America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by sametmax on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:56PM (#17202248)

> The comment threads are spicy

Ah. Maybe it is specifically for teen. Because every time I scroll down there I instantly regret it. Not only the content of comments have no added value, but it's not funny, or even most of the time remotely intelligible.

And I say that why understanding the appeal of the content in video games forum, which on my personal quality scale is already very low.

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by wyclif on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:53AM (#17203417)

YouTube comments have very low value. Much lower than Facebook threaded comments, because at least you're friended those people whereas on YT they're all randos trying to get attention.

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by always_good on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:08AM (#17205970)

View the comments of any widespread post on Facebook like the video on a popular page.

It's even worse than Youtube comments because it shows that people post the same shit under their real name that their friends/fam can see. They aren't people you know.

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by ballenf on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:52AM (#17204433)

Does anyone understand the sorting algorithm used? On the rare occasion I go to yt comments, I’m baffled why garbage throwaway comments with few votes are higher than thoughtful highly voted responses.

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by detaro on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:53AM (#17204444)

As far as I know, it's an activity metric. So negative votes send it upwards too, as do many outraged or joke replies.

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