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March 19

Link to Facebook thread

I found an announcement on a Facebook page that I follow, and I'd like to email a link to it to someone I know face-to-face. Is that possible, or do I have to email my acquaintance the URL for the page and tell him where on that page to look? I wish I could just send http://www.facebook.com/pageURL#section, but I don't know how to find any anchors (the string <a name is completely absent from the page's source code), and all Google gives me when I search for hyperlink facebook post is stuff about putting links into your Facebook posts, not getting links from those posts for elsewhere. <sarcasm>It's as if Facebook thinks its users don't know anything about HTML and email.</sarcasm> Just another reason why I hope "add a share button" never leaves WP:PEREN. Nyttend (talk) 04:28, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Click on the date/time next to the post. That will give you a URL of something like http://www.facebook.com/pageURL/posts/1234, which links direct to that post. --Fuaran buidhe (talk) 16:17, 19 March 2017 (UTC)