First of all I must apologise that this question is not actually coding related. I am having a bit of a 'tish' with my partner as she wants to be able to post to open Facebook groups without the activity appearing in her timeline and her friend's seeing it. I'm saying it cannot be done and to make a new profile and deal with it. She just gets angrier and as I am an IT guy I am supposed to have a solution for everything.
Can someone help me settle this stoush? If you can actually accomplish hiding activity on a timeline that is coming from posting into an open group that would be awesome too! Because I've searched Google and it looks quite unlikely.
Also those of you that object to my posting, please let me know of a more appropriate place and I'll gladly put it up there instead.
Cheers
Whenever you post anything anywhere (except a status), its not "posted on timeline". Rather, facebook "share that story on the wall".
Now, privacy of that post is limited to the group only. So , no one except the group members can see that post. That story (whatever it is) is shared on the wall of the group members only. So your friends cannot see that story! I'm not sure how you said- activity appearing in her timeline and her friend's seeing it – as far as I know, it's not possible.
Also, you can always see the privacy setting of a post while posting itself. For eg:
Posting on own timeline-
Posting on an open group timeline-
See the privacy setting in yellow mark. For a group, it's not editable and limited to a group only!
so, for an open group if a user search for the group and wants to see the activity, then only he can see who's posting what. And that thing can be controlled only if the group is secret. ref
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Facebook has this option in their gui of viewing your own profile as is seen by someone else.
My question is, is there any similar thing in the graph API?
i.e. - Can I, given an user's access token, tell what other groups of people (say his friends) can see about him? (or if a specific detail in his profile is viewable by this group).
I searched in the documentation but didnt find anything, and also, the privacy field is limited to posts, photos and videos, and does not contain other information - So I'm looking for ways to work this around and to be able to tell what detail is accessable to which person.
Thanks.
I have the idea to create a Facebook like button that allows user to post blog entries from my website on their pinboard or (and this is the tricky part) on one of their Facebook groups that their belongs to.
So my first question is, is this possible at all?
The Idea is that a user can login on my page with facebook login and then when he founds something to share, he could decide to share it on is pinboard or a group that he belongs to.
I couldn't find something helpful on google, so I thought perhaps here in stackoverflow someone has some experience about the creation of such a function.
I'm very thankful for your help and answers
A "Like Button" is only there to "Like" something, as the name says. If you want to be able to share something in a group, use the sharer.php: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2F
You can just open this with JavaScript (window.open) when you click on any button/div/whatever and select "In a group" instead of "On your own Timeline". Since the user has to select a group or his wall anyway, this is the very best option. You don´t even need to authorize the user for that.
I'm implementing a Facebook comment box on my website. It works for the most part. However, the two comments I made in the comment box do not show up on any computer except the one where I'm signed in to Facebook. But an associate has posted three comments, and hers have shown up just fine, so I know the box is connecting to Facebook and working.
Here's the thing: I am a new Facebook member (joined a month ago). I only joined for the purposes of this project. I have no friends on the site. So I am wondering if this is why my comments do not show. There is online speculation about this, but nothing conclusive or solutions.
My first comment does not even show up in my FB activity monitor. It was made while my post visibility was set to "only me." I did not tick the "also post to Facebook" box for this comment.
The second comment I made does show up in my FB activity monitor and is set to Public. This comment was made after I switched my post visibility to "friends" and ticked the "also post to Facebook" box. But it still does not show up in the comment box on the website, even though Facebook obviously knows it's there, since my activity monitor shows the URL of my website page.
My associate has been a member of Facebook for years and has tons of FB friends. So I am wondering if Facebook has a filter that catches new members like me who have no friends and begin to post comments. Note, however, that I have not posted comments anywhere else online so I can't imagine why a spam filter would be triggered aside from my newbie status. All I can figure is that Facebook doesn't let a new member's comments show off-site until they reach...what? A certain magic number of friends?
Here is the test page with the comment box. It is a Fancybox gallery in which the comment box is attached to the full-size image. Click on the thumbnail, and you will see the comment box attached to the full-size image. You will likely see the three comments from my associate (the singer, FYI--please refrain from posting her name for her privacy).
http://www.lycochoir.com/new/tattoo/thumbnails-comments.html
Do any experienced Facebook developers know anything about this phenomenon that might help me? I can't develop a comment box that I can't use myself, but there's no way to know how much Facebook activity is required to enable my comments to show up. And since the comment moderation feature is not working either, I don't know if the two issues are connected.
In case any other developer is asking this same question, I may have found the answer. The USA Today site says that in order for Facebook comments to be visible on their site, the user must have a profile photo and at least four friends. Their Q&A is almost two years old, so that could have changed, but that is the only hard information I've found on this topic online.
I have found that if a user posts a few links via 'whats on your mind' or graph api link publish that only the first 1-2 will show on their friends news feed. After a couple within an hour, no further link publishes appear in the friends area.
Secondly, i have notice that if you have 3 friends a -> friend -> b -> friend c that if a publishes a link, b sees it (except in the case above) and if b clicks 'Share' you would think that c should see it in their news feed. they do NOT at all. Note, this is using facebooks own 'whats on your mind' widget.
Should I log these as a bug, the 2nd is particularly concerning as links dont share. If its the graph/edge rank, then it appears that posting someone elses link doesnt have much ranking ? why isnt it just like posting your own link. even that seems to fail after a couple..
Facebook groups and filters content based on a variety of factors.
If someone is posting dozens of links from your site it's logical that they would stop showing up with any visibility in other user's feeds as the links have effectively become spam. After a period of time [short for a few links, long for many] things reset but if it's persistent you can see a page banned.
There's no bug in that, it's the intended functionality to keep Facebook relevant.
As far as sharing, again, Facebook will try to group similar items together and in the case of 3 people who are all friends already, this generally results in a single "story" with two individual "comments". If there are no comments with the share I'm not sure Facebook passes the activity along if the user has already seen the story.
When my Facebook app posts to the users stream those posts do not get links for Like and Comment. Other Facebook publishing apps, like Instagram, get these links.
I can't find it in my Facebook application's settings. Anyone knows how to do it?
(I think this is the same question as this one: Facebook : Like and Comment Functionality against Wall Post but I'm not sure.)
See Traroth's comment to get a more to the point description of what it is I'm asking about.
It seems Nathat Totten is right about how these links are defaults and that they are controlled by Facebook. There are three things that confuses this issue.
One is that Facebook Test Users behave a bit more special than you might think. Even when they are friends, they are not fully so. Making these default links turn up only for the user that posts them (for Test Users, mind you, I'm hoping it'll work all right for real users).
Another is the documentation for actions in the Facebook Graph API documentation for publishing Post objects:
A list of available actions on the post (including commenting, liking, and an optional app-specified action). read_stream. A list of JSON objects containing the 'name' and 'link'.
Which made me start to try find out how to include the commenting and liking links myself. I can't find this info anywhere, so maybe that changed without the above quoted documentation reflecting the change.
Anyway, if, indeed this is a Test User issue, then I don't need to do anything special to fix this. I'll try to remember to come back here when my (iPhone) app is ready for the real Facebook world and I get to see if it works in that environment or not.