Beverly
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I was browsing through my Facebook feed recently and saw a very interesting article, actually alarming, claiming an asteroid was set to hit earth some time next week. I don't usually click on Facebook links as most are bogus, but this one turned out to be pretty interesting.
The first half of the article seemed legit talking about this asteroid on path to collide with earth... and then the author of the article revealed that it was a joke... which you probably figured out by now. And,then went on to talk about a new study (link below to that story) that shows how Facebook and Twitter users are more likely to tweet and share salacious gossip news stories without actually reading them first.
So if someone is spreading rumors, they only need to entitle their story with some salacious comment for it to be picked up and shared heavily. This is the link to the original story, not the original article that I clicked on from Facebook - sharing this link for more information about the study.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/new...epressing-study/
the study finds that these sort of blind peer-to-peer shares are really important in determining what news gets circulated and what just fades off the public radar. So your thoughtless retweets, and those of your friends, are actually shaping our shared political and cultural agendas.
“People are more willing to share an article than read it,” study co-author Arnaud Legout said in a statement. “This is typical of modern information consumption. People form an opinion based on a summary, or a summary of summaries, without making the effort to go deeper.”?
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wow! And, no one was checking? :/
I wonder what the net result of all these shares are then if no one is clicking through. Though possibly all those shares are considered Engagement by Facebook - and increased engagement does improve your organic reach for posts. At least, I believe that's how it works, something to be thankful for. :)
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I'm in agreement with you on that. Typically, I'm slow to share but quick to like. For some reason, I think they can see my liked content too and hopefully if they like what i'm liking then I'm doing a good service to my tiny collection of Facebook friends. :)
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Everett
Ah hem *coughs*. Asteroid you say? Well, I'm not too worried if an asteroid is bound to hit us then oh well.. not much you can do about. I would just watch it arrive, and just stand there..
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Yes, sometimes you can read posts even here with replies that are not relevant to the discussion topic. I find those posts to be spam, and they are in dire need of deletion. I despise those that don't read complete posts, or messages and only reply back based upon the first 3 sentences. *scrolls all the way down to the comment section without reading anything* Ah hem *coughs*. Asteroid you say? Well, I'm not too worried if an asteroid is bound to hit us then oh well.. not much you can do about. I would just watch it arrive, and just stand there.. *goes back to real topic* Yes, sometimes you can read posts even here with replies that are not relevant to the discussion topic. I find those posts to be spam, and they are in dire need of deletion. I despise those that don't read complete posts, or messages and only reply back based upon the first 3 sentences.
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