Why 'share'?

[zebo]

I've just made a very mundane purchase on Amazon and at the end I had the opportunity to 'share' my purchase on Facebook and Twitter. Why would anyone want to 'share' it, I've not bought a diamond necklace or a Maserati!

[ummmm]

Silly isn't in...

[Fitzer]

Because they've realised that some people will tell the world about anything they do and it's all advertising for them. Plus why complicate the code on the page by trying to decide if this is a purchase 'worthy' of being shared :-)

[sunny-dave]

But we need to now about your haemorrhoid cream, zebo - we might feel envy and want to indulge ourselves ...

[zebo]

Sunny-dave, how very dare you, such an item would not keep my oven clean!!

[Bazile]

your'e all missing something here .

Share it on facebook and it's good advertising for the manufacturers and Amazon

[gness]

How do you know it wouldn't, Zebo?...... ;-)

[zebo]

Gness, wrong bottom, I was buying oven liners!!

[gness]

☺....x

[sunny-dave]

Ah - I thought it was being bought for the Essex facelift effect ...

[naomi24]

I never understand why people think others are interested in what they’re doing. It seems all very ‘me me me’ … to me.

[vortex]

It's like a bag of Maltesers - why share?

[andy-hughes]

It's a sign of my age, and avoidance of modern mainstream social media that I have no idea what 'sharing' means in this context.

[vortex]

Andy, ignorance is bliss!

[zebo]

Sunny dave, some faces would need a fork-lift truck!!!!

[Canary42]

"Why would anyone want to 'share' it,"

Agree completely. But "keeping up with the Jones" is more rife than ever amongst the younger generations today, so such sharing is a very persuasive marketing tool. Peer pressure predominates.

[zebo]

True Canary, if I was buying a top notch car, I'd be sharing it from the Town Hall steps!

[joeluke]

A bit like the sad individuals who 'share' their whole mundane lives with the world on facebook

"was at Costa Coffee in Bognor"

Who gives a t055?