A well-designed website should be clear, above all. No flashing GIFs (we miss you, ’90s!), no obnoxious flash menus, no overwhelming lists of links. And heads up, WaPo website: it shouldn’t be blanketed in insanely redundant Facebook sharing buttons.
SHARE ME! LIKE ME! LINK ME! We get it. Enough. One or two buttons should suffice. We know how to put things on Facebook if we want to. One sharp-eyed BuzzFeed contributor spotted not one, not five, not eight, but 12 instances of Facebook’s ubiquity. Social media sharing is cool – but designing your newspaper like Zuckerberg’s pin cushion is not. And, as a reader, is really, really annoying. [BuzzFeed]
tsengan
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 9:06 AMBut I need to share it NOW! And my attention span is only 100 pixels wide.
Danny
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 9:29 AMI’d like to comment on the the “Share” mouseover popups all over Gizmodo and Lifehacker, but I’m not sure my comment would make it through moderation.
Owen
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 10:14 AMUsing FF? Rightclick on the image, choose the bit about blocking the image from that site, then bam, they don’t appear anymore.
Travis Young
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 1:53 PMHey thanks for the tip! Never thought of using an image block to block those annoying pop ups.
Dom Grimm
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 10:01 AMTo be fair, the “Facebook mom” at the top is a news topic, not a share button.