Add a mini bio on your Facebook profile (biographical information about you)

In addition to your wall and info page, Facebook lets you add quick notes through a mini bio field, for basic biographical information, a kind of quick-facts teaser about yourself. The screenshot on the left shows this field for a sample profile (the green outline is added, and we enlarged the profile's biography for emphasis).

By default, your Facebook bio is blank, and does not appear on your profile page. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create and add a mini bio to your Facebook page, and how to update it later on. This information should typically be short and to the point, since you can post elsewhere more detailed information about yourself.

Add a quick bio to your Facebook page

Follow these steps to add or edit your biographical teaser:

• If needed, login to your Facebook account; otherwise, click "Home"
• Then, click on your name in the profile page (see screenshot)
• Facebook will load your profile page, with Edit buttons to change any portion of your public information (not something other Facebook users will see).
• If you never entered bio information, you will see a "Write Something About Yourself" link:
  
  
• Click on that link to edit your biography information.
• If you have already typed some text in the mini bio field in the past, you will see instead a pencil icon (meaning "editable information"). Click on the pencil button to edit your bio:
  
  
• In both cases, Facebook will have now transformed this web page text into an editable text field; type new biographical information about yourself:
  
  
• When you are done updating your bio, click anywhere outside the text box, and Facebook will automatically save the new information!

Note: by default, your Facebook profile's bio information and favorite quotes are visible to everyone; a later tutorial will explain how to fine tune the visibility of this information through your privacy settings, by hiding it, showing it only to friends of friends, or friends only, etc. "Facebook bio quotes" are a different feature: add favorite quotes to your Facebook profile.

Facebook Tutorial

• Customize and Edit Facebook Profile Tutorials:
• Edit / change your Facebook profile information
• Change Facebook email address
• Change Facebook password
• Show, hide, or add your gender on your Facebook profile
• Add or remove "interested in men / women" on your Facebook profile
• Update the "Looking For" settings on your Facebook profile
• Add, remove, or change your Current City in your Facebook profile
• Add or remove Hometown on your Facebook profile
• Add your birthday on Facebook + Customize birth date display settings
• Show, hide, update or add Political Views on your Facebook profile
• Remove, update, add Religious Views on Facebook profile (your religion)
• Add a mini bio on your Facebook profile (biographical information about you)
• Add a quote on your Facebook profile + Edit Favorite Quotations
• Add, remove, or update Employer / job information on your Facebook profile
• Add another Employer to your Facebook profile (second job)
• Remove or add your High School name on your Facebook profile
• Remove or add College or University name + degree on Facebook profile
• Add a second college or university on your Facebook profile (another school)
• Hide updates on your Facebook account profile (Delete Recent Activity)
• Change Facebook language settings
• Add languages you speak to your Facebook profile

These free Facebook tutorials were written for the new Facebook, and are updated with each latest version of your favorite social networking site on Windows and Mac.