At the last big Facebook conference Mark Zuckerberg and SNL comedian Andy Samberg kept talking about Beast, Mark’s new dog. They would show a Facebook Page with all these photos, comments, and fans.
Which got me thinking that if Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, can have a page for his dog…then so can I!
I have been hoping for a way to bring my puppy into the social network, after all, my parents and friends from birth are on it. Why not our pets?
In four easy steps we can set-up a Facebook Page for your pet and have it look professional, just like Mark Zuckerberg’s. All you will need is some basic information and a few pictures. Let’s get started.
Step 1 – Create a Page
Choose what type of page you want. For your pet, start with “Artist, Band, or Public Figure,” then for your category choose ‘public figure’ and add the name of your pet.
Step 2 – Edit Info
After creating your page there will be a wizard but I suggest skipping it. After that you will be on your main page, click on “Info” on the left side menu. Then click “Edit Info,” located towards the top/middle.
From here you have a wide range of options, but if you want to follow Mark Zuckerberg then only fill out these:
- Location
- Affiliation
- Birthday
- Biography
- Gender
- Personal Interests
- Website
*Note: you will need to wait a while or get 25 fans to choose a username. This is important because it also becomes your website URL (facebook.com/beast.the.dog). So start thinking of the username you want (I chose facebook.com/fuzzy.the.dog).
Once completed, hit “Save Changes,” (located at bottom) and then “View Page” (located at top right).
Step 3 – Add Photos
Mark has over 60 photos of Beast. I have twelve. You will need six to get started. Five of them for the photo bar at the top of your page and one for a profile picture.
Get your photos on your computer and then click “Photos” on the left menu, and then click “Upload Photos”.
You can select multiple photos at a time. Try to upload all six at once. While they are uploading add a name for this “album” like profile pics or getting started.
Once they are uploaded you can add descriptions and names to each photo. Hit “Save” and then “Publish” to finish the process.
Now, you are looking at all your photos in your album. Click on the photo you want as your profile picture for your pet. Scroll down towards the right and click on “Make Profile Picture for Page”.
Adjust the cropping and hit “Done Cropping”.
Good job! Now your page should be nearly complete and looking good:
Step 4 – Add Owners
From main view of your page go to the right menu where it says “Admins” and click “See All”. You will already be listed but you can add your partner, spouse, children, etc.
Once you add in the admins and verify everything, go to the menu on the left side and click “Featured”. Click on the box that says “Add Featured Page Owners”. Check all the boxes, hit save, and then on the top right-click “View Page”.
On the left menu you will now see the “Page Owners”, a great way to bring the whole family onto the page.
Done!
Voilà!
You now have a page for your pet. Let all your friends know so they can become a fan/like. Keep adding photos, share some stories, and enjoy having your pet on Facebook.
For more help and info check out the one I created: Fuzzy.the.Dog
think the solution to a happiness-based model is really just “based on people working less and owning less.” You need to think deeply about what “work” is. Are we defining it as soul-sucking time spent acquiring money in order to pay debts built from acquiring stuff? Does it include a sense of satisfaction at seeing something created, sustained or used. How is work tied to the stuff we acquire and what additional costs are part of working (e.g. commuting). I would look to the Maker movement and the challenge and satisfaction of creating our own things. But I would stipulate that “working less” may be something very different depending on what work we do.
thanks kelcy. DIY and the Maker movement is definitely on our radar. we specifically asked Dale Dougherty to be a part of the event we’re producing in Vancouver b/c of this: http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/Futurist_Inventors_Welcome_Dale_Dougherty_to_Vancouver,201136588.aspx
As I read this, I had multiple thoughts:
- Is your premise true that consumer-driven growth model broken? Your anectdotal evidence of contemporary capitalism, which is causing a global crisis of unconscionable proportions – with food and energy prices soaring, world populations surging, and weather-related disasters like tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, fires and floods increasing in frequency and scale…I’m not sure you can prove cause & effect???
- In order to answer the question, I think you would want to find the actual causes or variables that make up consumer-driven growth: generational, cultural, periods of war, and so on.
- Digging deeper into the second bullet, I believe would give you a better chance in studying the question & coming up with some plausible solutions.
@Urchin - I totally agree. I was at the dinner with them and I felt like the blame was being placed in the wrong area.
I would argue that we are not a consumer driven society in the first place. That’s like saying my garden is a vegetable based operation. It totally ignores all the extreme effort it takes to create the vegetable. The soil, the tilling, the weeding, the watering, the harvesting, and then finally the eating.
I think we have let economists define us using an easy measure of production. I can measure my garden by saying how many vegetables it produces but it only covers about 10% of the process.
This is especially problematic considering that all the change, innovation, and failure is occurring in the process before consumption. Look at cars for example. We are still buying cars, a lot of them, but the car industry still collapsed. They needed to change their process and the like.
In food, the same is true, we have an ever increasing demand for food but are ignoring the process behind it. Prices are rising for reasons totally unrelated to consumption.
On the whole I would recommend a definition of life-cycle consumption. Determining an economic measurement that quantifies multiple levels in the creation and consumption process. Each one is interrelated and can be tracked for growth, weakness, etc.
I just came across an interesting article that discusses aspects of what you are trying to define. I haven’t read the books they reference near the end, but they may also give some additional insights that have value to this quest. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/stefan-stern-behind-corporate-walls-the-masters-of-the-universe-weep-2297910.html