“HELP SPREAD IGNORANCE!!
If you believe it is your God-Given right to repost nonsense and nasty rumors without checking for accuracy first, to get people up in arms about things that probably aren’t true, to put people on alert to watch out for non-existent missing children, to start fund raising campaigns for non-existent hospitalized children, and to bolster all your claims with the lie that “SNOPES SAYS IT TRUE!!!”, then repost this NOW! Time is of the essence!”
The newest thing is to post that “SNOPES SAYS IT’S TRUE!!” at the end. The idiots don’t realize that if the original story is false, the Snopes claim is probably false, too.
Before I divorced my fundie family on facebook and made a secret account just to play Farm Town and Farkle (I know, I know), I used to reply fairly often with Snopes links debunking the exact chain crap they were so convinced of. It was fun at first, but it got old when they never learned from it.
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I tried that approach with some some glurge, and all the poster’s friends rose up to defend her honor: “Let people make up their own mind!”, “Who the hell are YOU to screw with our friend?” and the like. I mean, it’s nice to have friends and all that, but to publicly defend another’s right to spread gossip and lies…I just don’t understand that mentality at all.
Well, seeing at that link gives me a Warning from Facebook, saying, “We recommend not visiting this link as it could be harmful to your computer or Facebook account,” maybe they didn’t read it.
Sorry, I think that’s my fault. Instead of going BACK to Snopes and regetting the link from them, I copied it from my post on FB, so it got the redirect nonsense in with it.
Not on FB, but in email, I usually just delete glurge and RO. Occasionally I will respond with the relevant Snopes link. I even occasionally accidentally hit “Reply All” when it seems particularly silly or egregious. Haven’t lost an EFF (Email FWD Friend ™) yet. I believe I once got a response along the lines of “Well it could be true!” Not sure if the link got read or not…
I just got angry “Can you prove it isn’t true? Huh??” IM from a jackass who reposted the “Jordon Mills is dying of 'Chrons-please pray for her!” hoax. I referred him to the Hoax-Busters site that show how it was similar to previous “urgent messages” except for a name change, and that there is no such thing as “Chron’s”.
Got called a hater. Again.
i’m stunned people are still falling for the “dying child who wants nothing more than their email message to get sent to everyone ever before they leave this world” hoax. idiots.
It’s not even that. The message claims that the Make a Wish foundation will GIVE MONEY to the sick child’s family so they can get medical treatment each time the message is reposted. Never mind that Make a Wish doesn’t provide money for medical care and that there is no way to track that sort of information.
It’s like those emails that used to claim that Microsoft would give you money for forwarding the email. I’m not sure what worried me more on that one: that people believed that Microsoft *could *monitor how many times a specific email had been sent, or that they weren’t bothered by the idea that Microsoft knew you were sending a specific email.
Is it time for the pointing and laughing yet? Would responding, “You’re free to believe anything you like, including that there’s no such thing as gravity. Doesn’t mean you won’t go splat if you step off the top of a 10-story building.” work?
FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP…
followed by the usual garbage about rates and how reposting this keeps your account free, yada yada, “It was even on the news!”
So instead of responding to each one, I made this my status for today:
“If you repost this and every rumor you see that people have reposted on Facebook, songbirds will fly out of your ass when you fart! The word ‘gullible’ will be removed from the dictionary! Your caps lock button will become unstuck! Your automobile will turn blue! Your cellphone will let you call people who are dead! Your mortgage will be paid off! You’ll be able to eat anything you want and not gain weight! Dogs will attain the power of speech! It will never rain on weekends! The trains will run on time! iPhones will be manufactured in America! It’s true, try it, it was even on the news!”
