In reply to Paxton.

This seems like a really sad “reach” at an attempted fishing expedition to monetize something so simple as social sharing.
Monetize VideoPress into Jetpack so that one never has to jack with Vimeo, YouTube or any CDN for whitelabelled videos …. the community is in. Monetize something that is an ‘additional’ feature in Jetpack, and again …the community is on board with it.

But to attempt to monetize something so frivolous as “social sharing” into a PAID feature? That will not turn people TOWARDS Jetpack, that will turn folks AWAY from Jetpack & for good reason.

@Paxton
Here’s your answer: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/social+share/
(My pick? = https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/ )

And that answer to Paxton also goes to one of the main reasons that this will be a turn off to gain more Jetpack revenue and users. There is simply no valid justification to monetize a feature which comes so freely available to everyone.

Jetpack needs to monetize something that you can NOT get anywhere else. Take the reach and scope of Jetpack and monetize non-branded video CDN at a competitive rate, and then you’ve got a revenue generating product.

But social shares? Nope.