Why does my link says that my blog is private when it's not?

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  nellobert · Member · Nov 29, 2011 at 11:27 pm

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  Before I released my blog I changed my integrity settings to private. Just before I released it I changed it to be visible for everyone. Here’s the problem:
  When I copy the http://-adress of my blog’s homepage to Facebook, it says that it is a private blog and you need a password. Although you can click the link and get to my blog, but it looks ugly and I want to get rid of it. I hope I don’t have to re-make my blog to fix this problem..
  I hope you guys could help me!
  Blog url: http://samuelsmagasin.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 30, 2011 at 12:12 am

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  Facebook has some rather annoying internal caching. Your blog is public, but Facebook thinks it’s private because it was before.

  You’ll need to wait for their cache to clear out, though I have had some luck with asking another friend to share a post first.

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  nellobert · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 12:21 am

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  For how long will this cache last?
  Fortunately I managed to find a way around. Instead of the http://-address I typed the ordinary www-address and it worked! Thanks for the help anyway :)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 30, 2011 at 12:23 am

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  I don’t know how long it will last. That’s all controlled on Facebook’s end, but I’d guess maybe a day, probably less.

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  nellobert · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 1:06 am

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  Okay.. it has been going on for like 2-3 days atm..

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 30, 2011 at 1:20 am

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  Have you tried the trick of asking another friend to share a post from your blog?

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  nellobert · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 10:10 am

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  Nah, not yet.. but maybe I’ll try it later if the problem still remains.