Facebook Learns People Hate Clickbait; You Won't Believe What Happened Next

Posted by thursdayb under Social Media
From http://readwrite.com 3734 days ago
Made Hot by: problogger78 on August 31, 2014 3:01 pm

Facebook vs. Clickbait

Will this cure the ills diagnosed by Hudack and suffered by CNN, the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and Vice, all of which Hudack called out by name? What of Ezra Klein and his new website, Vox, for which the Facebook employee reserved his most toxic vitriol?

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Written by ebele
3726 days ago

Ooooh, never heard of Saved You A Click, but I love the premise of it!

Whatever FB has planned to deal with clickbait, I hope it works.

(p.s.: I see what you did there with the title!)

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Written by lyceum
3728 days ago

Thursday: Isn't the best thing to let the market decide? I thought it was funny to learn about "Saved You a Click" and Click Hole (by the Onion)... ;)

How much time do you think that the average Internet user is spending on the "interwebs," clicking on links?

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