10 USEFUL FACEBOOK STATUS MESSAGE TIPS AND TRICKS
Amit Chowdhry | Monday December 12, 2011 | 2,440 views| Add a Comment
Facebook is constantly changing their user interface and there are a lot of things you can do to improve your user experience within the social network. Everyone that has a Facebook account likes to write status messages. Below is a list of some of the interesting tips and tricks you can use for your status messages.
Adding a new action button to your status message
Whenever I write a status message about Michigan State football winning over Michigan in football, I tend to see a response like “Dislike,” but Facebook does not have that type of button. Facebook just allows you to click on “Like.” There is a Facebook application called Magic Updates that allows you to add any action “text” to status messages posted from the app. Some examples include “Dislike,” “Laugh at,” “Hate,” “Love,” “LOL,” etc.
Adding symbols to status messages
There are several keyboard shortcuts that are easy to remember when adding symbols to your status message. For example,
puts a real smiley face on your status and <3 adds a 
.
Change Your Facebook Language To Upside Down Or Pirate
When you click on Account Settings from the drop-down menu at the top right of Facebook, you will notice an option called Language. The Language option lets you change to English (Pirate) and English (Upside Down)
This is what the status update “Upside Down” box looks like:
And this is what the status update “Pirate” box looks like:
Displaying Facebook Statuses On WordPress Blog
If you have a WordPress blog, you can add your Facebook status feed to it in the form of a widget.
Step 1: Click on the Globe at the top left of Facebook and then click “See all Notifications
Step 2: Click on the “RSS” links where it says Get notifications via RSS.
Step 3: You will notice that the link says www.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=…………
Step 4: Change the word “notifications” in the link to “status,” then hit enter.
Step 5: Copy the new link.
Step 6: Log in to your WordPress account. Go to Appearance -> Widgets and then look for the RSS widget.
Step 7: Drag and drop that widget to the Sidebar widget.
Step 8: Paste the link you copied into the area where it says “Enter the RSS feed URL here”
Step 9: Click “Save” and view your website for the results.
How To Connect Your Twitter Updates To Facebook
If you are an active Twitter account and you want to connect it to Facebook, all you have to do is set up Twitter’s Facebook application. Here is how you do that:
1.) Log in to the Twitter account that you want to connect to your Facebook profile.
2.) Go to Settings and select the Profile tab. Scroll to the bottom and click Post your Tweets to Facebook
3.) After you click the button, you will see a connection loading and you will see a button that says Connect to Facebook.
4.) If you aren’t logged in to your Facebook account, you will be prompted to do so.
5.) After linking your Facebook and Twitter accounts, go to your Facebook Application settings and then select Twitter. Then select App privacy section. If you want your friends to be able to see your tweets on your Facebook wall, select “Friends” as the sharing option from the drop down menu.
How to hide your status messages from certain people
Every time you write a status message, there is a drop-down box next to “Post.” For example, you can select Public, Friends, Custom, or specific lists. Public means that everyone can see your status message no matter what. Friends means that all of your friends can see your status message even if they are people on your limited profiles.
When you click Custom, you can select “Make this visible to” certain lists and click “Hide this from” for lists of people or to individuals. Generally whenever I write status messages, I hide it from people I want a certain amount of privacy from so I select Custom -> Make this visible to Friends and Hide this from Limited Profile.
Pre-Schedule status messages
There are several services that allows you to pre-schedule status updates such as HootSuite and SocialOomph. SocialOomph seems to be the preferred pre-scheduling service since there is well over 300,000 people that use it for Twitter and Facebook.
Search For Any Public Status Updates On Openbook
Whenever you make your status Public, it means that you are allowing anyone to find your updates through Google, Bing, and the Facebook search engine. There is one website that specifically acts as a Facebook status search engine called Openbook. You can narrow the results by gender and keywords. You can also browse recent searches.
Tagging people in your status message
Many Facebook users have no idea how to tag individuals in their status messages. Inspired by Twitter replies, Facebook allows you to tag individuals when you type the “@” symbol in your status. When you type the @ symbol, you start typing the name of the individual that you want to tag. This feature also works on Pages, brands, events, and companies.
Trick Your Friends In A Status Update
When you use this as a hyperlink in a state message: http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363, the person that clicks on the link will see their own profile. This is a good prank to use when writing a status message like: “This is the ugliest profile I have ever seen: http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363.” When adding the hyperlink to your status, make sure to click on the X when it pulls up a thumbnail of the link.
BONUS: Find A Random Status To Post Using Status Shuffle and Generatus
The Status Shuffle app has a large database of funny status messages to post on Facebook. Status Shuffle will not automatically change your status without permission.
Generatus is a social networking status generator that lets you generate random status updates. Generatus lets you use tag filters and generate statuses that are made for either men or women.
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