I'm betting that anyone who spends some time on the internet has ever fallen into the clickbait trap at least once. Do you remember how it felt? What if I told you that you can protect yourself from those who only care about showing you ads? Watch this and be prepared.
-Do you think clickbaits are a significant problem on the Internet today?
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
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Yes, it is main problem aside of hurting others via this medium. It gets harder to find specific information or watch a video because the only thing that counts is that someone clicked on the linked and watch tons of ads. It's like in South Park when ads wanted to control our lives.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Some of them for sure but others not. Especially if it is connected with a topic I am searching for on the internet. Then usually after three scrolling pages I get nothing but shitty repeated content and anger inside.
-Do you think clickbaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes, they tend to be misleading, sometimes fake or just giving you nothing specific.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
There is only one thing that may work here. All of this happened because of monetization. So we need to cut finances for sites that do such thing. It will stop immidiately. However I find it hard for one paying for it do such a thing.
It might be a problem, especially for people who tend to scroll through the internet and read only headers of articles. It's really easy to learn a lot of misleading information like this.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
I think so. Maybe not in science topic, but if it comes to political information, it's easy to spot headers like this, because they are usually really controversial, so people would want to know more.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes, because they are often completly fake, or spread misinformation, which is even worse.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
Maybe teaching people to recognise a clickbait? Or trying to remove this kind of sites, but it isn't probably that easy. Generally teaching people more about internet is crucial, especially now, when everything is online and not everyone knows how to use it properly, and how to avoid some dangerous websites or actions.
Kinga, Kwiatkowska, I would love to see IT lesson in a primary school where students are explained with examples of how to avoid clickbaits. We all remember how many of these lessons were completely useless. Perhaps it would be a good idea to extend the core curriculum to include the gaining the ability to use the Internet proficient?
2. I am definitely able to recognize some of it, but I don’t think I am 100% effective. It’s hard for me to recall any situation regarding click baiting right now, but I was click baited a few times for sure.
3. If you think about it – it is some kind of fake news. It gives you false information regarding the subject you are interested in and sometimes click bait carries the user to spam sites or aggressive ads.
4. I don’t know if there is anything you can do about it, really. It is annoying and people do this with full awareness of the impact, that it will have on the user, but I don’t think any legal restrictions can be made to limit this kind of behavior. What I would suggest in consideration of safety in the Internet would be educational coursers about dangers that we can meet online and how to avoid them. It may not be 100% connected with the clickbait subject but it surely teaches how to behave in the web and what to refrain. I strongly recommend it!
I'm not pretty sure. In XXI century mankind is conscious enough to know that clickbaits are just attempts to pay attention on it. Despite older people or kids obviously.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
I'm sure in 95%. I'm aware of that tricks but some ads are really smart and may play on the feelings.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
For me - yes. I don't see any differences between them.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
We can't avoid them, we just can be more careful than we usually are. Internet has got many traps.
2. I think so. They are usually really controversial or "loud" so it makes no problem to recognize them.
3. It would be great. Not that they really bother me or anything like that. But I think social media would be a much nicer place to be at if it was as free as possible from all kinds of lies(if we can call clickbait a lie).
4. Well I think for now we can't really get read of them. But we all can learn to recognize them as early as possible and try to stop reading/watching anything with a clickbait as the title😅
They are. We live in the world of constant spam of "important" information or news. Unfortunately using clickbaits seems like a necessary thing nowadays to achieve something on the internet.
Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
I think I can but definitely not always. Sometimes I get on some website even though I know it is most likely a clickbait - nothing valuable for myself. As we all know we are not rational creatures.
Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media? What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
That would be interesting! I hope that we could do some test to find how it would work. I think we need to develop the culture of information posting and find the solutions that we would all agree.
Great title and topic!
2. Yes, I think I can distinguish clickbait titles quite early. Of course, I also sometimes enter such articles and then feel disappointed that this is not what I was looking for.
3. Yes I think it should be punished. You cannot offer someone something that simply does not exist.
4. Unfortunately, clickbaits are not so much a problem as a kind of business. With the constant growth of the network and the number of users on the Internet, it seems to me that this phenomenon is impossible to remove.
2. I believe that I am a fairly conscious recipient of content on which clickbaits do not work to a large extent and often even discourage them. Clickbaits are often hard to believe information, so if you don't believe a piece of information, don't click on it.
