There’s Gently Encouraging Sharing, and There’s Whoring

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:

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.