How to Customize Your Profile on Facebook

If you are wondering how to customize your profile on Facebook, this Mahalo page might be a good source of information.¹ Here you will find step by step instructions on how to give your Facebook profile a little bit more personality.

After MySpace, Facebook is the largest social network on the Internet. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by then Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg ran the application as a hobby. With the help of two other Harvard students Zuckerberg brought Facebook to the next level. He dropped out of school to run the application full time. Today there are over 8 million Facebook users in the United States alone.² A movie on how the company started was released on October 1, 2010.³

When building a Facebook profile you will notice that it includes Information, Status, Friends, Friends in Other Networks, Photos, Notes, Groups, and The Wall. A recent change to Facebook allows users to have the option to give their profile page an individual look designed after their own taste.

Facebook Profile Changes

The Mahalo YouTube channel teaches you how to customize your profile on Facebook. The guide talks about how to create a profile, including the fields which will be required. Also discussed is customizing a profile using wallpaper and layout techniques. The use of other websites to customize your profile is discussed in step 3.

Step 1: Setting Up Your Basic Facebook Profile

Before you can customize your Facebook profile page you will have to create one. The Mahalo page How to Make a Facebook Account can be used as a guide here. After creating your account you can start adding information to your basic profile. The steps are as follows:

1. Log into your Facebook account.
2. Click on the profile tab.
3. Here you can fill out the personal information you wish to share. This can include your birth-date, sex, political views, city, hometown, relationship information, likes, interests, education, employment and much more.
4. Uploading a photo is another part of creating a Facebook profile. The Mahalo page How to Post Photos on Facebook can be of some help here.

Keep in mind that you can share as much or as little information about yourself as you wish. You do not have to answer all questions asked in the form pages.

Step 2: Time To Customize Your Profile

Once you've created your Facebook profile you can look into customizing it by adding a wallpaper and/or layout. One way to do this is by using websites such as Expressions.com. Once you are on the website you can take the following steps:

1. Find an 'Expression' that you like to have on your Facebook profile.
2. Click on the 'Add' button.
3. Login to your Facebook account.
4. Install the application on your Facebook account.
5. Once you have installed the application you can always go back to the Expressions website to find another layout.
6. After finding an expression that you like, make sure to press the 'Add To Profile' tab which will import the expression onto your Facebook page.

Step 3: Another Way To Customize Your Profile

Instead of using already designed layouts, you can also create your own Facebook profile page layout. Websites such as Pagerage.com can assist you in this. Pagerage enable Facebook users to choose their own background color, background photo, text color and finishing touches before publishing it to their Facebook profile page.⁴