Facebook Finally Adds Commenting to Wall Posts

When Facebook added commenting to users’ shared items, the feature instantly took off. The only problem with the feature was that it practically made wall posts obsolete. Replying to one of your friends’ wall posts required a deeper time investment (at least a few seconds). Thankfully Facebook has updated the feature so that you can now reply to wall posts directly from your profile or wherever the wall post is written.

Interestingly, a comment which is posted in response to another wall post does not become another wall post. It makes sense but definitely makes the “Wall-to-Wall” feature a bit more confusing (are you confused yet?). The one area where the wall comments have not yet been upgraded is on public profiles. If a user posts on the wall, you cannot reply via a comment yet.

I’m assuming that this will be updated in a matter of days but it’s definitely a welcomed update. Facebook is known for constantly refining their products through small adjustments and this one was a major adjustment as far as I’m concerned. Were you getting annoyed with the “Wall-to-Wall” feature or was that just me? What other features do you want Facebook to update?

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Absolutely happy they implemented this feature. Already notice a change in the amount of conversations and also gives the ease of viewing the entire dialogue on my profile page w/o having to click 'wall-to-wall'.

Comment by Sonny Gill — April 8, 2009 @ 11:06 am
I prefer the wall-to-wall for some things, still — because on long threads, it's difficult to reply to one person, and I'd much rather use the wall for that than saturate several dozen people's email with another "Helen also added a comment" post. I'm running into this a lot because I've discovered that being in a family way leads to more congratulatory posts than even my birthday yielded. (And congratulations for what? It's not here yet, people!)

Comment by Helen Mosher — April 8, 2009 @ 11:08 am
Restoring a few would be welcome:

- see in the newsfeed when my friends befriend other people

- see in the newsfeed when my friends join groups/become fans

And I don't know if this is strictly an upgrade, but doing more with the 'Hide' button in the newsfeed. Right now I can hide the friend or the application. What if I don't want to hide the application, but only make it a one-line item? It might be useful to be reminded of a certain TV show, but it doesn't need to take up a third of the screen (pic, text, two lines for "Comments" and "Likes" – the latter of which are fairly useless bits of info and don't warrant two lines worth of vertical space).

What I end up doing due to the limited functionality is simply hide all quiz-type applications altogether. And I'm considering dropping other memberships because everything takes up so much vertical space in the new layout.

It would really help to have some functionality to allow users to put certain things in summarized form.

Comment by Armin Prediger — April 8, 2009 @ 11:30 am
I agree. Friend activities in the news feed are a must. It's nice to have the comment feature. The Wall to Wall thing was very confusing and annoying…

We're not there yet, though.

Comment by Debra Ross — April 8, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
If someone writes on my wall, the reply should go to their wall. this is going to get confusing.

Comment by Facebook User — April 8, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
I wish they would allow a developer to comment on a review. If someone said something negative about your app, you would then have the ability to explain to the user how they might misinterpreted a feature etc…

Of course what we all really want to do is say piss off!! lol

Comment by Jackie — April 8, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
We want back what the Live Feed used to give us. We used to see Friends, Events, Groups, & profile edits in a [compact!!!] Live Feed.

Without Live Feed it's IMPOSSIBLE to discover new local events, new friend connections, interesting new Groups, see when friends have changed their profile (because they gained/lost an interest/hobby/job/relationship), etc.

For ways to get facebook to fix what they've messed-up, read the action steps in
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=61010781...

Comment by Jason — April 8, 2009 @ 7:32 pm
Maybe I'm missing something.

Where is the wall? On the new beautiful Facebook, the wall is available only for pages.

Even if I search "wall" (well, "bacheca" in the italian version) I'm redirected here:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2...

That means that the wall is not even an option anymore (for users).

By the way, the adjective beautiful was sarcastic.

Comment by Andrea — April 9, 2009 @ 1:37 am
I would also like to see the option of sharing wall posts. Oftentimes a friend posts something that I know another friend would find of interest or could be of help. It would be a great networking tool.

I too would like to see also the Live Feed come back. The new News Feed is just too clunky when you have oodles of friends. There is always stuff I miss.

