I Am Awesome » whoring http://iamawesome.net Pretending the Internet cares about me since 2009. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:03:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 There’s Gently Encouraging Sharing, and There’s Whoring http://iamawesome.net/2009/03/theres-gently-encouraging-sharing-and-theres-whoring/ http://iamawesome.net/2009/03/theres-gently-encouraging-sharing-and-theres-whoring/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:36:10 +0000 conigs http://iamawesome.net/?p=325 I ran across this article about iPhone 3G tips/tricks on Hongkiat. All-in-all, an okay compilation of random how-tos… But that’s not what this post is about.

Now, I’m all for having social-network links in blog posts. Hell, you’ll notice them below posts on this site. I think these links should be there if you need them, but pretty unobtrusive. I like to think they’re pretty subtle here. Hongkiat, apparently, has a different opinion:

link-whoring

This is what we call whoring. That image is only slightly narrower than the content column. The thing was (relatively) huge!  At least it wasn’t an insane list of sites a mile long, such as Real Tech News a few years ago. (The image was made for a fark post a long time ago. They’ve gotten much better since then.)

Remember kids, Sharing is Caring™, until you force the diabetic kid to eat a Twinkie because you think it’s good for him.

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