I don't know which text I should add on top of my social box (where there are icons to follow official page). I fear that the user might not know the text and the function of those icons....
Which should I use ?
Follow me
Connect with us
Official page
Other option ?
Thanks a lot
I have an very completely diffrent attitude than hsawires! In my opinion you dont "should", you MUST set a title for this elements. As a user I was already several times in the situation that I just didnt know whether the Twitter icon bring me to the twitter profile of the organisation or share the content! The task of the title is to tell the user is the icon a link to the profile, or the icon has a different task (for example sharing).
In my opinion are follow us and connect with us both learned formulations.
I would have been able to help better if I had like a screenshot to understand the exact placing of the content, but here is my opinion from the insights I gathered here.
If you want the user to share the content present on the website, put them up in a box titled "Share" right after the content and use flat icons(no text) or do not title the box and use icons like shown here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Au9OG-SCEAAHU7n.png
If you want the users to follow you on your social media accounts, create a separate area and use either "Follow me/us" or "Find me/us" or "For more Updates" and put just the icons with no text,as text will clutter up the area. This gives the clarity that you are guiding them to the respective media platform.
Try and place these two boxes away from each other to avoid confusion. Place them such that the user does not have to search for it when browsing through, it should just be there for them.
Hope this helps.
In my opinion. you shouldn't put any text titling your social media icons, because of the wide spreading of using social media website it is so obvious to the user right now that those icons are your presence on social media.
For sure you are not putting facebook google+ and twitter icons in your page as a bookmark to those social media websites redirecting the users to it!!. It will be so obvious they are your pages on those social media!
Titling your elements in the page is for weak designs and I am not recommending it. the user is smart enough to know what you are talking about. and your design should be clear enough to not make the user think and read more title.
But if you want a title I may suggest. (Follow us) or (we are on the web) or (You may visit).
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In case you have a two sets of icons one set for your official pages over the social media and the other is to share the content, so should differentiate you icons visually by putting the sharing option in the top or the bottom of your content and keep your presence on the social media in a special place in your page. like the footer or the above header navigation. differentiation could be in the styles of the icons, sizes, and location. and I am still recommending not to put a tile over any set of icons and let the user know it by himself.
this is an example of what i mean with possible icons sets positions.
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