:
Which is a facebook widget, and can be added to your blog or website. More about this will be explained in tutorials on using facebook widgets. So for now we need to save all the hard work that we have done. Save the changes you have made and go to the last part “Education and Work”.
Now, this information is really important to have if you want to meet up with your old mates. A rather nice way to stumble upon your high school, college mates.
1. College/University: Enter your college/university. Don’t forget to mention the place too, as there will be lots of same college name in different places.Select yor class year and indicate whether you attended college or graduate school.
The next part ‘Concentration’ can be little confusing for some people. It refers to what ‘Major subject’ you took in the college/university that you entered above.
If you happened to hopped around many colleges/universities, then you might want to add more. Just click on add another school and enter your information.
2. High School: Same as above. Enter you High School information in this section.
3. In this section you should add information about your current job.
Employer:
Position:
Description:
City/Town:
Time Period: Check it and select the month and year.
If you want to add another or more job profiles, you can do so by clicking on the given ‘Add Another Job’ link.
That’s it. We have gone through the gruelling process on adding all necessary information about ourselves. Save the hard work done.
Now scroll up the page and click on ‘Done Editing’. All information about you can be view here.
Lastly, you can edit your profile information anytime you want. Go to your profile page by clicking on ‘Profile’ tab located on the top-left, click on the ‘Edit Profile’ link located just below your profile photo and add, delete, update as you like. Our job of how to enter information in your facebook profile is done, i’ll see you in the next ‘How To’.
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