3. Clickbaits are as dangerous as fakenews because they usually contain little substantive content and a lot of generalities or untruths. We should fight clickbaits in the same way as we fight spam or fakenews.
4. Pages publishing information such as google should have an intelligent filtering system for fakenews and clickbaits. Such a system could check the actual content of the article and compare it with the theses contained in its title. Information systems could generate their own titles, depending on the content of the article, which would not contain catchy phrases.
Clickbaits have always been present in our culture but only the name has changed. Before the internet magazines and newspapers had (and still have) catchy headlines which were supposed to interest people and convince them to buy their product. Clickbaits are pretty much the same but newer and more ridiculous.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Pretty much yes. Not many of those clickbaits are smart and subtle so I usually can smell a clickbait from miles away. I still get caught sometimes though.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
They have more in common with spam than fake news. I feel like I can't really be mad at someone if I fall for a clickbait. They are Usually so obvious that they help me to decide if a video is worth my time. Usually those with a clickbait aren't. It saves my time.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
In my opinion fighting it would only cause more problems than solutions. People should change their habits and just learn how to spot a clickbait and realize that whatever has one it usually should be avoided.
There are big changes going on in social media right now. Twitter has a special team whose task is to verify the posts of popular users in terms of containing the truth. Google has a secret algorithm that hides fake news, but the details of these actions are unknown. It seems to me that the fight against click baits can be done in exactly the same way, but you have to think carefully about it. Piotr is right, an incompetent fight against it can cause more problems than it can solve.
2. I think so. But it doesn't always require knowledge of a few rules. You also need to have a certain intuition based on experience.
3. I think it is unethical to mislead people. No self-respecting media should use such strategies for their own benefit. Unfortunately, this becomes the order of the day.
4. I think proper procedures / regulations could help to solve this problem. Clickbait makers should take into account the consequences.
2.Yes, I think I can recognize most clickbaits. This is fairly simple for anyone who uses the internet.
3.We shouldn't treat them that way. Clickbaits have been around since the media has existed. 100 years ago, when everyone got their knowledge from the newspapers, they were there too. Journalists have always used this technique to attract attention.
4.There is no solution to this case as I do not consider it a problem. If it bothers someone, let them stop getting into stupid articles.
Definitely, there are countless amounts of content along with the internet, and a user always want to find the most specific and reliable one. It is often impossible to do this because of the huge number of clickbaits. In my opinion, we are all curious by nature, but according to the phrase - ,,Curiosity killed the cat", I think we have to be more careful because of the fake content.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Yes, I think after hours spent on the internet I am able to detect the clickbait soon enough to don't fall into the trap. Of course, sometimes I am not too focused on the title of the article and I click on it, but after a few moments I know that the content is fake.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
I am not sure, I would split clickbaits into two categories, harmful and harmless. Often news portals want to grab your attention by placing a catchy phrase in the title, so I think it is the harmless one. But clickbaits with viruses, some aggressive adds, and the other dangerous stuff should be punished.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
Maybe blocking sites that are doing such things.
Yes, they are for sure. There are just too many of them and they are irritating as hell. The main aim of clickbaits is to irritate people, it doesn't have any advantages so for me it is useless.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Yes, I think so. There is an easy trick to avoid them all – stop believing in every article in the internet or in anything in the best way. Second ting is about the source which you are using for reading articles or just looking for news.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Sure, why not. At least some idea to fight back with them. In my opinion they are real problem and its becoming impossible to use internet like in the past, you always need to stay aware.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
The best what we can do, I think is to ban them as much as we can and treat them like spam or fake news.
Yes definetely it is one of the significant problems on Internet. Sometimes I do not notice and title seems to me so attractive and I automatically click on it, and it is horrible. Thousands of pages started loading, redirecting and etc (((
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Not always, I am clicking all links when I have nothing to do.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Not sure, because it is using for ad.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
Probably just block them as we are blocking ads. But we have ADBlock google extention not sure if it works for clickbaits as well as for spam and ads
- It’s a matter of experience. I believe clickbaits and email spam have something in common. They are both ridiculous but it seems there is not any efficient way to get rid of them completely.
- Yes, they have similar roots. Clickbaits probably reach people nowadays more often than fake news or spam.
