[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by MrEyes

Unless you have been in a cave for the last 5 years you will have probably notice the whole social networking thing. There is also an un-said opinion that forums are, to some degree, old tech and the conversations that people were having on forums 10 years ago are now happening on facetwittertubeplusspace. To mitigate this I know have the following "social" options available to me:

• Facebook login
• Facebook likes
• Facebook publishing of threads, posts, blogs, articles etc
• Likes system (vbseo)
• Tweetboard (vbseo)
• Google+ (custom mod)
• VB Social Bookmarking
• VB Social Bookmarking (vbseo)
• Probably something else I have forgotten about

My question is, how do you guys manage the combination of these things on your forums? For the reasons mentioned above I am keen to integrate with the social sites - however I am also keen to avoid plastering my site with a kaleidoscope of like buttons.

Then there is another question, like all things in forum administration there is a balancing act, enable FB, disable twitter - FB users happy, twitter users not so happy. Enabled everything and have the kaleidoscope, disabled everything are slowly die a social death.

So, what do you have enabled? Do your members make use of them?

With some user profile fields and a little coding you can set it up so each user could enable or disable whatever "share" options they want.

On my form I have my users the option of disabling all of them since I know many never use social networking and never will.