Rick’s answer: Your friends are right, Billie. Facebook no longer displays the “Share” button on posts that have their privacy levels set to “Friends”. Unfortunately, there’s no way to force the “Share” button to appear on posts that you mark as “Friends. That’s just the way it is now.
5 Ways to Get People to Share Your Content on Facebook
- Ask for it. Yep, it may sound simple enough, but placing a call-to-action at the bottom of your Facebook post can encourage more people to share your stuff. …
- Make them laugh, cry or smile. …
- Go visual. …
- Create a connection. …
- Provide an incentive.
In the top right of Facebook, tap . Scroll down and tap Settings. Scroll down to Privacy and select Privacy Settings. For other things you share on Facebook, you can select the audience before you share.
You can change privacy settings on an individual post that you want to make shareable by clicking the “Privacy” icon next to the post time stamp and selecting either “Friends” or “Public.” Select “Friends” if you want friends to be able to share the post or select “Public” if you want anyone to be able to see the post.
How to ask someone to share something (without being annoying)
- Make sure that you consider the relationship that the sharer has built up with their audience.
- Make your request personal.
- Make it easy for them to share on social media (and make it clear how).
- Be respectful always.
- Give before you ask.
How to Get People to Share Your Content
- Make it easy for people to share your content. …
- Ask them to share it. …
- Use images. …
- Create “round-ups” as blog posts or other content. …
- Write listicles. …
- Write strong headlines. …
- Write long-form content.
If it’s a friend, that’s easy—you just click on the “share” button and tag them in your comment. It can be as simple as “Great post that @Kristen Daukas shared earlier today.” It’s a nice way to give them some credit as well as a compliment for the awesome content that they shared.
How do I change my posts from public to friends on Facebook?
How To Change Privacy Of Old Facebook Posts To ‘Friends Only’
- Open the Facebook App.
- Click More in the bottom right hand corner.
- Scroll to the bottom then Tap Settings.
- Then tap account settings.
- Tap Privacy.
- Tap ‘Limit the audience for posts you’ve shared with friends of friends or public’
Click on the three-dot icon to the top right of the post you want to make shareable. Then, select the Edit Audience option from the drop-down list. A list of audience options will appear. Choose Public from the list of available options to make the post shareable.
Add a Facebook Share button to your site so that your visitors can easily share your site with their Facebook friends.
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To add a Facebook Share button:
- Click Add on the left side of the Editor.
- Click Social.
- Under Facebook, click the Facebook Share button to add it, or drag it to the relevant location.