I had what I thought was a better Subject for this Blog Posting than Jack Nicholson’s famous movie quote but Jack happened to be visiting with me as I as I started writing this Blog Posting and he told me, “You will be sorry if you don’t use my famous movie quote!”
He never said why I would be sorry but anytime Jack threatens me I pay heed to his words. His words make me shiver but it’s the way he looks at me when he says his words that really makes me feel ill at ease.
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Have you ever heard of the word “Clickbait”? Until recently I had not heard of it but I have been annoyed by Clickbait for a long time. I just did not know there was a word for it.
Wikipedia has heard of Clickbait and they do a very good job of explaining what it means...
Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. A "teaser" aims to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers of news websites curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content. Click-bait headlines add an element of dishonesty, using enticements that do not accurately reflect the content being delivered.
Wikipedia's description says to me that there is a lot to not like about Clickbait...Deceptive, Sensationalized, Misleading, Teaser, Exploit, Dishonesty, Enticements and Do Not Accurately Reflect the Content Being Delivered.
Bait is put on a fish hook to entice a fish to swallow the hook inside the bait. Clickbait is like fish bait on a Curiosity Hook. Once we take in the Clickbait Hook it is hard to spit it out. We usually end up saying to our collective selves, “Boy was that a waste of time!” By then it is too late.
Here is an example of what actually happened to Fella a few days ago...
Ø I saw this Clickbait Link about Sean Hannity...
Ø What I did not know was how long they were going to toy with me before they finalized the story.
Ø I will not try and guess how long they played it out, but I will tell you this, I got to the point where I thought it was never going to end.
Ø I clicked through a humongous number of pictures of married couples, living together couples that I recognized and living together couples I had not ever heard about. Actually I did not care about any of them, even the ones I recognized.
Ø At
the end they did not even lie about it by putting Hannity with another man but
presented me with this...
>A picture of Football Nut Hannity in a very loud bar during a football game
leaning close to a another Male Football Nut Friend and having to shout
into his male friend’s nutty ear because a touchdown had just been scored and
all the other Male and Female Football Nut Fans were going nuts screaming about
the touchdown.
>There would be a caption below the picture that read, “Cozy! Sean sure is close-up and personal with his Male Friend!
Looks like the rumors are true!”
The Bottom Line was they did not even try to make up some kind of lie about their claim that Hannity was married to a man. They just published a picture of Sean and his Girlfriend and made no reference to the Clickbait (Sean Hannity is Married To This Man!) that got you to waste so much of you time.
I know some of us are confused today about gender but it does not look to me as if Ainsley is in the least bit confused about her gender.
In the end I thought to myself, “This ain’t fair!” That was a wasted thought. How Silly of me. No one ever said Clickbait was fair.
The Fish that is lucky enough to have spit out the fish bait ought to feel lucky. I had not been lucky enough (smart enough?) to spit out the Clickbait. I had stayed to the bitter end. I had wasted all that time slithering through all those people I did not care about knowing about.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
