Facebook, a social networking site, is all about staying in touch with friends, family, and coworkers. If you want to keep your Facebook friends up to date on your life you will need to know how to update your Facebook status. The Facebook status is a popular way to share what is on your mind or what you are doing in your life. The grand majority of your Facebook friends are most likely using this feature to share their ideas and thoughts with the Facebook universe. Facebook status updates are an easy and quick way to keep your Facebook account current. You can begin sharing your own status with your Facebook friends in a minute or so, with just a simple click of the mouse button.

Facebook allows its users to post a status update whenever they want. A Facebook status is simply a small message which appears on your profile, next to your account name. It allows you to quickly tell all of your Facebook friends what is on your mind, what you are doing, or what you have planned. You can even ask a question in your Facebook status and people will be able to respond. Use a Facebook status to share what you are thinking and stay in touch with your Facebook friends. status update will stay on your Facebook profile until you remove or change them. They will also appear on your Facebook friends' news feeds after you post them.

Updating your Facebook status is very easy. First you need to login to your Facebook account. Once you are logged in make sure that you are on the Facebook homepage. You should see your personalized News Feed in the center of the page. Above the feed you will see a dialog box which says ”What's on your mind?” This is the status update box. Type whatever status that you want in this box. Once you start typing your new status, options will appear below. Using these buttons you can include photos, videos, links, events, and more in your status. You can also choose a privacy setting for your status update by clicking on the small lock icon below the dialog box. Once you have entered a status update that you like, simply click the Share button. This will publish your status update to your profile and show it in your friend's news feeds.http://www.facebook.com

If you want to see your own status update or that of your Facebook friends, there are two options. First you can navigate to the profile that you are interested in. If your friend has a status it will appear next to their name at the top of their profile page. You can view your own status in the same way by visiting your own profile. You can even clear the status from your profile by clicking the small clear button.

You can also view status updates by going to your news feed. Open the news feed by going to the Facebook homepage. The news feed will be in the center of the page. This feed displays all of the updates and changes that your friends have made to their Facebook profiles. You can sort by the most recent updates or the most popular updates at the top of the page. Whenever you or your friends update your statuses, it will appear on the news feed. This is a great way to keep up to date with your Facebook friends. Just look at the news feed and see what everyone is up to.http://www.facebook.com

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