Be well, xo-Carla aka OneHealthyGirl.com

Comment by Carla Golden — April 9, 2009 @ 7:54 am
It's kind of complicated whether this is better than wall2wall. I mean, it's good for others who are not friends with on of the parties to be able to follow a conversation but the wall to wall page was also a fun way to follow a conversation. Oh well, it's good they let you have both options.

Comment by mojaam — April 12, 2009 @ 9:18 am
so if someone posts a wall post to my wall, and a friend of mine comments on this, will this be notified to the person who posted the original post?

Comment by missy — May 19, 2009 @ 2:48 pm
The problem I see with this is that you are not notified when someone comments on your wall post. I started roaming the ever-confusing facebook settings and could not find anything that allowed me to force Facebook to tell me when someone comments on a wall post that I post on other peoples walls. This is frustrating if you are waiting for a reply on a message and you don't manually go to that persons page and check the post you made to see if there is a comment.

Comment by Facebook User — June 12, 2009 @ 7:41 am
posting on another person's wall is convient for everyone but you. the person who comments to your post is the only one who knows they commented on what you wrote. there is no notification feature for this type of comment. the person who sent the original post has to check back to that person's wall to see the comment, if there is one. the best thing to do is post directly to the other persons wall all the time unless u feel like sharing your thoughts to everyone. then that would be a good time to post on your home wall, not your profile page.

Comment by mike sutton — September 9, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
i cant’ see when i get a post on my wall

Comment by janna heath — November 26, 2009 @ 12:08 am
Why does it post to live news feed when I post to a friend's wall?

Comment by Rebecca Guthrie — December 23, 2009 @ 8:27 am
Same question as Rebecca, why do my wall-to-wall posts show up on the live feed for everyone? Thx

Before, there was a setting to disable that stuff.

Comment by Concerned — December 24, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
Ugh, exactly the same question as Rebecca and Concerned.

I really don't want everyone reading my conversations

Comment by Clare — December 27, 2009 @ 11:50 am
Yes, I have the same problem – how does one prevent the private wall posts from appearing on live feed?

Comment by MoodyBlue — December 28, 2009 @ 8:18 am
Yep, same as the last 4 posts. Do my other friends that dont know the person i'm sending a post to, really need to know what i'm saying to them!

Comment by Tony Field — December 31, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
UGH as much as I stand up for all Facebook's changes, now they are really pissing *me* off. Same as the other recent posters… why the HELL are my wall-to-wall's now posted to the livefeed. I do NOT want my conversations to be shared across the feed for everyone.

There was a setting for this before they changed the privacy things and nobody has mentioned it yet publicly, but this change is ridiculous. Why did they completely remove the ability to choose what things showed up in the newsfeed from the privacy settings? ARGH

Comment by Facebook User — December 31, 2009 @ 6:33 pm
I'd like to be able to post on others' walls and NOT have it show up on MINE. It's stupid to look at my profile and see I "liked someone's comment" or I "commented on a status." Who cares? It just clutters up my wall! Show my comment wherever I post it, but don't post that I posted it on my wall!

Comment by Marianne Ryan — January 1, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
I can't stand the fact that my wall posts to friends are now showing up in live feed. I don't want everyone reading my messages that I sent to ONE specific person. You used to be able to control that. Why the change?????? Why can't facebook leave well enough alone? This is really infuriating!!!

Comment by Teri — January 6, 2010 @ 3:36 am
I'm unable to post on my friends wall,,,a message pops up and tells me that I can't post at this time.

Comment by Cesar — January 14, 2010 @ 7:05 pm
anytime i try to publish something to my wall it never allows me to

Comment by jessy brewer — January 17, 2010 @ 3:34 pm
I am new to facebook and enjoy farmville but I can not view shared/published gifts from other people(my friends) playing farmville I can only view my own. I have it set me & friend-but friends do not show up. ANy idea hw I can fix this?

Comment by Lala — February 11, 2010 @ 3:17 pm
I have hear many negative comments about the wall change. Follofwing are a few that we would like returned to the way they were previously.

1) A number of us would like the wall returned to it previous form with ,friends,inbox returnedto the top.

2)Putting the application of the particular user's wall back on the bottom left of the wall would be appriciated.

If any of this is possible we would be very grateful if it could be dealt with.We like facebook and till now have been pleased.

