Sunday, February 19

Golden Girls Cafe, a Facebook Post and Social Media

Earlier today, one of my Facebook "friends" posted this article about a cafe themed around the 1980s television show Golden Girls. (see the screen capture below)

Her post included a link to an ABC News affiliate where the story was posted. As you can see, for some reason the first person to comment did not want to actually click on the link and learn anything, and instead opted to just ask the person who posted the link to the story where the cafe is located.

The person who shared the story with Facebook replies "Not sure."

I am amazed by this.

Why would you post something to Facebook without knowing the details of the story? Was this person simply posting things based on catchy headlines? I clicked the link, and the opening sentence appears as such: "Time to grab the girls and head to New York for a cheesecake roundtable."

So, "New York" is the proper answer to the question.

If we fall victim to "fake news," well, it is out own fault. This is a minor, yet important example of the problem we have in this country (and the world) with the quality of news, complete with biases and mistakes. Social media has turned into a funnel for fake and inaccurate news, and sharing links which you have not yourself read, is as bad as the original garbage content in the first place.


I tried my best to hide the details of who said what here, the who is not important (you can tell by the few details I did include that the person who posted it initially is the same person who responded to the first comment).