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How much value does like and other sharing buttons provide to anyone other than Facebook/Google/Twitter these days? I’d argue very little. I used to work for o
by mattkevan 7y ago
How much value does like and other sharing buttons provide to anyone other than Facebook/Google/Twitter these days? I’d argue very little.
I used to work for one of the larger social sites in the UK with many millions of unique users and we found that the social buttons got next to no engagement. Before I left we began the conversation about removing them entirely as they were just dead space on the page.
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- hanspeter 7y agoI agree that for most sites these buttons have very little value both because of lack of relevance and because of low conversion placement. However there are whole businesses that have been built around these buttons (fx Upworthy).
- SaturateDK 7y agoNot only are they dead space, but in many cases I have found them to degrade performance by a lot on websites. I use Privacy Badger to block them all, as I really never have seen the point of them.