More and more often you can find comments of recipes or entries taken from Wikipedia under the images of celebrities posted on Facebook: it is the new protest of users
Facebook is the social platform par excellence: the first to establish itself and to exceed one billion users. Facebook is also the platform where the new fashions of the Net are born and transformed: every day new habits are established, something that can only happen on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network.
A few months ago, for example, it was fashionable to publish a picture of yourself when you were a child. The initiative was for charity but soon most users misinterpreted the meaning, publishing images of dubious taste. Now a new habit has sprung up on Facebook: commenting on the images of celebrities with recipes or entries taken from Wikipedia. What may seem to be a mistake, is actually a considered choice of the user who in this way expresses his disinterest in a news or an image. A new form of digital protest that is increasingly gaining ground on Facebook.
How the new Facebook practice was born
Fashions on Facebook arise from the habits of users. A practice that is viral today, tomorrow will have already been forgotten and replaced by some other idea born on the platform. As often happens, the “comment protest” was born on a Facebook page and then spread like wildfire until it went viral. This time the fault is the page “Random things on Wikipedia” that began to comment on images or news of newspapers with entries taken directly from the encyclopedia of the Net. It took just a few likes collected on Facebook, a few users who began to copy the practice, and all the images of celebrities and news published by newspapers have been flooded with comments with the explanation of the recipes or with Wikipedia entries. In recent days the practice is going viral, losing even its initial reason for protest. Many users comment with the recipes of pizza or carbonara without even understanding the meaning of what they are doing: the important thing is to follow the mass. A protest that could have had even the right ideological basis, soon turned into yet another senseless viral practice of social networks. And as it often happens, in a week we will have already forgotten about it to follow some other strange practice born and grown up on Facebook.
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