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The home page is the first thing you'll see when you log into Facebook. Fortunately, it's also arguably the most useful feature of the social networking site. Here, you can see what your network has been up to since you last logged in. See the latest updates from your Facebook network, and see the latest pictures.

Many Facebook users accept the default Facebook settings. However, you can customize your Facebook news feed to show what you want to see by default. Just drag and drop to re-order. You can choose to see photos first, see notes, status updates and more. This is web 2.0, after all. You can also create your own Facebook filters to see updates from, for example, family or colleagues.

With a little effort, you can be the most popular person on Facebook by just putting some thought into your Facebook status updates. By sharing photos, videos and URLs, you'll quickly see your status update "Likes" skyrocket. Give it a try!

If you have a lot of Facebook friends, your home page may be overrun with all their status updates. Using these simple tips, you can hide a Facebook user's updates so you're not bothered by them. Perhaps you're seeing way to many status updates from a chronic "oversharer," or perhaps a certain someone is unintentionally update spamming. Whatever the case, it's easy to hide Facebook updates from people you'd rather not hear so much from.

Facebook allows you to share as much or as little detail about yourself as you like. Most of us are careful and don't upload questionable, racy or potentially embarrassing photos to Facebook. However, we can't count on our Facebook friends to show the same discretion. If a friend uploads a photo you're in but would rather not be associated with, you can easily untag Facebook photos so your Facebook friends won't likely see. You can also choose to set all Facebook photos of you to private.

Facebook has a great way for you to keep in touch with your family. Family Groups allows you to share photos, stories, and even create family events where everyone can accesses and see them. By creating a Facebook Group for your family you'll make sure that everyone shares in all the family fun.

Filling out your profile on Facebook gives your Facebook friends an idea of what you're into. Movies, music, books, even religions and political leanings and much, much more is all fair game in the complete Facebook profile.

You may worry about how much information you and your friends share on Facebook. But did you know you can completely customize Facebook privacy settings? You can make it so that certain users can only see certain items, block your boss from seeing your wall or photos or videos, keep your friends from seeing private exchanges with your significant other and much more. While you can't delete your Facebook account without contacting Facebook staff, you can deactivate it if you want or need to.

With Google Earth you can go around the world right from your computer. Many of the places you "visit" you may want to save so you can return. Google Earth makes it easy to keep track of your favorites with Places.

Take it to the streets with Google Earth. The Street View lets you zoom right down to street level in many locations. You can see the street, the cars, the signs and get a good feel for what that area looks like.

In addition to the great Google Earth tips and tricks that we've covered in this series, there are many more neat features to find when you explore. Take a tour with sightseeing, explore the stars, the seas, Mars or the Moon.

The Facebook news feed brings all of the latest Facebook happenings in an easy to digest format. Find out which of your friends have changed their Facebook relationship status, see who's recently posted photos, who's saying what to whom and more. It's all right here.

YouTube is an online service that gives you a place to store and share all of the videos that you've created. Aside from just giving you a place to store your videos, it also allows you to watch other videos that members of the YouTube community have created. If you choose to make your videos public then people can watch your videos too. You can watch videos without signing up but in order to participate in the community and upload your own videos, you'll want to create an account.

Now that you've got a YouTube account it's time to customize the homepage with the content you want to see front and center. Once you've added, removed or shuffled content around on your YouTube homepage, you'll be greeted by your own personalized YouTube portal whenever you log in. This is a great way to keep track of what your network has been up to since you last logged in.

YouTube is a great place to find funny, interesting or informative videos. However, with more hours of video than any one person has time to watch, it can all be a little overwhelming. When you find a YouTuber whose content you enjoy it's a good idea to subscribe to their YouTube channel. The search bar is the best place to start looking for content that is of specific interest to you.

Getting your first video onto YouTube can be done by either uploaded or recorded directly from your webcam. We'll look at how to get your video onto the web's go-to video hosting site. We'll also talk about privacy: You can choose to share your video with a select group of friends and family or with the world at large. Your public awaits, so let's get started!

One of the key benefits to being part of the YouTube community (aside from the untold number of amusing pet clips or course) is being able to comment on videos. YouTube community members can comment with either text comments or by posting a video response.

Every YouTuber gets his or her own dedicated channel. By default, this channel shares the same look and feel of YouTube and is named simply with your user name. However, roll up your sleeves as it's time to customize your YouTube channel by changing everything from content to layout, color to page name.

As you start uploading videos to YouTube to reside among the millions of hours of footage the site already contains, you'll want to keep your videos organized. Organizing your videos and updating your personal information on YouTube makes it easier for other YouTubers to find you on the site. Whether that's a good thing or not comes down to perspective.

YouTube hides some pretty advanced features in your accounts page. While some of these features can add a new dimension to your video, they're also very easy to use. We'll show you how to add speech bubbles, notes and links within your videos, how to change the soundtrack and more.