- Don’t believe everything you read because nobody has promised to tell you the truth on the Internet. It’s a chaotic free place and people would manipulate your feelings as they wish.
Clickbait has become a commonplace and an essential part of selling a product or service. The reality is that without clickbait, we become unnoticeable on the Internet or other media.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
I guess it's quite simple. Clickbait usually have very intrusive graphics or content that sounds too amazing, suspicious. After contact with a sufficient amount of clickbait, you can learn to catch repeating patterns. I have the impression that clickbait has become so ubiquitous that people started trying to create headlines that are exactly opposite, minimalistic and overly true, which in comparison to clickbait attract attention equally.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
I don't think so but I would like to limit the scope of content recognized as clickbait. Articles with a clickbait headline don't have to be worthless, on the contrary. The headline is sometimes meant to attract attention to very valuable material, so I believe that it cannot be treated the same as spam.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
My solution are algorithms that will learn to catch repeating patterns in content. Such algorithms will find overused clickbaits and mark them accordingly or report them for moderation. After all, I'm afraid that the fight against clickbait is lost in advance and there will always be ways to bypass the system or algorithm.
-I think so.
-I think that there is no need in that. Click-baits get kind of outdated, many people start to recognize them.
-Everyone should start watching dumb videos on YouTube.
According to your second question, yes I think I can recognize most of the clickbait content, especially that most people are not even trying to make it a bit more hard to differantiate from the let's say "normal" content. But of course I saw some content which at the first look was hard to appraise.
Yes, of course - I think it should be the responsibility of the service administrators to keep their site clean and free of clickbait content. Of course it's not that easy as it seems to be, but they should be aware of the scale of problem, and the consqeuences. People can be tired of more and more clickbait articles and as as consequence they can move to the another site.
As a example solution I would suggest some sort of system to report that type of behaviour. People should have a possibility to report that content. Also people which post that type of content should be verified by the reports which their received and some strict actions like temporarily deactivation of their accounts or event a permament ban. Of course some site owners are happy with that situation, because clickbaits despite being some sort of cheating brings large amount of people to their site which can be profitable (advertisements profits etc).
We all agree that click bait is at least a minor problem, that it's not something expected on the web and that someone has to react to in some way. Government, web site administration, or users themselves.
The comparison to the newspaper headlines is very accurate. I wonder why users are not able to directly transfer these experiences to the Internet. You indicate the great role of experience in using the web as a tool for independent combat. I fully agree with this approach, but let's not forget about new web users. Some degree of control can bring more convenience to everyone on the Internet.
Again, I am glad that you are familiar with click bait and that you are aware of this phenomenon. I hope the internet will be a nice place someday.
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It is definitely a problem that is quite irritating and preying on people less perceptive and prone to such tricks. Personally, this annoys me, because when I browse some news pages, the headlines strike in the most catchy way. It often happens that someone who creates such an article does not know the answer to the question himself, then in the article we have a few introductory paragraphs and elaborations, and at the end we find out that nothing is known. This is a big problem. It is about advertising - the more visits someone has on the website, the more money they will get on their account. I believe that decent media should already write specific details in the headline, so I avoid this "tricks" because I know that I will probably not find out anything valuable from that place. As I use Youtube a lot, I can see that a lot of channels unfortunately also do the same technique. A title of clickbait and little information in the material.
2.Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
I think I can tell the difference between the page with the information in a clickbait versus the normal page. Fortunately, it is not very difficult, but seeing such a garbage can still be tiring. Additionally, you need to spend more time searching for valuable information.
3.Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
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Definitely yes. I know that systems are being developed that are designed to recognize fake news and such clickabait articles, but I have no idea how it works in practice. Such a system seems to me to be very difficult to create and manage, so at the moment I do not have much hope in it, but in the future who knows ...
2.I think I could recognize him right away. Clickbaits look the same. Bright colors, circles around some objects and the author's shocked expression. Possibly some ambiguous scenes. Of course it depends on the clickbait, but that's how it looks in most cases.
3.Of course, due to such a trend, valuable videos that do not catch such pathetic plays lose a lot. There should be some regulation, although it disturbs the free word on the Internet a bit. A very difficult topic, but I think something needs to be done.
4.Make some adjustments to the thumbnail appearance. This is how it should be in my opinion.
