Try as I could, I can’t stop scrolling on social networks. Most of the time, it is not a huge problem – other than increasing my anxiety or my stress, like any good condemned to do the trick. But what if worse than contesting bad news? Spoilers, of course.
Spoilers for movies and television programs are probably the main thing that makes me consider abandoning these applications for good. For any reason, my social media flows think that I have seen all the popular content that exists and the second They seem, I should see all possible discussions and memes – the spoilers are damned.
Fortunately, this way of digital life could change soon, at least on the wires. On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg made a brief announcement on the Meta social media site. If you visualize the message of the main page of the main threads of Zuckerberg, you will see: “Spoiler alert:” Followed by a gray bar (office) or a vague animated effect (mobile) covering the rest of the post. Click on or press this censored space, and you will reveal the rest: “We are testing a way to hide the spoilers in your wire messages.”
This feature is currently in testing, so only a pool of limited users will have access to it, but I welcome it. (Not that I particularly use threads. Your selections will be hidden from other people who meet your message, unless they choose to draw and see what you have written.
What do you think so far?
The wires, of course, are not the first platform to offer this type of spoiler mask. Other social media societies, such as Discord, Reddit and Mastodon, have offered means for spoilers for years. There is no way to apply the functionality, but it’s just attentive: you never know who your message will reach, and if you care about a show or a film to be published, you probably appreciate allowing people to watch this content by themselves before being spoiled.
