{"id":15635,"date":"2015-11-21T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=15635"},"modified":"2015-11-21T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:51:44","slug":"hashtag-clickbait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2015\/11\/21\/hashtag-clickbait\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag clickbait"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spend a lot of my time online\u2014no, I mean a lot<\/em> of my time online. Comes with the territory, and it’s how I discover the sometimes interesting stuff I share in the daily email and on the front page at NCPR and on the station Facebook page–stuff that usually doesn’t come down the airwaves.<\/p>\n

As you may have noticed, my tastes are a little wonky, a little nerdy. I like science; I like news “explainers.” I like “retro” and have a sweet tooth for eye candy. I even listen to and watch TED talks, and I like out-of-mainstream music paired with experimental short video. All that makes me a typical public media kind of guy.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Davide Cassanello<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

But I also have a secret affection for the truly silly end of the clickbait spectrum\u2014stuff that has no purpose in life other than to say “CLICK ME.” You know: A woman is knitting tiny wool jumpers to keep her chickens warm<\/a>. Awww!<\/em> (I wonder if there is an “Awww!” emoji. Should be.) And I am a sucker for cooking tips: Ketchup leather is the burger key you didn’t know you were missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But some clickbait is just a cheat: Secret nudist beaches in the USA<\/a> is just that, pictures of beaches, not a nudist is sight. And the demented troll child photo displayed to promote a clickbait slideshow of serial killers, mass shooters and genocidal psychopaths when they were children? She is none of them, just some poor kid on a really bad day.<\/p>\n

Another five minutes of life I will never get back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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