Don’t Share feature
So the ubiquitous ‘Share This’ is here to stay. Everyone from the big-box to the local mom & pop stores are now using it. It’s great, love the concept – if you like it and you know me and think I’d like it, you tell me about it.
Someone sends me something, I check it, it’s cool. That’s all dandy. Then another friend sends it. And another, and another. I get it, it’s a great thing, but how do I stop the barrage.
What is needed is a ‘Don’t Share’ feature to accompany a site, tool or app. Once you’ve seen it, and you know all there possibly is to know about it, you click it and are never to be bothered again. No matter how cool everyone else thinks it is.
Concerned about privacy, it really doesn’t compromise your privacy any more than those friends who share things with you. The marketers get your email address anyway, why not make it work for you.
As with all of my Why Hasn’t Someone Done This? posts, I do hope someone can prove me wrong and show me that this actually exists somewhere. Or some enterprising person is hacking together a kludge for now.