People use social media in various ways in combination with their websites.
Share website via Social Media
On your website you can use a "social share" functionality where your visitors can easily share the page with their followers.
- Some social share extensions load scripts from external sources. Those external sources might register the IP addresses of your visitors.
- Some scripts display "X of your Facebook friends liked this page" or "X of your friends shared this page on Twitter".
Those social media do log all the visits of your visitors, if they are logged in into those social media channels, but even if they did not "like" or "share" the page themselves.
Share Social Media via your website
Some platforms make it possible to show other places public information example, a twitter feed with latest tweets on your own website.
- Some social share extensions load scripts from external sources. Those external sources might register the IP addresses of your visitors.
