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    +1 for educating me on the term "infinite scrolling". I am still a little skeptical, though, on this percieved problem of users being slightly derailed by pagination. I do not have any exeprience of anyone ever complaining "Oh no! I have to navigate to another page!" Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 5:19
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    "Pagination createa a natural pause ..." The perceived "problem" from the quote is more a problem for the site owner (user leaving) than the user. In fact, pagination is exactly what I want and like as a user. It gives me the choice of whether I want to spend the time retrieving more data or not. With infinite scrolling that choice and thus my control over what I am doing is taken away from me. Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 6:10
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    @MarjanVenema: I agree completely. I have never navigated away from content I was interested in because of pagination. It seems to me that "infinite scrolling" is solving the wrong problem. Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 8:10
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    @DaveMG: well, I've never been afraid of using a program just because it used the CLI. The problem with anecdotes is that we're never the average user. Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 11:07
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    Okay, I can agree that infinite scrolling is not inherently bad, just that a lot of sites, like Facebook implement it very poorly. My biggest grudge against Facebook and similar implementations is that the loading of new content is unpredictable to a degree, so that as I scroll down, the content tends to jump and relocate my scroll bar, so I lose my position. This happens frequently as I scroll up and down, making scrolling a chore. That, and the obviously faulty footer issue. Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 2:51