How to Find, Invite, & Add Friends on Facebook

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Melissa Schenk on behalf of Expert Village. Today we're talking about Facebook and some of its useful applications. Now, in this segment let's talk about friends and how to search for them. Of course there so many features as part of friends, so let's take a look at each of them individually. Back on your profile page it's time to find your friends, so to the right hand side of profile at the top of the screen, click on friends. You'll notice this is where your list of friends will pop up. Now if you haven't got any friends yet signed up on your profile, click the little arrow to the right of that. Here you'll notice it says status update, this is going to update you on the status of whether your friends are online, recently updated profiles by your friends or recently added friends. If you hit all friends, all of your friends are going to pop up on this list, you can also invite them to things, but for now let's click on find friends. When you want to find friends, one of the easiest ways to do so is to type in your email address @ whatever it is, maybe it's hotmail and put in your email password and then click on that find friends page. What that's going to do basically is go into your home email or whatever email you've given them and your address book is going to invite as many friends as you want. You'll be able to click on and off who you would like to invite, this is one way to find friends. Now, let's see how we can also or another way we can search for friends. You'll notice to the left hand side of the screen where it says search, you can search pretty much for anything, but you can also search for friends. So for instance, let's type in Melissa Schenk and see what comes up. There I am! Now you'll see with the results all of the Melissa Schenk's are going to pop up here. Now if we were to, let's say want to be friends with the Melissa Schenk right below me, you can either add to friends, that's going to invite them or you can view her friends, you can poke her and you can even send her a message. So now, go find yourself all of your friends. Once you've finished with the friends feature, you've perhaps added some new ones, invited some friends, now let's have a look right next door to the networks."