Should we all hand copy our questions to Facebook and Twitter?

If we all did, Google and Bing would index far more of the answers here, and we’d establish a regular flow of new users signing up to keep Fluther alive and active enough to be fun and useful in obtaining answers.

On your Facebook Timeline page (if you click your image or screen name on your Facebook main page, or the Timeline link, that will take you to your timeline) you will see a blank input at center page, just below the banner, with the Status tab generally selected. If you copy and paste your question’s URL into the Status input, Facebook will follow it and bring the Fluther logo in as a picture, and the beginnings of your Question and Details plus a link. Once that’s there, you can either delete the original URL you pasted in, or replace it with some introductory text. Hit the “Post” button when it’s just like you want it.

Twitter is even easier. In the new tweet blank at the upper left of your Twitter main page, you simply paste in your question (without details) followed by a space and the URL to the question. Like the following:
Should we all hand copy our questions to Facebook and Twitter? http://www.fluther.com/166234/should-we-all-hand-copy-our-questions-to-facebook-and-twitter/

When you are happy with it, hit the Tweet button. Twitter auto shortens the URL so unless your question itself is inordinately long, the question and URL will fit in the 140 character limit just fine.

One word of warning. If you want to keep your Fluther personality separate from the ones you use on Facebook and/or Twitter, then don’t post to them. Anyone finding your post there and following the link will find your Fluther user name. Personally, I have no problem with that, and so I do share my questions on both Facebook and Twitter. For Fluther’s sake; lest we become the next Social Q&A site to go the way of Google Answers, AOL’s Propeller, or Amazon’s Askville—all now defunct—won’t those of you who safely can share your Fluther questions on Facebook and Twitter?

Happy tweeting and Facebook posting.