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Clickbait on Facebook?

KO896

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Have you ever fallen for any clickbait links on Facebook? Then your friends get either tagged or PMd from you to click it too?
 
Long before Facebook, I did quite a bit on Yahoo when I was 18 or 19. They had chat rooms and there would be tons of ads and click bait. I ended up getting trojans and all sorts of malware on my laptop because of it.
 
I experienced this when I deactivated my antivirus. My laptop was infected with Trojan. I was so frustrated when it happened.
 
There was a subreddit for this (don't recall the name) I used to check out, where they would just tell you the result after going through a bunch of clicks.
I've probably fallen for a few before but I don't remember.
 
I'm usually pretty good about making sure I don't click anything nefarious. I did fall for a spam email at my work the other day though. It's something Microsoft does. It made me have to do a class. :P
 
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