6 Updating Friends and Family on Your Activities
In this chapter, you learn how to post Facebook status updates for others to read.
To let your family and friends know what you’ve been doing and thinking about, 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.
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; that’s up to you. (Facebook lets you post ...
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