how do i get a thumbnail to appear when i refer to my blog on facebook?

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  everythingbaby1 · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 9:13 pm

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  if i reference the blog on facebook, no thumbnail appears. i have also used the share button on the front page of the blog and again, no thumbnail….please help!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 9:27 pm

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  Unfortunately, we have no control over the images that Facebook chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include. From: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/avalaible-facebook-thumbnail-issue?replies=7#post-1000734

  This may help: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
  from: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fb-link-has-no-thumbnails?replies=4#post-936861

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  everythingbaby1 · Member · Feb 17, 2013 at 10:17 pm

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  so there isn’t anything i can do on wordpress to fix this? i have run the debugger from within facebook, i guess that still might take a while to resolve?