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What is Facebook.com? What Does Facebook.com Have To Offer?
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Finding Friends - Finding friends, both old and new, should be a breeze with Facebook's advanced search features. You can also find new friends just by browsing profiles. The browse feature also has a general search function that you can use to sort people by age, gender, interests and other things.

Old Friends - Find out if people in your email address book are on Facebook just by putting your email address and email password into this tool. It will then search the database for the email addresses stored in your email's address book to see if any of your friends are already in Facebook.

There is also a classmates search and a co-worker search.

New Friends - The advanced search feature lets you search for friends by name, gender, interests, location, contact information, personal information, education and a lot more.

Connect to Friends - Find someone you want to be friends with and just click on the button to add them as your friend. Then you'll be able to keep track of what your friends are doing on Facebook.

Groups - There are groups on Facebook. Join some groups to meet more friends. Find groups with other people with the same interests as you and find out who they are. Once you sign up for a group you will be able to participate in the group's discussion board. You will also be kept up to date on what's happening in the group from your profile's editing page.

Forums - There are discussion boards in the groups. You need to join a group to post to the group's discussion board.

Chat room - There is not chat room in Facebook.

Live Chat (Instant Messaging) - There is IM on Facebook, it's called Chat.

Subscriptions - When you add someone to your friend list you are kept up to date on their blog and anything else they add to their profile.

Friend Lists - Adding friends to your friend list is easy. Then you can see when your friends add to their blog, update their profile and more.

Comments On Blogs and Profiles - You can easily add comments to people's blogs and mini-feeds.

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  • Newsfeeds - When you log in you will get information on your friends and networks and find out if they have new information or news.

  • Birthdays - Always know when your friend's birthdays are.

  • Events - Keep a calendar of your upcoming events.

  • Social Timeline - Takes all your events and your friend's events and creates a timeline.

  • Friend Game - Something fun to do with your friends. Must have at least 10 friends to play.

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