Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
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You should investigate this further based on the expected user demographics of your app. I would expect that most people who post on Hacker News avoid all social login as much as possible for privacy reasons, while many other user groups may prefer it to creating new accounts everywhere out of convenience.
Note that any Android phone which is able to access Google Play also must have a Google (GMail) account set up, and you can use this to authenticate the user with minimal effort: http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/index.html
Note that any Android phone which is able to access Google Play also must have a Google (GMail) account set up, and you can use this to authenticate the user with minimal effort: http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/index.html
I'll go to great lengths to avoid social sign ups. I want nothing linked to those accounts. It mostly comes from distrust of app behavior. I don't want any app blasting anything to my entire contact lists. This might be an irrational concern but its real. I'll use Google account to sign up for any service BC I know Google won't let an app run wild w my contacts. Other services I am not so confident
If HN isn't your target demographic, the answers here are going to be really skewed. Social signup is very much preferred (we have a number of iOS & Android apps targeting consumers) and social login makes up around 82%.
82% is really a astonishing number, i think now a days people don't want to fill up long sign up forms ( who has time for it ) that's why they prefer social sign up ....
I prefer no signup to both.
For me, if there isn't an obvious and strong value proposition, I don't want to be bothered by crap in my feed or spam in my inbox.
To put it another way, for any particular app, I probably don't care about it, so why would I want communication from it?
For me, if there isn't an obvious and strong value proposition, I don't want to be bothered by crap in my feed or spam in my inbox.
To put it another way, for any particular app, I probably don't care about it, so why would I want communication from it?
Totally agree with this point.
Asking users for too much information up-front will put them off your app before they even get into the first screens.
I'm working on a couple of projects where this conversation has come up. After some qualitative interviews with our target group, it became abundantly clear that this group (under 40 urbanites) are increasingly aware of privacy issues and social signups. They specifically cited Spotify as the culprit. Turns out there were some closed OneDirection fans, and Spotify outed them using social playlists.
So if you are going to ask for that info, please tell the user WHY that info is necessary, and WHY it will make a better user experience.
Asking users for too much information up-front will put them off your app before they even get into the first screens.
I'm working on a couple of projects where this conversation has come up. After some qualitative interviews with our target group, it became abundantly clear that this group (under 40 urbanites) are increasingly aware of privacy issues and social signups. They specifically cited Spotify as the culprit. Turns out there were some closed OneDirection fans, and Spotify outed them using social playlists.
So if you are going to ask for that info, please tell the user WHY that info is necessary, and WHY it will make a better user experience.
Yeah, I've uninstalled some apps because I couldn't use them without signing up, when signing up didn't provide any benefit at all. Just more spam.
If a site doesn't offer an alternative form of sign up, I won't use it. Github and twitter oauth are exceptions though, all of that data is already public.
However, there is virtually no reason at all not to offer both - and then everybody wins.
However, there is virtually no reason at all not to offer both - and then everybody wins.
I rather strongly prefer Google Account integration to most other signup options (particularly for a specifically Android-based app), but I'd prefer service-specific signup to most "social" options.
This would probably make a pretty good poll. You can create a poll at https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll if you have more than 200 karma (I don't :( yet)
If anyone does create the poll, it might be more valuable to have options to vote on individual social network.
For e.g. these could be poll options
- I never sign up through Social Media
- Twitter Only
- Facebook only
- LinkedIn only
- Google Plus only
- Any social media would be fine for me
If anyone does create the poll, it might be more valuable to have options to vote on individual social network.
For e.g. these could be poll options
- I never sign up through Social Media
- Twitter Only
- Facebook only
- LinkedIn only
- Google Plus only
- Any social media would be fine for me
I too don't have ;)
All of my social media postings are public and I disable permissions for apps to automatically post publicly, so I don't have a problem with signing up through Facebook. If it were something very private, I might think differently. I don't have a problem with my Yelp and Facebook account being associated, for example. Pretty sure everyone on Facebook knows that I eat food already.
I prefer having both options. I first try out social media sign up and verify the permissions the app requesting. If the permissions scare me, I sign up with my, e.g. [email protected].
I personally use a "dummy" email for whenever I sign up to something that looks interesting. Only after I might use my real e-mail. But to answer your question I prefer e-mail.
Depends if I trust the app or not, and what that app is for (if using twitter/facebook makes the app experience better).
I've no problem signing up using social media accounts.
I've no problem signing up using social media accounts.
I use Google signup, but none of the other providers.
I prefer social media sign up
Please share your thoughts Thanks