How do you write "share" (as in "tell others") in Japanese?


My company is developing an iPhone game that will be for sale in the US and
Japan. There is a share button that allows people to text message, email,
Facebook, and twitter their friends about the game. In english, the button
just says "share". What would be the appropriate replacement for this in
Japanese that makes sense culturally?

I am trying to use the culturally correct word. I have found 分かち合う. But I
believe this word more accurately means "dispense."

分け合う is what I believe I should use. I just want to make sure it is correct
and makes sense so no one is offended.




分け合う and 分かち合う do translate to "share", literally as in "sharing an apple with
two other people [by dividing it into thirds]" and figuratively as in "sharing
your joys and sorrows with your loved ones". I won't try to distinguish them
here because I don't think either word is quite right, so it's not entirely
relevant, but I don't think either word is _offensive_.

The real problem is that you're asking about a button labeled "share" in a
social media context, and I think that calls for a different word. In that
context, the word I've mostly seen for "share" is 共有. Here's an example of a
share button on YouTube labeled 共有:

![Screen shot of YouTube with a 共有
button](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iVM9O.png)

I must admit I'm not a big user of social media, but searching around on
Google seems to confirm that other sites use it, too.

So my suggestion is 共有.

