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Might be a personal bias here, but I would never use those buttons to share your website/product/blog with my friends. I'd just copy and paste the URL into Facebook/Twitter/whatever and go from there.

Judging by its usage rate in previous projects I've been a part of, many other people operate the same way or simply ignore any sort of sharing aspect.

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I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone. Can you reveal more about the usage rates you've seen?

I can't give you solid numbers (as it's almost been a year since I touched those projects) but they were far below 5%, typically bordering 1-2%.

That's off the top of my head, so take it with a grain of salt. :)

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