5:30-6:00 Pizza and Overview

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WELCOME!

• 530-600 Pizza and Overview
• 600-700 Getting Started
• 700-745 Facebooking for Christ

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overview

• Please get up as you need to for food or bathroom
  breaks or whatever
• Some interesting facts first
• Then detailed instructions on getting started
• Then some ways to share and live your faith

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overview

• So what is Facebook?
• Facebook is a free-access social networking
  website that is operated and privately owned by
  Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized
  by city, workplace, school, and region to connect
  and interact with other people. People can also
  add friends and send them messages, and update
  their personal profiles to notify friends about
  themselves.
• Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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overview

• It is like
• a customized newspaper with only stories about
  your friends or about things your friends are
  interested in
• a mass mailing of Christmas cards only the
  letters are shorter and you get them every day

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overview

• Major hesitation regarding Facebook
• But I dont want everyone knowing what I am
  doing or what I am thinking!
• Solution
• Only those people you select can see what you
  post.
• You control what is posted so they only see what
  you enter.
• Facebook cannot read your mind.

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overview

• And now for some numbers
• This is what you get when you have a nerd for a
  pastor!

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overview

• General Growth of Facebook
• More than 200 million active users
• More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at
  least once each day
• More than two-thirds of Facebook users are
  outside of college
• The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years
  old and older

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overview

• User Engagement
• Average user has 120 friends on the site
• More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on
  Facebook each day (worldwide)
• More than 20 million users update their statuses
  at least once each day

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overview

• Applications
• More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site
  each month
• More than 8 million videos uploaded each month
• More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links,
  news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.)
  shared each week
• More than 2.5 million events created each month
• More than 25 million active user groups exist on
  the site

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overview

• 80 of people are finding their churches using
  the Internet
• 74 of Americans 18-34 have a Facebook or MySpace
  account
• 48 of all Americans have a Facebook or MySpace
  account
• If Facebook was a country, it would be the 5th
  largest in the world

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overview

• Lesson to learn
• If your church doesnt have a website and/or
  isnt using Facebook
• your church is
• missing great opportunities,
• invisible to most young adults,
• disconnected from the culture.

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overview

• Quick demo using Pastor Robs account

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getting started

• Set up account
• Set privacy and notification settings
• Find friends
• Post status Whats on your mind?
• Join groups
• Accept friend requests

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set up account

• Go to www.facebook.com

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set up account

• In future, login using email and password you
  created
• First time use Sign Up to create account and
  password
• Entering Full Name helps friends find you
• Your Email is where you will receive
  notifications (messages that you have something
  to view)
• Gender and birthday are asked but you can hide
  these later
• When done, select Sign Up

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set up account

• You will then be asked to type in two words that
  are warped
• This is a security check to make sure that you
  are really a human being
• If you cannot read the words, select Try
  different words or select an audio captcha to
  have a clue read to you
• After typing in the words, select Sign Up

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set up account

• You will then be asked to confirm your email
  address
• Open your email program and find the email from
  Facebook

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set up account

• When you receive the email, click on the link in
  your email
• This will launch a new web broswer window with
  the 3-step Getting Started screens
• You can close the original window where you were
  signing up.

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set up account

• Step 1 of Getting Started asks you for your
  email address and email password
• For many accounts, Facebook can read your address
  book and see if any of your email contacts are
  already on Facebook
• This process is secure and you should not worry
  they dont store this information
• You can also do this at a later date and even
  import email address books using their File
  Importer (topic for another day)
• Select Find Friends after entering information
• You can also Skip this step

More popular email accounts that Facebook can
read for finding friends hotmail.com yahoo.com
gmail.com aol.com msn.com live.com
comcast.net bellsouth.net
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set up account

• Step 2 collects your school and employment
  information so you can connect with people with
  these same backgrounds
• As you type in your information, it will offer
  options based upon other peoples information
• You can select one of the guesses in the list by
  clicking on it
• Once done, select Save Continue

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set up account

• Based on what you enter, Facebook will suggest
  some people you may know
• If you see someone you would like to be connected
  with, select their picture
• Navigate through the pages of friends using the
  Next
• After you are done selecting friends, you can
  click the Add as Friends button
• Once ready to move on, select Save Continue
• You can always search for friends later

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set up account

• Step 3 is for joining a network and identifying
  yourself with a particular town
• It creates geographical groupings of people and
  helps identify people more specifically
• Be sure to enter Mount Vernon, IL and not Mt.
  Vernon, IL because that is how our town is
  recognized on Facebook
• Others in your same network can see your basic
  profile information but you can change this in
  your privacy settings later
• Select Join when done or Skip this step

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set up account

• You are now ready to setup your profile details
  and then later look for friends (Select View and
  edit your profile)

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set up account
Add photo by clicking here
Change display of birthday year here
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set up account

• Select Change Profile Picture then Browse on
  the next window to select a photo
• Check the box that certifies that you have the
  right to distribute the photo and then select
  Upload Picture

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set up account

• Get back to editing profile by selecting
  Profile
• then Edit My Profile on that page

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set up account

• Each gray bar is a different section of
  information that you can enter to help friends
  identify you and to help new friends get to know
  you
• You can block out some of this information from
  being seen by others, but a good general rule is
  Dont put anything on here that you would not
  want the people in your church to know.
• Dont forget to select Save Changes after
  updating any of the information in each gray bar
  section. Moving to a new section without saving
  will lose your changes.

