A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read
Maybe because most of the articles are clickbait anyway
Me attempting to take the time to read twenty poorly formatted articles per day, broken up into fourteen paragraphs each and seperated by what I assume are intended to be hundreds of intrusive ads and completely diverging from what the headline baited me into thinking this ad (er… article…) was about in the first place:
If it makes anyone feel any better, the researchers didn’t click the links either.
To determine the political content of shared links, the researchers in this study used machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to identify and classify political terms in the link content.
You’re lucky if researchers read the sources they cited beyond the abstract! Lol
Upvoted without reading just to perpetuate the narrative.
I share Onion headlines without reading the articles. The headline is usually about 90% of the laugh.
I don’t read 90% of the articles because they’re mostly crap.
Right? Do you expect me to click on 90% of articles?
Social media is a filter. I’m using it to figure out what is worth clicking on.
Politics, sensationalism, click bait, fear mongering. A lot of content is useless to me.
Maybe they are just aware of clickbait bullshit? Make headlines deliver on the payload of the article.
