I’m ready to finally give in to my many friends who are pushing me to sign up for a new Facebook account, even as I have been reading about Facebook privacy issues. I figure if I don’t put much info on the page in the first place, it won’t be a problem. Can you walk me through the signup process, please?
With over 400 million users, you’re obviously not the first person to succumb to peer pressure — or curiosity — and sign up to join the busy Facebook community!
I’ve been plugged in for years, but it’s only in the last year or so that I started to find it interesting and fun. Prior to that, it was basically the same people who I interact with in other forums and mailing lists, so there wasn’t much news. Now I keep in touch with dozens of friends who otherwise are far beyond my usual circles.
It’s actually pretty easy to sign up, but if you want to do it right, allocate enough time to fill in at least some of the basics.
To start, go to http://www.facebook.com/ and you’ll see right on the home page:
![facebook create new account 1](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-1.png)
Fill this in and click on “Sign Up”. You’ll be asked to verify that you’re not a robot (really! it’s a measure to prevent spammers infecting Facebook with bogus accounts):
![facebook create new account 2](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-2.png)
Enter the two words you see — in this case “view” and “doorways” — and click on “Sign Up” again on this page.
You’re in! You have an account set up on Facebook. You’re not done, however. First up, it’ll suggest some friends you might connect with:
![facebook create new account 3](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-3.png)
I have no idea who these two people are, so perhaps they’re special potential friends to everyone who joins Facebook, I dunno. 🙂
Since Facebook isn’t much fun without friends being online and connected with you, the system tries all sorts of ways for you to identify your potential friends. Next up is its ability to scan your address book:
![facebook create new account 4](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-4.png)
If you’d rather not have Facebook scan your mailbox and figure out your correspondences, no worries, just click on “Skip this step”.
Next attempt to match you: enter your high school, place of work, or some other sort of identifying information:
![facebook create new account 5](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-5.png)
Still want to stay relatively anonymous? Click on “Skip”!
Next step is to set up a profile picture for yourself, something I highly recommend:
![facebook create new account 6](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-6.png)
Click “Save & Continue” and you’re set and will be dropped onto your new, relatively austere, Facebook newsfeed page. Along the top it’ll remind you that the system has sent an email to confirm your email address, entered in step one:
![facebook create new account 7](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-7.png)
In your email inbox you should get a message that looks like this:
![facebook create new account 8](https://www.askdavetaylor.com/5-blog-pics/facebook-create-new-account-8.png)
Click on the link and you’ll have confirmed that the email address you entered is legit. Now you’re good to go on Facebook and it’s time to start sending friend requests and filling in all your personal information so others can find you too.
Have fun! Oh, and don’t forget to become a fan of Ask Dave Taylor on Facebook too! 🙂
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i m finding difficult in creating my fb account
i have the same problem as someothers. signing up for new account, it keeps bringing up my husbands facebook site, what am i doing wrong?
I keep losing facebook.Lost it for 2 weeks , just got it back yesterday and now its gone. Getting real tired of this.Hope you can fix this.
i have a problem in creating my account when i click on sign up it comes please enter your email address but where do i create it?
please help open a new account.
face book is awesome ma!!!
Knowledge is power.
my link is broken within 3 days what can i do
on face book site massage came surver not found
my account facebook its cant opened..coz have somebody send a virus to me.. can u help me get my account fb???
please i want to open facebook account hlep me
i can not complete sing up process . as there come.,,,, go to yahoo mail to comform your e mail ,,,,,,,,,,,this is the step i donot know
I’ve been trying to sign up on facebook but no luck they send me an email to confirm my email address and password when i confirming it says my email or password is incorrect.plz help i want to join facebook.
my brother has a facebook account on my computer. i want to create my own account now . how can it possible.
How do create my account?
i just wanna to have a facebook account!
why it is so difficult?
i just to have one
don’t you know???
thanku so much
how can i open my face book
I have an already facebook account. But I want to create another facebook account
I had mistakenly changed the language from english to something else now I CAN’T GET BACK TO FACE BOOK CAN YOU HELP ME GET BACK ON FACEBOOK
Help. Please help me. Please email me. Tell me what to do!!!
I have 2 year old my facebook account. But trying to open since 1 month. please help to join facebook.
How can i open my facebook ?
I cannot creat my facebook account,it is very difficult to do.Is there any one who can guide me to do same?
i’ve a problem in creating an account in facebook
I have tried lot of times to join of facebook but not success,please tell me procedure for joining to facebook
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i have difficulty to login
Hi need to creat an account in face book help me out
How do you get Facebook to work if there were problems?
WHY FACEBOOK AINT WORKIN ON DIGICEL PLEASE HELP ITS BEEN A MONTH I AINT BEEN ON FACEBOOK CANT I CHECK MY MAIL ON YAHOO
I try to get in the facebook but they said i had faq with my email adress and had already block my page.How i get back on again?
i have been trying to create a facebook account and i can not get through. I am asked to write my e-mail so many times and dont know the problem. Please help
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Join facebook
i am having a problem signing in to facebook please help
My wife is registered on facebook already with our home e-mail address. when I try to sign myself up it just tells me that the e-mail address is already in use by another facebook member. How do I register myself with our home e-mail address as well?
how can i use facebook?plz tell me
I have seen this same problem Daryl with my daughter and I. General rule of thumb: if things are going weird, use the “Logout” option on the top right menu, off the “Account” menu. If that fails, perhaps you could have two browsers, one for her account, one for yours? I have also seen some weirdness with Google Chrome in regards to Facebook, if that’s a possible factor?
I’ve been trying to sign up but my daughter uses my laptop and I keep ending up on her page. When I click on “Home” – I still end up on her page. I went to Google – clicked on Facebook and ended up on her page.
Is there a way for me to get in to sign up and a way to keep her and I from opening up each others’ pages?
My daughter is an adult so I don’t wish to invade her privacy.
I have been trying to sign up for 30 minutes? What gives? This isn’t easy
when i start signing it says you cant sign.
stupids foolish
finly got ma facebook on track
How u can creat my own account facebook please give guide line to for account making on face book it serious problium for becuse my other friends using face book i not
it feels good to wrk on facebook itz new fr me bt itz awesome!!!
when I try bring up the sign in page it comes up in a funny language. How do I get this to change back to english. this is the only site that does this. please help.
thiis relly sucks dude !!!!!
How do I create my own facebook account? every time I try it takes me to my wifes page.
i find this site very important thanks keep the good work going thanks very much
I was there already