While I agree the use of Messenger for a conversation between two people might should be considered like a telephone call, posting on Facebook is different. It is a public forum where anyone can see it, so nothing should be considred private.

I've been kicked off Facebook for so long that I don't remember how it works.

Aren't status updates shared just among friends only? Or can any Facebook user
view a person's status updates? (Or are they no longer called "status updates?")

You can set them to be public (everyone), only friends, only certain friends, or private (only you) last I checked. If you few friends, I guess you
might think of the conversation as being mostly private, but I'd not count
on that.

Not being familiar with how their moderation works, I also wonder how
strict they were on posts that are only shared among certain friends vs.
public posts.


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Aren't status updates shared just among friends only? Or can any Faceboo user
view a person's status updates? (Or are they no longer called "status updates?")

You can set them to be public (everyone), only friends, only certain friends, or private (only you) last I checked. If you few friends, I guess you might think of the conversation as being mostly private, but
I'd not count on that.

That sounds familiar. Thanks for the refresher. Now I remember back in 2009 when I thought my posts would be for friends only and I inadvertently gave my ex wife all kinds of stuff to whine about.

But now days we know for a fact that the Facebook moderators will examine the posts no matter what your configuration is. And if they don't like what you post, then it's just like having an ex wife look at your posts. :)

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