Hey guys, welcome to Shama Tv. Today I have a really special episode for you. The e-mails have been pouring in. Facebook now has a new design. They’ve updated a lot of their features and people have been e-mailing me to show them how to do certain things and wondering where all their features went.

So that’s what we’re going to do today. I’ll tell you about the new Facebook, and how you can navigate it.

So this is what the new Facebook looks like. Don’t be scared, it’s not that different. All your stuff is still there; you just have to learn how to navigate it.

So let’s start up top because I think they’ve really made this smaller and it might be hard to see. This where it should say welcome and your name, and this is where your friend requests are and what other requests you have.

So if I click on the friend request, someone wants to be your friend, so I’ll go ahead and confirm that. There’s events invitations and a friend suggestion. So back to the home screen.

This is interesting, because remember how I’ve been talking about status updates being very important? Well they’ve really made this the key feature on their site now, in terms of the homepage. This is where the status updates go. If you guys are familiar with Twitter.com, this reminds me a lot of Twitter because you have an ongoing stream now. I’ll go ahead and click refresh and you’ll see that these changed because this is a live feed.

Before you had a choice between a live feed and kind of a static feed in which it choose which friends updates to display. This is where you’re going to see a live feed, so I’ll go ahead and type something in and we’ll see how that works. So I’m going to type in the update about what’s going on now. So I’ll type in “Shooting a video for Shama.tv showing folks how to navigate the new Facebook,” and hit share, so it immediately posted. You can also put photos, videos, and links… you can share a lot of things. Here’s the other thing, I can also go down here and comment on other people’s updates. I’m commenting on my friend Kat’s status how just created a page for her company, and I’m going to say I like it, and leave a comment for her.

You can go down and do that for multiple friends. I’m actually excited about it. I like the live feed feature. To the left you can see all your newsfeed, and you can also narrow it down by city. Here’s what’s going on with my Dallas Fort Worth friends because sometimes you just want to see what’s going on locally, so this a great place to do that. I can also look at the overall state field. If I wanted, I could create more friend lists and put friends in different lists, and just see their feeds. I haven’t done that, but you can do that as well. On the right side we have birthdays. You guys remember that this used to be pretty far down on the old Facebook, well up here, it’s right here and really easy to click on someone to wish them a happy birthday. Scroll down a little bit further and we have highlights. This is where Facebook seems to randomly pick things going on in your friends circle and then highlight them. I think the way it works is that if you have more comments, or lots of thumbs ups on your status updates it shows up here. So again, more incentive to put on good, valuable content when you do go ahead and put content here. This is really cool because I just put in an update that said “Shooting a video,” and someone responded that said, “Good idea! I just realized my homepage doesn’t show friends birthdays and I have no idea how to get that working again!” Well you see this right here, this is where the birthdays are, and if you click “see more” it’ll show you all their birthdays– upcoming birthdays as well. So this is wonderful, I think a really nice feature… people are just a little lost right now.

Now, big question: “Where did the pages go? Where did my groups go?”

Well, if you look right down here, you’ll see there is a narrow navigation bar. Here are applications, and if I click that, I can see all my recently used applications, I can see the bookmarked applications, all sorts of stuff. Plus, I can edit them, and even find more. Right next to it is groups. I can click on this to access groups recently updates, or recently joined by my friends, so this hasn’t changed-this looks the same as before. We’ve got ads and pages: this is where pages went. We can click on ads, and pages. I’m now looking at all the pages that I am an admin of. This is a really easy point of access.

Now we’ll go back down here: we’ve covered groups, we’ve covered ads and pages, and you can even access photos down here really quickly from the navigation bar. These are all the different albums that have been going up from friends across the Globe. You can also click on events, so as you can see, with this navigation bar they’ve made it really easy to access some of the most important things, which are pages, groups, pictures, and a couple of applications.

Let’s check out the profile they’ve changed slightly. Again “write something” posts things on the live feed. For example, I just posted that on the home page not too long ago, and it showed up on my profile page. This is pretty important right here: everything you’d put on the homepage, even though it lasts a few seconds or a few minutes for most people on their home screen, it does go permanently on your profile, so that’s something they’ve changed. Also, I can see Shama & friends, what they’ve said, or I can also just click on my name to see everything I’ve posted and filter out what friends have said. Or I can view just friends, and see only what friends have said. Everything else has stayed pretty much the same.

And that, guys, was your tour of the new Facebook. If you have questions, just leave them in the comment section below and I will address them.

Hey guys, welcome to Shama.tv. Today I’m going to answer a question that I got from one of my Facebook friends. Facebook is a pretty hot topic, it has been for awhile, and people have a lot of questions about it.

Well, this question is about how to separate your personal and professional lives, and this is a question I get while speaking as well. It goes a little something like this: “I have my group of personal friends that I interact with and I try to use Facebook for that, and then I try to use LinkedIn for my professional, but can I keep it separate?”

Here’s what I’m going to tell you: As time goes on, it’s going to be really, really hard for you to keep your personal and professional lives separate. I know that’s hard for some people to hear, but that’s generally the direction we’re headed. You may think that your using Facebook for personal use, so it’s OK to put up, say, pictures of me with my college buddies and maybe humorous lines, but let’s say that you applied for a job, or a client is checking you out… they’re going to look at your facebook profile, and they’re not going to give you same leniency, if you will, and think this person is just using this for personal use. They’re not going to see it in that light or that respect.

My advice to you is that when you’re using Facebook, or when you’re using LinkedIn, whatever social networking site it may be, keep it professional. Even if you have personal friends on there, that’s fine, but feel free to delete things off your wall that are inappropriate, or aren’t a good reflection of your character or what you’d like to portray. These things will add up, and this is all public. Remember that anything you put out there is indexed by Google, and stays on the internet forever, so be really careful.

And, yes, it’s going to get harder and harder to separate your personal and professional lives, so you’re just going to have to make the distinction and the choice to be a little more professional overall on all social networking sites.

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