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Paul Buchheit
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
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Will "my network and friends" work too? - JA Castillo
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot. - Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)! - Mark Trapp
Thanks! - georgeker
Thank you. - Guillermo Esteves
Thank you ! - Joan Dossetto
Awesome! Thanks for the tip. - Reuben Thum
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed. - Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF? - Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know. - Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed. - Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately. - Eric Florenzano
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either. - MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden. - holly
I spent like half an hour last week trying to find my custom feed URL so I could import FB status into FriendFeed. No luck. =( - Darren
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =) - Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all? - MikeAmundsen
Yeah, mine was already enabled so it doesn't help me. Thanks for the idea though. - Brad
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :) - Charlotte M
I was able to find my FB status feed recently (but can't any longer), so FB must have recently tinkered with this. - Kevin Whalen
FB status is gone! - Lonnie Robinson
FB is making all this hoopla recently just because they finally "opened" up to 3rd party apps, and they take away the rss feed to our status updates. - Kevin Whalen from email
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed? - Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too! - Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon - Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter. - Nathan Snyder
For now this does not work at all. Let's hope, now that 'status' of pages can be synched with Twitter, that what used to funcntion will resume activity again. - lelapin
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed. - Nathan Snyder from IM