Not to be left out I guess, I installed Facebook and Twitter buttons on the ends of posts. This is mostly an experiment.
The truth is I don’t really use either of these! Not enough time or interest I guess. This means I don’t have a good way of configuring or testing these buttons, because I don’t really know what they’re supposed to do.
Do they do what you expect when you press them? Would you like them to work a different way? Please let me know.
Steph who does use both Twitter and Facebook said especially with Facebook she wouldn’t particularly press any buttons she came across, not knowing for sure what it would do. She says she would manually add things to her profile page she found interesting. Do you feel the same way?
What about just the commercial nature of Facebook and Twitter, do you object to me having their buttons on my blog? Do you feel the buttons clutter the posts too much? I’m still debating these issues myself.
I like to keep my readers happy, so please let me know what you think!
I’m not sure what the facebook button does either. It says ‘Like, so I suspect it just tells your friends that you like the page. I don’t really see the point, so if I like it, I usually post the URL manually.
Clicked the like button and heres how it came out.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100002138668421&sk=wall
Thanks Todd, I did see it on Steph’s Facebook wall so I know what it looks like, but I don’t seem to have permission to look at yours.
The issue is more I don’t use Facebook, so I don’t really know how others use it. Is a button like this at all useful, and if so there are a number of configuration options and I don’t know anything about these choices.
What about the ‘share buttons’ I see some places, where you can print, email, digg, tweet, Facebook like, and so on. Does anyone really use these? I could put up one of these as well.
It’s useful depending on how fast you want to share a link to something you read or seen. Though the cut-paste of the link works as well.
I’ll go back and check out the settings to make it visible.
Print button prints the article out, I think it formats it so you have the article and not a lot of the other stuff like advertisements or page navigation bar.
Maybe you can see the main Oss facebook page (I hope)http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oss-Bank/195552153800565#!/pages/Oss-Bank/195552153800565?sk=wall
I’m a Facebook refusenik, so my opinion on its usefulness doesn’t really count for a lot. I don’t have any objection to Facebook or Twitter, it’s just that I’m an incredibly reclusive person by nature and I’m reclusive on the internet as well as in the real world. Social networking sites make me want to hide under the desk.
There’s no doubt that having a presence on these sites helps to promote your blogging activities and get the word out – and so for those who want to be able to link to your posts quickly and easily the buttons are a good idea. I have to admit I can’t quite get my head round the concept of the “Like” button. They are everywhere now – even on Amazon. But they don’t really tell you anything … they are the equivalent of a caveman showing appreciation by banging a couple of rocks together or saying “ugg”. It’s been pointed out to me that they are a useful way for people to express appreciation for something when they don’t have enough to say to want to write a comment. But the cynic in me still feels that I’d rather they left a comment saying “ugg”, or perhaps an iPhone video clip of them banging a couple of rocks together, just to show that they really are human.
“they are the equivalent of a caveman showing appreciation by banging a couple of rocks together or saying “ugg”. ”
UHG,UHG,UHG, *bangs rocks together*
=:-D
Ahhh, that’s great Todd, thank you.
Yes, thank you Todd and thank you Rebsie!