4)+Creating+an+account

= __Creating an Account__ =

Go to Facebook.com and click on create an account. The steps are very simple. Just follow these images. **Step one:** Fill in first and last name. Your email, a password, sex and birthday. The birthday information is important because that's how Facebook verifies that you are over the age 13.

**Step Two:** Type the words shown. Your words will be different then mine. If you can't read them, you can listen to an audio of them or different words all together.

**Step Three:** Facebook will make some friend recommendations. You can add them as a friend or ignore them. If you ignore the other person will not know. You have the options to SKIP any of the next few steps.

**Step Four**: Facebook wants to help you find friends. if you input the info for your email account the system does a search for people who you may know. **Step Five:** Enter your high school, college and employer. Facebook then does a search looking for characteristics that you may have in common.

**Step Six**: Fix up your profile. This is where you can add a picture or take one using a webcam.


 * Step Seven**: When all of the steps have been completed or skipped Facebook will take you to your profile page. At the top of the page will appear a message like this one. You MUST validate the email that you used to create the account or it could be terminated.


 * Once your account status is verified you are ready to go!**