Getting Social with Facebook, Pinterest, and Other Social Networks
- Understanding Social Networking
- Using Facebook on Your iPad
- Using Pinterest on Your iPad
- Using Twitter on Your iPad
- Using LinkedIn on Your iPad
Learn how to share your thoughts and experiences online via Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networks.
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In this chapter, you learn how to share your thoughts and experiences online via Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networks.
Understanding Social Networking
Using Facebook on Your iPad
Using Pinterest on Your iPad
Using Twitter on Your iPad
Using LinkedIn on Your iPad
Social networking is all the rage. We’re talking online communities like Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, places where you can go to share what you’re doing with your online friends, and find out what they’re up to, too.
If you’ve never used a social network before, it’s a whole new world to explore—and you can do it from the comfort of your iPad. If you have used Facebook or another social network, you need to install the appropriate app(s) on your iPad and learn how they work.
Understanding Social Networking
A social network is an Internet-based service that hosts a community of users and makes it easy for those users to communicate with one another. Social networks enable users to share experiences and opinions with one another, and thus keep in touch with friends and family members, no matter where they’re located.
The goal of a social network is to create a network of online “friends,” and then share your activities with them via a series of message posts. These posts are short text messages, sometimes called status updates, which can be viewed by all your friends on the site. A status update can be text only, or contain photos, videos, and links to other web pages.
Your online friends read your posts, as well as posts from other friends, in a continuously updated stream. On Facebook, this stream is called the News Feed (other sites call it different things), and it’s the one place where you can read updates from all your online friends and family; it’s where you find out what’s really happening.
There are many social networks on the Internet, and Facebook is the largest and most popular among users of all ages, including older users. Other social networks popular among those 50+ include LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter.
