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Think about how fast the "like" button was adopted all over the internet. All these sites did so for two reasons: the possibility of getting additional free tra
by malloreon 16y ago
Think about how fast the "like" button was adopted all over the internet. All these sites did so for two reasons: the possibility of getting additional free traffic from facebook, and access to their fans' feed and potentially friends' feeds.
If FB can make the case that requiring people to FB connect on a 3rd party site will drive traffic, raise revenues, and whatever, many/most sites will make the change. They won't shut out non-connected users, but they may degrade the experience to encourage connectedness.
It sounds Orwellian, but it's not difficult for it to make business sense for large swaths of the internet.
- chopsueyar 16y agoI bet most websites have no idea why the hell they have a 'Like' button on their site. Everbody else is doing it, why shouldn't I?
- joe_the_user 16y agoLots of sites have a bar with five+ ways of sharing every article but that's hardly a sign that delicious, digg, redit and so-forth are winning (a lot of those bars are broken too, btw). Web real estate for link-images seems easy to get once you reach a certain level of mind-share but I can't see getting image everywhere as being the same as becoming a necessary part of the web. If taking credit cost little, every remaining store in the US would do it tomorrow. Does that mean many stores would be willing to stop accepting cash? No way. (well not 'till "the beast" slouches a little closer to ba-by-lon but I'm not hold my breath).