# Share to social & sharing without annotations **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Tags:** sharing, pdf-annotations\ **Created:** [February 27, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179 "2021-02-27T00:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alis\_campbell](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/alis_campbell/32/2879_2.png) [@alis\_campbell](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/alis_campbell)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179/1 "2021-02-27T00:54:00Z")
I share a lot of papers with labmates/supervisor and want to share links to PDFs, but I do an obnoxious amount of highlighting that it not useful to anyone else. My first question is: Why is the default to send links to PDFs with personal annotations? And will there every be an option to send without? Second, I had the thought to send a link to the paper’s website instead using the Share to social, but when I do that it only shows a single red Google+ button that is broken because Google+ has been discontinued. Is something wrong? Any ideas for other workarounds for the time being is appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![vicente](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/vicente/32/3791_2.png) [@vicente](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/vicente)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179/2 "2021-02-27T17:39:44Z")
Thanks for the query, @alis_campbell. This [has come up before](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-link-to-pdf-without-annotations/1582) and been on our backlog since then. It is still planned - currently the team is working on a complete rewrite of our sharing system which once released will facilitate implementing the ability to share PDFs without annotations. Adding your +1 to the topic on our tracker for their consideration. As for sharing to social, we do need to remove the `G+` button but the Twitter / Facebook options should be there. Do they not appear on your end? ![image](https://forum.paperpile.com/uploads/default/original/2X/1/15efe9f9558fae0d2046c0aa2318e0819aca40ce.png) ---
**Author:** ![alis\_campbell](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/alis_campbell/32/2879_2.png) [@alis\_campbell](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/alis_campbell)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179/3 "2021-02-27T18:55:51Z")
That’s great news about the work being done to the sharing system! I only ever see the G+ icon! I’ve tried several times. ![image](https://forum.paperpile.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9d6f05e959fd1fa8a968f2011d8809d0d4ba9c01.png) ---
**Author:** ![vicente](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/vicente/32/3791_2.png) [@vicente](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/vicente)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179/4 "2021-03-03T02:55:51Z")
Thanks for the detail, @alis_campbell. It turns out we are actually discontinuing the `Share to social` function due to the bugginess you’ve experienced and its low usage. I don’t have alternatives to offer at the moment other than regular link-sharing, sorry! ---
**Author:** ![alis\_campbell](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/alis_campbell/32/2879_2.png) [@alis\_campbell](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/alis_campbell)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179/5 "2021-03-03T05:32:33Z")
Hi @vicente. That all makes sense. Thanks for looking into it, though, and for letting me know that updates are still on the roadmap! ---
**Author:** ![Kai](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/kai/32/2819_2.png) [@Kai](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/Kai)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/share-to-social-sharing-without-annotations/6179/6 "2021-04-18T16:45:43Z")
I am also looking forward to this function that allows us to share a version of the pdf without my personal annotation. Please keep us posted on this update. Thank you!