Whatever happened to... social reading?
Oct 10, 2022
The latest installment in Doug Peterson's regular Sunday series takes us back to the early days of the web. "First, you have to get a bunch of friends/connections and then you read what they're sharing. Once you feel comfortable, you start to share the things that educate you and inspire you." But finding that share button proved elusive. "I finally got frustrated looking for that little share button and installed Shareaholic and AddtoAny in my browsers so that I was in control of the sharing," writes Peterson. Still, sharing has all been automated and sanitized now, with the 'Like' button removing any actual reading and sharing that happens. Though, of course, some of us have never given up doing both.
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