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Again, this week I was scrolling through facebook and noticed another trend on my newsfeed. Every so often between posts from people I know and care about, there will be these “suggested posts”, as if they contain something that would interest me. But every single time these suggested posts are from sponsored companies trying to sell something. That in itself isn’t too strange, most websites nowadays have sponsored posts to give them some form of ad revenue. But what interested me was the fact that they tried to pass this off as a “suggested post”, like, they are looking out for something that might interest me. They’re saying “Hey, we think you’d like this post!” but it’s just an ad. I just thought that was another interesting aspect of the Facebook website and how it interacts with its users right now.

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