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I want to be able to send updates (in news activity) to users who have installed the canvas application - without posting on their wall or sending them Facebook messages.

One way of doing this could be through the application wall - where I post all my application updates. But these updates would only show up in the news activity feed if a user has liked the application wall. So is there a way of auto liking the application wall when someone installs the application?

Or are there any other ways to achieve this?

Peter Mortensen
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There is currently no way to programmatically like something. What you may be able to do is ask for their email and then email them when there is news for them.

Alternatively, if you have the publish_stream permission you can send private wall messages to them.

Femi
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  • Privacy settings on a wall post can only be applied to the current user's wall - not on a targetted user's wall. So an app can't post to another user's wall and apply a privacy setting of private to it. I haven't tried this myself, its based on the discussion here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4478497/posting-to-a-friends-wall-on-facebook-privately-using-graph-api. – Akshay Rawat Jun 03 '11 at 08:42
  • That's correct, but my suggestion was that since he is updating users of the app, the app will send *status updates* essentially from the user to themselves. I've used this in an app before: the user gets a private message on their wall. – Femi Jun 03 '11 at 13:30