58 NewZealandWoman’sWeekly
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KevinMilne
CONSUMERConsumer
Think before you post!
Social media users
beware: your
Facebook friends
may be able to see
more of your posts
than you’d like. Also, when
is butter not butter? When
it’s “buttery”, apparently.Y
ou sometimes quickly
edit Facebook posts
after you’ve uploaded
them. Usually, it’s to correct
a post that, on second thought,
is inaccurate or could cause
offence or be misconstrued.
You know the word “Edited”
will appear on the post if
you do that. But now you’ve
been told that if recipients click
on “Edited”, they’ll see what
you originally wrote. Surely
that’s not correct?
I’m afraid it is. Anyone who can
see your post can see a history
of its edits. All they have to do is
click the text that says “Edited”
at the bottom of your comment.
This can be worrying. After
all, the reason you’ve made the
edit may be to avoid offence –
but I imagine people check out
edits just to find out why you
made the edit.
I discovered this myself
recently when I idly clicked on
“edited” below a message I’d
been sent and suddenly, in front
of me, was the edited message
and the original message.
Luckily it was for a misspelling.
It’s worth knowing this so that,
in future, you can give much
more thought to a message
before you click that “post”
button. Editing it after it’s up
won’t really help. And if you do
notice an error after a post has
gone live, you may be better off
deleting it and starting over.Y
ou’ve noticed the word “buttery” appearing
on margarine-type spreads. Does it mean the
product contains lots of butter?
No, not necessarily. “Buttery”, in this context, seems
to me to be all about marketing. For years, margarine
was considered the healthier alternative to butter
because it had much lower levels of saturated fat.
But recently, there’s been a focus on eating less-
processed foods, and butter has made something
of a comeback. Out of this has evolved a range of
spreads with lower levels of saturated fat but whose
packaging projects a tastier and more natural flavour.
Hence the emergence of the word “buttery”, which
simply means “like butter”. While some “buttery”
spreads contain butter oil, traditionally known as
clarified butter, others may simply look like butter,
taste like butter, spread like butter or smell like butter.
Some “buttery” spreads also state they’re “dairy-
free”. Confusing? A case of studying the ingredients
and nutritional information on each pack, I’m afraid.
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