# 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:** 3
**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, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/41 "2011-05-04T12:22:58Z")
It seems to me that people are inventing reasons to dislike it. ---
**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, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/42 "2011-05-04T13:09:35Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > 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. You’re kidding, right? What is this, some kind of “oh no, we can’t let the riff-raff in” kind of thing? People are seriously objecting to having links to SDMB threads shared with friends and family of other SDMB members. I can’t decide if that’s paranoid, elitist, insane, or what. Maybe all three. I mean, you seriously are saying that if there is a button that allows people to share links to threads on Facebook with two clicks instead of the current five, you would stomp off in a huff. Awesome. This place never fails to amaze. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/43 "2011-05-04T13:36:49Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > 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? FTFY: You’re killing independent George! ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/44 "2011-05-04T13:55:35Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > 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. So instead of friends of people who are established posters joining the community, you prefer that all the new people who find this forum do so when they google craigslist douchbaggery or teflon coated toilet bowls? Net savvy indeed. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/45 "2011-05-04T14:04:33Z")
Did we ever find out where the Facebook button is? I might just have to join Facebook just so I can use it. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/46 "2011-05-04T14:06:54Z")
Digg? Does that even exist anymore? ---
**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, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/47 "2011-05-04T14:06:59Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > FTFY: > > You’re killing independent George! NICE! I’d like to just add that I agree with everything **Martini Enfield** has said. ---
**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, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/48 "2011-05-04T17:54:20Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > 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. If anyone cares, the problem was on my end. But I am still wondering how this thing can work with no new JavaScript or special links. Surely I’m missing something. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/49 "2011-05-04T17:59:07Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If anyone cares, the problem was on my end. > > But I am still wondering how this thing can work with no new JavaScript or special links. Surely I’m missing something. Hovering over the individual bookmarks shows a url that goes to the relevant services submit page with SDMB parameters. But yes, don’t see how the tracking works. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/50 "2011-05-04T19:06:32Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > 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 was also a brief flirtation with the idea that this board was some kind of business venture that might desire more customers. That concept was apparently thrown right out the window along with the ‘fighting ignorance’ thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/51 "2011-05-04T19:22:28Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Hovering over the individual bookmarks shows a url that goes to the relevant services submit page with SDMB parameters. But yes, don’t see how the tracking works. The board specific share links were provided by vBulletin. Thus, they contain no tracking information as they use the standard share URLs for Digg, Delicious, and the two others I didn’t remember. But man, the ludditism in this thread is fucking _ **painful** _ to read. The SDMB is not some special corner of the Internet and Facebook is not the devil. Would you like me to get off your lawn too? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/52 "2011-05-04T19:39:02Z")
I don’t see how ludditism applies here. Promoting our community to the general internet isn’t a technological issue, but a social one. More generally, I just get annoyed by the aesthetics. At the end of every page when I’m looking for the next page button, or looking to post, those stand out at me. Since I’m never going to use them it kind of annoys me that you can’t turn them off. On some other pages, like the main page with the forum views, there are \>\> and \<\< buttons to shrink/expand sections of the page, and it remembers them. Can we do something like that? Or just add a userCP option to remove the links in general? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/53 "2011-05-04T21:24:22Z")
Why are people bitching about a facebook button? There isn’t one. If you’re having visual paroxysms because of where the buttons showed up, they are easily blockable (in Firefox at least) with a third party addon called Remove It Permanently. You can remove them from the entire domain with about 3 clicks. Board elitists can get stuffed with frog legs for all I care. This is a total non-issue. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/54 "2011-05-04T21:31:32Z")
A lot of folks in this thread don’t seem to understand how the internet works. A Facebook “Share” button would not “connect” you to Facebook any more than this link will turn you into a [llama](http://franfriel.com/mambo//images/stories/Llama_smirk.jpg). It will not “make the SDMB like Facebook,” whatever that means. It will not impose Facebook’s Privacy Policy to anyone here. Also, I realize that everyone has their own definition of “cluttered” but those tiny little buttons at the bottom of the page ARE NOT CLUTTER. Go type away in a Terminal application if you want nothing but empty text boxes. And the idea that public, voluntarily posted information (every thing on this board) should be difficult to share (because… you don’t wanna?) is inane, not to mention in direct conflict with the concepts of both this site and the internet in general. I respect (and generally appreciate) the fact that the SDMB is kind of an isolated corner of the internet, and even the entirety of the internet to some people, but fer fuck’s sake, people. ---
**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, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/55 "2011-05-04T21:50:21Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > You’re kidding, right? What is this, some kind of “oh no, we can’t let the riff-raff in” kind of thing? People are seriously objecting to having links to SDMB threads shared with friends and family of other SDMB members. I can’t decide if that’s paranoid, elitist, insane, or what. Maybe all three. > > I mean, you seriously are saying that if there is a button that allows people to share links to threads on Facebook with two clicks instead of the current five, you would stomp off in a huff. Awesome. > > This place never fails to amaze. This > [@Implicit](#): > > So instead of friends of people who are established posters joining the community, you prefer that all the new people who find this forum do so when they google craigslist douchbaggery or teflon coated toilet bowls? Net savvy indeed. and this.. > [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > That concept was apparently thrown right out the window along with the ‘fighting ignorance’ thing. 😉 and this… > [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > But man, the ludditism in this thread is fucking _ **painful** _ to read. The SDMB is not some special corner of the Internet and Facebook is not the devil. Would you like me to get off your lawn too? and this… > [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > Also, I realize that everyone has their own definition of “cluttered” but those tiny little buttons at the bottom of the page ARE NOT CLUTTER. Go type away in a Terminal application if you want nothing but empty text boxes. > > And the idea that public, voluntarily posted information (every thing on this board) should be difficult to share (because… you don’t wanna?) is inane, not to mention in direct conflict with the concepts of both this site and the internet in general. > > I respect (and generally appreciate) the fact that the SDMB is kind of an isolated corner of the internet, and even the entirety of the internet to some people, but fer fuck’s sake, people. and this. ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/56 "2011-05-04T22:02:38Z")
I feel cheated! All this talk about a Facetube button and all I get is; Digg [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) StumbleUpon Google ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/57 "2011-05-04T22:39:26Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > A lot of folks in this thread don’t seem to understand how the internet works. > > A Facebook “Share” button would not “connect” you to Facebook any more than this link will turn you into a [llama](http://franfriel.com/mambo//images/stories/Llama_smirk.jpg). Dammit man, you’re completely wrong! And I’m having a hell of a time typing with these - whatever they are now. I’d spit at you if I could see you! The rest of you, _ **do not click the Facebook button!!!** _ ---
**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, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/58 "2011-05-04T23:09:56Z")
Has anyone actually seen this mythical Facebook button yet anyway? ---
**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, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/59 "2011-05-04T23:16:50Z")
There is no Facebook button. I suggested that there should be one (and so did Stoid, I think) and then everyone (and by “everyone” I of course mean “two people”) started freaking out at the idea that our Internet discussion site would be linked to on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521/60 "2011-05-04T23:22:45Z")
> [@CannyDan](#): > > Dammit man, you’re completely wrong! And I’m having a hell of a time typing with these - whatever they are now. I’d spit at you if I could see you!\*\*\* You really should watch _The Emperor’s New Groove_. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weve-added-share-buttons/580521.md?page=4)