Have seen a couple of these now, with the same format. A short series of questions, it doesn’t tell you if you’ve got each question right, but gives you a mark at the end. That mark being 100% even if you get a few wrong (I had my suspicions after the first one I saw where I guessed at least half, so seeing the same format again I deliberately gave some wrong answers – though it’s clever in that if you get too many wrong it doesn’t give you 100%).

So the question is, should I point out to my friends on FB that it’s a fix and burst their bubble? I presume the fix is in order to encourage people to share with their 100% result, so it feels like I should discourage this, but is that just being mean?

Yeah, I know, clickbait on FB, but I’m not sharing and not seeing any ads with my browser setup 😉

If it’s not doing any harm I generally just ignore it.

If I’m feeling cheeky then I’ll post something like “Hmm.. that’s funny I got 100% too. And so did my cat.”

I do call out some of the completely bogus “news” stuff with suitable Snopes links though, as I think some of that stuff is far more dangerous.

Unfriend everyone who shares such inane shit?

I agree with Graham, particularly on the last point, all the “this new crime wave is sweeping the US, if you ever see a $10 bill on your windscreen never stop to remove it, you’ll be carjacked” and stuff like that really annoys me. Pointless scaremongering perpetuated by the hard of thinking.

But 90% of people won’t get it right… 😉

Yeah, I tend to reply with a snopes link to hoaxes. This doesn’t seem quite so important – I presume it’s generating extra shares hence extra clicks and extra ad serves.

Bloody annoying that’s what they are.

A mate of mine is into the whole “psychological profiling” bucket of dreams stuff, damn if I don’t get all his “xxxxxx liked and commented on this” in my feeds.

So far I’ve found out I’m a human with some flaws.

😆

People usually start realising how boring these things are once a few appear on their timeline.
My Facebook seems to have calmed down a lot recently.

The ones that really annoy me are the people who share my political views but then go and share some absolute nonsense. Proper facepalm material.

I see everything through a very cynical eye to be honest. To the point that I even don’t trust things that turn out to be true. For example, today’s firefighters holding back Spanish police thing. I just assume that there’s more to the story than first appears.