6 steps on how to sign up for a free Facebook account

You've heard your friends have their own Facebook.

A friend ask you what is your Facebook account and you still dont know, or in another situation, friends ask you this schematic question "do you have your Facebook account?

To register as a Facebook user, you need to sign up for an account. Its free and open for everyone at every age level, at any profession.

Here are the 6 steps on how to sign up for a free Facebook account:

Step 1: You must have an active email address. I personally recommended you to use Gmail, a free email from Google. Yahoo Mail is good but Yahoo will ads up your inbox with flash ads. Gmail loads faster and provides larger email storage with minimal ads. with Gmail, you can swith to HTML based Gmail account which has no ads at all (for free!).

Step 2: Go to Facebook homepage. Set your own unique name and password in mind before registering it. When done, fill in your personal info - your first name, your last name (for Malaysian, the first name is your name and the last name is your father's name), your email used to create this Facebook account, your password (make sure other people dont know your password) and you birthday. I have to admint you can fake all this info, just in case you needed privacy or for your own safety.

Step 3: Use your real name of your nick name known by your friends, family members or working colleagues. Choose wisely because your friends will find you based on the name you use in Facebook. If you use a name unknown to them, they cant find you and they will have a big difficulty finding you.

Step 4: Skip essential part during your registration process. Facebook may ask you to find your friends who use Facebook via your contact list derived from your email, upload a profile picture or filling up personal details. You can do this later. Our main priority is to get your Facebook validated.

Step 5: when done, Facebook will sent an activation link into your email account that you provide during the registration process. Please log in to your email, go to your inbox, find the email from Facebook. The title should be "Welcome to Facebook". At least, find a email message titled with Facebook name. Click on the activation link.

Step 6: When your new Facebook account has been validated, you can now add up some pictures, write some short info about yourself, searching for your friends' Facebook profile and add them as your friends. This is the fun part! The second fun begins when you are connected with them as friends and you can exchange messages with them via their wall, comments and images. To enable this, make sure your Facebook profile is connected with their's.

Step 7: Have fun! Look for new friends, Facebook will not limit how much a friends you can add in one day (but Friendster does!). Enjoy it! Its more fun that sms, Twitter or Friendster.

You can know what your friends thought about their activity, their surroundings, their emostions expresses in their wall massages and stories about things happened around them.

Facebook promised, they will keep your account as a free one all the time.