On the Road to Mastering Facebook

One the road to mastering Facebook

The following are 5 collaborative features/capabilities of Facebook

11. Photo sharing

Photo sharing allows collaborative sharing of photos amongst friends.  Facebook refers to this as their shared photo albums.  The functionality allows up to 50 people to contribute to a single album and upload up to 200 pictures each.  Anticipating that this could be a little chaotic, the control of the overall album resides with the person who created it.  Editing of the individual photos remains with the person who uploaded the photo.

22 .Facebook Groups

Facebook has a simple share bar that includes a new document feature, and a sidebar that lists the members that are in a group.  There is a group chat feature, an events list, and a documents list. This allows a creator to invite people to work within the group and keep it private. Only the group creator can edit the group account, but everything else is shared. Every member can edit any document or event. This is great because it means you can work collaboratively.  One of the problems with this feature is that there is no version control or way of knowing who changed what, and when.

33. Adding and connecting to “Friends”

This feature is the foundation of Facebook, the ability to connect to friends, and their friends, and their friends. Information through the Facebook news feed that is posted by any friend, depending upon the privacy settings is readily shared and available to view and comment on.  This at times can be overwhelming

44.   Close Friend feature

The best and the worst of Facebook is that you have accessed to all of the information for all of the friends.  The Close Friend feature allows the owner of the Facebook account to limit the information that is available to just the determined close friends.

55. Tagging

One great collaborative feature on Facebook is tagging.  This gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes. It's a great way to let people know who and what you're talking about and bring faces to names when trying introduce and connect people.