It’s so easy to click ‘Like’, to ‘ReTweet’, to ‘Share’, to ‘+1′ something you see on the web. Easy peasy to forward stuff on to anyone who may be interested – or not.
Or is it too easy?
We get retweets with no added comments. We get likes on Facebook but the ‘liker’ adds no comments. We get +1s on blog posts but the reader didn’t like the content enough to leave a comment.
If every platform prevented auto tweeting and completely blocked regurgitation without any added comments, we’d all have to think and type something when we wanted to like, tweet or share. Wouldn’t that be good?
Wouldn’t it be good to actually see the thoughts of the reader who clicked retweet?
Wouldn’t it be an improvement if, before clicking the +1 button, you had to enter a comment?
How much conversation would take place if ‘likes’ were blocked until a comment was added to the thread?
Wouldn’t it be useful for the recipient if forwarded emails wouldn’t send unless additional comments had been added first?
Just a thought… What do you think?
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