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Re:Facebook is scaring me by techiferous on Saturday September 24, 2011 @01:29PM (#3033772)
I'm curious, was there any user testing done? It seems odd to me that someone would actually want something shared automatically that they simply read. I understand wanting to make user interfaces more streamlined, but reading something and sharing something with your friends are distinctly different activities.
Re:Facebook is scaring me by extension on Saturday September 24, 2011 @02:40PM (#3033972)
Seriously! How could this be anything but a crappy user experience? Who would want to share something before they even read it?

What would really suck is googling something private and clicking on a result that just happens to be on one of the sites that has permission to share. Oops.

Re:Facebook is scaring me by altrego99 on Sunday September 25, 2011 @08:20AM (#3035690)
> Who would want to share something before they even read it?

Apparently Mark would, as he has already installed the "great app" Washington Post Reader, as the OP pointed out.

Re:Facebook is scaring me by rhizome on Saturday September 24, 2011 @02:42PM (#3033986)
Business decisions are typically not subject to user testing.