# We've added share buttons **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521 "2011-05-02T22:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/21 "2011-05-03T23:56:05Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > There should be a Facebook button. Oh God, NO. Need the whole world need overlap with everything else. One of the things that is nice about this place is that it’s NOT like Facebook. I use it for certain things and this for others. let’s keep it that way and make sure that “never the twain shall meet”. And Kipling would agree with me. So there! ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/22 "2011-05-03T23:59:42Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Oh God, NO. > > Need the whole world need overlap with everything else. One of the things that is nice about this place is that it’s NOT like Facebook. I use it for certain things and this for others. let’s keep it that way and make sure that “never the twain shall meet”. > > And Kipling would agree with me. So there! The twain wouldn’t meet, it’s just a way to point out something interesting here to people you know. All the other "share"s are too anonymous. I would never feel the need to share anything on Digg, but I do like to share things with people I actually know. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/23 "2011-05-04T00:03:13Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Oh God, NO. > > Need the whole world need overlap with everything else. One of the things that is nice about this place is that it’s NOT like Facebook. I use it for certain things and this for others. let’s keep it that way and make sure that “never the twain shall meet”. > > And Kipling would agree with me. So there! The Facebook button would not make the SDMB like Facebook. It would provide an easy way for people to share SDMB content on Facebook. You can still use Facebook and the SDMB for different things if you like. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/24 "2011-05-04T00:20:28Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > The twain wouldn’t meet, it’s just a way to point out something interesting here to people you know. > > All the other "share"s are too anonymous. I would never feel the need to share anything on Digg, but I do like to share things with people I actually know. Then why not just have them be part of the SDMB? The last thing we need is anything that makes this place anything like Facebook. If you know people over there that would enjoy it here, just send them a link and tell them to check it out. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/25 "2011-05-04T00:26:51Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > If you know people over there that would enjoy it here, just send them a link and tell them to check it out. That’s what a Share button does. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/26 "2011-05-04T00:28:17Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > If you know people over there that would enjoy it here, just send them a link and tell them to check it out. That is exactly what a Facebook button would do. A Facebook button is not a button that, when pressed, “Facebookizes” the SDMB. It is a button that, when pressed, pops up a window that allows you to share the thread you are currently viewing as a link on Facebook. Which is exactly what you just suggested that people do. So we are on the same page. Which we could easily share on Facebook, if there were a Facebook button. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/27 "2011-05-04T00:43:23Z")
I know what a share button does. My point is that I think we should keep the worlds separate. If you know and _individual_ who might like it here, send him or her an email. I’ve done that, but in a very discriminating way. Part of the beauty of this place is that it does not mirror the populace at large. We have Facebook. We have this. Let them both be their own thing. The more those worlds meet, the more they’ll be a need for a small, discriminating place like the SD. What’s to gain? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/28 "2011-05-04T00:46:47Z")
I don’t think you do know what a share button does, if you think that it is somehow going to meld the SDMB and Facebook together. It is a mechanism via which one may share links. Anyway, I can tell this is becoming one of those weird “I don’t care about this topic all that much but now I’ve made 19 posts on it one thread” situations so I’ll leave it at: If we’re going to have share buttons for other social networking sites (e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.) it seems silly not to have one for Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/29 "2011-05-04T00:52:15Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I don’t think you do know what a share button does, if you think that it is somehow going to meld the SDMB and Facebook together. It is a mechanism via which one may share links. > > Anyway, I can tell this is becoming one of those weird “I don’t care about this topic all that much but now I’ve made 19 posts on it one thread” situations so I’ll leave it at: If we’re going to have share buttons for other social networking sites (e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.) it seems silly not to have one for Facebook. I KNOW what a share button is. My point is to keep the worlds as far apart as possible. Obviously we disagree on the merits of that. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/30 "2011-05-04T01:28:37Z")
Magellan… if you know what a share button really is and reallly does, you wouldn’t say “keep the worlds as far apart as possible”. They don’t blend, merge, intrude, overlap, alter or in any other respect have any effect. It merely simplifies the sharing of a thread with one’s facebook friends, something with which you have expressed no quarrel. If you don’t think people should post links on Facebook to SDMB threads at all, that’s one issue. If you don’t think people should post links on Facebook to SDMB threads using a handy dandy “share on facebook” button, that’s a different issue and one which makes no sense to anyone but you. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/31 "2011-05-04T05:18:29Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Magellan… if you know what a share button really is and reallly does, you wouldn’t say “keep the worlds as far apart as possible”. They don’t blend, merge, intrude, overlap, alter or in any other respect have any effect. It merely simplifies the sharing of a thread with one’s facebook friends, something with which you have expressed no quarrel. > > If you don’t think people should post links on Facebook to SDMB threads at all, that’s one issue. > If you don’t think people should post links on Facebook to SDMB threads using a handy dandy “share on facebook” button, that’s a different issue and one which makes no sense to anyone but you. Maybe I wasn’t clear how I worded things. If so, let met clarify: I do not think threads should be “shared”. The “sharing” I was advocating was telling a friend about the SDMB site, as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/32 "2011-05-04T05:24:00Z")
