The proliferation of blogs and UGC sites has seen the explosion of icons at the footer of pages/articles/comments. Seems to me that this will hit a critical mass at some stage soon with only the fittest surviving.
This trend has annoyed me for a while... anyone who uses social bookmarking will typically have bookmarklets in their browser(s) so will never actually use the icons.
IMHO the only icons worth keeping are the classic 'Email this' and 'Print this'... the rest are typically managed from browser bookmarklets so the social bookmarking icons only clutter designs and confuse non-technical visitors.
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This trend has annoyed me for a while... anyone who uses social bookmarking will typically have bookmarklets in their browser(s) so will never actually use the icons.
IMHO the only icons worth keeping are the classic 'Email this' and 'Print this'... the rest are typically managed from browser bookmarklets so the social bookmarking icons only clutter designs and confuse non-technical visitors.
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