The social network icon flood is getting crowded

[zridling]

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[40hz]

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[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?

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.com/blog/2011/06/21/security-alert-for-addthis-wordpress-plugin/

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sharethis-security-risks-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.