The Writing on the Wall

Writing on someone's facebook wall posts  a message on the profile page of one of your facebook buddies. It also puts it in the newsfeed for you and any common buddies. It does not put it in the newsfeed for uncommon facebook friends. Some folks disable this feature so that uncommon friends don't see the posts and because they don't want your posts on their walls. You'll know this is the case when you see it's their birthday and you click on their name and you can't post to their wall; you get an error message. Personally, I don't like people writing on my wall. I don't have it disabled at present, but I don't know why I just don't like it. Maybe it's because I am shy.

What to do in that case: Send them a message or an email wishing them a happy birthday or anniversary.
What not to do in that case: Send the wish in your news feed. When you just type a message in the "What's on your mind?" area, the message posts to all your friends, even people who do not know the person. If a person has disabled wall posting, they probably don't want their name in the news feeds of strangers. It also annoys the people who are not common friends. If everyone wishes everyone on their friend list happy birthday via the newsfeed, it adds up to a LOT of birthday wishes for today strangers. So that's a lot of annoying people unecessarily (which increases the chance of your newsfeed being hid or worse yet being unfriended).

Here's a list of things that people don't like and hide/unfriend for:

• game posts (create a gamer's list -see instructions in my previous post)
• too many posts
• posts to deceased people(it's likely only the living see FB posts anyways)
• daily reports of workouts (seems people are only interested in their own workouts)
• indecent photos, excessive profanity (I unfriended someone for this reason!)
• false information in posts
• excessive commercial posts (mix personal and business!)

These are things people have mentioned to me; tell me, what have you unfriended people for?