Below is a commentary reagrding the question: Are Social Bookmarking Buttons Useless?
http://www.doshdosh.com/are-social-bookmarking-buttons-useless/
A poll about the use of social bookmarking buttons was set up on Dosh Dosh a week or two ago and it received 221 votes by readers and other visitors. I’ve just ended the poll and I wasn’t really surprised with the results because they cohered with my personal experiences.
I’ll be the first to say that I have never used any social bookmarking buttons on any website or blog that I’ve come across. All my bookmarks or page submissions are done via a combination of official and third party bookmarklets or tools.I guess I never developed the habit of using the bookmark icons for some reason. Before I examine the poll results, let’s do an introduction to social bookmark buttons.
What are Social bookmarking or voting buttons?
These are simply small icons or text links which allow you to easily bookmark the webpage you are reading by saving a link to it on an online bookmarking website. Some of these icons also allow you to submit the webpage to a variety of social voting websites, whereby other users of the social website can vote for it, if they find it interesting. You’ll need to first register with the various social websites before you can start using the icons you see to bookmark the article. A good place to start is through this list of the top 25 most popular social bookmarking/voting websites online.
Social Bookmarking Usage Poll Results
Here are the results for the poll:
45% of users never used them (99 votes)
37% of users use them (81 votes)
19% of users don’t know what they are (41 votes)
According to the results, 64% of voters do not use social bookmarking buttons, with 19% of them not knowing what they are at all. Out of the 37% of voters who use the buttons, there is probably a large number of them who already know how to bookmark through other means as well.
I don’t think social bookmarking or voting buttons are necessary for any website but I keep them up because they can serve as reminders for your visitors to bookmark or share the article with others. If I had to choose between text links or icons, I would probably pick text links because they seem to be more instructive and direct.
It is not surprised me too about the resulf of poll. Social bookmarking is new but I think it will become more popular and many people will enjoy using it. I think it is really good for you when you are looking for recommended website or share links to useful websites.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you to choose text links or icons because they are more instructive and direct as you said.
ReplyDeleteI am interest in your "Social Bookmarking". I will follow it next week.