Please Don’t Share My Image
Mark Williams
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Posting image status updates has become very popular on LinkedIn and for good reasons, the size of an image update is 5x the size of the thumbnail image taken from a linked web page so it is far more likely to be seen by your connections/followers.
You can easily add the link to your text, delete the thumbnail link that appears and then add your image by clicking on the image link as shown below, therefore getting the best of both worlds.
I’m a big fan of image updates but there is a problem……
I noticed this response to an update on my home page today;
Can you see what has happened here?
Laurel has chosen to 'share' an image update from someone called Nikky Holland, the problem is that as far as Violeta is concerned, this is an image update from Laurel with a comment that in isolation, doesn't really make much sense!
To make sense of this you need to go to Nikky's recent activity to see the original image update which looked like this;
Once you see the text before the image, it makes sense so how has this happened?
This problem has been created by Laurel clicking on 'share' underneath the image rather than liking or commenting on it.
For reasons that only LinkedIn could know, they have decided that image updates that are shared only reproduce the image, not the accompanying text.
Crazy or what?
This is a classic case of a designer/programmer not fully understanding how a feature will be used in practice. An image often only tells part of the story and will need some supporting text for it to make sense.
This is just simply bad design and will I’m sure, be fixed soon.
Solution
In the meantime, can I politely suggest you don’t share my or anyone else's image updates.... but please feel free to comment or like them!
Mark Williams has been an independent LinkedIn Trainer since 2008.
He delivers workshops to organisations from SME's to large corporates on how to use LinkedIn effectively for sales, recruitment, marketing, job seeking and general networking.
He also provides help, advice and online tutorials for business owners and sales people wanting to grow their business through LinkedIn at Winbusinessin.com and currently presents two LinkedIn podcasts on iTunes LinkedInformed and Winbsuinessin.
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7yInteresting - FB works the same way. I agree, feels like a ux fail, but quite possible that there is some rationale for the design that we're not seeing. Maybe a 'share with context' button? Also, so cool to see Violeta Balhas as part of your case study
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7yMark Williams, thank you for the LinkedIn snafu. Now I will know this going forward. I love learning!
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7yThis.
That Grimsby florist off LinkedIn ; I design and create beautiful gift bouquets for the people you want to make smile. 🌷
7yHey Jo Jo Saunders, thankyou, but I'll tell you another really buggy little thing. I'm checking my notifications just now and see that you've tagged me in a reply to my above comment, as always I'm using the app, I click on it but it only shows the comments, but not the replies. I know it'll be a good one (thankyou!) so I tracked it down in my Spam folder of emails, hiding. If you hadn't tagged me in your reply it wouldn't send a notification and I'd never have seen it. Who would have thought it necessary to tag someone's name in a reply just to enable them for it to be seen. They need to learn sooooooo much from the seamless Facebook app experience, which is entirely usable. Why can't we edit comments, why can't we post pics in comments? (so useful) . Get with it, app developers, thanks Mark Williams for allowing me to rant!
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7yI was recording lectures for my 7,000 students on how to comment & share photos on LinkedIn. So funny where my stuff shows up LOL PS you didn't mention the impact not sharing as well has on the algorithm?