The social network icon flood is getting crowded

[zridling]

Saw this line of social network icons on an article page today. This is crazy. It's almost a cry for help -- "Look at me! Comment on me! Tell your friends about me!"

[40hz]

                              

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
                                                                 - Oscar Wilde - Irish novelist & poet (1854 - 1900)
   

[worstje]

I was about to say that Google+ was missing, but I guess it having a blue icon is not what I would expect from a google product. Yellow or red (or both) is more their style. Not that it matters - I don't use Google+.

[rgdot]

There should only be an icon that goes (few lines down) to the same page's comment form 

[mahesh2k]

I don't have icons on my site. I noticed speed increase when i removed that. These sharethis, diggthis or social icons make more external HTTP requests which increases the load time. So i simply removed it. One more thing, people hardly share using these icons.

[fenixproductions]

AddThis for the rescue?

[Renegade]

AddThis for the rescue?

-fenixproductions (July 31, 2011, 03:36 AM)

Yes! Not 10, but 10,000 icons~!

[mahesh2k]

Addthis, Sharethis, Onlywire are adding clutter too. Besides some of them do have security issues as well.

http://www.addthis.c...is-wordpress-plugin/

http://wordpress.org...isks-with-share-this

[vlastimil]

I could not resist the temptation and placed a couple of buttons on my web, but I am trying to keep the number reasonable.

10 is too much, 4 is the right number for me. People hate to have too many options.

I good rule is to add a social network button only after some visitors came from that network without having the button.

[mahesh2k]

I good rule is to add a social network button only after some visitors came from that network without having the button.

I like this approach. If user is from google+ then ask him to like FB or Tweet. If he's from facebook, ask him to +1 on g+, tweet and others.