by Raven
We’ve gotten to the week where Facebook changed things on us. I don’t know if we did something wrong or what, but suddenly we weren’t getting pictures from outside posts. One day, if we reposted something here, Facebook put a picture with it and then suddenly they didn’t. If I added a picture they put it on but they didn’t copy it from any other site. As far as I can tell, other folks still get pictures on reposts, so it makes me wonder if Facebook has a problem with us doing it.
The first few posts came with pictures and the first one was a Twin Oaks post advertising one of their member’s blogs, that of Pam, the master gardener.
This did okay on Facebook, with five likes, two loves, two shares, and a hundred and four views. Not great, but okay.
Our second post was from Acorn’s Instagram, claiming that Justin Bieber was visiting. (Would Facebook get upset about that? You’d think they’d go after Acorn, not us.)
This didn’t quite make it, with just one wow and ninety-nine views.
The last post where Facebook reposted a pic was when we reposted Eastwind’s description of their House and Maintenence work. It’s on their website and the photo Facebook associated with it is the one that is at the top of all of the pages on the site with the title “Eastwind Community” and the links to other pages on it. Facebook just reprinted the site photo without the captions.
If there was a problem with that, as far as I can tell, that was Facebook’s doing.
Here’s what I wrote.
And here’s a snippet from their House and Maintenence page, along with the photo I would have selected.
It didn’t do badly at all, with four likes, four loves, three comments, and a hundred and sixty-six views.
So what went wrong?
The next day we reposted something from Twin Oaks. It seemed innocent enough. They had a picture of Debbie from Living Energy Farm LEXing (doing a Labor EXchange) at Twin Oaks. They had the picture, we didn’t. All we got was:
That’s the usual thing Facebook puts when we repost something from Facebook, except there used to be a picture underneath. This time there wasn’t.
Here’s what we wrote followed by what Twin Oaks had on their site.
In spite of the lack of a picture on our site, this did pretty well, with five likes, three loves, one comment, and a hundred and eighty-four views.
I thought that this was just a one-off thing from Facebook, but the next day it happened again with an Instagram repost from Acorn. And we haven’t had any pictures on any reposts since. (Although, if we create the post and add pics, they show up.)
Anyway, here’s the Acorn repost, starting with what I wrote on Facebook.
And here’s some of what Acorn wrote as well as the picture that only showed up on their Instagram page.
It didn’t do great, but I’m not sure if that had anything to do with the lack of a picture on our FB page. It did about as well as our previous Acorn repost, which had a pic. It got five likes, one love, but only ninety-seven views.
I’m not going to complain in future posts, but know that Facebook no longer passes pictures on to our feed, unless we actually put them there.
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