Viral Title

I ever thought about creating a viral site, and then… Amazing.

Many, almost all, viral sites only pursue page view — they don’t care about user engagement. You may read a four hundred words article, which contain images and/or videos that originally published on other site and have been repacked and published on many other viral sites, in four separate pages and load the ads and the article-you-may-like as times as you click “Next”. It cost you more data transfer than when you read the top stories, which are more useful, on Medium.

Once, I click a sponsored post with a monster airplane, perhaps Titanic fits into it, images and redirected to a viral site. And then I need click the close button to know that I was fooled with a Photoshopped airplane to watch a regular airplane took off in Dubai. Since then, I reported all Facebook ads in my feed that used viral title, like the above one, as spam — I don’t know whether they care about my report or not, but I hope they do.

The main content of viral posts is in its title, and the article itself is just a complement to make the page looks not ugly for displaying only ads, a lot of ads. The (owner, writer, or editor of) viral sites often abuse the ability to use a custom thumbnail for Facebook share to fool Facebook users, you.

I ever thought about creating a viral site because Viral Nova just needs a few months to go viral. I created a Facebook page and uploaded videos, which I downloaded from Vine and YouTube, into it. I invited my 523 friends to like the page, and then… Amazing. No. I thought why I need to create something that I don’t like, something that not worth reading, something that fools people to click on the title.

Do you still want to click on a viral title? Amazing.

I don’t share spam or link to viral posts on Twitter but words and links that will make you say “Amazing!” Follow me @agus_putra_dana.