jomsocial user privacy

Mark,
Just so you know, I'll be moving this to the JFBConnect Pre-Sales Questions area after I post this response.. so look for it there, instead of the JLinked Pre-Sales Questions area.

As to your question, yes, JFBConnect will only push status updates from JomSocial to the user's Facebook wall *if* the post is marked as "public". Any other privacy setting will prevent the post from being pushed to Facebook.

Regarding anonymous posts, I'm not really following your question. Who would be posting the update on your site, and what Facebook profile should they go to? What part of that should be anonymous? In general, I don't believe you can do an anonymous post like you're asking, since Facebook doesn't really like anything that can't be tracked back to a real person (that's just asking for spam and other issues), but maybe with more clarification, we'd be able to help you figure out a way or alternative to do what you're looking for.

Thanks,
Alex

Makes sense, and yes, we were talking about different features.

The feature I was talking about is a plugin that we have will post a status update to the user's Facebook timeline when they enter that status into JomSocial. That way, the 'public' status posts are synched between JomSocial and Facebook.

The feature you were talking about was the Open Graph Actions features. Those too post to the user's own Facebook Tiemline/News Feed when a user 'does' something on your site, like reading an article, uploading a photo, or joining a group. The action itself will post regardless of privacy settings, but that doesn't mean that the image would be visible to anyone if they followed the link posted to Facebook. They may just know that the user joined a group named 'xyz' or whatever.

Finally, we don't really have any features right now that post activity to a Facebook Page. That's something we'll be doing later this year, but it's something that we honestly wouldn't recommend for doing what you're looking for. Your Facebook Page is a huge promotional tool and should be curated and managed closely to make sure the viewers of your Page get relevant and useful information. If you just start posting dozens (or hundreds) of things that users are doing on your site with little context, it will likely a) cause you to lose followers and b) have posts on your wall marked as spam when they show up in a followers news ticker/feed, which will hurt your overall exposure on Facebook further.

That's just my thoughts. If you have a developer, you can add the ability to post to a wall pretty easily, but it's not built-in to JFBConnect yet.

Thanks,
Alex

Mark,
To get a post into Facebook, they want an image. The posting of an "Upload" action in JomSocial will only show the album cover, not the actual image uploaded. There's a bug in how Facebook generates it's URLs, so there's no way to actually post the real image URL, just a link to the album itself.

For other actions, there still needs to be some sort of image. We could help you set a logo or something else for the post instead of a 'real' image from the page, if that's what you're looking for.

Hope that helps,
Alex