How People Share Information – Facebook? Kind of.
Business Insider had a good chart showing how that people share information through Facebook more than any other sharing tool. It’s interesting but should be noted that this seems to be only when information is shared by the Web page sharing tool. The company that provided this information, AddtoAny, provides the tools to make it easy to share Web based information right from a Web page (e.g., click the share button under an article). This would not include links that people cut and paste into an email. Those may well be a larger portion. In my unscientific poll of asking six people, they all said they read more links that were pasted in an email than through Facebook or from emails sent from share this links on Web pages.
Still, this does indicate that in the specific situation where people are using Web based sharing buttons, Facebook may well have a strong lead.
