Tech Tips: Stuff you didn't know you could do on Facebook

1Facebook is constantly updating its service, adding new features or tweaking old ones, and a lot of stuff can slip through the cracks even if you are scrolling through your friends' updates several times a day.
2NEW YORK (AP) - Did you know you can add a pronunciation guide to your name on Facebook?
3Overlay colorful text on the photos you post?
4How about mark the end of a relationship without your 500 closest friends getting notified?
5Many of these tips and tricks aren't well known, even to veterans of the 1.5 billion-strong people-connector and time-waster.
6Facebook is constantly updating its service, adding new features or tweaking old ones.
7A lot can slip through the cracks even if you are scrolling through your friends' updates several times a day.
8HOW DO YOU SAY THAT?
9More than 83 percent of Facebook's users are outside of the U.S. and Canada, and they use over 80 languages to communicate with friends and family.
10That's a lot of people, and a lot of different ways to say your name.
11To add a pronunciation guide, go to the "about" section of your profile and click on "details about you," (called "more about you" on mobile) then "name pronunciation."
12Here, Facebook will offer suggestions for your first and last name that you can listen to before selecting.
13If none work, you can also type in your own phonetic pronouncer.
14Logging in from a public computer?
15If you don't feel comfortable typing in your password on a shared machine that might have malicious software, Facebook lets you request a temporary one by texting "otp" to 32665.
16You'll get an eight-character passcode that works for the next 20 minutes and cannot be reused.
17Anyone who's commented on a popular Facebook post, or belongs to a particularly chatty group, knows that those notifications telling you that "Jane Doe and 4 others also commented on a post" can get a bit annoying.
18You can turn off notifications for individual posts by clicking on the globe icon on the top right corner of your Web browser, then on the "X'' next to the individual notification. You can also change your notification settings here to get fewer or more of them for each group that you belong to.
19To do this on mobile, click to view the original post, then click the down arrow in the top right corner of the post.
20You'll see an option to "turn off notifications."
21Announcing engagements and marriages on Facebook is fun.
22Post and watch the likes and congrats roll in.
23Bask in the love and glory.
24Fast-forward a few years for some couples, and the glory fades, not to mention the love and marriage.
25In this case, you might not want to announce the irreversible breakdown to 450 of your closest friends.
26Thankfully, you can still mark the end of a relationship without notifying everyone.
27Go to your profile and click on the "about" section, then "family and relationships on the left."
28Under relationship, you'll see a gray icon that probably says "friends," or maybe "public."
29Change it to "only me."
30Then change your relationship status.
31After a while, you can change it back if you wish.
32Your hundreds of acquaintances will be none the wiser, unless they are stalking your profile to see if you are single.
33Thanks to a popular but little-known new feature, Facebook lets you spruce up the photos you post by adding text and quirky stickers, such as drawings of scuba gear, sunglasses or a corn dog.
34This tool is available on iPhones and is coming soon to Android devices.
35To use it, choose a photo to upload and click the magic wand icon.
36Here, you'll find text overlay options as well as the same stickers you can use in other parts of Facebook.
37Another recent addition to Facebook's trove of tools is a "security checkup" that guides users through a checklist aimed at making their account more secure.
38This includes logging out of Facebook on Web browsers and apps they are not using, and receiving alerts when someone tries to log in to their account from an unfamiliar device or browser.
39To use it, go to https://www.facebook.com/help/securitycheckup on your computer - this feature is not yet available on the mobile app.