How to Link Your Facebook Account to Instagram

• You can link your facebook and instagram accounts if you want to post instagram posts directly to your facebook account.
• When you link your accounts, you can also will alert your facebook friends that you’re on instagram, making it easy to get followers.
• linking your facebook account to instagram is quick and easy, as long as you have their facebook login information at hand, and you can unlink accounts just as easily.
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Have you ever wondered how people share their instagram posts on facebook?

The secret is to link your accounts; That way, when you create posts (or edit them), you can direct Instagram to share your photo or video on that other platform.

Also, linking your accounts can send a notification to your facebook friends that you are now on instagram. that makes it easier to get followers from that network without having to send a “follow me” message.

here is how to link facebook and instagram accounts on your iphone or android.

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how to link facebook to instagram

This is a quick and easy process, just make sure you have your facebook login information handy.

1. open instagram and switch to your account profile (located in the bottom toolbar).

2. touch the three bars and select “settings”.

3. tap “account” and then select “linked accounts”.

4. tap “facebook” and log in your facebook account to confirm that you want to link your facebook account with instagram.

Before you share any post, keep in mind that if you have a private instagram, anything you share on other social networks, like facebook, will become public.

If you want to unlink your facebook account from your instagram account, you’ll need to go through the same general process. the only difference would come in the final step: instead of logging in to facebook, you would tap “unlink account” (for iphone) or “unlink” (for android).

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  how to delete or archive instagram posts from your account

  how to edit an instagram post to change the title, tag people, add a location or edit the ‘alt text’

  how to disconnect your instagram account from facebook