December 21st | By: Garin Kilpatrick

If you go to facebook.com/family/ you will find a nifty directory that allows you to search for people on Facebook with the same last name as you.  Facebook also made the announcement, on mothers day of 2009, that now you can list family information in your profile.  Now, not only can you list the person you are in a relationship with, but also your parents, and any siblings and children you may have.

The We’re Related App

There is also a Facebook app called We’re Related by FamilyLink that allows you to keep track of your relatives, and perhaps discover relatives you did not even know you had.  We’re related also allows you to build your family tree.  A testimonial from FamilyLink.com reads:

“This tool has made it possible for me to communicate with my children whom I have not seen close on nine years now. It has also afforded me the opportunity to keep in touch with my relatives far and near, I have even managed to find long lost friends. This is a really great tool.”

Easily create a Facebook Group for your Family

Facebook even has a custom page that makes it easy to create a group for your extended family on facebook.

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Do you have your family on Facebook? Do you list your parents, siblings, or children on your Facebook Profile?

In the years that I have been using facebook I have not been able to login twice. Both times when facebook was broken it was probably just the result of crowded bandwidth at a packed library. On both occasions Facebook lite saved my night.  Most people just use regular facebook, and many do not even know about Facebook lite. But if facebook.com ever goes down just call facebook lite to the rescue!

What is Facebook Lite?

Facebook lite is a stripped down version of Facebook. It is optimized to be lightning fast, and has no application integration. That means you won’t be able to play Farmville but you will be able to do core facebook tasks in a way that is supposed to be “faster and simpler.”

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Facebook Lite Settings:

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Profile on Facebook Lite:

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What do you think of Facebook lite?  Would you ever switch to using Facebook Lite instead of regular Facebook?

Sometimes words just are not enough.  For times when words just can’t express, there are emoticons.  With the somewhat recent implementation of facebook chat came a new set of emoticons too.  Here is a graph showing all of the different facebook emoticons that you can use in chat.

The above graph was derived from a website called fbemoticons, but the symbols are property of facebook. Fbemoticons also features pages with special symbols, basic symbols, and more!