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Can't they just share the url the normal way? Before all these services for sharing urls we used to just copy the url and send it via some text medium.
by dalore 16y ago
Can't they just share the url the normal way? Before all these services for sharing urls we used to just copy the url and send it via some text medium.
- zach 16y agoI think if you cut and paste the URL into the status box in the normal way, Facebook increments the share count. Maybe if you remove the link preview it doesn't, but I haven't tested it. I would just like users to be able to use Facebook to easily solicit opinion about a potential home. However, if clicking through a Share/Like button or merely pasting the URL into Facebook causes a global "this was shared" count to go up, users are doing something they might not want to, without even realizing it. I could already imagine that having Shareaholic running while looking at house listings is probably a good idea. Especially on listings for a home you're selling!
- thwarted 16y agoI much prefer a bookmarklet to sharing, because I control the content posted a little more and I don't need to rely on the website operator to recognize the social site I use as part of their either too-small (just Facebook and Twitter) or massive list of social networking sites (my bookmarklet is actually to share on Friendfeed, which all then gets imported into Facebook via the Facebook Friendfeed App. I do periodically use a Delicious bookmarklet also). If this increases the link count when it ends up showing up on Facebook, I don't know.