If you’re like most people, you probably use the Windows 8 People App to keep track of your social media connections. But what if you want to link those social media connections to your personal profiles in other apps? In this article, we’ll show you how to do just that in the Windows 8 People App. First, open the People App and sign in with your Microsoft account. Then, open the Social Networks section of the app and click on the three links at the top of the screen. The first link will take you to your Facebook page. The second link will take you to your Twitter account. The last link will take you to your Google+ page. Now that you have linked your social media connections in the People App, it’s time to start using them! To start using one of your social media connections in a new task or project, just press and hold on its icon until it turns into a white arrow. Then drag it over to where you want it to appear on your screen.
The built-in People app in Windows 8 allows you to pull in your contact lists from a few different social networks. The problem comes when you start to get duplicate entries, here’s how to link contacts together without losing any information.
How to Link Contacts in the People App
Linking contacts is actually quite easy, however, the option is a bit hidden if you are not use to the new “Modern UI” way of doing things. To get started click on one of the contacts you want to merge.
Now right click anywhere on the screen to bring up the App Bar at the bottom of the screen. Then click on the Link button.
Windows 8 is actually pretty smart and will try guess what contact you are trying to link to, and for the most part gets it right. So just go ahead and select one of the options on the right hand side.
You can add more than one contact if you wish to merge a few, you will be able to see all the contacts that will get merged in the Linked profiles list on the left hand side.
When you have all the profiles you want to Link lined up, go ahead and right click again to bring up the App Bar then save your changes.
The result is one contact linked to all the social media outlets.
It also cleans up your contact list.
That’s all there is to it.
