My current digital pet peeve is how a lot of Facebook pages point users to check out the link in the comments. This has become the common practice for many digital publications that maintain a Facebook presence, and I rarely feel the need to wade into the cesspool of the comments just to dig up the link. I understand why it happens - the page owner wanted to create an original graphic that gets more eyeballs on it, but by doing so, they lose the benefit of doing a proper link share post. Adding a link in the post copy above the image is perhaps even more useless than posting it in the comments. And sending users to the comments comes with the hope that maybe you'll leave a comment while you're there or something. You could, of course, just customize the social sharing image attached to the webpage as long as you go through the technical discipline needed. But it's easier to just make a standard social square image and bury the link URL somewhere else. It's just a terrible user experience and practically useless. But it seems to have become standard practice, particularly for many local social pages.
Have you read the initial reports attempting to explain what happened at the Senate last night? Now THAT is beyond annoying. A lot of the things key figures are asserting as the truth end up being downright INSULTING. The farce continues.
Throw into the mix the impeachment proceedings that are still pending the action of the Senate, and things like rotating power outages across Luzon, and it's quite the grand week indeed. I'm just waiting for someone to claim one story or another is meant to be a distraction for something else because someone ALWAYS says this online, and I don't know why people go back to this time and time again. Things are messed up enough that we are totally allowed to have many bad things happen all at the same time, and we just have to struggle with dealing with all the crap that is thrown at us at the same time, because what else is there to do?
More fun and all that.
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