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set privacy and notifications

• There are some basic settings that you may want
  to do
• Turn off notifications which send emails to you
  every time there is activity on your Facebook
  account
• Set privacy settings
• Start by placing mouse pointer over Settings
  and select Account Settings

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set privacy and notifications

• Select the Notifications tab
• This will bring up a long list of options for
  receiving email notifications. You can turn
  these off now or later. Once you start checking
  Facebook as often as email, you wont need most
  of these.
• Dont forget to Save Changes

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set privacy and notifications

• Notifications are grouped by different features
  of Facebook

Ones to note Facebook basic communications in
Facebook Photos photos posted by people,
comments, tags (labels that name the people in
photos) Groups organizations in Facebook that
people can join over common interest (like our
church!) Pages companies have pages (you wont
use this much) Events events for
inviting/reminding people Notes feature for
sharing longer writings with others Links
webpages can be pointed out and shared Video way
to share online videos Gifts like sending cards
only they are virtual gifts
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set privacy and notifications

• Notifications can always be checked by selecting
  the little screen icon in the bottom left
  corner of your Facebook page

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set privacy and notifications

• Set privacy settings by placing mouse pointer
  over Settings and select Privacy Settings
• You have a lot of control here but you may not
  need it.
• The defaults are set to what most people want
  which is limited views of basic info for those
  searching for you and those whom you accept as
  friends seeing everything you post.
• There is one exception and here is how to change
  it. Select Profile

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set privacy and notifications

• You may want to limit views of your basic
  information to Only Friends or Friends of
  Friends for each category in your Basic Profile
  Privacy settings. Leaving it as My Networks and
  Friends means others who are also chose the St.
  Louis network could see more of your page.
• Good basic rule
• Dont put anything on here that you would not
  want the people in your church to know.

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find friends

• You are now ready to look for friends, place the
  mouse pointer over the Friends label without
  clicking at the top of the page and then select
  Find Friends

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find friends

• Using Facebooks Suggestions and the Search
  for People using your schools or past jobs are
  the best ways to find friends.
• You can even type in peoples emails or their
  names to search

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post status

• The most basic thing to do on Facebook is post
  your status or answer the question Whats on
  your mind?
• Select your name at the top of the screen and you
  will go to your profile where you can fill this
  in and then select Share
• You can also add links to websites or photos or
  videos to your post using the options here.

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join a group

• Type First Presbyterian Church (Mt. Vernon, IL)
  into the top right hand corner search field and
  hit return
• When our church pops up, select Join Group

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friend requests

• You will start to see friend requests and
  Suggestions that will help you get connected to
  others
• Select friend request to respond to someones
  request

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friend requests

• You have 4 main options
• Select their name to see their profile first
• Select Confirm if you want to get connected
  with them
• Select Ignore if you do not want to share with
  them
• Select Send Message if you want to clarify
  (such as Where do I know you from?)
• Once you have Friends selecting Home at the
  top of the page will get you their updates

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time for a few questions

• Anyone?
• Coming next how Facebook can be used to share
  and live faith

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facebooking for Christ

• Just a few simple things can be done by you to
  share your faith and your church with hundreds of
  people on a regular basis
• When you send out a link over Facebook and your
  friends forward it, it can reach thousands
• Never before in human history has the voice of
  one had the ability to reach so many
• What will your voice say?

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facebooking for Christ

• Use your status postings to talk about how your
  faith and your church are active
• Just got back from distributing food at Angel
  Food. What a great outreach ministry for our
  church!
• Worship today was amazing. The music, the
  sermon, the friendliness and church family feel.
  And then the baptism! Man, I love the way we do
  baptisms.
• Praying with the rest of our congregation for
  Johnny Benson who just got hurt in a car
  accident.
• Looking forward to finding out how I can share
  my faith using Facebook at our church tonight.

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facebooking for Christ

• Look for opportunities to pray and care for
  others
• Add comments to peoples postings expressing your
  care and offering your prayers
• Call people on the phone when you see they are
  having a tough day, perhaps offer to help with a
  meal or watching their kids or mowing their lawn
• Send gifts or special notes to others to let them
  know how much you appreciate their
  life/ministry/friendship
• IMPORTANT! Send messages for private
  communication and write on their wall to make
  public statements of support

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facebooking for Christ

• Post links to websites and church group events
  that can start interesting discussions about
  faith OR join a discussion on the churchs group
  page
• Better than forwarding emails emails are often
  too long and facebook postings do not load up
  peoples email inboxes
• Online discussions allow for many people to share
  thoughts on a topic at their leisure/pace
• Can even make status posts like..
• Ever wonder why some people seem to suffer more
  than others? How do other people combine their
  trust in God with all the suffering in the
  world?
• Sharing your faith-related interests opens your
  heart to others and makes face-to-face
  conversations/questions about faith or church or
  God more likely

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facebooking for Christ

• Most important aspect of facebooking for Christ
  is that Christians can use this new, powerful and
  pervasive tool for communication to share the
  Gospel of Jesus Christ in thought, word, and
  deed.
• We can increase the ties that bind when we use
  tools like this with family, friends, co-workers,
  and contacts.
• We must also look for ways to allow these
  interactions to build community and to create
  opportunities to minister face-to-face.

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the end

• More questions contact Pastor Rob or look for
  others on Facebook who are very active
• Follow-up class coming soon to address using more
  features and understanding more
• Pastor Rob will stay for awhile to answer
  individual questions