4. Updating Friends and Family on Your Activities

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In this chapter you find out how to post Facebook status updates for others to read.

Updating Your Status

Sharing Content from Other Websites

To let your family and friends know what you’ve been up to, you need to post what Facebook calls a status update. Every status update you make is broadcast to everyone on your friends list, displayed in the News Feed on their home pages. It’s how they know what you’ve been doing and thinking about.

Updating Your Status

A status update is, at its most basic, a brief text message. It can be as short as a word or two, or it can be several paragraphs long; ...

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