Is your website optimised for social sharing?(blog.silktide.com)
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Is your website optimised for social sharing?
http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/open-graph-tags-more-important-than-you-think-for-social-media-sharing/
http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/open-graph-tags-more-important-than-you-think-for-social-media-sharing/
Even if loaded asynchronously, the added loading time and "elements settling into place" provides a less than perfect user experience every single visitor has to endure, whether they share a link to your site on a social network or not.
I'm not only talking about the panic Facebook caused by being down. I'm also referring to the situations not everyone considers: Facebook being blocked in a corporate environment while your website is trying to load open graph.
There's value to the social engagement, no doubt about that, but as a developer I often feel the urge not to include any of the dynamic "like" and "tweet" buttons unless I'm explicitly asked to, instead I opt in for the regular links where at all possible.
If that means sharing my sites on Facebook won't automatically insert a short excerpt, so be it.