Have you ever noticed that when you update your Facebook status, but you put a link in it, it actually doesn't show up in your status, and instead lives over in the Links section?
Let's say you are taking appointments for your next sales show, and you put a link of how to sign up. Normally, you'd expect to see this status living as the official status for your account until you created another status update. But it's not there. Why? Because you included a link in that status update, and Facebook automatically re-categorized it to live in a section called Links. Bet you didn't know you had that section? Well you do, and you can get to it by clicking on a little thumbtack icon called "Links" above your status update bar.
But, you can trick Facebook. You can include the link in your personal status (or even for the status of your professional business page) without tripping the link-trigger that re-categorizes your status. Here's how:
Type in the link without the http://www. When you type in http://www., this triggers Facebook to create a link for you. Most of the time this is convenient, but sometimes you don't want to turn it into a link.
