# Posting on users accounts?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-on-users-accounts/101248>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [November 4, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-on-users-accounts/101248 "2018-11-04T10:31:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-on-users-accounts/101248/6 "2018-11-04T16:16:42Z")

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Is it just me or is writing on someone’s ‘wall’ in faux privacy just a little bit nauseating and also very dated, passé. In what circumstances do you genuinely need to publicly show off a one to one communication with another person?

Publicly demonstrating you remembered someone’s birthday?! Why?

I remember with a grimace a couple on Facebook who used to send eachother sweet nothings publicly like this all the time. Why? Because they were married but constantly working away from eachother and I suspect desperate to maintain a public awareness that their other half was not ‘available’. This was made all the worse by the bandwidth sapping FB notifications of such banal wall writing that I would get and so would have all their friends. Barf.

Just because you can build the feature doesn’t mean you should?

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