Once again thank you for evry thing you do.

Lisamarie Rossi

Comment by Lisamarie Rossi — February 12, 2010 @ 10:02 am
i don't like the new Facebook’s changes, now they are really getting annoying!! i dont like the fact that my wall-to-wall’s post now posted to the livefeed. I do NOT want my conversations to be shared across the feed for everyone.

There was a setting for this before they changed the privacy things and nobody has mentioned it yet publicly, but this change is ridiculous. Why did they completely remove the ability to choose what things showed up in the newsfeed from the privacy settings? what happen to that part of the privacy setting? facebook should work on this. otherwise, less people would write on wall to walls.

Comment by jess — February 14, 2010 @ 11:32 pm
i dont like the news feed to show my wall to wall comments. please fix it. it's getting very annoying just reading other people's messages when its not written to me. and i dont want people to read mines either. also, when i write or post or comment on friend's photos,i do not want it to show on my profile… how can facebook fix this so i can control those settings?

Comment by jess — February 14, 2010 @ 11:37 pm
I was wondering what happen to my wall? the message I recieved that my profile is no longer available?

Comment by Cedric Credle — February 26, 2010 @ 4:23 am
i think it is a very stupid idea because if u dont have internet on your phone u cant reply if they just comment and u dont know when they write back

Comment by Jose Islas — March 28, 2010 @ 12:13 pm
i don't get why i do not receive responses from my wall posts after i leave something on someone else s wall. I have to go onto their wall in order to read the response.

Comment by Megan Termine — April 30, 2010 @ 3:38 pm
All I want to do is respond to a comment on my status, but there is no "comment back" or any other option. It's either "Like" or "Delete". Why don't I have the feature to respond back to status comments like other people seem to have?

Comment by Lindsay Poole — June 28, 2010 @ 7:46 pm
what does cannot post to users wall mean and how do you fix the problem

Comment by Jodie Crabtree — August 22, 2010 @ 1:38 pm
Why am i getting wall posts of friends commenting on people i don't know and the whole thread of comments is on my wall?

Comment by nora — January 4, 2011 @ 9:08 pm
I go to a wall that I want to post on and do not have a Reply button to click on. My husbands facebook acct. gets a reply button, but not mine. Is this a bug with this new fix? I wasn't being mean or nasty.

Comment by Virginia Calello — September 12, 2011 @ 1:12 am
im so very irritated because i cant see post that i shared from my farmville in my wall??…someone can help me please??!:'(

Comment by charlane jagonos — September 13, 2011 @ 5:28 am
im so very irritated because i cant see post that i shared from my farmville in my wall??…someone can help me please??!:'(

Comment by charlane jagonos — September 13, 2011 @ 5:30 am

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Absolutely happy they implemented this feature. Already notice a change in the amount of conversations and also gives the ease of viewing the entire dialogue on my profile page w/o having to click 'wall-to-wall'.

Comment by Sonny Gill — April 8, 2009 @ 11:06 am

I prefer the wall-to-wall for some things, still — because on long threads, it's difficult to reply to one person, and I'd much rather use the wall for that than saturate several dozen people's email with another "Helen also added a comment" post. I'm running into this a lot because I've discovered that being in a family way leads to more congratulatory posts than even my birthday yielded. (And congratulations for what? It's not here yet, people!)

Comment by Helen Mosher — April 8, 2009 @ 11:08 am

Restoring a few would be welcome:

- see in the newsfeed when my friends befriend other people

- see in the newsfeed when my friends join groups/become fans

And I don't know if this is strictly an upgrade, but doing more with the 'Hide' button in the newsfeed. Right now I can hide the friend or the application. What if I don't want to hide the application, but only make it a one-line item? It might be useful to be reminded of a certain TV show, but it doesn't need to take up a third of the screen (pic, text, two lines for "Comments" and "Likes" – the latter of which are fairly useless bits of info and don't warrant two lines worth of vertical space).

What I end up doing due to the limited functionality is simply hide all quiz-type applications altogether. And I'm considering dropping other memberships because everything takes up so much vertical space in the new layout.

It would really help to have some functionality to allow users to put certain things in summarized form.

