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Comment by bluetidepro | Hacker News Reader

Link bait...

For more context, the real title of the article is "Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever."

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  She'd never placed such a big bet on just one stock, but she felt a personal
  connection to Facebook. She had been using the site to connect with family 
  and friends since 2009, and almost everyone she knew had an account.

Kind of like feeling a "personal connection" to a TV show you've been watching since the first season.

Technically, Facebook was around since 2004 and open to anyone over 12 since 2006, so she jumped in about 5 seasons in.

Odd, just minutes ago that was the title (and was the only reason I clicked on it). I refresh and now it's shortened. I don't know about "link bait", though, as the title is now less appealing to me personally.

This has started happening to me a lot. My guess is that A/B testing of titles has caught on in some parts of the media.

Agree. Horrible article hook to take a 'poor teacher' and her life savings going up in smoke .. (instead of going 10x in a few days?)

Gambling is a hard business.

She has (had) money, therefore is entitled to continued success. Doesn't the government bail out many other failing business models? The cognitive dissonance is its not supposed to be gambling, she's supposed to be entitled to always win that casino. She had a quarter mil in cash, that makes her pretty rich by most standards, rich people are always supposed to get richer without thinking. Thinking is for the little people, you know.

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