If you're fairly new to Facebook the first thing you want to do really is to
connect with some people to add them as friends I'll walk you through how you do
that in 2020 in this video. Here we go. So I'm logged in as Peter Wilkins and I
need to locate some friends. If I look on my profile here under Peter you'll see
under friends only suggestions at the stage none actually listed so I
need to reach out to Paul so I'm going to click on search for Paul Wilson and I
can see their there add friend so I could click on that now or go through their
profile. And if I click add friend it's really instantaneous. It takes a matter
of seconds no message no introduction anything like that so that's a bit of an
issue generally. You don't want to alienate people by giving them a
surprise out of nowhere that they've got a friend request come in and they
have to make a choice. So what I can do is I can click here and say cancel
request and instead I'm going to go back here and click on message and I'll say
Hi Paul
l it's your old friend Peter. And then I'll just hit the enter to send that across. At the
same time what I need to do is click the add friend and now what we'll do is
we'll log out and will log back in as Paul. So Paul can see that there's something
come in there. there's a friend request . I'll click on that I can either confirm it
or delete it. I'm gonna confirm at this stage
and then effectively I can now go to Peters profile and send messages which
would be seen first. The other thing is if Paul wants to be a friend but not
necessarily follow all the updates from Peter he can click on this follow icon
you can see everything if you want to see first default or unfollow. If it says unfollow
then it means Peter can happily post away but Paul's not necessarily gonna
see it but he would be still happy to be friended with you.
Okay so we'll log back in now as Peter and Peter again will see that
notification to say Paul has accepted your request. So to see this in a
different light let's look at the new Facebook 2020 version and see how it
looks within that. So across the top you've got friends. Click on there you
can see that Paul's accepted a request you'd see any previously sent requests
and then you've got various other people that you could connect with. There are
notifications there as well friend suggestions that kind of thing
but essentially it's the same. Here's Peters home page and it now says friends
1 and listed on there is Paul. And we can click on that and again you can choose
whether to follow , see first or even the edit the list of friends. Okay so make sure
you take the time to think about especially new people because
often on Facebook you set the privacy setting and I'll show you here setting
the privacy settings and privacy who could send you friend
requests if you send that to friends of friends then brand new people would
struggle to be able to connect. So try and change that to everyone and give
yourself a chance. Obviously if you want to restrict it to just friends you've
been on there for a while that's different but for brand new people it's much easier if you
sell it to everyone then you can get more friend requests and more
suggestions as well. So that's the process of connecting with people it's
the key part of Facebook it's how you can then private message individuals and
that sort of thing as you go forward. So I've been Paul from PR Wilson media your
social media personal trainer Cheers