Facebook clickbaits now have something to be worried about. Facebook has just launched an update on Monday. This new Facebook clickbait update will be weeding out useless stories that are oftentimes found on the news feeds of many Facebook users.
Many Facebook users have already submitted their complaints to the website's management because of the huge amount of news feed stories that end up publishing what are referred to as "clickbait" headlines.
The internationally famous social media network have now announced that they will be evaluating the links that are posted within the website, basing on how much time their users actually spend away from Facebook and how often they share and discuss the stories they read with their co-users of Facebook.
Khalid El-Arini, a research scientist, together with product specialist, Joyce Tang, said, "Over time, stories with Facebook clickbait headlines can drown out content from friends and Pages that people really care about."
Facebook management has described Facebook clickbaits as links that have "a headline that encourages people to click to see more, without telling them much information about what they will see." With this said, Facebook clickbait finders have also promised that "a small set of publishers," most likely those who keep publishing Facebook clickbait links, will see their distribution percentage largely drop in the News Feed updates that are to come.
However, this does not mean to say that all of the stories that have highly clickable headlines will end up being penalized. Although the term "clickbait" could refer to undesirable Internet content, the kind of Facebook clickbait that the website is attempting to eradicate are ones that are made up of posts that usually fail to deliver on the headline's promise, ending up leaving the clicker fooled or tricked.
To get rid of these Facebook clickbaits, Facebook will now compare the number of times the users actually click on a link to the number of people that truly interact with it by sharing it with others.
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