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Comment by jlarocco | Hacker News Reader

"Think about it. In order to share a webpage, you’ve got to open an email, copy and paste the link, and write out some sort of explanation to the recipient letting them know what the link is about. And if you want to point them to a specific section of the article or page you have to copy and paste those sections."

Does anybody share links via email any more? Wouldn't 99.9% of the population use facebook, twitter or pintrest?

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Using Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest usually means you are broadcasting content you want everyone to see and like.

When you want a more contextual and relevant conversation with an individual or group, or you want to annotate with highlights on a page, we believe Kifi is a great solution.

I maily share links/articles/videos through email with friends and family. This is way easier to do when you want to share a link with a specific group a friends/people and not with the "world" or "one person only".

I share links with friends over Facebook sometimes. Nobody I know uses Twitter or Pinterest. A decent number of my friends/family don't use Facebook either.

I generally agree, but I still get links from some of my older family members :)

In particular I get email links when my sister travels internationally (she uses a throw away email address rather than logging into main accounts/social media when traveling).

I didn't even know it was possible to PM someone on Pinterest. I would guess that's not a very common use case.

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