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Is there anything like self-hosted Facebook "wall?" Something that's like Wordpress in that I can post updates to it and like Facebook in that people can find my updates and comment?

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Wordpress itself. Have seen several families use it as a Facebook wall replacement with email updates if you subscribe.

This. Wordpress is incredibly flexible and you can do all kinds of neat stuff without having to deal with the CMS aspect of it.

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