Facebook allows users to share status updates to keep friends informed, send private messages, share content their friends may have missed, post publicly on friends' walls, and chat in real-time with other users currently online. Common social networking features on Facebook include status updates, private messaging, sharing posts, wall posts visible to friends, and an integrated chat application.

1. Common Social Networking
features with Facebook
By: Chase Shryock

2. Status Updates
• One Social Networking feature Facebook has
is Status Updates. With Status Updates all of
your friends on Facebook can see what you
are doing, where you are at, or things going
on with your life through your Facebook
Status.

3. Messaging
• Through Facebook Messaging, Facebook
allows you to send messages to people on
Facebook without anyone else viewing the
messages.

4. “Sharing” on Facebook
• Facebook has a feature which you can share
things you see on your news feed wall. One of
your friends may post something your other
friends can’t see so therefore you can “share”
things which will allow all of your friends to
see what you have shared.

5. Wall Posts
• Facebook also allows you to communicate
with others through posting on their wall. You
can put direct comments on your friends wall
in which everyone including that person can
see.

6. Chat
• Facebook has an integrated chatting
application that can always be accessed at the
bottom of your Facebook website. On this
application, you can chat with your friends
who are currently logged on to Facebook.