Rubbishy 'news' stories that catch your interest

[springyzone]

Anyone else ever find themselves clicking on some 'news' story when they are on their way to some other site, and getting distracted?

Here's mine for the day.

Ronan Keating and wife Storm allegedly refuse to pay cleaner over 'appalling' job (msn.com)

It's about some people I have never heard of but who are apparently celebrities, complaining about the house clean done by a firm.

The bit that first got me in was this. The cleaning firm said they had been told it was a regular 5 bedroom house but when they arrived they found

"There were seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms and three kitchens."

😄That's not my idea of a regular 5 bedroom house. How the other half live.

Plus the cleaners were expected to clean at the same time removalists were removing all the furniture.

The celebrity complaints even covered the fact that a vase hadn't been emptied and some food packets had been left on shelves. I was under the impression those sorts of things were done by the home owner.

If I were the celebrity I'd just be negotiating for another clean (and paying).

Anyone else come across some weird 'news' stories?

[papermoon.lady]

One thing is for sure - influencers will never influence me, just as ads have never influenced me.

[*sons_and_daughters*]

I wonder what the news sites did before the likes of TikTok and Tweeter? There is barely a story without mention of "such and such put up a TikTok video, who has 5 million followers, that has gone viral in 35 seconds and has been viewed by 10 million people". It's usually some rubbish about some "supermarket hack" or something someone bought from K-Mart. The headline is click bait and you're in there before you realise you've clicked on even more rubbish.

Then there's the stories with a flood of tweeter messages, that are repeated in the actual story. What is the point of putting this carp in the stories, only to repeat exactly what is said in the twit?

[springyzone]

I'm not on tiktok or twitter so they don't have any chance to influence me. I hate it when I occasionally click on some story, only to be taken to a page that says I have to sign up to something to see it. Either twitter or some newspaper etc. Not happening.

I can't claim ads don't influence me though. I actually quite enjoy some ads and infomercials. (I know, sad life 😶).

I know I can definitely be influenced, but they have to show me the product and explain the features. Using celebrities or whatever doesn't influence me, but sometimes the products do.

I am currently quite interested in the ads for Koh cleaning products but have not taken the plunge. I bought an airfryer online after watching the ad about 20 times. That was back a couple of years back in lockdown but the airfryer has been good. The dinkleboo ads got me in years ago. I usually only buy from aussie sites though.

[papermoon.lady]

I am not on any social media at all, not even Facebook.

[springyzone]

I'm on FB as it is an easy way to keep up with more distant family, see photos privately etc

It is also an eye opener on marketplace. I am impressed by how marketplace works for the buyer and I am convinced a lot of items that at one time would have been on ebay are now on marketplace. 

Not everything of course. The small items or out of print books or new stuff etc that I tend to buy on ebay are not what you'd normally find on MP. So there's room for both selling sites.