The endless, relentless onslaught of clickbait titles in every Facebook feed
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skyscraper101
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"We want you to click on this link... because you won't BELIEVE what happens next!"
Load of bollocks.
Load of bollocks.
skyscraper101
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It's annoying because... I use facebook primarily as a news aggregator. It's simpler to just 'like' all the media sources I'm interested in and then browse through FB than visit a gazillion web pages every day. But since buzzfeed, upworthy et al. half of the newspapers are now copying their clickbait tactics to get you to read their site. It's bloody irritating.
joustmaster
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friends like and share them. so we get to see them.Where are these all cropping up, I don't see anything like this?
Oh wait, I managed to not sign up to whichever social media site is currently in vogue - it's not compulsory you know
the stupid and annoying headlines obviously work because they are everywhere.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
They can't possibly be "everywhere" though, because I don't see anything like this. Except this thread has acquainted me with their existence. I pretty much stick to this forum, BBC News, and my ESO guild forum, and I'm blissfully unaware of this sort of thing. It's not like all those marketing calls that I received on my mobile phone between 8 and 10am on the most recent bank holiday Monday and made me rage whilst I was trying to have a lie in, it is actually possible to avoid the social networking sites where this sort of thing is rife, surely?
joustmaster
offcumdun
not really (for me at least). Some family and friends have started using facebook as the main, and in a few cases, only, way of getting in touch.
Instead of email, and phone calls, letters, and erm, faxing.
And Palantirnot really (for me at least). Some family and friends have started using facebook as the main, and in a few cases, only, way of getting in touch.
Instead of email, and phone calls, letters, and erm, faxing.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
not really (for me at least). Some family and friends have started using facebook as the main, and in a few cases, only, way of getting in touch.
Instead of email, and phone calls, letters, and erm, faxing.
If people can't be bothered to get in touch by other means than bloody facebook, that's their problem. IMO.
skyscraper101
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Despite all this nonsense.. Facebook is still an excellent aggregator of most information sources I want to get at in one place.
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
I use this too. Not the best extension ever written, but does filter out a lot of crap.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
aqua
made of cheese and gin
Have you tried flipboard?
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
I know a guy who works at Buzzfeed's London office (he's younger than me and is by far the oldest member of staff). These article titles are a
This is what RSS is for. www.feedly.com
editor
hiraethified
The growth of this kind of inane commercial rubbish is, I suspect, one of the reasons that these boards continue to be reasonably popular. Going through my Facebook feed is becoming more like picking up a copy of the Standard: fucking annoying and an ordeal to find anything of interest amongst all the crap.
It's one of the reasons why I don't tend to use too many other forums either. Or at least I don't stick around on them. The intrusive adverts breaking up content. Invitations to read similar articles before you've even got to the thing you went there for in the first place and general UI junk. Admittidly my experience being filtered through a screenreader may misrepresent the actual visual lay out and the stuff's easier to gaze away from than it seems. But still, there's a lot of crap out there. I never use the main FB site, which is horrendous.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Do people actually click those links?
No, I don't anyway and tbh very few of my friends share this kinda crap. Anything with the titles in editor's OP gets ignored because I'm that kinda gal
It's the trending thing that bugs me a bit. I never know who the feck the people on that list are, and I'm fairly sure in all the time that thing has been telling me what is trending about 1% of it has made it on to my feed
skyscraper101
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yeah, its ok, but its an app and I want to browse in a browser because I'm ultimately going to want to read something on a bigger screen than my phone (no tablet).
skyscraper101
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True, but I prefer fb cos I can see what my friends are sharing and commenting on at the same time. Plus, not everything has an RSS feed. Most stuff I want to know about has a FB prescence, and I can watch videos and images from within the page so I don't have to keep clicking opening seperate tabs.
Plus I'm ultimately still going to be using facebook anyway. It's easier just to unsubscribe from annoying clickbait.
