{"id":298372,"date":"2021-07-14T04:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-validates-armchair-experts-with-a-shiny-badge\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T04:11:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T01:11:50","slug":"facebook-validates-armchair-experts-with-a-shiny-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-validates-armchair-experts-with-a-shiny-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook validates armchair experts with a shiny badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> validates armchair experts with a shiny badge<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>We\u2019ve all been \u2018that person\u2019 online at some point. You know, the one who chimes in with an essay-long comment on something we\u2019re passionate about works \u2014 or correcting someone\u2019s egregious mistakes (or maybe that\u2019s just me). The problem is, no matter how knowledgeable you might think you are, there\u2019s little to differentiate your opinion from those of anyone else\u2019s online.<\/p>\n<p>Fret no more, for you can now officially be dubbed an \u2018expert\u2019 on Facebook Groups. Starting today, Facebook is launching a way for Group admins to assign certain individuals an expert badge. Once they accept the invitation, the badge will show up next to the expert\u2019s name in a group, adding gravitas to their comments, and helping them stand out from the plebes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1360455 js-lazy\" alt=\"Facebook Group Experts\" width=\"1800\" height=\"821\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n.png 1800w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-280x128.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-540x246.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-270x123.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-796x363.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-1592x726.png 1592w\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1360455\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n.png\" alt=\"Facebook Group Experts\" width=\"1800\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n.png 1800w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-280x128.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-540x246.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-270x123.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-796x363.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/213040860_773440143332883_2801052346489344859_n-1592x726.png 1592w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>In all seriousness, I can see this being very useful in some niche communities or <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>-oriented groups. I\u2019ve often seen armchair experts go up against people with actual credentials in a field; in theory it\u2019s nice that recognized experts will be able to stand out.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I\u2019m a little wary, considering there\u2019s seemingly nothing stopping someone from being labeled an expert other than the Group admin\u2019s whims. As nice as it is to highlight real experts, it\u2019s dangerous to give additional power to those who might try to spread disinformation \u2014 or who suffer from an egregious case of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\">Dunning-Kruger effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Being an \u2018expert\u2019 doesn\u2019t give you any kind of admin privileges, but Facebook says it\u2019s making it \u201c<span>easier for experts to engage with their followers, we\u2019re introducing\u00a0<\/span><span>automatic invites<\/span><span>, which allows them to invite their recently engaged Page followers to join groups they\u2019ve created.\u201d Facebook also plans to introduce Clubhouse-like Live Audio Rooms and Q&amp;A\u2019s to further highlight expertise in Groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope most of these experts are worthy of their shiny new badge.<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you know we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter all about consumer tech? 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You know, the one who chimes in with an essay-long comment on something we\u2019re passionate about works \u2014 or correcting someone\u2019s egregious mistakes (or maybe that\u2019s just me). The problem is, no matter how knowledgeable you might think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/plugged?filter_last=1&fit=1280,640&url=https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/Snag_44a359a.png&signature=cae1f95e294ab990825b73b4183dc045","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}