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I've never used Facebook so I can't pretend to know how it works or is laid out, but if I were tasked with creating a "timeline" for you on FB based on what I know, your aunt sharing that her favorite act was "Freddy Mercury" is exactly what I would share with you. What would be more apropos?

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If she typed that into a post of her own, sure. But this is more like surfacing every comment of hers on every random blog she reads. Those comments should be shared between her and the blog and its readers, not me.

Also, I've strongly indicated that I don't want to see this content by clicking the "X" every time I see one of these "question reply" posts. That probably hides that Page forever. But the next meme question page reply by my next boomer relative will pop up tomorrow. Facbook isn't correlating the fact that I want to see nothing from any of these clickbait pages.

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