The endless, relentless onslaught of clickbait titles in every Facebook feed

[Yossarian]

Hahaha. Fuck you, clickbait cunts. Your shitting scam is coming to an end

Facebook to suppress clickbait stories - BBC News

"Big Changes Are Coming to Facebook. Here's How YOUR News Feed Will Be Different"

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm sure it appears like that because they are so good at their job. The lack of imagination lies with their target audience.

The imagination needed is not high because the target audience are pretty dim. Headlines that make you want to read the article for reasons apart from tedious psychological tricks are just called "good headlines", and there's no particular reason to ban them, so if they can't be identified by a pretty simple algorithm that's fine.

 

[mauvais]

If I never have to blunder into another one of those sentence-per-page affairs ever again, like an internet version of Spot The Dog with other people's terrible photos, it'll be far too soon.

You'll never guess what's happened to adult literacy! Page 47 is the worst!

 

[Mumbles274]

I've discovered another shit thing about click bait. I ignored one the other week about how 'I've been using deodorant wrong my whole life'. I can't stop thinking about what I might be doing wrong

 

[rubbershoes]

I've discovered another shit thing about click bait. I ignored one the other week about how 'I've been using deodorant wrong my whole life'. I can't stop thinking about what I might be doing wrong

 

[Mumbles274]

Thank you, mystery solved

 

[NoXion]

I don't tend to get clickbait articles, what I get instead are fucking advertisements because someone "liked" a page. Those are fucking annoying no matter how many times I tell Facebook I don't want to see them.

 

[mauvais]

I feel that perhaps either I or advertising have lost our way.



I'm not sure what kind of life I should have lived to avoid being targeted by clickbait about railway ballast.

 

[mauvais]

Also it's not at all surprising, unless you hitherto thought that it was faded unicorn poop.

 

[bi0boy]

I was just baited into reading what I thought might be an interesting article about science stuff only to end up at this page:

 

[skyscraper101]

This is surely the most annoying clickbait of late.

The "PEOPLE ARE ONLY JUST REALISING....." headline.




Er, no they are not.

 

[salem]

Answer - it's called Tony's Chocolonely not Tony's Chocoloney

(I just typed the URL in manually )

 

[skyscraper101]

Omgz. WHO KNEW??!?1

 

[skyscraper101]

One that particularly irks me right now is "...and people are ALL SAYING THE SAME THING"

No, they're not. You clickbait spam javelins.

 

[isvicthere?]

You´ll never believe what someone who was young, attractive and famous 35 years ago looks like today!

If you can answer 15 of these ridiculously easy multiple choice questions (which often include a picture giving you the answer), you have an IQ higher than Sheldon Cooper.

 

[Crispy]

And then you've also got a whole industry dedicated to gaming facebook's advertising with AI-generated slop (that boomers can't seem to help devouring).

Excellent reporting here:

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From

Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

www.404media.co

 

[Jammy smears]

You´ll never believe what someone who was young, attractive and famous 35 years ago looks like today!

If you can answer 15 of these ridiculously easy multiple choice questions (which often include a picture giving you the answer), you have an IQ higher than Sheldon Cooper.

Why do they always declare them as unrecogniseable, no they're not unrecogniseable they just look older!

 

[skyscraper101]

The latest annoying shit that seems to be relentless in my social media feed from the usual sources is this sort of “BREAKING! Pop singer/actor/Celebrity DIES etc” and then it’s almost always some nobody often from another country who barely anyone has heard of.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Is anyone else getting these odd biographies of indie/punk/alternative bands with Then and Now photos of them of variable time distance?

I assume they're AI generated and have some ulterior purpose, but as they're of mild interest and better than far-right shite or 'hilarious banter' memes I'm quite happy to let them go rather than hit the Hide All From... or Block button.

 

[xenon]

I just get rage bait from news sites. My fault, I keep responding to it, making mildly intemporet comments when in my cups.