Facebook: “Ghost” Stories

Aesthetic Manipulation Interface Interference Toying with Emotion

Culprit

www.facebook.com

Found

6 years ago


Instead of the usual blank stories section, Facebook includes “ghost stories” of your friends that haven’t posted a story in a while when there are no stories available. When the user clicks on it it tells the user that your friend hasn’t posted to their story in a while.

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