I'm looking for a share widget for my website... but is that the way to go?

 It's me, I'm the web designer of W is for Web.  Hmm... maybe I should rename my website "The Problem, it's me"... I always come up with new problems to solve.  And I don't know what is the most efficient way to go about it.  But then again I'm not really a Swifty.

Here's my dilemma: I'd like to give users the ability to share my websites if they want it without more than one click to do it.  Apparently Google already has something that does this, but for people who don't know how to add plugins to their chrome browser, this might be tricky.  Here's the tutorial from YouTube user "The Gooru".


https://youtu.be/UENWDCysgGk?si=TCbNpDydiWvFGp0e


--- Am I doom scrolling now?---

I just found this video which analyzes another video of an etsy seller who got shut down after
https://youtu.be/0l45RgLaELw?si=ILzgOSuGlDMbETT5

Now they're talking about Taylor, and I'm like Wow- weird- because I just typed that top line about being a Swifty.  

Take away: If the person is purchasing your item because of the branded slogan of someone else, and not your unique item...  Okay this doesn't actually answer my question - I have artist friends that constantly use pop culture items because they have become part of our aural-visual vocabulary and do some kind of mashup.  Is this going to become an issue for them?  Here's my question for this specific youtube user- How much money did she actually make on these items (Taylor Swift)?

Okay, now I see... I'm on a google based product- Blogger, and when I wrote the first line, they knew already that I was quoting her in this blog.  In fact YouTube is also a Google product.  Yes, it's all the same thing at this point.  

I thought I was safe because I was on Firefox, but I might try this test again with incognito and what not.

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But anyway, let's refocus here...

My point was that most people wouldn't want to install a plugin just to share one website.  Not only that, I feel weird including a link to that video or for that plugin, because that was not my goal to be sharing their work when I know that there must be an easier way to code this into my site.


Wouldn't you know it? There are plenty of Indian (from India) programmers that I tend to watch for just this type of issue. I'll probably try the Ai method of making an article from their videos because frankly, that's my personal preference (reading along with instructions) for learning code.


I think this note might be worthy of a bullet journaling exercise.  For instance, I think I could have one notebook just for website solutions to my most common problems, with a note about different methods to teaching myself how to do them, and rating the difficulty level of them after I've tried them.  Also it would be good to get a sense of how much value that solution became to me, in addition to costs it might have incurred aside from time.


This reminds me of something I told my client today: there are probably about ten different ways to approach any problem.  I'm tempted to write my articles in this way: what are the ten best ways to get a "share" button on your website?  I'll start by asking ChatGPT and find out if this posit is true.

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