title: How to pre-populate the Facebook status message through an URL similar to pre-populating a tweet?
body: <p>This question has been asked before on SO, but most of those questions were asked a long time ago.</p>
  
  <p>Essentially, we want a simple way to pre-populate the Facebook status message through the URL much like you can with Twitter.</p>
  
  <p>We're aware of the Facebook APIs, but are wondering if there is a more lightweight approach.</p>
  
  <p>We don't need programmatically to post a message, but just provide some default text that the user can edit before sharing.</p>