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Ask HN: Are you seeing a lot more engagement bait comments from friends on FB?
It seems like I see a lot more comments from friends on engagement-bait posts like "name a city ending in m" or some-such. Anyone else seeing this / have an idea why? Prepared to believe these drive commenters' engagement, but find it hard to believe these move any metrics positively for people just seeing the friends' comments.
- byoung2 5y agoI see a few of them per day (e.g. "I bet you can't find a word starting and ending with T"). When a friend comments on them they show up in my feed. I imagine that a small percentage click through to the page to see what other content is there. Considering the low bar to create such trivial content, whatever traffic it generates is worth it.
- Pokepokalypse 5y agothat's what I'm seeing too. It's a new thing. Maybe a few weeks old.
- lookalike74 5y agoI've always viewed fb through a browser tab and to use Messenger I change the browser to desktop mode. A couple of months ago, fb started saying something like "You have a message waiting from..." with the profile of a friend - except there isn't actually a message. Totally shady.