The dope is not actually some super secret exclusive club to which only the worthy may enter. It’s just another place on the internet, it’s only saving grace is that most of us went here first. There will be a facebook button in about 3 years when ed finally decides to see what the hoopla is all about, no one will use it because facebook will be dead and the board will crash for an unrelated reason and they’ll take it away because it doesn’t work for our super special board. God, I’m so psychic. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/33 "2011-05-04T06:33:13Z")
I’m confused. There don’t seem to be any new scripts running, and none of the URLs in the links say anything more than post the URL at this site with this subject (and you can change the subject.) How exactly is this information getting back to AddThis? Surely they aren’t just providing this stuff for 100% free. They must be using it to get some sort of information. BTW, that’s why I wouldn’t like a Facebook button. Facebook is in the business of trading privacy information. They already know more about me that I wanted to reveal because I trusted them too much. I’ve deleted and obfuscated data to handle the damage, and I think I’ve mostly succeeded. I do not want Facebook to know about my Doping habits. Finally, is anyone else having problems using Shift-Up to select stuff? I use it all the time to delete lines of text quickly while I’m typing. If I don’t trace it to a local problem, I’ll probably make a thread about it. But, while it’s a longshot, I thought this might be related. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/34 "2011-05-04T08:16:10Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > How do you want people to find this place? A lot of the posters here _don’t_ want people to find this place- there’s (so it has been alluded to before) a sort of “understanding” that by managing to find the place in the first place means you’ve got a certain degree of net-savviness and, subsequently, an increased likelihood of “joining the community” or something along those lines. There is a certain “community” here and one of the major benefits of that community is that it’s _not_ like other places on the internet. Kind of like how a trendy lounge bar and bistro is different to a local pub- neither is necessarily “better” or “worse” than the other, but they both cater to a different clientele. I’ll certainly be seriously reconsidering my continued participation here in light of this development, at any rate. The option to share threads (or access to them) on Facebook isn’t something I’m necessarily comfortable with. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/35 "2011-05-04T10:31:19Z")
The only reason I pay your 15 American dollers is to keep all the advertising crap away and reduce all the clutter. So why the hell are you adding more clutter to the pages I view? I might as well be a guest then I suppose. Besides, if I was retarded I would want to annoy my facebook friends with links to some website they dont give a damn about, but Im not, so I dont. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/36 "2011-05-04T12:06:19Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I’ll certainly be seriously reconsidering my continued participation here in light of this development, at any rate. The option to share threads (or access to them) on Facebook isn’t something I’m necessarily comfortable with. You do realise that, if I chose, I could share any link I wanted on Facebook simply by cutting and pasting? All this will do is shorten the procedure. Not that I intend to, I’ve mentioned this place to a few individuals, but I don’t know if they participate. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/37 "2011-05-04T12:11:57Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > You do realise that, if I chose, I could share any link I wanted on Facebook simply by cutting and pasting? All this will do is shorten the procedure. > > Not that I intend to, I’ve mentioned this place to a few individuals, but I don’t know if they participate. The thing is, there’s a huge difference between going to the trouble of actually cutting and pasting something from here and putting in on Facebook, and simply clicking a single button to share it with every single person they know and their friends. Basically, it’s not a process I really want to see simplified. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/38 "2011-05-04T12:17:35Z")
Can’t people who use Facebook or other popular off-board programs have links to those in their own browser? Or otherwise accomplish the “sharing” with just a couple clicks? ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/39 "2011-05-04T12:18:12Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > The thing is, there’s a huge difference between going to the trouble of actually cutting and pasting something from here and putting in on Facebook, and simply clicking a single button to share it with every single person they know and their friends. Basically, it’s not a process I really want to see simplified. I meant cutting and pasting the web address as a link. It’s something I’ve done in private messages or chat before, and that’s no different to sending an email. The share button will change it from being about 5 clicks to about 2, so in that sense it’s not a massive change. It might make people far more likely to share on Facebook, though, and if that’s your objection to it I can understand it, although I don’t fully agree. I probably have a different view to many people, being pretty new here though. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/40 "2011-05-04T12:22:32Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > The share button will change it from being about 5 clicks to about 2, so in that sense it’s not a massive change. It might make people far more likely to share on Facebook, though, and if that’s your objection to it I can understand it, although I don’t fully agree. That’s the major part of my objection- I don’t want to encourage, or have it be easier for, people to share stuff from here on Facebook. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521.md?page=3)