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New tendency in Facebook post titles

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It's the new thing. Every day on my Facebook news feed I see at least one title that sounds like this: "What he did was amazing, made me cry" "List of stuff this dude did, nr 7 will make you laugh like a madman" "List of 40 unimportant stuff, number 39 is amazing" There's more and more stuff like that and just by the title I tend to not click on them - despite the fact that the title promises me that by not clicking I would lose something sensational, amazing, hilarious and whatever you can think of. It's like tabloid journalism moved to Facebook and I am now forced to constantly look at those titles that would look very well in the sleaziest tabloid paper you can think of. The more something is forced on me (it's like shouting at me "click it! click it!") the more I reject it and the less inclined I am to do exactly what it asks me to do. In 90% of the cases, item number 39 is disappointingly unfunny, and it'