I think that the simplest method to recognize clickbait early enough is to assume that everything can be clickbait. Goal of most publishers on the internet is to make money from displaying ads and all of them use to some degree technics that will make you click on their content. Some of these technics are intrusive and misleading and some very hard to spot. What I’ve seen is that there are less clickbait on paid sites.
It would be hard to classify at scale what should be treated as clickbait and what not, I think that simpler solution is to educate people what should be considered as a fact and what not.
In my opinion it is a huge problem and it is so annoying as well. Sometimes when you want to find some information for example about fight event and the first link is from eska you will find everything but not the information which you was looking for. In last time it is very popular also to put some youtube videos with fake title and completly different things by channels with small count of subscribers/views - you could feel it when you was interested about our polish Hot 16 Challenge.
2. Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Sometimes yes sometimes no. It depends. I always click fast when i am looking for something. Anyway if you think about videos of famous people on youtube it is quite impossible but more often they stop doing that because they can lose their faithful spectators.
3. Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes but probably you can't do anything with that. If someone is keep doing that people just avoid his content.
4. What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
If some website is keep doing that you can block it with some plugins. If you watch some youtuber which is doing that so often then you and press unsubscribe and stop watching him at all. ;)
They are. One of the most annoying/dangerous problems for a modern consumer.
2. Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
It's dependable on the type of clickbait. Some of them are "standing" with open arms and its visible that it is a clickbait the others are complete opposite. Especially when they are hidden around the text or buttons. These are really hard to notice. And the annoying type with ads... These are the worst. You think you're clicking "x" to close it yet its literally a clickbait that redirects you to the other site
3. Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Depends on the kind of clickbait. But no - they should be treated even worse. The situations where something is happening because you clicked something that was hidden and didn't even mean to is silly.
4. What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
I have no idea how to fix that worldwide problem. Clickbaits are going to exist as long as they can. They give profit to people so they are still in use. Demonetize everything that was spotted as clickbatied and maaaaybe something would change
Yes I think that I can recognize all of clickbait only when I looking on heading of article. Sometimes I check myself and when I recognize that it can't be true or fake I check it and make sure that I have right.
In my opinion clickbaits are danger as fake news so it should be treated like them in social media.
I think the best solution to solve problem with this type of articles/posts is that social media or searching website like Google use AI to learn computers what can be clickbait and mark it which simple information. For example Facebook AI recognize that post which you share will be clickbait and mark them with special text: "This link provide to information that is a clickbait".
For me this is one of the most irritating aspects of modern Internet. I can see that especially during this pandemic time, the amount of fake news and clickbaits has incredibly increased. You don’t really need to search for those, because mostly they are posted on most of social media like Facebook or Twitter.
2.Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Now I know how to recognise a clickbait but it took me some time. I had to click on some really catchy headlines, because I thought that I would find there some useful information. After a few times, I found out that those articles are absolutely useless and promote fake news.
3.Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
I think that treating clickbait same as fake news or spam would help a lot of Internet users. Especially taking into account that there are more and more elderly people who start to read news on the Internet. As this source of information is something new for them they might not know its traps. They will probably click on some clickbait and then repost it which will result in spreading fake information.
4.What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any
I think that this number of clickbaits in Internet is mostly caused by people who earn money on monetisation. Some YouTubers, influencers or even journalist get some money when people click on their video, photo or article .To have viewers attention they use some catchy titles, which later turn out to be just a clickbait.
It is one of the worst things on the Internet, imagine, if you are looking for some news or informations, and when you finally found it, but it turned out that was fake news or clickbait, it is so frustrating that somebody wastes your time.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
It depends, sometimes you can find clickbait even on trusted site, In most cases i can recognize clickbait before i click this link, it is very important to be careful on the Internet, and dont believe in every single headline.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes, it would help not only me but also every single Internet user, fake is fake, there is no difference if whole news is fake or only headline. On the internet im looking only for reliable informations.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
It would be very difficult to solve this problem, scale of this problem is large. I would suggest criminal responsibility, especially that clickbaits are kind of fraud.
