Social media platforms have started to rule over the internet space in the previous few years. There are a number of platforms with individuals are daily users of and it has immensely become a part of their daily lives. Such social media platforms enable users to easily access and stay in touch with the lives of their fellow friends and family an also keep them updated with their own lives.
There are a few social media platforms which are known to be a bit more prominent and influential than some other. Examples of some social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and so the list goes on and on. It has become a trend and a part of today’s world, and keeps various individuals inter-connected and inter-linked with one another. One can easily stay inter-connected by sharing photos and videos of their daily routinely life on these social media platforms. It has become a norm to share the highlights of your day or your routinely updates on all these social media platforms.
There is a chance that your friends and family may not all be following you on all of your social media platforms, so in order to keep a balance some people share their posts from one platform to another. Some individuals may have posted a specific photo of video on Instagram and then you may have seen the same photo or video being shared on Facebook without having to go through separately posting it on Facebook. You may have seen various people do so, which may have gotten you into thinking how do people share their posts from Instagram to Facebook?
So let’s get started with looking into how you too can link your Facebook to Instagram or vice versa.
It is not at all difficult to do so; instead the secret is to cross-link your social media accounts. In this way, when you upload a picture on one platform you can very easily share the photo or video to some other platform. Furthermore, you can also attain more likes and followers on Instagram by doing so, as your Facebook friends may all get notifications. This may save you the time to individually messaging every one of your friends and family to follow you on the said platform.
In order to link your Facebook and Instagram social media accounts so that you can be able to share posts directly onto Facebook from Instagram you must go on your Instagram profile:
- Go to ‘Settings’
- Go to ‘Accounts’
- Then go to ‘Linked Accounts’
- Then tap on ‘Facebook’
- A pop-up box will open where you must enter your Facebook Login Info.
This will automatically link your Facebook and your Instagram account and once you’re the corresponding accounts are linked you can now share your posts onto Facebook as well. You can go onto Instagram and share the posts from the same place you add a caption from.
The post can either be shared on your Facebook profile or on a separate Facebook page which is managed by you.
Doing so will not only enable you to share one post from one social media to another but it will also save you the hassle of having to go through posting the same thing on a different social media platform. You can simply share the same exact post, and you won’t even have to type out or copy paste the same caption to a different social media platform. To add to that, in this way all your friends and family who aren’t using for instance Instagram and are using Facebook can also easily see and have access to the said post. It can save you time and enact as a simple but effective benefit to your social media hassle.
If at any point you want to unlink your Facebook account from your Instagram account this is also possible in the following way listed below:
- Go to your Instagram profile
- Go to ‘Settings’
- Go to ‘Account’ and then on ‘Linked Accounts’
- Tap on ‘Facebook’ and then go and tap on ‘Unlink Account’ or ‘Unlink’
In the way mentioned above it is also possible to unlink both your Facebook and Instagram account from one another.