diff --git a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
index bbae0fbf8..526818472 100644
--- a/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
     data = clean_hash params[:status_message]
 
     if logged_into_fb? && params[:status_message][:public] == '1'
-      id = 'me'
-      type = 'feed'
-      Rails.logger.info("Sending a message: #{params[:status_message][:message]} to Facebook")
-      EventMachine::HttpRequest.new("https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?message=#{params[:status_message][:message]}&access_token=#{@access_token}").post
+      current_user.post_to_message_fb(params[:status_message][:message], @access_token)
     end
 
     @status_message = current_user.post(:status_message, data)
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 1ab387451..26aad4e43 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ class User
     intitial_post(class_name, aspect_ids, options)
   end
 
+  def post_to_message_fb(message, access_token)
+    id = 'me'
+    type = 'feed'
+    Rails.logger.info("Sending a message: #{message} to Facebook")
+    EventMachine::HttpRequest.new("https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?message=#{message}&access_token=#{access_token}").post
+  end
+
   def intitial_post(class_name, aspect_ids, options = {})
     post = build_post(class_name, options)
     post.socket_to_uid(id, :aspect_ids => aspect_ids) if post.respond_to?(:socket_to_uid)