If HN isn't your target demographic, the answers here are going to be really skewed. Social signup is very much preferred (we have a number of iOS & Android apps targeting consumers) and social login makes up around 82%.
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?
#12I 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?
Yeah, I've uninstalled some apps because I couldn't use them without signing up, when signing up didn't provide any benefit at all. Just more spam.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#13I personally use a "dummy" email for whenever I sign up to something that looks interesting. Only after I might use my real e-mail. But to answer your question I prefer e-mail.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#14Depends if I trust the app or not, and what that app is for (if using twitter/facebook makes the app experience better).
I've no problem signing up using social media accounts.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#15If HN isn't your target demographic, the answers here are going to be really skewed. Social signup is very much preferred (we have a number of iOS & Android apps targeting consumers) and social login makes up around 82%.
82% is really a astonishing number, i think now a days people don't want to fill up long sign up forms ( who has time for it ) that's why they prefer social sign up ....
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#16I prefer social media sign up
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#17I rather strongly prefer Google Account integration to most other signup options (particularly for a specifically Android-based app), but I'd prefer service-specific signup to most "social" options.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#18I 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?
Totally agree with this point.
Asking users for too much information up-front will put them off your app before they even get into the first screens.
I'm working on a couple of projects where this conversation has come up. After some qualitative interviews with our target group, it became abundantly clear that this group (under 40 urbanites) are increasingly aware of privacy issues and social signups. They specifically cited Spotify as the culprit. Turns out there were some closed OneDirection fans, and Spotify outed them using social playlists.
So if you are going to ask for that info, please tell the user WHY that info is necessary, and WHY it will make a better user experience.
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#19This would probably make a pretty good poll. You can create a poll at https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll if you have more than 200 karma (I don't :( yet)
If anyone does create the poll, it might be more valuable to have options to vote on individual social network.
For e.g. these could be poll options
- I never sign up through Social Media
- Twitter Only
- Facebook only
- LinkedIn only
- Google Plus only
- Any social media would be fine for me
Re: Ask HN: How Many of Prefer Social Media Sign Up Over Regular Sign Up?
#20This would probably make a pretty good poll. You can create a poll at https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll if you have more than 200 karma (I don't :( yet) If anyone does create the poll, it might be more valuable to have options to vote on individual social network. For e.g. these could be poll options - I never sign up through Social Media - Twitter Only - Facebook only - LinkedIn only - Google Plus only - Any soci…
I too don't have ;)