Altogether too much of the internet is garbage. The same content dug up and repackaged in the vain hope that it's sell-by-date can be extended In the case of so called "content farms," they can be devoid of useful content entirely. It's often down to bots, which have been set up to create pages to bring in traffic and gain revenue from advertising. But far too much of what I see is the produce of very real (and unfortunately very human) idiots.
They fall prey to some rouse or other and give it that all-important click. The rubbish then fulfils it's purpose in life and reproduces by sharing itself with all of those who that idiot has deemed their friends.
What inspired me to begin this post was the trend of rubbish facebook pages demanding that people like them in order to gain access to something that promises to be amazing. It's all too tempting to just click the button and see what it is but in most cases I'm sure the prey are disappointed. Much like these content farms, the page just turns out to be something that was originally posted far enough into the past so that it's probably been forgotten about.
The whole scheme is that by the time you inevitably decide that it wasn't worth liking, you aleady have. This post is paraded in front of your friends with your seal of approval, this completely goes against the whole dynamic of the likeable page where the user should be able to decide based on the content whether this is something worth a 'like'. This has forced them to take that step prematurely.
Occasionally, curiosity will get the better of us, so if you do "like before you leap" only to discover it's shit, all I ask is that you cover your tracks. Just look to the bottom left of the page, and voila:
Seal of approval revoked.
The page will then disappear from your page and only the eagle eyed among your friends will have caught any glimpse of your atrocity! Thank you and goodnight.
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