Set user status at Facebook

Question

I have a game application released at the Facebook platform. I need to set the user status who played the game so that after the user playing the game and scoring high score, I need to set the status of the user to be showed in the home page of the user so his/her friends can share the action of playing the game with him/her and can challenge each other.

I am using an Iframe application using ASP.NET and C# language. I have used the Facebook service and called the code

_fbService.users.setStatus("Message");

and it reports an error saying:

Updating status requires the extended permission status_update

so how can I solve this problem? I need to do like other games, that after playing the game and achieving a noticable action in the game to be showed at the status of the user in the home page and be shared with his friends.

Answer 1

You have to request an extended permission from the user in order to make use of a whole bunch of FB functionality - including setting the user status.

It's pretty easy to do, info can be found here:

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Extended_permissions