I am developing a android based application and was thinking that now a days people prefer social media sign up over regular sign up. Am i right or you think other way around
Please share your thoughts Thanks
Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
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Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#2I do. As long as it's not Facebook.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#3I prefer the opposite, I do not like being nervous about your app posting to my social media, nor do I want to have social media accounts forever.
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#4I prefer the opposite, I do not like being nervous about your app posting to my social media, nor do I want to have social media accounts forever.
Thanks for opinion
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#5I'll go to great lengths to avoid social sign ups. I want nothing linked to those accounts. It mostly comes from distrust of app behavior. I don't want any app blasting anything to my entire contact lists. This might be an irrational concern but its real. I'll use Google account to sign up for any service BC I know Google won't let an app run wild w my contacts. Other services I am not so confident
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#6All of my social media postings are public and I disable permissions for apps to automatically post publicly, so I don't have a problem with signing up through Facebook. If it were something very private, I might think differently. I don't have a problem with my Yelp and Facebook account being associated, for example. Pretty sure everyone on Facebook knows that I eat food already.
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#7If a site doesn't offer an alternative form of sign up, I won't use it. Github and twitter oauth are exceptions though, all of that data is already public.
However, there is virtually no reason at all not to offer both - and then everybody wins.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#8You should investigate this further based on the expected user demographics of your app. I would expect that most people who post on Hacker News avoid all social login as much as possible for privacy reasons, while many other user groups may prefer it to creating new accounts everywhere out of convenience.
Note that any Android phone which is able to access Google Play also must have a Google (GMail) account set up, and you can use this to authenticate the user with minimal effort: http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/index.html
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#9I prefer no signup to both.
For me, if there isn't an obvious and strong value proposition, I don't want to be bothered by crap in my feed or spam in my inbox.
To put it another way, for any particular app, I probably don't care about it, so why would I want communication from it?
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#10I use Google signup, but none of the other providers.