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Change Your Name on Facebook with an HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to change your name on Facebook on an HTC One M8.

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on top of the phone
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Once the phone has been activated we will see the lock screen.

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To unlock the phone, swipe the screen up
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Once the phone has been unlocked we will see the home screen, and at the bottom we will see 5 icons. We now need to open the application folder.

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We can do that by tapping the icon in the middle, at the bottom of the screen
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There is a grid of white dots. This is the icon for the applications folder.
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Now that the folder has been opened, we need to find and tap the Facebook application
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There is a Facebook icon, which is a blue background with a white "f" inside, and underneath it says the word "Facebook". Your application may be in a different location, so look for the icon in your folder. We now need to find the account settings menu.

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To do that, we need to tap the menu icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen
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There are three gray horizontal lines. They're very faint, but we can see them.
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Scroll up or down to find "Account Settings", and tap on it
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There will be a gray circle with a white head and shoulders and gear inside. This will open up the account settings menu.

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Tap on the option at the top, "General"
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Press down on "Name"
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Press down on the box under "First Name", "Middle Name", and "Last Name" and add the new name
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It's very important to read the text at the bottom, "Please note: You won't be able to change your name within the next 60 days. Make sure not to add unusual capitalization, punctuation, characters or random words. Learn more."
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Tap on "Review Change" in the blue bar at the bottom
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Choose how the name will appear on the profile
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In this example, we can choose either "Bob Thumb" or "Thumb Bob", depending on how we feel.
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Enter the Facebook password by tapping the box under "To save this setting, please enter your Facebook password."
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Press down on "Save Changes" in the blue bar at the bottom
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Remember that we won't be able to change our name again within the next 60 days.
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This concludes the tutorial on how to change your name on Facebook on an HTC One M8
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