Facebook gives Adobe Flash Player error message

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Facebook gives error Flash message when sharing website link

I was getting pretty frustrated this time. After adding some new features to my client's site, Facebook started giving me this error flash message which was not there before. And it did not make sense because I already had an existing flash component on the site when it worked well.

Adobe Flash error when sharing link on Facebook

The most ridiculous thing was finding out that removing every single flash component on the site did not seem to improve anything. Until after some hair pulling and intensive searching, I finally found just the answer I needed.

Taking a lead from another site, I outline the steps below (which you can add to your home page):

This changes the Title that appears when you share the link:

<meta name="title" content="Title of Article Here" />

This changes the description:

<meta name="description" content="Description of article here" />

And this links to an image of your choice:

<link rel="image_src" type="image/jpeg" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/image/path.jpg"/>

The important bit that causes many people frustration comes here, because you have to proceed on to a Facebook tool called Lint, AFTER you make your above edits. This is to update Facebook's cache about your changes. Otherwise, it won't be reflected and you will end up pulling out hair like me.

Additional Links: 
Html special characters to place in your description. Eg Open and close quotes "".
Facebook Lint Tool
Facebook discussion thread on the thumbnail image when sharing