Yes, I think there are a lot of clickbaits, even more than we can imagine, which can get you unwanted software, viruses, and prevent you from actually finding stuff you are looking for at the moment. It is a real problem, because it’s much more invasive than advertisements on TV, which you know will appear after a movie, and here, you get advertisement in place of your movie.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Some clickbaits are poorly made and are easy to recognize early. Those are some cheap staff, that won’t hurt you, except that are annoying. But some of them are made to be extremely hard to recognize, even with software, to remove any adverts or clickbaits. Personally I think I know how to distinguish real articles from clickbait, but I found myself a few times to get caught clicking on clickbait.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Of course yes! Clickbaits are even worse than spam. Spam is easily recognizable and you have a lot of filters that actually work. You can just filter them out and don’t care anymore. Fake news on social media are more similar but still a bit different. On social media you can expect a lot of fake news, because this is how social media works. I think it’s also unfair and should be treated as an offence.Clickbaits are worst, because you think it's an article from scientists from the USA, which should give you a lot of information, and then you find out it’s a clickbait, when you are totally unprepared for it.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
To be honest I have no idea how to even try to fix this problem. Using spam, advertise filters, try to use only trusted sites and just look a bit more deeply before you click on anything. It should help a lot, but it’s also a bit frustrating. Nothing is perfect, but I would try with this one.
I almost always recognize clickbait, but I must say - some of them are creative.
It's a tricky question. Ads like this must be bought (ex. Google/Facebook). If the hosting platform earns money they are not keen to take these ads down.
I think the biggest punishment would be to take the whole domain from search results from Google and other search engines. That's the only idea that comes to my mind.
Yes, clickbaits are a huge problem. With such a huge reach that Internet has, for a lot of people (including myself) it's main source of news. Unfortunatelly, all news websites care only about how many times the article has been seen, and clickbaits attract a lot of potential readers.
2. Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Yes, I've been on the Internet for so long that I believe i can recognize a clickbait right away.
3. Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Definitely, in my opinion clickbaits spread misinformation, and therefore should be treated accordingly.
4. What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
I think that twitter's system, where twitter staff is fact checking tweets, could be useful, but it's rather unrealistic to fack check every article. Other than that I believe that financial fines for spreading misinformation could help a lot.
I don't see this as a problem. The problem may be people who only read the headlines and create their opinions based on them.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
In ~ 90% of cases, yes. Sometimes clickbaits
appears on pages where we don't expect it, so it's not always possible to detect it.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes, I do Lots of content on the internet is completely worthless and only clickbaits
titles encourage people to click on it.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
People should learn to recognize clickbaits and avoid websites that use it.
I do think so. They can be confusing and spread untrue information, especially if person reading doesn't have much time and just reads a headline or title. There is a risk of someone buying or trying some advice that doesn't work.
2. Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
I can recognise it quite early on, especially if it seems "loud".
3. Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes, it seems to be within that category. It usually bombards us with non usable information and even keeps us from the articles we are looking for.
4. What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
That's a very tough question, because the clickbaits are used by people who create the content and it would be time consuming to check whether something is a clickbait or not.
I am sceptical to most of the things I read but, rather than investigating the article, I google it and do a fact check in other sources. However, probably, some of those texts flew under my radar...
I'm not sure what you mean. How are spam and fake news treated in social media? In my opinion, they are shared even more frequently than other posts.
I'm not sure anything could be done about it. People have the right to post what they like and if the statements are farfetched they could just state that they misunderstood or misspoke and no punishment will work. Also, I'd rather leave them there and convince people to not believe everything that they can read on the internet (or any other sources). If we regulate this, such as we did with labelling bleach with "do not drink," would just resolve with no-brain society... Maybe I'm overreacting or watch too much of Ricky Gravis stand-ups, although, there has to be some space left for people to think for themselves.
I think clickbaits are a serious problem on the internet. Through a thumbnail or an encouraging headline, the post will attract our attention (of course if it is in line with our interests), we will enter this page, which will turn out to be a scam, because the post is about something completely different and the page or channel will discourage us. These days, the internet is full of it, from news pages to social networks like Facebook and Instagram. We can find it literally anywhere which is very bothersome and frustrating.
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Unfortunately, this is a difficult thing to verify, because human curiosity knows no bounds and seeing a post like "water car", we see a super car on the miniature, so each of us will be happy to enter, which is no surprise, because who would not want to have a car, which are going on the water. As a result, such a post is about toys. In my opinion, you are not always able to verify it quickly enough, of course we are talking about real things, not such as "aliens in Poland", because no one will fall for it.
