My criticism applies to users of the feature as well as developers of the feature. You wrote:
"As soon as I read an article, my first action is to either send the link to specific people who are interested, or post it on my wall if I think everyone is interested."
In such cases, you are deliberately being selective in your sharing. I think this is as it should be.
Everyone is overloaded with information now, and one of the best ways to deal with that is to be good filters for our connections. This implies being selective in what you send, rather than broadcasting a high volume, low signal-to-noise ratio because doing so is "frictionless".
The more people act as good filters/routers of information, the better signal-to-noise ratio we'll all get.
"As soon as I read an article, my first action is to either send the link to specific people who are interested, or post it on my wall if I think everyone is interested."
In such cases, you are deliberately being selective in your sharing. I think this is as it should be.
Everyone is overloaded with information now, and one of the best ways to deal with that is to be good filters for our connections. This implies being selective in what you send, rather than broadcasting a high volume, low signal-to-noise ratio because doing so is "frictionless".
The more people act as good filters/routers of information, the better signal-to-noise ratio we'll all get.