click baiting Tag

30 Jul At First This Article about Click Baiting Blew Me Away – But Then it Chilled Me to the Bone

Tongue-in-cheek headline aside, Bluewater recently tackled the topic of click baiting, a plague upon social media unleashed by sites like Upworthy, Buzzfeed, Viral Nova and many others. Click baiting is the practice of using emotionally charged headlines to pique readers' curiosity and make it virtually...