According to commentary on Hacker News, those social sharing buttons scattered across news sites and blogs get almost no clicks. Despite being a near-universal fixture of web design for over a decade, share buttons have become digital decoration—present but essentially unused. The observation has sparked discussion among designers and developers about whether these elements serve any real purpose or simply persist through habit and tradition.

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