If you manage both a Facebook page and a LinkedIn account, you've done this before: write a post on Facebook, open a new tab for LinkedIn, paste the text, re-upload the image, fix the formatting, then publish again. Same content. Double the work. And if you're doing this across multiple accounts or more than a few times per week, the time cost compounds fast.
There are three ways to handle this and they are not equal. One is a manual workaround that works but doesn't scale. The other two let you publish to both platforms simultaneously, or automate the process entirely. This guide ranks all three so you can choose what fits your workflow.
Why Sharing Facebook Posts to LinkedIn Is Worth Doing
Facebook and LinkedIn serve different audiences. Facebook skews toward community, lifestyle, and brand personality; LinkedIn rewards professional context, industry insight, and thought leadership. But for businesses, creators, and marketers, there's meaningful overlap.
A product announcement, a company update, a behind-the-scenes post, or an industry take can resonate on both platforms if the audience follows you in both places. Cross-posting expands your reach without requiring a separate content strategy for each channel. The question isn't whether to cross-post. It's which method costs the least time per post.
Method #1: Copy the Link Manually (Not Recommended)
The simplest method to explain, and the slowest to execute at scale.
1. Open the Facebook post you want to share.
2. Click the three-dot menu and select Copy link (or copy the post text directly).
3. Open LinkedIn, create a new post, paste the content, re-upload any images, and publish.
This works. It requires no tools and no setup. But you're doing the full publishing job twice: two tabs, two uploads, two sets of formatting checks. If your post includes an image, the aspect ratios differ between platforms, so what looks right on Facebook may be cropped or misaligned on LinkedIn.
For occasional one-off sharing, this is fine. As a recurring workflow, it's a time sink that grows with every platform you want to reach.
Best for: One-off sharing when no scheduling tool is available.
Method #2: Use Circleboom Publish (Recommended)
This is the method that eliminates the double-work entirely.
Circleboom Publish lets you connect your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts and manage both from a single dashboard. Instead of creating the post on Facebook and then manually repeating the process on LinkedIn, you create it once in Circleboom Publish and share it to both platforms at the same time.
How to do it
1. Connect your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts to Circleboom Publish.
2. From the dashboard, create a new post.
3. Select both your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts as the destinations.
4. Write your content and attach any images or media.
5. Publish immediately or schedule for later.
Both platforms receive the post at exactly the same time — same content, same image, same publish moment — without any duplication on your end.
Why this beats the manual method
The shift here is subtle but important: you're not sharing *from* Facebook *to* LinkedIn. You're creating content in one place and distributing it to both. That means you only manage one composer, one schedule, and one upload. LinkedIn and Facebook are just destinations you select.
It also means you can add other platforms to the same post without extra steps. If you also want the post to go to Instagram or Twitter, you select those accounts too, same workflow, broader reach.
Best for: Anyone publishing to both Facebook and LinkedIn on a regular cadence. Once your accounts are connected, this becomes the default way you post, not a special step you take when you remember to share across platforms.
→ Connect your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts in Circleboom Publish and start posting to both at once
Method #3: RSS Feed Automation (Best for High-Volume Publishers)
If you publish blog articles, news content, or anything with an RSS feed, Circleboom's RSS Feed connection removes the publishing step from your workflow entirely.
Connect a feed URL to your Circleboom account, select which platforms should receive new entries — Facebook, LinkedIn, or both — and configure how often Circleboom should check for updates. Every time a new item appears in the feed, it's published automatically to the connected platforms. Set it up once, and distribution runs in the background.
How to set it up
1. In Circleboom, navigate to the RSS Feed section.
2. Paste your feed URL.
3. Select Facebook and LinkedIn as the target platforms.
4. Set the check interval and any formatting preferences.
New content in the feed is distributed automatically from that point forward. No scheduling, no manual posting, no remembering to share across channels.
Best for: Blogs, media publications, and content-heavy accounts that publish frequently and want Facebook and LinkedIn distribution to happen without intervention.
Queue Scheduling: When You Want Structure Without Full Automation
Between scheduling posts one at a time and full RSS automation, Queue Scheduling in Circleboom gives you a middle option: set recurring time slots for each platform and fill them in batches.
Define your preferred posting times — say, Tuesday and Thursday at 9am and 2pm — and drop posts into the queue whenever you're creating content. Circleboom fills the slots in order and publishes automatically. You control the cadence; Circleboom handles the timing.
This is useful if you batch-create content once a week and want consistent posting without managing exact publish dates for every individual post.
Tips for Cross-Posting Facebook Content to LinkedIn
Cross-posting saves time, but Facebook and LinkedIn audiences are not identical. A few adjustments stretch the same content further on each platform:
Reframe the opening line. Facebook posts often start conversationally. LinkedIn rewards a clear professional hook — a counterintuitive claim, a result, or a specific problem — in the first two lines, because that's what shows before the "see more" cutoff.
Adjust hashtag use. On LinkedIn, 3–5 focused, relevant hashtags extend reach. On Facebook, hashtags carry much less weight — one or two at most, or none.
Check your media dimensions. Facebook and LinkedIn handle image aspect ratios differently. A square or portrait image works well on both, but landscape images may be cropped differently. Review the preview in Circleboom's composer before scheduling.
Watch the link behavior. Both platforms generate link previews, but the preview card dimensions and click behavior differ. If the link preview looks wrong on one platform, paste the URL at the end rather than in the body and let the preview generate from there.
Circleboom's per-platform text editor — accessible directly from the Cross Posting modal — lets you make these adjustments without leaving the composer or managing separate drafts.
Which Method Is Right for You?
| Your situation | Best method |
|---|---|
| Occasional, one-off sharing | Manual copy-paste |
| Regular posting to Facebook + LinkedIn (and other platforms) | Circleboom Publish |
| Blog or news site that publishes frequently | Circleboom RSS Feed Automation |
| Batching content weekly with a set schedule | Circleboom Queue Scheduling |
Stop Managing Facebook and LinkedIn as Two Separate Workflows
The manual copy-paste approach is fine for a one-time share. It's a poor default for anyone maintaining a consistent presence on both platforms, the time cost is real and it compounds every week.
Circleboom Publish solves this at the source. Connect your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts once, and from that point you create posts in a single dashboard and send them to both platforms at the same time. The RSS Feed automation goes a step further for high-output publishers who want distribution to happen entirely in the background.
Both options take a few minutes to set up and save that time back on every post after.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I share a Facebook post to LinkedIn for free?
The manual copy-paste method (Method #1) is free and requires no tools. To publish to both platforms simultaneously or automate the process, you'll need a Circleboom account.
Does Circleboom post to both Facebook and LinkedIn at the same time?
Yes. With Circleboom Publish, you connect your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, create a post, select both as destinations, and publish, both platforms receive it simultaneously.
What other platforms does Circleboom Publish support?
In addition to Facebook and LinkedIn, Circleboom Publish supports Instagram, Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, and more.
Do I need separate accounts connected for each platform?
Yes. Each platform needs to be connected once in Circleboom Publish. After that, you select which connected accounts receive each post at the time of creation.
Can I customize the post text for LinkedIn versus Facebook?
Yes. You can write different captions for each destination platform within the same post creation workflow.
Updated July 2026. Originally published June 2022.
