Ho Ching, Temasek Holdings CEO and wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, took to Facebook on Monday (April 11) with an "embarrassed apolog(y)" for posting a cheeky photo of a monkey flipping the bird on Sunday (April 10).

The timing was unfortunate as it was on the same afternoon that the Lee family saga happened to be unfolding close by.

In case you're wondering what this is all about, it was this:

The post was already removed by Ho.

And, as it turned out, this was originally from a People's Daily tweet that she retweeted to her own Twitter account:

So Ho explained that she was experimenting with the different parts of a tweet and the buttons involved, and happened to end up posting the picture by itself, sans all-important caption, especially on that particular afternoon, to her Facebook page.

And as with most of her posts, it was set to "public".

Mayhem ensued.

Now, even after her apology and explanation, it seems certain critical readers among the Facebook community remained sceptical.

"But it didn't say 'via Twitter'!" "But when you share a tweet to Facebook the post should carry the link!"

Instead of getting angry, the wise wife of PM Lee saw this as a learning opportunity for everyone.

Her eight-step guide to sharing to Facebook from Twitter now follows:

1. What a shared tweet link looks like:

2. What it looks like to share a photo from a tweet:

3. Explain step one in captions accompanying repeated version of step one:

4. Repeat with step two:

5. Didn't get that? She demonstrates using a second tweet.

6. Repeat step 4, adding postscript explaining the difference between the two ways of sharing the photo:

7. Now, these aren't the only two ways of sharing the photo. Post and explain:

8. And for good measure, explore and explain all possible ways of sharing all content from that one tweet:

And that, friends, is why Ho has absolutely zero need for anyone to fight her battles for her:

The end.

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Top photo from Ho Ching's Facebook page.

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