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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by vanilla_nut on Sunday February 04, 2018 @04:51PM (#16305129)
I wonder if their rampant quest for click-money (annoying users with constant emails, useless spammy notifications, ads, sponsored content) is going to poison that well, though. I anecdotally know a lot of people in their early-mid twenties who have already deleted their accounts. If too many people start doing that, Facebook loses its one trump card.
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Re:Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Hum... by ethiclub on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:55AM (#16307776)
Similarly, tv channels on YouTube (for the UK, see BBC, C4, E4) appear to be jumping on the bandwagon with clickbait, videos empty of genuine content, misleading titles and clips repeatedly churned through different videos.

This appears to have short term benefits (huge view counts), but surely it turns people off long term and impacts the brand.

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