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Can a tagged but only-allowed friend's friends see the status where he is tagged?

If I (1) post a Facebook status; (2) tag one friend in the status; (3) and customise the privacy settings of the status so that only this one friend is allowed to see it, will this friend's friends see my status as a post on this friend's timeline because I have tagged this friend?

Only status updates on the feed in Facebook

Is there a way to only see status updates on the Facebook feed? There was a feature in the previous versions of Facebook, but I think they have taken it out. Is there any workaround? Or any app that does that?

Get the links to the status updates on Facebook and Twitter?

I want to give a link to a status update of me to others. Is there any way to get that link to each status update on Facebook and Twitter?

Facebook notifications from friends not in any lists

I've started getting notifications, just this week, from some of my friends when they update a status on Facebook. Everywhere I look, people say "these are your close friends, turn off the notifications on that list", but my close friends list is empty.

I turned the notifications off anyway, and it continues to spam me. I have also deselected notifications for all other updates under the notifications options.

It is driving me crazy! How can I get it to stop?

Is there a way to hide status updates from a friend on Facebook? (Boss Mode)

I have friends on Facebook that I like to see their status updates, but I don't necessarily want them to see my status updates. People like my boss, or my mum.

Is there any way I can still be friends with them, but just block them from seeing my status?

Alternatives to Twitter [closed]

I am looking for alternatives to Twitter. In particular, the annoyances I am looking to fix are:

• Twitter does conversations really poorly. The replies aren't grouped with the messages they are replies to.
• Twitter limits how many characters can be used
• Twitter is not designed to help deal with noise (see the next two bullet points). Google Buzz claims to use algorithms to sort out what is most relevant, but I don't have enough friends posting content to verify this claim
• Twitter has tags, but they aren't used for filtering
• Twitter isn't designed to make it easy for someone to publish into multiple lists, which might help reduce some of the noise problem

I know that some of the Twitter clients probably deal with some of these issue, but features tend to work better when they are part of the main site, rather than just bolted on.

EDIT: It has been commented that Twitter isn't designed for conversations, but to let you see what somebody is thinking. That makes sense and I suppose it does this well and explains why it is so poor for conversations.

Mobile Status Update Not Visible to Everyone on Facebook

My FB privacy setting allows everyone to see my status update. This works perfectly when I update my FB status using a computer. However, when the update is done via mobile device, it is only visible to my FB friends, not to everyone as originally intended.

When I logon to FB via a computer, I can see there is a padlock icon after my mobile update. The icon is not there when I update the status via the computer.

How can I fix this?

How do I clear my Facebook status

I'd like to clear my Facebook status. With the most recent profile changes (December 2010) your status no longer appears at the top of the page with a clear link.

With the new interface how do I clear my most recent status without posting a new one?

What my profile looks like:

the blurred text at the top is just personal data: current location, birthday etc.

In Facebook, how can I hide relationship status, profile pictures, etc?

It seems like there are a number of pieces of data that is hard to understand how to control privacy on.

How can I hide from the public:

1. Relationship Status
2. Profile Picture

Force an idle chat status in Facebook while still working in it and without going offline

One of my friends had asked me about how to keep chatting or working on Facebook and show idle status on Facebook, and I didn't find any way to force Facebook's chat to go idle.

I know that in order to have your status Idle you must not use Facebook for at least 10 minutes, if I am not wrong. But, I think there should be some way to change the status for chat, right?

How do I to do that?

Note
Don't propose to go offline for a chat. He knows it already, but he doesn't want to be offline on a chat.

Edit Facebook Post to Add Pictures

I posted a status message on my Facebook page, but forgot to include a couple of pictures. Is it possible to edit the post that I made to add the additional pictures?

Remove bot status from AIM account

I made my AOL Instant Messenger account as a bot a very long time ago but now I can't initiate conversations with other people. AIM gives me the following message when I attempt to initiate a conversation:

This screen name is registered as an open bot and cannot start an IM conversation. To remove it's bot status, click here: http://developer.aim.com/bot.jsp Unable to send message: Refused by client (Bot accounts cannot initiate IMs)

I follow the link and sign in but apparently only registered commercial partners are allowed to access the developer section. Can I still remove the bot status from my AIM account?

How do I remove the little football icon that's appeared on Facebook?

On logging on to Facebook today I noticed this icon on the right of the "What's on you mind?" box:

clicking it shows this:

as (apparently) there is a football (soccer for those of you on the left side of the pond) match on today.

Now as I'm not that interested in football I can (and did) click the "x" to get rid of the second box, but how can I get rid of the football icon altogether?

I know I can wait until the match is over (as the icon disappears when it does), but there are going to be other matches and other sports and I'd rather not have this popping into and out of my status update box at apparently random intervals.

How can I upload my animated GIFs to Facebook (in 2015) [duplicate]

According to this Mashable article, Facebook only recently started supporting GIF support.

From the article, here's how it works: "you need to paste a GIF file link into the "status update" screen"

Also "make sure you're using the full GIF url from Giphy or other GIF services".

So, all this is all right for the situations in which you want to share a GIF that's already hosted on a GIF hosting website such as GIPHY, Imgur, GFYcat and others: you copy the link, and paste it, and voilà.

But if you're the original author of the GIF and want to share something not hosted? "No GIF uploads" says the article.

So I hosted my test GIF file on my own website at this address: http://fabulousrice.com/images/uploads/works/hairy.gif

Then pasted the address in the "Status Update" field, and clicked "Post".

The result didn't work, in the way that not only the GIF turned into a still image on my Facebook Feed, but the GIF file also couldn't even be played from Facebook, only after being redirected to the the original URL:

(this is just a screenshot, but wasn't animated IRL)

Note how there isn't even a "GIF" button in the middle to play it, such as the one seen here on the Mashable article:

I tried with another URL that ends also in GIF, but from GIPHY this time: http://i.giphy.com/3o6UBpHgaXFDNAuttm.gif

And this time it worked!

(this is just a screenshot but was animated IRL).

In both of my examples, I used the same approach by pasting a GIF file's URL to the Status Update box on Facebook. But only one of them worked.

What makes the two URLs ending in .GIF different in the eyes of Facebook?

And how can I upload my work to Facebook as animated GIFs that play within the Feed, if I don't feel like uploading my GIFs to GIPHY, or Imgurl, or any other of these websites?

I have seen other questions on that subject here, but they were from 2010-2011, and I believe that they are now obsolete.

How to wipe out everything from your Facebook wall?

Is there a method that actually works?

I tried some iMacros scripting, but that didn't go very well... I couldn't make a script good enough to do the job... Also, I imagine it would take ages to delete everything this way even if I made a good enough script...

any other way someone knows

thanks