# What's up with Facebook posts using images instead of text?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731 "2017-05-30T19:49:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/1 "2017-05-30T19:49:08Z")
Following up on another thread…
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Facebook posts that are just plain, unadorned text on a solid-color image background, instead of an actual text status update.
Why?
What advantage does this confer?
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/2 "2017-05-30T19:53:13Z")
Facebook has instituted the capability of adding background colors to your posts.
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### Author:  [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/3 "2017-05-30T19:55:59Z")
OH!
Shit, all this time I thought they were images.
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/4 "2017-05-30T20:08:18Z")
It’s oddly jarring and annoying, isn’t it?
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### Author:  [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/5 "2017-05-30T20:25:19Z")
Yes, it is.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/6 "2017-05-30T20:37:05Z")
> [@Renee](#):
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> It’s oddly jarring and annoying, isn’t it?
the definition of “facebook”
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/7 "2017-06-01T15:33:37Z")
It allows everyone to do something to stand out, which means now nobody stands out.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-facebook-posts-using-images-instead-of-text/787731/8 "2017-06-01T17:16:17Z")
Tom’s Law: As a social service grows in prominence, its similarity to MySpace approaches infinity.