Online, sharing is par for the course. People share articles that they have read and enjoyed with their friends and business associates. Users share pictures and share post messages on their thoughts on the day. Novice cooks and experts alike share food recipes and other tips for being more inventive at the dinner table.

Everyone shares virtually everything online these days, most notably people who regularly share to Facebook. The site is notorious in the best way possible for making it simple to share anything and everything across the web. There are options to share with your friends and share the network, and these sharing options are just the beginning. The site has led the way for the creation of a world in which people share everything, and what it has done and is doing is making everything simpler online.

Of course, sharing is really nothing without the knowledge that a company or an entity has a social media page and participates in sites like Facebook and others. Usually, then, companies and independent organizations with websites include a social media button on their respective sites to indicate that they do in fact participate in the site. Using a social media button with the specific Facebook icon or other icon indicating other social media pages, these companies and organizations instantly show everyone who visits their pages that they love social media and that they are part of the online conversation.

Of course, before they make people aware of this these entities usually either work with their web developers or do their own work to add the social media button with a live link attached to it so that users can just click on that social media button and be directed specifically to these companies’ social media pages. Weaker organizations think it is OK to just have the link go to Facebook or another specified social media site, but the most successful methods include those where the social media button is used to direct users exactly to these companies’ pages for social media. This takes out one potentially time consuming step for users, which makes them more likely to become fans of these pages.

Luckily, adding a social media button is quite simple. Whether they work with developers or do it themselves, companies usually get this done rather quickly. Generally, it takes them about 10 minutes to an hour to get everything completed, which usually occurs without hassles.