{"id":163953,"date":"2015-11-02T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=163953"},"modified":"2015-11-02T07:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:17:33","slug":"facebook-just-made-it-easier-to-share-content-from-other-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=163953","title":{"rendered":"Facebook just made it easier to share content from other apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is redesigning the way its iOS users share content from third-party apps inside of Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The social network showed off a new share extension for iOS Wednesday that makes it easier for people to control what they are sharing and who they share updates with.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-also\"><\/div>\n<p>Share extensions are used by third-party apps to allow their users to share content back to Facebook. While this functionality has existed within iOS for some time, the experience up until now hasn&#8217;t always been great, Facebook product manager Alyssa Levitz explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew we had a lot of room for improvements to make this a better experience for people,&#8221; she said, noting that, with the previous version of the extension, tagging friends, seeing previews of posts and filtering who is able to see shared posts wasn&#8217;t as intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>The new share extension addresses all of these issues.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"microcontent-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"microcontent-shares\" data-description=\"\" data-fragment=\"m!35b6\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzEwLzI4L2FlLzEyMDU2OTc1XzExLjUzOGExLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/f685edcf\/2dd\/12056975_1104268859584079_1347368701_n-640x494.png\" data-url=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"12056975_1104268859584079_1347368701_n\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzEwLzI4L2FlLzEyMDU2OTc1XzExLjUzOGExLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/f685edcf\/2dd\/12056975_1104268859584079_1347368701_n-640x494.png\" alt=\"12056975_1104268859584079_1347368701_n\" width=\"417\" height=\"322\" data-credit-link=\"\" data-credit-name=\"Facebook\" data-credit-label=\"\" data-credit-provider=\"Custom type\" data-caption=\"\" data-width=\"640\" data-fragment=\"m!35b6\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzEwLzI4L2FlLzEyMDU2OTc1XzExLjUzOGExLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/f685edcf\/2dd\/12056975_1104268859584079_1347368701_n-640x494.png\" data-micro=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The new sharing feature, which is rolling out Wednesday to developers that already use the existing share extension, makes sharing from third-party apps feel much more like sharing on Facebook itself. You can easily tag friends, choose whether you want to share a post publicly, with friends or with a select group of people, and you can see a full preview of the post before you push it out. Additionally, the extension will continue to allow users to share from apps even if they haven&#8217;t shared their Facebook credentials with the service.<\/p>\n<p>Though it may seem like a relatively minor change, it represents a huge opportunity for the company. Facebook users shared more than 50 billion pieces of content form third-party apps in the last year, Levitz said, so making the process just a little easier and more engaging stands to have a big impact on how people share to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8211;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is redesigning the way its iOS users share content from third-party apps inside of Facebook. 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