Comments on: E-mail sharing is vanishing from the online news world

By: Kaizar Campwala

Kaizar Campwala — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:15:05 +0000

This needs to be matched against the movement to Chrome and Safari, which make it very easy to email URLs without using javascript email buttons. This is particularly true on fast-growing mobile platforms, where it is much easier to use the universal browser-level share features.

Which is not to say there isn’t a shift in sharing from email to social networks, but that perhaps the decline isn’t as dramatically “off the cliff” as suggested in the article.

By: N

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 02:08:10 +0000

I can’t believe this article made it past your editorial department.

1. I can only speak for Mac and iOS but I routinely use the very convenient email share technology built into Safari, which sites like BuzzFeed cannot track. I assume Android has a similar feature. This way I can add a message and also keep a record.

2. One site is not representative of the entire Internet. Hence, my comment about your editorial department. An editor would have added this disclaimer.

By: marchineslive

marchineslive — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:37:44 +0000

Thanks you.

By: EU Brainwashing

EU Brainwashing — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:37:08 +0000

I have never ‘shared’ an item – I think it is not polite to enter someone else’s email address into a website – my presumption is that these email addresses are harvested. I always click ‘file’ & ‘send link’ so easy as the address required is always in ones address-book already.