Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”? Are you sure?
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
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Marcel Wichmann Oliver Reichenstein (@iA) on sharing buttons. I've removed them on my blog two weeks ago and nobody noticed. My main reason for removing them was their appearance and behavior. I'm glad I've got rid of them.
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Martin Wolf I'm planning to do the same since nobody uses them anyway. Furthermore I hate their Javascript. I'm sure loading times will speed up.
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Florian Eckerstorfer I also thought about removing the social buttons, but in the end I decided to load the buttons in my new layout with Socialite.js ( socialitejs.com/). The buttons only load when the user hovers over the article which is really improving the loading time compared to the standard implementation. The reason why I keep them is that it is easier to "share" an article using the buttons than copying the link and posting them on Facebook. Just last week an article got approximately 100 likes on a single day which resulted in 200 page visits on that day. I don't know if that would happened if the button would have not been there.
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
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Kevin Niedermayr Word! Never had these buttons below an article!
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
Don’t worry. These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”?
You don’t want a cheap thumbs up, you want your readers to talk about your content with their own voice.
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Luca Hammer Kill those Social Media Buttons.
These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”? Are you sure?
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martinschmidler Plädoyer für das Entfernen von Sharing-Buttons.
Social media buttons are not a social media strategy, even though they’re often sold that way. Excellent content, serious networking and constant human engagement is the way to build your profile. Adding those sleazy buttons won’t achieve anything. Social media is not easy — there is no simple trick. Usually, what most people do is not the winning strategy but the safe strategy, and safe rarely wins.
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Felix Dorner Oliver Reichenstein - Sweap The Sleaze
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tralafiti iA on all the social media clutter and why you should get rid of it.
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kiki Oliver Reichenstein über Social Buttons und warum sie dringend sterben müssen.
Sven Dietrich Naja. Es gibt einen Teilen-Button, der im Vergleich bei mir im Job um den Faktor zehn häufiger genutzt wird als alle anderen Teilenbuttons. Es ist der Print-Knopf. Kein Witz. Erst Print, dann lange nix, dann Email und dann irgendwann social dingenskirchen
kiki Das ist ja auch kein klassischer Social Media Button. ;-) Aber spannend!
Sven Dietrich Doch, klar, klassischer geht es kaum, auch wenn es der Print-Button von Addthis ist.
Die Ausdrucke gehen jeweils zum Vorgesetzten Zwecks abnicken.
Also so B2B-Social irgendwie.
Sven Dietrich Ausserdem ist das ganz großer Stuss was der von mir ansonsten sehr geschätzte Oliver Reichenstein da erzählt. Wer bewusst seinen Eltern oder anderen Internotpeoples beim Internet zusieht wird das bestätigen.
URL kopieren? Selten so gelacht.
Marcel Wichmann Buttons drücken? Selten so gelacht. Facebook macht es vor, der Open Graph-Kram ist das, was die Buttons ablösen wird. Passt zwar aktuell noch nicht in das Konzept von Twitter, wird aber Zukunft sein.
René Stalder Ehrlich gesagt kenne ich mehr Menschen die URLs kopieren als die Buttons benutzen. Einfacher Grund: Das URL Feld ist immer am selben Ort. Die Buttons sucht man auf jeder Seite wo anders. Was ist also einfacher als die Methode zu verwenden, die immer gleich bleibt? Der Mensch ist ein Gewohnheitstier.
kiki Mal so, mal so. Ich nutze die Buttons selten, weil ich es meist einfacher und schneller finde, die URL zu benutzen, wie René richtig sagt. Andererseits bin ich seit Jahrzehnten online und habe damit natürlich mehr Routine als, sagen wir, meine Mutter.
Aber ich nutze manchmal die Buttons, weil dann – gerade bei Facebook – meist der Post hübscher dargestellt wird; mit richtigem Vorschaubild und angeteasertem Text. Wenn ich das bei FB manuell machen muß, dann nervt mich das.
Aber, was den Link betrifft, so hat Oliver Reichenstein ja bereits einen weiteren, relativierenden Eintrag gebloggt.