I wasn’t going to blog today as I’m feeling extreme stress and inability to comprehend life and the pursuit of happiness.
Chalk it up to not having taxes done, select soccer, taekwando belt testing, yard work, client service, a newly combined blog and website with fabulous SEO and powerful inbound marketing, pulling my upper calf muscle (again) on the tennis court and burning the skin from an ice pack…sorry, just had to get that all off my chest.
Then I read , and he writes a wonderful piece about Ragu and empathy; read it, you’ll like his creative bridge just as I did.
I’m getting to the point, promise. I went to share this down below in comments just like a good commenter should. I hit “Share+” expecting it to be Google+. Instead, I got a litany of sites on which to share. I kept scrolling and scrolling to find the bottom and was astonished at the variety and my apparent lack of intelligence about mostly any of these.
Upon further inspection, I think we’ve got a list of world-wide shares, as I see some language I can’t understand and extensions in Russia, among others. For the purposes of today’s post (which I wasn’t going to write), I challenge anyone to dissect these below. Mind you , it took about 10 screen shots to capture these as I couldn’t enlarge the pop-up window (did you see that story on pop-up restaurants today in the Wall Street Journal? Budding restaurateurs trying/testing cuisine concepts, ala Kosher foods, in lobbies of other businesses that close at night; neat marketing idea.
Are you familiar with even ¼ of these listed below? Have some fun, and now I’m going to go away and try to breathe.
P.S. If you scroll to the bottom and see this post script (I have no idea where it ends up with all these images), you know it took me longer to set up these darn jpg than to write the post, eh?
Have a great weekend, dear Friends!
Um *gulp* – when is too many sites too many? This is borderline ridiculous Jayme. Is the expectation really that people will take the time to scroll through all of these options? I can’t imagine that anything other than the major networking sites would be appropriate.
@John_Trader1 It certainly shocked me into writing when I wasn’t gonna. I haven’t seen a list this long and unnecessary in awhile. Thanks for stopping in; but, you had no choice, eh?! 🙂
To me this is the difference between offering someone a list of all rock bands ever, or offering them the Billboard Top 40.
Do we offer all social-sharing platforms ever? Or do we offer the top 3-5?
@Jason Fonceca You’re totally right! It made an impact on me enough to write about it. And, where should the finger point — to the developer who added all these. I wonder how they do the research to ensure these are all active? Now that’s fascinating. Great to see you, Jason!
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing Many people play a role :
everyone who subtly teaches that showing off ‘more’ is better
everyone who acts unconsciously without examining their sharing plugins
everyone who creates a sharing platform they *arent* truly passionate about
everyone who installs sharing plugins, etc.
And to me it’s not BLAME, it’s just people Doing Their Best.
If we uplift and enlighten well, they may make different choices.
On top of that, they people with billions of sharing plugins, make sites like RyzeOnline.com (which doesn’t even a facebook “like” button, look good 😉 )
A pleasure being here 🙂
YOWZA. That.is.all. Cheers! Kaarina
@KDillabough Yep. No #RockHot for them jamokes!
@pushingsocial says: https://pushingsocial.com/7-little-blog-mistakes-that-drive-your-readers-nuts About that button he says: “Many of you use this nice little Share button. Kill it now.”
@jennwhinnem @pushingsocial Hah; didn’t know that…I have to agree!
@jennwhinnem @pushingsocial Yep, I hate that Share button with a passion. It hides the call-to-action killing your retweets in the process.
@Stanford @jennwhinnem @pushingsocial SOOOOO cool to see you here! Thanks @jennwhinnem for bringing you over. And, very looking forward to seeing you and your cousin Laura Tieman Click at #SoSlam next month!!
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing @jennwhinnem @pusingsocial It’s going to be one heck of a party! 🙂
@Stanford @jennwhinnem Me too, me too! I know those buttons used to be all the rage, but man, are they not user friendly OR good at showcasing your social proof.
@lauraclick @Stanford @jennwhinnem Man, I love how @Lifefyre lets me bring you guys over. Da Bomb.
Um, yes, so I get a 0 out of something like 500. I’ve seen that thing, too and always assumed “somebody” uses them. But I’ve never been sure. I’m even less sure now.
@ShakirahDawud Who’s the master mind behind all those, anyway? Yep, we need to ignore.
FIRST: Praying for you for the stress-mess you’re in right now, friend. I can hear it in your writing, because you have “voice”! (You!) SECOND: Holy Toledo. I clicked, and no…I don’t know most of these, but I’m glad they’re available to those who do! I like my “social media sharing” the way I like my food: simple, recognizable, “nutrient-dense,” and with just a few delicious, easy-to-find ingredients. Thank-you very much.
@New England Multimedia Wow, for a minute there I thought I had this Share+ on my site; so glad to see I don’t.
Thanks for the acknowledgment, Michelle. Voice; heh. XO
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing I should’ve said I scrolled. Ha! I want to go to all of the social media platforms listed to see what they are, but my word, what a time suck that would be. Might make a cool blog post, though. Something like “Around the World with Social Media.” Nah.
I just laugh that Xanga is still on there.
@KenMueller SEE??? Who the heck is the master mind behind all these to ensure they still exisit? Xanga? WTheck is that, anyway? Yeah, some kinda blog post to call these dudes out has to happen. Ken, I elect you to do that as a GP over at @Stanford and then a FB post for Michelle D. Quillin !!
@Soulati | B2B Social Media Marketing @KenMueller @Stanford Michelle D. Quillin Xanga was my first blogging platform, back in, oh, 2003-2005? And people still use Xanga! Actually, there might be quite the little treasure trove over there of folks who’d like a WordPress blog oif they knew the benefits. See? > https://www.xanga.com/
@New England Multimedia @KenMueller @Stanford Michelle D. Quillin Dang girl; are you dating yourself? Kidding. Cool.
Are we really this tribal? Or just another overbuilt IT sector? Probably both, but we don’t need to see them all – most out of context.
@dan_osullivan I would’ve replied sooner, but my friend @TheJackB called and yakked my ear off. Hmmm, over-built IT sector — is that a blog post?
Blurpalicious just made it worthwhile to go through the list…
I used to find entire posts of mine on Xanga. All of them “mysteriously” appeared there, until I set about having them removed.