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I was under the impression that FB worked like so: if you share a post that you've seen on FB, it goes on your wall/profile, and through whatever bizarro system that FB uses, it may or may not show up on your friends' news feeds.
For example, I was browsing my Facebook feed (accessing the website on my PC), I saw a post from Skeptical Kitten about the Notre Dame fire and how bees don't have lungs. This intrigued me so I intended to share it to my friends and title the share along the lines of "TIL this, this begets more questions though". From experience I expect to click on the share option (traditionally I think there was 'share now' and 'share...'; the former shared without further options, the latter allowed one to type some kind of message for friends to see alongside the post. What actually happened though was the first option, and then a 'share to feed' which doesn't seem to appear on my wall/profile. I ended up doing the first option, realised my mistake, 'moved it to recycle bin' (I have no idea where the FB recycle bin is), tried the second option, realised that didn't end up where I expected/half-wanted it to be, deleted that, tried the first option again which hasn't appeared on my profile/wall yet but I can find it if I 'manage posts' on my wall, then I added a comment.
This is making me feel like a bit of an old man, because once upon a time I would likely have got to the bottom of this problem myself, but these days FB usage amongst my friends seems to have declined somewhat, partly IMO because of the bizarro system that FB uses to apparently deprioritise showing users actual content from their friends and prioritise "suggested/sponsored content", and overall I can't help but feel a bit meh about not being able to use a web-based system that seems to be actively sabotaged by the company maintaining it.
If anyone can explain where I went wrong (aside from continuing to use FB: family/relatives are a big reason why I still use it), I'd be curious to know.
For example, I was browsing my Facebook feed (accessing the website on my PC), I saw a post from Skeptical Kitten about the Notre Dame fire and how bees don't have lungs. This intrigued me so I intended to share it to my friends and title the share along the lines of "TIL this, this begets more questions though". From experience I expect to click on the share option (traditionally I think there was 'share now' and 'share...'; the former shared without further options, the latter allowed one to type some kind of message for friends to see alongside the post. What actually happened though was the first option, and then a 'share to feed' which doesn't seem to appear on my wall/profile. I ended up doing the first option, realised my mistake, 'moved it to recycle bin' (I have no idea where the FB recycle bin is), tried the second option, realised that didn't end up where I expected/half-wanted it to be, deleted that, tried the first option again which hasn't appeared on my profile/wall yet but I can find it if I 'manage posts' on my wall, then I added a comment.
This is making me feel like a bit of an old man, because once upon a time I would likely have got to the bottom of this problem myself, but these days FB usage amongst my friends seems to have declined somewhat, partly IMO because of the bizarro system that FB uses to apparently deprioritise showing users actual content from their friends and prioritise "suggested/sponsored content", and overall I can't help but feel a bit meh about not being able to use a web-based system that seems to be actively sabotaged by the company maintaining it.
If anyone can explain where I went wrong (aside from continuing to use FB: family/relatives are a big reason why I still use it), I'd be curious to know.
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