Update to Social Media Sharing (Facebook) and Expansion (Linkedin)
2 parts:
Please update the function of the Share to Facebook social media icon located on news articles.
For years, Facebook sharing functionality of news articles has been limited to sharing only to one's feed. It does not allow for sharing to Pages one manages or to groups.
Please make it possible for Facebook sharing to have options of selecting to share to any one of the following (as most commonly found among other sites with share buttons)...
- Share to News Feed or Story
- Share on a Friend's Timeline
- Share in a group
- Share in an Event
- Share on a Page You Manage
- Share in a Private Message
...as found with the majority of other sites offering a share button for Facebook and all of which are currently unavailable when using the Facebook share button within Yahoo! Finance (as it automatically posts to and allows only sharing to one's News Feed or Story)
As someone who actively shares financial news in a Facebook group specifically made for posting articles and news findings related to various investments, I have sometimes found myself avoiding looking through Yahoo! Finance for news because of the lack of convenience offered by its social media sharing widget functionality.
5 years ago, I thought that it would someday be "updated" as I'd, on occasion, experience this drawback with smaller, lesser-known or independent news publishers at the time. But, nearly half a decade later, I am still having to copy & paste URLs just to share articles I find on Yahoo! Finance with my investment news Facebook group BUT now, it's only on Yahoo! Finance. The small peers and distant competitors (and of course major peers & competitors) now all open a small pop-up window or new tab for sharing when clicking the icon the share to Facebook icon which will have a drop-down menu selection offering the options mentioned above.
Expand the selection of social media sites available to be shared to.
I am suggesting as feedback, the inclusion of share functionality to sites such as LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Additionally, as a source of financial news and presumably as an operator who hopes to grow its user base, please add sharing to additional social media sites not only to give users more options in where they can share but also to help increase new user traffic to the Yahoo! Finance platform.
LinkedIn has grown to become a social media platform of its own where users can now make status or news feed style posts from their profile and as a network of business professionals, it only seems natural for financial news to be relevant to a growing number of business professionals.
Pinterest allows users to post mini-boards of relevant sites to categories of boards they find interesting or useful. These boards may sometimes include walls of boards with financial news either in general or for a particular company.
In conclusion, if Yahoo! Finance does not condone the use of these other websites and wishes to limit the number of conveniences it can offer its users who would be acting as cost-free promoters of the platform as a resource for financial users by limiting their offerings of social media sites without consideration for other, less prevailing social networks, then it is my belief it will only further hinder the growth of its community.
Thank you for your consideration.
David, DSD Holdings
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