What's the point of writing on a friend's Timeline or posting a status update when it won't be seen? Though Facebook Messenger is a behemoth at 1. Facebook has tried to recapture some of that spontaneity with Stories, its Snapchat clone, but virtually no one is using it.
Ultimately, the feature is a broadcast mechanism, not public one-to-one messaging. The company has also juiced up status updates with bold backgrounds and eye-catching colors, essentially turning them into giant quote cards in the hopes that more people will post. It has even resorted to resurfacing older content, from back when people did share personal content on Facebook, via its "On This Day" feature. The most intimate experience on Facebook now can probably be found in Facebook Groups.
For Facebook, the lack of personal content doesn't seem to have a huge effect on its bottom line. He said that rather than continue on as a social network, Facebook has transformed itself into a "a personalized portal to the online world. That type of portal doesn't rely on users posting endless inside jokes to their friends or communicating publicly via the Timeline.
Public Wall posts may be a relic from a simpler time for social media, but there are a few holdouts. Melanie Cohen, a year-old copy editor in Washington, D. Others said they use their friends' Walls to troll them with embarrassing old photos. Several friends remarked that their parents or grandparents are still frequent Wall or Timeline posters. The more you log in and interact on Facebook, the more activities show up on your Wall. You can do lots of things to work with and manage your Wall.
This section shows you how. You can adjust privacy settings for your Wall and news feed activities. Move your mouse pointer over the Account link at the top of the Facebook page and click Privacy Settings. To post something on your own Wall, fill out a status update and share it. Essentially, this creates a story on your page. Click in the text box at the top of your profile page, as shown in Figure 6. The name or text may change at anytime, but the intent remains the same: to share something that you're thinking or doing, some random remark, observation, or witty thought.
Type out your status update, and then click the Share button to post it on your page. Facebook adds the information to your Wall, as well as to the news feed that appears on your Home page and your friends' Home pages. You can also fill out the update box on your Home page to update your Facebook status.
When you click in the box, additional buttons appear for adding photos, video, events, or a link. The update box is technically known as the Publisher. When you activate the What's on your mind? If you have other applications loaded, you can click the arrow button at the end of the row of buttons and add an application action to the comment, too. If you click the Link button, for example, you can add a link to another web page to share along with your comment. To learn more about sharing links, see Lesson 7, "Communicating Through Facebook.
How often you update your status is entirely up to you. It really depends on how often you log in to Facebook and how much you want to share about what you're doing or thinking.
Some users like to post updates several times a day; others like to post more sporadically based on things that happen throughout their day. Other users like to update their status once a day or, if feeling not so social, once a week. Facebook Walls are really all about connecting with your friends, so it's up to you to decide how much to participate and share.
Sometimes you might need to edit your Wall postings—for example, perhaps you misspelled a word or need to remove a questionable posting a friend left on your Wall. You can remove the story with the error and replace it with a corrected version. To remove a posting or story, point to the item on the Wall to display a tiny Remove button to the far right of the posting. Click the button to open a Delete Post box, as shown in Figure 6.
Click the Delete button to confirm the removal. If removing postings from a particular person is a pain, consider adjusting your privacy settings to prevent future postings.
Click the Account link at the top of the Facebook page and click Privacy Settings. This opens a Choose Your Privacy Settings page where you can edit your settings, including customizing who posts on your Wall. Click the Customize Settings link to open the Customize Settings page. Under the Things Others Share group of options, you can disable the Friends Can Post on My Wall setting so that no one can leave posts, or you can prevent a person from seeing your Wall posts by clicking the pop-up menu next to Can See Wall Posts by Friends and choosing Customize.
This opens a dialog box where you can type in the name of the person who is no longer allowed to view your Wall. You might notice a tiny link labeled Options at the top of your Wall area. These are filters that control what's displayed on the Wall. By default, the Wall displays postings by both you and your friends.
You can choose to filter the postings by displaying just your own postings, or viewing only the postings left by friends. Just click a filter name at the top of the Wall, as shown in Figure 6. Facebook immediately shows the postings based on your selection. Filters apply only to your view of your Wall, not your friends' view of your Wall. You can use these same filtering tools on your friends' Walls. When you open a friend's profile page, you can click the Filters link to display the same filter buttons.
Of course, instead of your name on the buttons, the friend's name appears. You saw how easy it is to write on your own Wall by posting a status update with the Publisher box. You can also post comments on your friends' Walls. Start by displaying a friend's profile page. You can do this from a variety of pages, such as the Home page or Friends list, just by clicking your friend's name link.
After her profile is open, click in the Write something box, as shown in Figure 6. Oddly enough, it's the same box you use to update the status on your own profile page, just featuring a slightly different label.
As soon as you click the Share button, the comment is added to your friend's profile page and also appears on the Home page as one of your activities. If you'd prefer to add to something someone else has already written instead, just click the Comment link below the posting and add your two cents, or click in the Write a comment box and type in your comment text.
You can also comment on your own postings on your own profile page. When you add a comment, it appears beneath the original story item. If lots of people comment to a story, you can scroll down the comments and see what everyone says.
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