How to Create a Status Up Date and Direct It to Certain People

If chris decides that he wants to publish a status up date, but he's just going to push it to his friends. I am not in his friend's circle. He e types in astatus up date. He sets it so that it only publishes to friends. He publishes it. Now let's say that chris does another one where he decide he wants to talk about an article he edited. And he wants this, he wants the general public to know about this article. Suddenly i can see that particular stats up date because he's set it to public,. So people can actually follow it back to chris. That's the weird thing. They might see a shared post like