How to Link the Text Status on Facebook

Facebook names text status update links according to time and date.

Facebook lets you share text status updates for your friends to read and comment on in your profile and in their News Feeds. Depending on the privacy settings of the user who posted the status update, friends of friends or even the general Internet public can read those status updates. Whatever the case, every status update has its own unique Web page and corresponding URL. The link to that URL is camouflaged as a time stamp.

Instructions

1. Log in to Facebook, and navigate to a text status update you want to link to. It can be one of your own statuses or one of someone else's.

2. Click the time stamp that appears below the text status update. For example, the time stamp might read "Moments ago," "7 minutes ago," "About an hour ago," "Friday at 11:00pm," "A year ago" or any other measure of time. This navigates to the text status update's dedicated page on Facebook.

3. Click inside your browser's address bar and copy the URL; then paste it anywhere you wish: another Facebook update, a Facebook message -- or even an email or word processor document.

Tips & Warnings

• To copy a URL, highlight the entire URL; then hold down "Ctrl" and press "C." To paste the copied content, place your cursor wherever you want to paste it; then hold down "Ctrl" and press "V."

References

• The Internet Patrol: How to Link Directly to a Particular Facebook Status Update; Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.; July 14, 2011