Thanks But No Thanks: I Do NOT Want to Connect Every Site to Facebook.

I’ve started noticing too many sites I frequent now feature a Facebook Connect takeover just seconds after I land on a page. It feels like an ad, and it’s annoying.

I’m more than aware of Facebook. I know how to share content via that platform. But I don’t consult my friends on every decision I make, and I’m not interested in being told I should.

So here’s my appeal to social media marketers: find some other way to provide me a ‘custom experience,’ one that doesn’t shove Facebook Connect at me every time I visit a site. You’re supposed to be original.  Companies pay you huge dollars to come up with groundbreaking ideas. Why are you repeating the same trope over and over?

Readers: what are your ideas for social media engagement, above and beyond the lazy slogan “get recommendations from your friends while we put our feet up!”

 (Note: Although the post image features Hulu, it’s not because I’m particularly frustrated with them. As a cordcutter, I love Hulu for all that it offers. I hope whoever buys it treats it well.)