#### What Will I Learn?
Today we will learn about Slimsocial for facebook application. Slimsocial is an open source android app that is used for communication. This app is dedicated only to those who use small facebook (mainly accessed from the browser).

To install the app visit playstore then search Slimsocial for facebook click on Install button and continue.![20180302_174059.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1519996636/aajnwqa35a93fjrjwber.jpg)
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Here you will see a pop up message where you will be asked to get some permissions from the application. Click the receive and install button.

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After the download is complete. click the Open button to gain access to the app.

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Here Just log in with your registered facebook account. Conversely if you do not have a facebook account here is also provided place of registration. Here I already have facebook account directly in Log in.


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Now that we're inside the homepage, it looks almost the same as the facebook lite look. But both applications have their respective advantages. You can see some of the icons that have been helped by arrows like
- Home, Meaningful place to share good news to friends as well as worldwide (public).
- Friendship, It means a place to see someone who sent us friend requests.
- Messages, Meaning where to share private messages with friends. And can also group chat.
- Notice, This means the place collected all the notifications about facebook either from the group, comentar, birthday and others.
- Search, This means where to find anything good to find friends, groups, pages, photos, posts, and others.

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Here you can also see the 3 icons with the top position. These three icons also have their own utilities that are not owned by other facebook applications.
- Messages
In addition to being able to send messages in place of messaging above, here we can also send messages to friends.
- Icon
This icon works when you scroll your homepage until you get to the bottom, you just push the icon to return to the top of the news again.
- Home
It's also the same as home / feeds



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Once you can understand the above description, Now
Click on the three dotted buttons located at the top right corner of the screen for more options.

The picture above shows some options,
Now I will explain one by one.
- 1. By clicking this option you will refresh your homepage to be refreshed.
- 2. By clicking this option you will be diverted to open your facebook with other browsers such as Chrome, Uc browser and others.
- 3. By clicking this option you will be diverted to another application to share the page you have set.
- 4. By clicking this option you will share this Facebook application to your friends.
- 5. By clicking on this option you will be diverted
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- 6. And finally in the settings you will see all the customization that we will discuss below.
- 7. This is your last option if you want to exit the application.

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Immediately we choose the option to 6 was to discuss the various options contained therein.

- 1. Enable / disable to display popular news on the homepage.

- 2. Enable / deactivate for text display in each post will be centered

- 3. Enable / disable adding space between posts

-4. Turn on / off to reveal the blue bar on the top screen

- 5. Enable / disable to hide messenger download notifications
- 6. Enable / disable to hide sponsorship of this facebook app.

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Now you can now select the text size that will appear in this application. Here we can find 6 size options that is Extra small, small, standart, big, huge, extra huge. Set options to your liking.

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To change the theme on the look of this application there are only two options are Standard and Dark themes.


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Now we will discuss some more options
- 1. Enable / disable to hide notification of incoming messages like messenger balloon.
- 2. Activate / deactivate data saving both from downloaded images and video.
- 3. Enable / disable to use its own folder in filemanager.
- 4. Enable / disable to enable Gps
- 5. Enable / disable to share links quickly.

- Rate this app is a place where users can easily support this app developer.

- Donate with Paypal is making a donation through paypal as I have discussed above.

The tutorial for Slimsocial for facebook is done. You can now use it easily. Thank you :)

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