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I believe that it should be considered spam because it is false information that has no purpose but to punch page views or a post that someone reads only one line. In my opinion, this is a fraud and a trick on the reader.
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I think that it would be helpful in this case to apply filters to a given page, which, after clicking on the post, would display a message that it is probably a clickbait. I mean an upgradeable browser plug, which works similarly to AdBlock, except that instead of disabling all such posts and keeping us out of our sight, it simply informs us about the real effects of opening a page or a given post.
There are many obvious clickbaits on the Internet, which I can easily recognize at first sight, but sometimes it happens that I catch myself on getting clickbaited. It’s one of most annoying things you can do while looking for some information on the Internet.
Of course clickbaits should be treated the same as spam or fakenews. They’re at the same time spamming search results, and they’ve got fake titles or thumbnails to catch our attention and generate clicks and money.
It's hard to find solutions to this problem. The easiest way is to learn how to recognize fake titles, and avoiding sites or creators that are using them.
Yes, I think it is really a big problem these days, because of laziness of people. I am sure that most of us see a header and belief that is is actually true. Last days I saw on FB that Palace of culture and science will be lightened in few colors and below in comments section I saw "OMG, this Warsaw president forgets about our culture and 11.11 it wasn't lightened in our national flag color". Which was a false statement of course, but this comment gets hundreds of likes and approvals while it was a fake news. Clickbaits are really dangerous and annoying these days.
2. Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
Yes, I think that my mind is very critical and I can easily recognize a clickbait article or video, which I would abandon reading or reach/watch and then check for the details to be sure that I am right.
3. Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Of course it should be, they should be banned and verified before they got a large audience. Moreover I think that there are qualified people who are writing and thinking about this headers to be the most controversial or "click baiting" as it could be.
4. What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
It is hard to do something about that. I think we should teach people to verify informations seen via Internet. There are plenty of people who thinks that every thing in internet has to be true. The education of Internet rules and how it works should be expanded and more common, because it is easy to get lost in especially for elderly people.
Yes. In my opinion, clickbaits are a big problem. We want to learn important or interesting things. However, when we click in the wrong place, many ads pop up which are often not even real. This is very annoying and I think it should be resolved somehow. There is a time and place for advertising but not that way.
2. „Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?”
I can recognize clickbait in 90% of cases, but sometimes they are made so craftilly that you click on it.
3. „Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?”
I think it might be a good solution. For sure searching for important information would be easier and less burdensome
4. „What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?”
In schools they should teach how to recognize clickbaits and how to avoid them. It would be a useful lesson. Computer science in school would be more interesting.
1. Yes, of course. Clickbait vidoes with their clickbait titles reach much bigger audiences than normal videos, so naturally even more people start making this kind of videos.
2. Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
2. I think that every person that spent few hundred hours of Youtube during their lifetime, can easily recognized almost all clickbaits. Just a single glance on the thumbnail and the title can ive you enough information to recognize the contents of the video.
3.Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
3. Yes, I think that any content, that tries to bait people to click in it, should be consider a spam and the channel posting it should be banned permanently.
4. What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
4. I would suggest heavy moderation of all videos. I guess it's impossible to do it while using only people as mods, so there should be written some bots that automatically check and recognize clicbkait videos.
2. For articles, yes, if I often see one page that shares something, I guess the headline is clickbait
3. I think no, spam is content that does not concern anything, clickbait headers do have some content, problem is that page entries are more important than relationship between article and headline
4. I think on social media it would be good solution to report articles for clickbait, such report would make the article reach smaller number of people (facebook would display it less often), so people would avoid this practice
Yes i think that clickbaits are a significant problem on the internet. We are flooded by misleading information spreading often fake news. I also sometimes fall in the trap that i read only clickbite headlines and later spreading missleading information to my friends.
-Do you think you can recognize clickbait early enough?
At the moment im surly better at this bu i used to be bad at recognising clickbaits. Now i can with high effectiveness.
-Do you think clibaits should be treated the same as spam or fake news on social media?
Yes. Clickbaits have one target, to get clicks and by that earn money. It usually have nothing to offer to the user that visits the site or an article by clicking on clickbait link or headline.
-What solutions to this problem would you suggest if any?
Clickbaits are sometimes hard to differenciate from regular posts which can be similar. Maybe big giants such as facebook should invest in some sort of machine learning algorithm to recognise clickbaits and lock them.