Bookmarking and sharing to social media sites has become a content management standard nowadays. Each story you post should allow your users to email it to their friends or post it to such sites as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, del.icio.us, reddit, digg and a host of others.
As you can see, I have the obligatory bookmarking and sharing underneath this post, but I often wonder if it would be more user friendly to have individual icons listed right below the post instead of the dropdown widget from AddThis that I use today.
I haven’t seen a real best practice for this, and viewing sites ranging from huge news outlets to small blog sites (like this one!) use a variety of approaches.
What do you think? Should icons be listed out for ease of use? Or does that sometimes cause services you use to be excluded by the authors of the site? Vote now!
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Actually i prefer a widget, but my current theme had a built in one of individual icons.
SO that’s why i choose individual
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I’m really torn on this one. I like the convenience of the widgets where all the services are in one neat package, but I really like the aesthetics of having all the icons showing.
Of course, if aesthetics were that important then The Drudge Report wouldn’t be so popular…
I am kind of new to social bookmarking but social bookmarks presents great resource when doing research.-”`