Great tip, John! If you like that, you might also like the free Jing snipping tool, which lets you make changes if you haven’t cropped properly plus add arrows and text. It’s pretty awesome.

Sandy

I’m glad these tips are helpful, Vivienne! Thanks for letting me know.

Sandy

Sandy

Thanks so much for all the good info. I would like to mention a qualification, though, on #3, Sharing Content Privately: please use it very sparingly.

More and more, people are messaging videos, memes, and articles privately, when they could be posting them as a status. The abundance of these messages is quite annoying (and time-consuming). I see a lot of friends now pleading with all their friends to please stop this practice. Do it too much, and your future messages might even get blocked.

If content is uniquely interesting to the person we’re messaging, or part of an ongoing conversation with them, that’s one thing, and it’s appropriate. If it is general info, or just something cute, that’s another. It belongs as a status update, not a private message.

Furthermore, links shared on one’s Facebook timeline are monitored for their safety by Facebook. Not so, with links sent through FB Messenger. Click on the wrong one, and you will end up inadvertently sending it to all your pals as well!

Private messaging is fast becoming like e-mail — full of spam — because of this over-messaging practice.

Thanks for all the helpful info you provide!

This is kind of a trick question. If you’ve shared it via FB Messenger, they’re the only ones who see it. If you select “Share in a group,” only the couple of friends you’ve added to that group will see it. There’s also a situation where you can tag someone and they’re the only one who sees it because they’ve used the “audience selector” privacy function in settings. This is kind of a Facebook 301-level move, though, so it’s not super common. Here’s more: https://www.facebook.com/help/267508226592992

Sandy

Thanks.

Thanks so much for noticing, Terry! I’m grateful for that! It allowed me to discover a new-to-me smartphone app that lets me add arrows to screenshots — woot!

Sandy

Thank you for this helpful step by step information about Facebook to help us. I appreciate all of the work that went into this piece.

Terry