Like I’ve said, all my information about politics, and the world is collected through skimming various internet sites- some that occasionally touch on current events (Buzzfeed, Facebook).
Last quarter, Facebook reported 1.19 billion monthly active users, 874 million mobile users, and 728 million daily users
On their home page, there is a column to the right with a currently trending list of events and sentence or two for each event (column called “top trends”). If one were feeling over eager, you can click the buttons on the top of this column that will reveal additional subject specific events under “Politics”, “Science and Technology”, “Sports”, or “Entertainment”
With the obscenely high number of users, you’d think Facebook would put some thought into which events they choose to post. I know “trending” implies that there is no choice, rather the listed events are chosen by a computer that calculates what users are currently discussing the most. But if I believe that, then I am also forced to accept the fact that the people of the world are concerned with the topics below…rather than on anything important. Quite the bummer. Whatever.
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Over the years, I have screen-shotted some of the more ridiculous news articles Facebook listed on their home page to 1.19 Billion people…..
If these are not a sign of the apocalypse, I don’t know what is
Painfully Average 