Yes, you are that newsfeed suppose to be recording of all the activities around the site. This is the main function. And it also allow to post directly different type of content (text, photo, video). For example, you want to post on your community a funny photo with a short comment, if this function will be disabled, you have to go to photos, press upload photo, choose photo, type description, select album....  too long for a short funny photo :) 

Also, Newsfeed and Profile Wall are not really meant to work together. You either have an acitivty stream website (with Newsfeed) or a basic site with comment walls. There's no need to activate all features available.

Personally.. I use the newsfeed.. Not the wall. I dont know what the real value is of the wall..

I rename my newsfeed to "Wall" and use it like a wall. The newsfeed is so much better..

I use one newsfeed per group.. and let my users use it like a photo journal..

Works fine..

Wall doesnt let you make a comment on a comment etc.. People really want that facebook feel, and newsfeed gives you that..

My 2 cents

But you cannot post on someones newsfeed on their profile and they cannot post from their profile page right.

Can you deactivate wall and just have newsfeed?

Yes ^^ drag it out of the profile and freeze it.

I understand the newsfeed and how it works but:
1. If a user posts a video/photo, will that video or photo also automatically be posted to the photo section??
2. Can the newsfeed be visible only on the index page and within the user's profile?

I'm not sure I understand what Walls are. Can someone give me an example please?

1. No, if user posts one photo/video item it will not be saved on any of his photo albums. Newsfeed is intended for sharing content "on the fly". If user want to upload a lof of photos (typically set of photos from last party/holidays) he do it via upload photos and all photos are published in newsfeed too. 

2. Yes, admin should remove newsfeed widget from member's dashboard page in this way. 

Thanks, Addenster for answering my questions. It's amazing how FB-normalized we've become expecting uploads to the newsfeed to be automatically included in the users album.

I'll look into removing the newsfeed widget from the member's dashboard. Thank you again!

This is a sort of explanation that I have given differentiating between The Wall (Called mine Bring On The Wall after the program on tv lol) and Newsfeed. I hope it is a fair assessment of it? 

(Write in Newsfeed rather than "Bring On The Wall". Newsfeed is like status update on Facebook. But Bring On The Wall is like a message board from people to people. It only updates when you or somebody adds something new. Newsfeed will always update when people are writing in their "What's happening")


(Bring On The Wall will still add the message to Newsfeed but it is more direct as in person to person chatting. Newsfeed is for the world and not just directed at one person :))

so can we have news feed embedded within profiles ?so we can write on their profile which also is seen in news feed.
the wall system is confusing as well it is not making users to comment.also no notifications are seen.

Quote from Envira the wall system is confusing as well it is not making users to comment

Do you mean that it isn't allow users to comment each other? 

Quote from Envira so can we have news feed embedded within profiles ?so we can write on their profile which also is seen in news feed.

Currently, when somebody comment other profile, this comment will be shown on site index newsfeed and dashboard. This option can be disabled in newsfeed plugin settings. 

Also, there are notifications for newsfeed plugin. Every newsfeed activity is duplicated to user's email.

any way to do it "Online" like the arrowchat notification system its supouse to do it? but with programing involve?

But ant they a way of combining them both so for example see like facebook newsfeed most commend and new post, well it would be great to create the newsfeed like this "Latest Activity's" will show everyone's activity's on the site, updates will show all friends activity's and wall posts will show everyone who's posted a comment on your wall! this will save having 3 types of wall's and newsfeed's

I guess I agree that Newsfeed should not have the option to turn off the ability to write directly into it. Newsfeed should show the latest stuff going on from all areas of the site. 

Changed Newsfeed to recent Activity just seems less confussing

Newsfeed is what it stands for. It's just a stream of site feed to show activity on your site, whereas The Wall system, is to let users share their own opinion or comment on that specific profile/content.

I use the news feed as it is, I remove it from the user profile page, and the only place I use the wall, renamed is on the users profile page (
renamed "My Wall", and in the groups.  That way, if they want to leave a personal message to someone on the wall, they can, and it shows in the feed.  If they just wanna post something real quick, they can, and it shows in the feed, or, if they just wanna post directly to the news feed they can.  Most use news feed for everything except posting on each other's walls....