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Why not link to the original source?

• rokhayakebe 16y ago
  Because it won't drive traffic and potential customers to their site , I guess. I can't blame them for it.
  • hugh3 16y ago
    Nope, I'm pretty sure we can blame them for it. I can also blame them for adding a sensationalist headline which promises "Unbelievable Facts And Figures" and then follows it up with a combination of a few completely boring facts (omg half the world's population is under thirty as you might have suspected if you thought about it for a moment!) and some statements which are unbelievable only in the rather trivial sense that they're almost certainly complete bullshit (one out of eight married couples met via social media? I imagine at least seven out of eight couples married before there was such a thing as "social media") So in conclusion, I do blame them for putting together a link-whoring, sensationalized, extremely dull blog post based on someone else's work for the purposes of attempting to drive traffic to their site under false pretences.
• rosskimbarovsky 16y ago
  brm - The video on YouTube doesn't provide much context for what it is. Happy to link to original sources that provide some context (video descriptions don't always do that), but in this case, didn't see enough there.
  • aw3c2 16y ago
    You could have commented with those facts if you just wanted to share this with fellow hn users.