Comment by Armin Prediger — April 8, 2009 @ 11:30 am

I agree. Friend activities in the news feed are a must. It's nice to have the comment feature. The Wall to Wall thing was very confusing and annoying…

We're not there yet, though.

Comment by Debra Ross — April 8, 2009 @ 12:12 pm

If someone writes on my wall, the reply should go to their wall. this is going to get confusing.

Comment by Facebook User — April 8, 2009 @ 12:36 pm

I wish they would allow a developer to comment on a review. If someone said something negative about your app, you would then have the ability to explain to the user how they might misinterpreted a feature etc…

Of course what we all really want to do is say piss off!! lol

Comment by Jackie — April 8, 2009 @ 5:38 pm

We want back what the Live Feed used to give us. We used to see Friends, Events, Groups, & profile edits in a [compact!!!] Live Feed.

Without Live Feed it's IMPOSSIBLE to discover new local events, new friend connections, interesting new Groups, see when friends have changed their profile (because they gained/lost an interest/hobby/job/relationship), etc.

For ways to get facebook to fix what they've messed-up, read the action steps in
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=61010781...

Comment by Jason — April 8, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

Maybe I'm missing something.

Where is the wall? On the new beautiful Facebook, the wall is available only for pages.

Even if I search "wall" (well, "bacheca" in the italian version) I'm redirected here:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2...

That means that the wall is not even an option anymore (for users).

By the way, the adjective beautiful was sarcastic.

Comment by Andrea — April 9, 2009 @ 1:37 am

I would also like to see the option of sharing wall posts. Oftentimes a friend posts something that I know another friend would find of interest or could be of help. It would be a great networking tool.

I too would like to see also the Live Feed come back. The new News Feed is just too clunky when you have oodles of friends. There is always stuff I miss.

Be well, xo-Carla aka OneHealthyGirl.com

Comment by Carla Golden — April 9, 2009 @ 7:54 am

It's kind of complicated whether this is better than wall2wall. I mean, it's good for others who are not friends with on of the parties to be able to follow a conversation but the wall to wall page was also a fun way to follow a conversation. Oh well, it's good they let you have both options.

Comment by mojaam — April 12, 2009 @ 9:18 am

so if someone posts a wall post to my wall, and a friend of mine comments on this, will this be notified to the person who posted the original post?

Comment by missy — May 19, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

The problem I see with this is that you are not notified when someone comments on your wall post. I started roaming the ever-confusing facebook settings and could not find anything that allowed me to force Facebook to tell me when someone comments on a wall post that I post on other peoples walls. This is frustrating if you are waiting for a reply on a message and you don't manually go to that persons page and check the post you made to see if there is a comment.

Comment by Facebook User — June 12, 2009 @ 7:41 am

posting on another person's wall is convient for everyone but you. the person who comments to your post is the only one who knows they commented on what you wrote. there is no notification feature for this type of comment. the person who sent the original post has to check back to that person's wall to see the comment, if there is one. the best thing to do is post directly to the other persons wall all the time unless u feel like sharing your thoughts to everyone. then that would be a good time to post on your home wall, not your profile page.

Comment by mike sutton — September 9, 2009 @ 9:37 pm

i cant’ see when i get a post on my wall

Comment by janna heath — November 26, 2009 @ 12:08 am

Why does it post to live news feed when I post to a friend's wall?

Comment by Rebecca Guthrie — December 23, 2009 @ 8:27 am

Same question as Rebecca, why do my wall-to-wall posts show up on the live feed for everyone? Thx

Before, there was a setting to disable that stuff.

Comment by Concerned — December 24, 2009 @ 7:30 pm

Ugh, exactly the same question as Rebecca and Concerned.

I really don't want everyone reading my conversations

Comment by Clare — December 27, 2009 @ 11:50 am

Yes, I have the same problem – how does one prevent the private wall posts from appearing on live feed?

Comment by MoodyBlue — December 28, 2009 @ 8:18 am

Yep, same as the last 4 posts. Do my other friends that dont know the person i'm sending a post to, really need to know what i'm saying to them!

Comment by Tony Field — December 31, 2009 @ 2:36 pm

UGH as much as I stand up for all Facebook's changes, now they are really pissing *me* off. Same as the other recent posters… why the HELL are my wall-to-wall's now posted to the livefeed. I do NOT want my conversations to be shared across the feed for everyone.

