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Social networks could just disable the Share or Retweet button and I think the problem will solve itself. I miss the old Facebook circa 2007 -- no likes and no

Social networks could just disable the Share or Retweet button and I think the problem will solve itself. I miss the old Facebook circa 2007 -- no likes and no shares made it a better experience for me.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
Agreed. Facebook and Twitter really ought to have thought about the long history of chain emails, and realized what they were doing when they added an "all my friends have gotta see this!" button.
- Zak 6y ago
  They knew exactly what they were building.
- inglor_cz 6y ago
  I do not think they were oblivious. The ultimate goal of such systems is to gain hours and hours of your attention daily. What works better than outrage? Not even cute kittens.
pjc50 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember "manual retweet", and people still do it on Instagram which has no re-share functionality.
- Zak 6y ago
  People do it less on Instagram than on most social networking platforms though, and that's one of the reasons a greater fraction of the content on Instagram is original. A bit of UI friction has a big influence on user behavior.