What I am doing is just posting the link in Facebook just like we do here to show a working watch face. After the preview loads, I just delete the text of the link and write about the watch face. Even if I didn’t have a broken wrist, it is a hassle to take a picture with my phone, transfer it to my computer, edit it down in size and then post it on Facebook.
Any watch faces you see me post is done exactly as I described above.
Thank you for sharing that approach. Maybe I’ll try that. However, considering the complaining and negativity in there lately, I may not return. With all the horrible stuff that is going on in the world, I’m trying to avoid toxic social media. The group is not exactly the fun watch face sharing place that I had hoped it would be.
I totally understand. It seems that some people when on social media lose all sense of respect for others when they can hide in plain sight on the internet. It also seems to be amplified in specialty groups like Facer, sports, cars or any other group you can think of. I just ignore the “trash talk” and try to be helpful whenever possible.
My posts in the Facer group were removed within a few minutes.
Apparently, Facebook just turned on a new “Assistant” to help with spam posts. I received the notification in a group where I am admin. It appears that if you have a brand page, and you share an image from your brand in a group, Facebook considers you to be a spammer.
@Linlay & @kourosh
Probably so they can twist your arm and force you to pay them for advertising on their platform. I run several Facebook pages and they are ALWAYS trying to get me to advertise my pages with them. Like there aren’t enough advertisements on Facebook already…
I agree. Facebook is annoying with their “boosts” for ads.
In my case earlier, one of my posts did not have enough characters in addition to the URL to the watch face (which I figured would be enough). The other one was removed by mistake. To be safe any images that I post will have a slew of interesting facts included with them or I’ll compose a poem for each.
There is one sneaky way around that. If you post the link to your face and then comment on it with the picture you want to use. (Only one per comment sadly) They don’t seem to check the comments just the original post. That is especially true for links to stuff that Facebook doesn’t approve of politically. They tend to be very “woke” on some matters.