If you’re like most people, you probably post updates and photos on Instagram and Facebook every day. But what if you don’t want to share all of your posts on both platforms? You can easily automate the process by using a social media sharing tool like Facebook shares. To start, create a new Facebook account and add your Instagram and Facebook accounts. Once you’ve added them, open the social media sharing tool on your Facebook account and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen. On Instagram, select “Share this post” and on Facebook select “Share this post with friends.” Once you’ve shared your post on both platforms, you’ll see a notification in your notifications area on Instagram and Facebook that says “You have shared this post.” If you’re happy with how it looks, tap “Share again.” If not, make sure to fix any errors before sharing again. Now that you’ve automated the process of sharing your posts on Instagram and Facebook, be sure to keep up with the latest trends by following our other articles in our blog series about social media marketing.
For this to work, you’ll first need to link your Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Open the Instagram app on your Android smartphone or iPhone, then tap your profile picture in the bottom-right corner.
Select the three-line menu icon in the top-right corner of the tab to reveal a side menu and head into “Settings.”
At the bottom, tap the blue link for “Accounts Center.”
Visit the “Accounts and Profiles” section.
Here, tap “Add Accounts” and sign in to your Facebook profile.
Once you’ve authenticated yourself, the Instagram app will ask you whether you’d like to enable “connected experiences.”
This will let you cross-post content and access other Facebook functionalities, such as Messenger’s instant messaging features, via Instagram. When you do this, you also allow Facebook to club your data from both platforms to personalize ads and suggest new profiles to follow.
Tap the “Continue” button, then “Finish Setting Up” to proceed.
Go back to the “Accounts Center” and select “Your Story and Posts.”
Under the “Automatically Share” section, toggle on “Your Instagram Story” to cross-post each one of your future Instagram Stories to Facebook. The “Your Instagram Posts” option enables you to do the same for your grid posts.
Apart from a profile, you can even automatically forward your Instagram stories and posts to a Facebook page’s timeline from the “Share to” menu.
In addition to this, now you can also message a Facebook friend from Instagram and vice-versa. However, if you’d like to opt-out of this, you do have the option to block Facebook users from pinging you on Instagram.
