sxa's Technical Musings

(If you want to share this post on twitter, feel free to retweet me ) I recently attempted to re-share an end-of-year facebook post from a few years back and add some extra comments in light of 2020. The post I was trying to share had a link in it. When attempting to share that post, the share ONLY included the link from the original post and not the text I'd added to it. I'm not the only one to have seen this - I found this article talking about the same topic - facebook used to have an option to share the original text before the redesign, but it is no longer there. Also their help pages explicitly state : "When a friend shares a link that you posted, they can share the link with a wider audience than you originally shared it with. Keep in mind that any text you added in your post will not be shared"   Why is this a problem? The issue ONLY exists with posts that have links in them. A normal post with just text CAN be shared. If I'm trying to provide reference...

This article, at over 3500 words, is probably too long ... but I had a lot to say on the subject and I feel better having written it. Maybe in lockdown some people will sit down with a cup of tea and scan through it. If you want to do it faster use the Chome spreed plugin since I never got spritz integrated to this blog. What does twitter's "like" ♡♥ mean to you? In 2015 twitter changed the star (favorite) operation to the heart (like). Personally I use the heart as a bookmark operation - it doesn't mean I agree with the tweet, I don't use it as an "I've seen this" acknowledgement, or any of the other reasons mentioned in this 2015 article about the change. In, fact I'm more likely to use it to represent things that have made me think - possibly things I actively disagree with, which makes judging people based on their twitter likes to be a dangerous ans misleading thing to do. The only real problem I have with the way I use likes as bookmarks ...