Just posted on Facebook

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A former co-worker posted this on FB. Forgive the all caps. I just copied and pasted.

Okay, I can sort of see someone believing that FB is going to start charging for memberships, but the stuff about you not having to pay if you post this makes absolutely no sense. Don’t people even think about these things?

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My cellphone already lets me call people who are dead. It’s getting them to answer that’s the hard part.

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GLENDOWER
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

HOTSPUR
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part I, act III, scene i

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I’ve been seeing the exact same post about pricing (and of course it’s in all caps - THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE!!!), and I’ve been linking to Snopes and posting what you said…that this makes no sense at all. No one gets it. I see a serious culling of my friends list is due.

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Here’s another:

On September 31st, 2011 Facebook will start charging you for your account. To avoid this, you MUST get NAKED, stand on your dining room table and do the Macarena, all the while singing ”I Will Survive”. After filming and posting it to your Facebook wall and YouTube, then, and only then, will Mark Zuckerberg come down your chimney to tell you that your account will stay free. Pass it on, it must be true because someone on Facebook I hardly know told me!!!

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People still dance Macarena? :eek:

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They do now.

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And, of course, the Facebook signon screen says “It’s free and always will be.”

Not that they wouldn’t lie to us, but you’d think that would give people at least a little pause.

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To be fair, unless they make a habit of logging out every time, it’s possible they haven’t seen the login page since they joined.

Doesn’t make 'em any less stupid, though. “your icon will turn blue”? What does that even mean?

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A lot of people do FB from smartphones. I have no idea how that works. Do they ever have to login? Do they ever even see a login screen?

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Be my guest. I wish I’d thought of the cat part, but mine sometimes actually do come when called.

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Coincidence. Mine sometimes do, too. The unrealistic part of it is if they come *every *time they’re called! :smiley:

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Please, pretty please may I use this for my fb status? I’m so sick of reading about having to pay for facebook…

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My favorite(besides mine, of course!):
FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP $9.99 TO BE A DUMB ASS $6.99 TO BE STUPID $3.99 TO BE IGNORANT YOU CAN BE ALL 3 IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT IT IS OFFICIAL, IT WAS EVEN ON SESAME STREET

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yeah all the “terminally ill child” emails blend together after awhile. i think the “blind timmy with bone cancer and a brain tumor from nowhere, iowa” who just wants his message of hope passed on was an early incarnation of this hoax, then later came the ones that claim make a wish or whoever will donate money. NOW PASS THIS ON IF YOU HAVE A HEART

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Posted on my friend’s fb today:

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I find this whole thing fascinating. I’m sure you could get your PhD in psychology just for studying this aspect of the way people think. Hell, people probably have. Why do so many people value dissemination of drivel so much higher than any consideration of whether it is drivel? Why are you a hater for pointing out that it is drivel?

I guess to some extent it is because those people are participating purely or almost purely in order to get the warm and fuzzy glow of participation in social interaction. They are interested in the process not the content. The last thing they care to know is whether the content is true or meaningful. They just want to feel good by reaching, and communicating about, a common view with others. If you disagree, you break the mood.

Maybe another thing is that people know themselves well enough to know that if they believe they have supported a good cause, they will feel good. Whether they have actually supported a good cause is not the point. The point is, as long as they feel they have supported a good cause, they win. So by pointing out they have just participated in a hoax, they now can’t feel good. You have harshed their mellow.

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“Mellow Harsher.”

I like it. Maybe a new user name is in order.

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I think it’s also because by pointing out that they’ve fallen for a hoax you’ve revealed them to be idiots. People don’t like to be reminded that they’re stupid so they lash out rather than reflect on the fact that these posts are utterly inane (and annoying).

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Zulema, I hope you at least TLDR’d her before you unfriended.