Warning : Written on a Saturday morning before a cup of coffee. Ignore the typos.
I use Facebook quite actively and this is something that I just noticed yesterday. I am pretty sure this feature was rolled out sometimes yesterday cause I had not seen it before. I have yet to see anyone talk about it and there could be two reason for that – either I am way behind and this is old news (which I doubt) or people are not realizing how awesome this little feature is and how it can tremendously help boost your fanpage.
If you have noticed, before when you shared a link from a fanpage on your profile, it wouldn’t say where it came from unless you added “via” yourself. Most people don’t care to add that cause they just want to share the link and aren’t really worried about giving credit to the fanpage where they found it. Besides, many don’t know how to tag people or fanpage yet on Facebook (just add @ and type in the name for example : If i am your friend on Facebook just type @r and you should see all the people with the “r” in their name and choose one. You can type in the full name, first name, whatever.)
Anyways, this is what it looks like when you share links from the fanpage now,
When you share links and the share window opens, you have the option to either give the page credit or remove the “via” option. By default the via option is active so you have to manually remove if you choose not to give credit (not giving credit is a very douchebag act by the way)
This came into effect yesterday (at least for me). I checked the profile pages to see if they had activated this feature when sharing from profiles, but it wasn’t. However, this morning I checked my wife’s page and there it was, this feature has been now activated for profile as well. So if someone shares links from you profile, it will show the “via” option unless they remove it. If you are one of those people who likes the whole privacy things and doesn’t want others to see everything you share, might want to keep you profile private. I keep everything public so I don’t give a rat’s ass. Anyways, here is an example showing this feature when shared from profile
Like I said before, this feature might seem small but it will have huge impact when it comes to visibility, especially for fanpages. If 5 people share links from a fanpage now by default it will show via and fanpage name on someone’s profile. That option wasn’t there before unless you added it manually. If you have a popular fanpage or one people regularly share links from, you should see some good growth coming your way.
Anyways, it’sSaturday morning and I haven’t grabbed my cup of coffee yet. Just wanted to let you in on this. Have a good one.
By the way, what do you think of this feature? I find this one of the best and most useful feature, although small the impact is big.
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Hi, My name is Ritu. I am a member of SMA (Social Media Anonymous) ;-) & help bloggers and businesses utilize the social web. 
Hi Ritu, agree with you that this is a very useful little feature. Hopefully people will not remove that option all the time.
I haven’t been able to figure this out. How do you use the via feature to share links on your fanpage? I can only post them to my personal profile. The only way I can post links to my fanpage that I figured out is simply copying and pasting the link but I would like to give credit where credit is due, especially if it is someone else’s FB page.