Perhaps someone out there can explain to me why I can insert a link into this image when I do it on this Word press site but when I try to do the same thing on Facebook it doesn’t work, bearing in mind I am not a computer whizz kid any suggestions in very plain and simple language would be much appreciated.
I tried before on Facebook and it wouldn’t let me as it thought I was trying to get “likes” by underhand means whereas all I was trying to do was redirect people to my book page to give them the option of purchasing a book. See below.
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Joe Wells
8 Nov 2024
Having said that Facebook does seem to be behaving rather strangely lately as when trying to click on a “laugh” emoji it only offers a “like” which is not appropriate when replying to a joke, also when typing, it keeps coming up with pop up suggestions as to what I may be wanting to write and virtually every time it is nothing to do with the word, the first three letters of which I have written.
With my limited computer skills, I suppose I should be grateful that I have made the link work here and not be getting ideas above my station trying to make it work elsewhere but I can’t help being an optimist!
I am a retired actor, although to be honest I only retired because I wasn't getting any work due to losing my agent when I became a full time carer to my mother who had dementia. and the option of becoming an unemployed actor/waiter at my age was ludicrous, especially as my waiting skills are non-existent.
Having said I’m retired, I don’t think there really is such a thing as a retired actor for I am still available for work, I just don’t have an agent or any connections with regards to obtaining any worthwhile work.
I have over the years done student films when there is nothing else available, always low paid (if at all) the only incentive was always the promised copy of the finished film for your show reel which nine times out of ten always failed to materialise.
I spent many years looking after my aged mother and shortly after her death I was lucky enough to run into an ex-girlfriend of many years ago and our romance blossomed once again, resulting in us getting married in 2013.
My move to the countryside inspired me to write The Diary of a Country Bumpkin which tells of my continuing dilemmas in dealing with the rigors of the countryside from the unexpectedly large number of pollens, fungal moulds and hay products waiting to attack the unsuspecting townie.
I enjoy writing, see my play Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori on The Wireless Theatre Company, The Plays Wot I Wrote and The Battle of Barking Creek both available on Amazon.co.uk and am very fond of classic cars so my ideal occupation would be acting in a film I had written set in the 1930s/40s, we live in hopes.
I am delighted to say that since venturing to the countryside where space is not quite the premium it is in town, I have due to the availability of two double garages acquired more classic cars to form a small collection the pride of which are a 1947 Bentley Mk VI and a 2000 Bentley Arnage.
My various blogs and websites are continually evolving and I’m sure that by following the appropriate links you will find something which will edify or amuse.
I have written a number of different books all available on Amazon, so don't be shy should you feel the urge to purchase. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Joe-Wells/e/B06XKWFQHT/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
I left social media a few years ago, so I’m unfamiliar with its rules. Have you tried inserting the image and then following it with the link? Or could you try inserting the image with the link already attached?
It’s getting to a point where I’m hoping I don’t live to a ridiculous old age as it’s this nonsense is driving me mad now, God knows what it will be like in another twenty year or so! Talking of old age I was watching the remembrance day yesterday and they said there were only eleven surviving veterans left and they interviewed one called Christian Lamb, a woman of 104 years old who was as sharp as a pin who was involved in the planning for the D Day landings. When they told her she was one of eleven and asked what she thought, she said, I’d like to meet the other ten!
The Diary of a Country Bumpkin 
I am at a loss. I need help. I will check back later to see responses you get!
Sorry, no solutions here Joe. Facebook seems to be falling apart anyway!
I was looking for a logical answer, but I know in this day and age that’s a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack!
I left social media a few years ago, so I’m unfamiliar with its rules. Have you tried inserting the image and then following it with the link? Or could you try inserting the image with the link already attached?
I’ve done both of those, the thing they dislike is the link sending people off my page to somewhere else.
I’m sorry about that, Joe.
They need to have someone in charge of logic when it comes to social media.
A pub here in Yorkshire named the Black Bull has had its Face Book page removed because Facebook says the name is infringing copyright!
It’s getting to a point where I’m hoping I don’t live to a ridiculous old age as it’s this nonsense is driving me mad now, God knows what it will be like in another twenty year or so! Talking of old age I was watching the remembrance day yesterday and they said there were only eleven surviving veterans left and they interviewed one called Christian Lamb, a woman of 104 years old who was as sharp as a pin who was involved in the planning for the D Day landings. When they told her she was one of eleven and asked what she thought, she said, I’d like to meet the other ten!
I watched it, she was wonderful!
There isn’t an angry button I can press here!
If I’m like her if I make 104 that would be more then adequate!