In preparing to teach the Facebook for Beginners class at this week at Colorado Free University, a local community learning center, I really dug deeply into Facebook.

Much of the information was review. Yet there were a few interesting items that I gleaned from my research and from other helpful sources of Facebook info.

 

Facebook Factoids

  • You can join up to 300 Facebook groups. It is hard to imagine anyone joining that many groups, but I suppose there could be people with loads of interests and loads of time on their hands. How many groups are you in? How many are you active in?

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  • You don’t have to have a personal account on Facebook to have a business page on Facebook. Actually, I learned this factoid back in June, but thought I would include it here. To me, this makes total sense and I am glad to see this change. Your thoughts?
  • You can “unlike” your business page if you don’t want to have those postings on your personal page, aka timeline. Of course this applies just to those who created their business page prior to change just listed above.
  • You can tag up to 50 people or pages in a photo. So keep that in mind with photos of large gatherings.

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  • You can load up to 1,000 photos per album. My only comment to this is WOW, that’s lot of pictures.
  • You can have an unlimited number of administrators for a Facebook business page.  However, be forewarned that any administrator with a “manager” status can delete the page. So, be very selective about who gets put into that status. Ever had a problem with an administrator of your business page?
  • You can limit chat to just a few friends. Use “advanced settings” found by clicking the gear icon at the bottom of the chat column. To me this is a very handy setting if there are just a few people you really want to chat with. Ever try to avoid someone while on Facebook chat?

 

Back to You

What random Facebook factoids have you discovered? It would be fun to hear from the readers of this blog about other less well known features of Facebook.

 

About Joyce

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Joyce’s goal is to help people, especially those ages 50 and up, to become more comfortable with their use of social media, especially LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. She works with business owners, retired people, consultants and many others.