Publicize – Facebook

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  pgbarnes · Member · Sep 24, 2018 at 3:57 pm

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  I have two blogs. I dropped JetPack from one because I couldn’t get it to share my blogposts on facebook. Now I am having the same problem with the other, agediscriminationinemployment.com. It says its connected but it isn’t. If you can’t help me fix this, I’m going to drop JetPack. What a shame that this has become such a problem.

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  staartmees · Member · Sep 24, 2018 at 4:20 pm

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  Did you already read https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publicize-changes/ about the changes Facebook made?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 25, 2018 at 12:33 pm

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  Hi there,

  You have that site connected to a personal profile on Facebook. As of 18 August Facebook no longer allows other services to auto-share content to personal profiles, only to Facebook pages. This is not a Jetpack issue, but a change that Facebook made and which affects all services which auto-share content to Facebook.

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  pgbarnes · Member · Sep 25, 2018 at 3:08 pm

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  Thanks for responding – I see the problem. I guess I either have to post a link on Facebook with each article or go in another direction re. Publicize.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 26, 2018 at 5:24 am

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  Consider creating a Facebook page and inviting your Facebook friends to follow that. But otherwise, manually sharing the links is the only other option to post to a Facebook profile now. Keep in mind that due to Facebook’s news feed algorithms, sharing links manually to your profile make it more likely that your friends will see it in any case – Facebook ranks auto-shared content lower than links that were shared manually.