Friday, June 7, 2019

More Bad Headlines

Hmmm, I haven't posted for a while, and here I am back with another Headline bashing post... LOL

Trolling Facebook like usual and saw two posts fairly close together that garnered the same reaction from me: crappy headline! They are crappy for two different reasons, however.

The first is crappy because it's one of these modern "it's all about me, the writer" headlines that tries to tell me how I should feel or react to the story because the writer includes their feelings:

Now, granted it's from totallythebombdotcom, which sounds like a great bastion of journalism (I really don't like those aggregator sites with the content that appears to be written by thirteen year olds), and I'm not going to link to the story, because if it interests you, well, we aren't friends and you don't read this...:)

I know this is the modern, click attracting, I'm a person just like you so read my story like we're girlfriendbesties or something style, but I'm not in favor, like, I know, right? 😒 (so, i just discovered that Blogger is aimed at non-emoji-knowledgeable-people: they have hover messages to explain what they all are and it's kind of unintentionally funny)


Anyway, the other story is a fine enough story about bees, but the headline goes to the other extreme: it sounds like it was written by a robot!


"Photographer documents?" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz the opposite of click bait, if you ask me, almost like "don't bother reading this, this picture is cute, so just scroll on by, everybody...." So much for driving web traffic to your site! lol

Have a great Friday, peeps!