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No. No, it doesn't make sense. I don't care what my friends read - I only care what they think was good out of that. You can't just open up everybody's browser logs and call that viral.

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There was a good article a while back about how oversharing is killing staste - http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/09/...

Basically, we're caring more about volume of information rather than curation of good information, and when that happens - taste dies.

If you re read what I said I was referring to the frictionlessness (is there a word like that) when you want to do the sharing.

I do not want to see any pop ups when I want to share. Maybe we should differentiate between frictionless sharing and automated frictionless sharing.

I'm sorry, I simply don't see how you expect to be able to share selectively without UI. And unless that sharing UI is embedded in every possible page, you're kind of stuck with a popup. Unless it were a browser feature, I guess. Which doesn't make it not pop up, but makes the popup a little more trustworthy.

Think I get your point. For example, I used to have an app on facebook that shared the songs I loved on Last.fm. Those where very few, maybe 5* a year, so it made sense to auto-share them on facebook.

Edit: *Looked it up and it's more like 30 each year, ops.

Ah! Now I think I see, then - if I have a curated collection somewhere else and want it to share onto Facebook, sure - that makes sense. But you have to curate somewhere; just because some guy I went to high school read an article or listened to a song doesn't mean I want to hear about it.

I believe OoTheNigerian's point is that he likes it when the sharing functionality is rolled up into another thing that you do. Say, every time you rate a song 5 stars, or mark one as your favorite. He'd rather not get a popup asking if he also wants to share it on facebook (but have a config option which says "share my liked songs")

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