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DO you find yourself posting the same thing to both Twitter and Facebook? There’s a simple way to automate that, without cross-posting every single update.

Login to Facebook, and go to the app page for the third-party Selective Tweets app. Enter your Twitter username into the box there, and click Save. Then, go to Twitter and log out. Now log back in. (If you don’t do this, you’ll get an error message telling you to log out the first time you try to cross-post.)

From now on, any Twitter post to which you append the Twitter hashtag #fb at the very end will also appear on your Facebook profile page. If you include a link URL in your update, and Twitter automatically shortens it to a link from the t.co domain, the shortened URL will also appear on your Facebook page.

The best part is that if you don’t bother to add the #fb hashtag, your post won’t go to Facebook. Twitter and Facebook have had cross-posting capability for years, letting you post from either one to the other, but those features require that every single status update goes to both places. That can become annoying to your Facebook friends, to the point where they stop reading you.

Judicious use of the #fb tag may make them more attentive to the fewer items that you do cross-post.