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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Fakebook

Hello fellow tech enthusiastic!  Today I will be showing you a little overview of Fakebook.  It is a learning tool where you create a fake Facebook profile for a person, country, or anything else.

This is where you start when you go to the site.  You can change the name, edit the profile, change the picture, add friends, and write posts.  


After I clicked on "*CLICK HERE TO ENTER NAME*", I was able to change the name and select a picture to go along with it.  For the picture, as default, it uses the first image on Google that goes along with the given name.  You also have the option to select a saved image.  


On the left side, you can add friends.  Like with the profile picture, you have the option to use the first image on Google, or to select a saved image.

Next I submitted and went to "Edit Profile" in the right corner.  By using the format as shown, you can create an intricate profile showing various thing about the person.  For example, if you want to say the their favorite food is pizza, all you need to write is "Favorite Food=Pizza"















I then created a post.  If you want to make it seam like the holder of the profile is posting it, then you must re                                                                                                                           select their profile picture.  

After doing that, you can add comments to your post.  It is nearly the same as creating a post but it just shows up as a comment under a post instead.  After you page is done, you can save it by clicking "Save" on the right side.  You will be prompted for a password so that you can edit it later.  Then you can take the link and send it to others.  Here is the one I made.

Overall, Fakebook seams like a very useful and fun way to learn.  The adds are slightly intrusive but it's hard to expect more for it being free.  


1 comment:

  1. Anonymous4:10 PM

    Nice visual "how-to" - might be interesting to speculate about useful ways this could be used in the classroom

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