Facebook Video-Sharing Oddity: Bug, Or Test?

Some Facebook users are experiencing an unusual situation with posts from pages that contain either videos or links to videos on YouTube, where the posts in their News Feeds do not include the ability to share them, but the posts on the actual pages include two share options.

NoShareVideo650Some Facebook users are experiencing an unusual situation with posts from pages that contain either videos or links to videos on YouTube, where the posts in their News Feeds do not include the ability to share them, but the posts on the actual pages include two share options.

Reader Piotr Łój shared the video below, illustrating the lack of share options on posts on his News Feed (see screenshot above), but the presence of two share links on the actual page posts (see screenshot below) — one that brings up the social network’s traditional share menu, and another that brings up the HTML share popup that usually appears on sites outside of Facebook.

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