Raise your hand if you’ve seen these kinds of headlines in your Facebook feed:
- She Pours Baking Soda Into This Washing Machine and What Happens Next, SO COOL!
- Dog Waiting At Hospital Until His Owner Died Then Did Something Unbelievable
- It Looks Like An Ordinary Shell, But When He Pokes It, My Jaw Dropped
Then you click on the link and read that the cool thing that happened next when she poured baking soda into the washing machine wasn’t even remotely cool or interesting.
Lame!
So what are we to make of these often misleading headlines that often smell of click bait?