Comment by Facebook User — December 31, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

I'd like to be able to post on others' walls and NOT have it show up on MINE. It's stupid to look at my profile and see I "liked someone's comment" or I "commented on a status." Who cares? It just clutters up my wall! Show my comment wherever I post it, but don't post that I posted it on my wall!

Comment by Marianne Ryan — January 1, 2010 @ 2:04 pm

I can't stand the fact that my wall posts to friends are now showing up in live feed. I don't want everyone reading my messages that I sent to ONE specific person. You used to be able to control that. Why the change?????? Why can't facebook leave well enough alone? This is really infuriating!!!

Comment by Teri — January 6, 2010 @ 3:36 am

I'm unable to post on my friends wall,,,a message pops up and tells me that I can't post at this time.

Comment by Cesar — January 14, 2010 @ 7:05 pm

anytime i try to publish something to my wall it never allows me to

Comment by jessy brewer — January 17, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

I am new to facebook and enjoy farmville but I can not view shared/published gifts from other people(my friends) playing farmville I can only view my own. I have it set me & friend-but friends do not show up. ANy idea hw I can fix this?

Comment by Lala — February 11, 2010 @ 3:17 pm

I have hear many negative comments about the wall change. Follofwing are a few that we would like returned to the way they were previously.

1) A number of us would like the wall returned to it previous form with ,friends,inbox returnedto the top.

2)Putting the application of the particular user's wall back on the bottom left of the wall would be appriciated.

If any of this is possible we would be very grateful if it could be dealt with.We like facebook and till now have been pleased.

Once again thank you for evry thing you do.

Lisamarie Rossi

Comment by Lisamarie Rossi — February 12, 2010 @ 10:02 am

i don't like the new Facebook’s changes, now they are really getting annoying!! i dont like the fact that my wall-to-wall’s post now posted to the livefeed. I do NOT want my conversations to be shared across the feed for everyone.

There was a setting for this before they changed the privacy things and nobody has mentioned it yet publicly, but this change is ridiculous. Why did they completely remove the ability to choose what things showed up in the newsfeed from the privacy settings? what happen to that part of the privacy setting? facebook should work on this. otherwise, less people would write on wall to walls.

Comment by jess — February 14, 2010 @ 11:32 pm

i dont like the news feed to show my wall to wall comments. please fix it. it's getting very annoying just reading other people's messages when its not written to me. and i dont want people to read mines either. also, when i write or post or comment on friend's photos,i do not want it to show on my profile… how can facebook fix this so i can control those settings?

Comment by jess — February 14, 2010 @ 11:37 pm

I was wondering what happen to my wall? the message I recieved that my profile is no longer available?

Comment by Cedric Credle — February 26, 2010 @ 4:23 am

i think it is a very stupid idea because if u dont have internet on your phone u cant reply if they just comment and u dont know when they write back

Comment by Jose Islas — March 28, 2010 @ 12:13 pm

i don't get why i do not receive responses from my wall posts after i leave something on someone else s wall. I have to go onto their wall in order to read the response.

Comment by Megan Termine — April 30, 2010 @ 3:38 pm

All I want to do is respond to a comment on my status, but there is no "comment back" or any other option. It's either "Like" or "Delete". Why don't I have the feature to respond back to status comments like other people seem to have?

Comment by Lindsay Poole — June 28, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

what does cannot post to users wall mean and how do you fix the problem

Comment by Jodie Crabtree — August 22, 2010 @ 1:38 pm

Why am i getting wall posts of friends commenting on people i don't know and the whole thread of comments is on my wall?

Comment by nora — January 4, 2011 @ 9:08 pm

I go to a wall that I want to post on and do not have a Reply button to click on. My husbands facebook acct. gets a reply button, but not mine. Is this a bug with this new fix? I wasn't being mean or nasty.

Comment by Virginia Calello — September 12, 2011 @ 1:12 am

im so very irritated because i cant see post that i shared from my farmville in my wall??…someone can help me please??!:'(

Comment by charlane jagonos — September 13, 2011 @ 5:28 am

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