Described Link
Everybody shares their link those days.
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Well written document about the Open Graph protocol. Which is first medium result on “Open Graph Medium” google query.
But most link you share is not owned by you. So you have no chance to control the appearence of above box.
What if a link can have it’s description on itself?
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You can describe about the link you sharing on any social media with following service
(technically on medium, you can edit above box, but in most social media service it’s not.)
And you can generate preview for sites do not have open graph tags.
Sharing Link involves intention
Always there is reason when you share a link. It’s your intention, opinion, summary or important view point. Without the your intention, the link is not yours yet.
So they describe it separately at above the link or below the link. It always confuse me which one is better. Sometimes describe it first and send link later, sometimes send link first and describe it later. Why it’s confusing us?
It’s combined thing, so it should sent togeter. It is not separable entities. It’s a single entity.
Historically, it’s written as <a href=”important link”>why it’s important</a>. As you can see on HTML, the description and the link is combined. But, we started to share the “important link” only on social media service. Description is disappeared on social media. On HTML era, link always have description with it.
So, they invented the Open Graph Protocol to add description again on the URL. But problem is the URL owner and the Intention owner is different entity. I have some other opinion about the link, but link is floating around without my opinion, just with it’s own opinion when I just share it.
Let’s merge them togeter again.
With this service we can share our intention truly again. Likes HTML era. A link with different opinion is different link. It can’t be same one.
