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The way Pinterest presents images with very little context can also discourage users from connecting images to their source websites (which they may never visit
by dddddaviddddd 8y ago
The way Pinterest presents images with very little context can also discourage users from connecting images to their source websites (which they may never visit). It's like a social Google Image search with recommendations.
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- smacktoward 8y agoI believe this is a big part of the "fake news" problem on Facebook and Twitter as well -- both of them present stories from all different kinds of sources as visually identical "cards," with the only included indication of where it came from being the domain name the story is posted on. And that domain name is typically presented in tiny, light gray type, making it super easy to miss. The result is that a headline from, say, the Wall Street Journal is presented with the exact same visual weight as a story from BobsConspiracyBunker dot biz. The casual reader scanning through his feed has no quick way to distinguish which stories are actual journalism and which are not. Doing that takes work, and work is something we know people are not going to go out of their way to do.
- Semaphor 8y ago> The way Pinterest presents images with very little context can also discourage users from connecting images to their source websites Or hide it from them. After landing on pinterest through a search a few times, I figured that sources are not a thing there and just started blocking pinterest results. Besides presenting content in a horrible way, the interface is even worse. I don't understand why people like it.