If you want to understand Facebook, you need to look at the functions and quick links on the Facebook homepage. When you enter your Facebook account, let’s first introduce the navigation bar at the top. The functions of the navigation bar are as follows from left to right:
(1) Facebook homepage link: Directly link to the address of the Facebook homepage here. No matter what page you are on, you can immediately return to the Facebook homepage by clicking here.
(2) Search This is one of the most commonly used functions of Facebook. Just like we usually use search engines such as Baidu and Google to surf the Internet, Facebook’s search function is also very necessary for Facebook users. Through search, you can find various types of resources on Facebook, including public homepages, groups, users, activities, etc. When you find that there is no information to see in your account, or you have a small number of friends and the information shared with you is limited, you can get rich and colorful information through search. This is like only providing a browser but as long as there is a search engine, you will immediately feel that you are connected to global resources. Let’s try to search for a keyword dress.
At this time, Facebook will pop up a drop-down list and give some suggested search results. If there is content that we are interested in among these search results, we can click it directly. The search results here are arranged by content type. We can see that they are divided into four different groups: public homepages, users, groups, and places. The suggested search results will vary depending on the content and arrangement of different keywords. If there is no content that we are interested in here, we can click the “Search” button on the right to enter the real search results page.
(3) Facebook personal homepage link: Click here to reach the account’s personal homepage. This is also the page content that others see.
(4) Facebook Home link: This link is the same as the first link. It is a Facebook homepage link that allows you to quickly return to the homepage when you are on other pages.
(5) Search for friends: This function is used for us to search for friends.
(6) Friend request notification: This function is used to instantly notify which users want to add us as friends. In the pop-up drop-down list, you can also quickly click the “Confirm” button to accept the request or click the “Delete Request” button.
(7) Message button: Facebook has an internal message function called Messager, which has now been launched as a separate app by Facebook on mobile phones. After clicking this button, a drop-down list will appear, which displays the most recent chat history.
(8) Notification button: After clicking this button, a drop-down list will pop up, which records the account’s recent activities, such as who has followed our homepage, who has liked our posts, etc. If the account has many friends, the amount of information in the notification will be very large, and there will often be unread message prompts.
(9) Privacy settings: used to set various privacy settings related to the account.
(10) Account-related settings: Click here to display a drop-down list, and all account-related settings can be found here.