Been annoying me for a while and can't find a solution so thought I'd ask my intelligent friends here . I can't post links in replies to peoples comments on facebook (ie replying to a post in a group or replying to someone's status message etc). If I reply to a post with JUST a link, it will post but on refreshing the page will disappear. If I reply with some text and a link, only the text will be posted, the link will be gone. I have tried it in Firefox and IE and happens in both and have also asked a couple of friends to try it and they can't post replies containing links either. I've tried it with various links so it's not a problem with a specific link.
Anyone else have this? Is it a facebook fault, some setting causing it?
Well after some more experimenting it seems posting any link with no characters AFTER it is when it fails to post. If you follow the link with ANYTHING, even just a space, it posts the link successfully. Also it is only links with a backslash at the end or http at the front that disappear.
So if you copy the link direct from your address bar and post it in a reply - http://www.google.co.uk/ - the link will disappear. But put a space, punctuation or text after the link and it works.
Also both http://www.google.co.uk (no backslash at the end) and www.google.co.uk/ (no http at start) WILL work.
Not a solution as such but an easy workaround, can only assume it's a Facebook coding error
Alan please bare in mind that JD Power was asking for advice and possible workarounds on a certain issue. He wasn't asking for your personal opinion on the program he is using