Facelift Your Facebook

It seems as though everyone has a Facebook account today. Future schools and employers may be evaluating you based on that account, but more importantly, Facebook represents the only side of you some of your friends may be seeing.

Steps

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Giving Your Own Facebook a Facelift

  1. Change your profile picture often, in order to reflect different events in your life. For example, show a picture in your cap and gown the day that you graduate. This gives the impression that you are often doing something. However, it is best to have one standard picture to revert back to after you show your novelty one a few days.
  2. When choosing your network, always choose your school or college as your primary network. Geographical networks tend to be looser and detract from your sense of connection.
  3. Show your birthday, so that people can greet you on that special day.
  4. Be careful when filling out "interested in", "relationship status" and "looking for" criteria. The "interested in" is redundant unless you are not heterosexual. Saying that you are "looking for" a relationship makes you look desperate, so listing yourself as "single" should suffice. Sometimes it's best not to fill out this part. If it's not something you'll say to a classmate, then don't write it down.
  5. If you are in a relationship, don't list yourself as single. This is cruel for those who might be pursuing you.
  6. Be selective with your quotes. Five or six is enough, and make sure they are not inside jokes.
  7. Make sure everything is punctuated correctly.U don't want ur stnces 2 luk lke ths!

Tips

  • Make sure you are in your profile photo. It's Facebook, not you-and-twenty-other-people-on-a-hike-up-mount-everest-book. This makes it a lot easier for people trying to add you, especially that cutie you met on campus the other day.
  • Don't stalk people via their Facebook accounts. If you're that interested, go talk to them in real life. If you don't have the guts for that then a relationship between you would probably never work.
  • Don't add people who aren't your real friends. Try to set your privacy settings for people not to add you outside of your network or geographical area.

Warnings

  • Don't update all the time. It will just annoy your friends and show that you don't have much of a life if you update precisely every 2 seconds.
  • One of the best things about Facebook is the simple layout. Don't play around with it too much; music or videos that play automatically are really irritating for most people.
  • Don't add tons of applications. Most chances are that your friends really don't care about your horoscope, cat, or the last songs you listened to and they don't want to have to scroll down all of them just to write something on your wall. Choose one or two and stick with them.
  • Don't make your profile picture one of you and a friend, especially if you and your friend look nothing alike. It's just misleading to people who haven't added you yet.

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