Every time I see an Upworthy-style link-bait headline beginning with “You won’t believe…”. I have to fight the urge to want to kick a “Viral Content Editor” in the bollocks. This probably makes me a Bad Person….
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“Use this one weird trick to get people to read your completely worthless articles!”
<thwack!>
It is a horrible tactic… instantly makes it look like a virus-riddled spam link, or The Sun-style sensationalism, neither of which makes me want to click it!
Worse, I think it makes me an even badder (more bad? baddier?) person, because a tiny part of me judges friends who DO click links to such articles…
You know, I’m missing a lot of this rubbish through not being on Facebook
“Missing” is probably not the most appropriate adjective in that sentence…
Heh!