Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms of our time and is showing no signs of slowing down. While the platform does have a number of options for sharing your life with your friends, the good old status update is still one of the better ways. 

In this article, we’re taking a look at how you can send blank posts and comments on Facebook.

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Blank posts on Facebook

Usually, Facebook won’t let you post a blank status, however, using a few special characters, you can post blank statuses and comments. 

Using escape characters

You can quickly post a blank status or comment using special escape characters. 

Step 1: Open Facebook and create a new post.

Step 2: Copy and paste the string below in the comment box. You can paste it in multiple lines to add more blank lines to your status or comment. 

@[0:0 ]

Step 3: Click on Post to update your status. 

Do keep in mind that this method doesn’t work on the Facebook app, but it’ll work just fine if you use Facebook from a browser on your phone.

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Using blank spaces

You can also copy and paste a lot of blank spaces from your clipboard to post a blank comment or status. This method works on the Facebook app as well. Just follow these steps. 

Step 1: Open Facebook and create a new post.

Step 2: Copy and paste the string below in the comment box. Make sure you don’t copy the square brackets, only the spaces inside them.

 [ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀]

Step 3: Click on Post to update your status. 

One drawback of this method is that you can’t create multiple blank lines in your post or comment. 

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For blank comments only

If you just want to post a quick blank comment, you can do so by using the following key combination. 

Alt+0137

This will add an invisible character to your comment letting you post empty comments.

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