Links are an easy way of sharing something that you like. Link feature can be use to share videos, songs, sites, or pages.
There are four main ways to link external content to your profile:
1. Click “Share Link” in the Publisher, which is located on your home page and on your profile. Enter a URL from an external site into the bar, and select the “Preview” link. Make changes if necessary and click the ‘Post’ button.
2. Go to the Links page which is bookmarked in the Applications menu or the Links tab, enter a URL from an external site into the box located at the right sidebar, and click “Post”, or make changes if necessary, and select “Post.” If you don’t see the text box to enter links, search for “See more links” link which might be located on the top or bottom left of the Links page. Click on it, then the text box will appear just above the image shown below.
3. On partner websites, you will find a “Share on Facebook” link. Clicking on those links will generate a Share Box in a pop up window, where you can select “Post to Profile” and click “Post.”
4. Go to the Links Page and drag the “Share on Facebook” bookmarlet, located on the right of the page, to your browser’s bookmarks bar. Whenever you are on a site and find something you’d like to share, click on the bookmarklet, select “Post to Profile, and click “Post.”
You can also share your links as a message to specific people instead of publishing it.
All the links that you post will be listed in your Links page. You can share them again and again by using the “Share” link. Sometimes, in some links you will see a “(No Title)” instead of the link’s URL. In that case, enter the full URL of the link i.e. http://www.yourlink.com. This seems to solve the “No Title” problem most of the times.
Deleting Links
If you want to retain your links in the links page but don’t want them on your profile wall, you can go and remove the published link from your profile wall. Deleting from your Links page will permanently delete the link from your account and your profile. To delete a link, click on the “Remove” button that appears to the right side of a link.
I guess, that sums up a little tutorial on using the Link feature in Facebook.
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