# One particular form of Facebook crap: (mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258 "2014-10-23T16:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/21 "2014-10-24T19:53:44Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > If you’re really a friend to them, you’ll repost it, it takes a second of your time. Or not. Then they’ll know who you really are This. I have personally stopped being friends with several people who did not forward the important, and often life saving, messages that I sent them. I don’t need those heartless bastards in my life. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/22 "2014-10-24T20:34:48Z")
Holy shit - Did this thread devolve into “I don’t even Facebook” and Monty Python quotes at the same fucking time? Don’t ever change, Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/23 "2014-10-24T21:05:19Z")
Got a few friends who constantly post chain-shares. I ignored chain letters before, I ignored chain-emails before, I ignore chain-shares now. Life long policy and I’ve never felt the need to defend it from anyone. They can fuck right off. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/24 "2014-10-24T22:51:06Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > This. > > I have personally stopped being friends with several people who did not forward the important, and often life saving, messages that I sent them. I don’t need those heartless bastards in my life. Frankly, I thought **YogSosoth** was joking, and it seemed redundant after I finished my OP with a parody. Look, just recently the daughter of a HS friend of mine drew attention to a youngish cat that was about to meet its end for lack of adoption. I was only too happy to repost it until a tempoarray hom e was found for it. I’ve done my share of communicating positively with friends (mostly met in 3D, or friends/associates of theirs) who post with serious political issues, especially (lately) local issues. (Greater Rochester area and Western NYS.) At the same time I follow what **saje** said above, and spend more time acting where I feel its needed. In fact, I’m continuing to post at a local center which specializes in just that, both with its own positive agenda, and hosting other, local groups that are compatible. (it’s also host to one of the many Narcotics Anonymous groups.) For that reason, I have to hurry off and participate here. It’s the same old glurge that I object to. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/25 "2014-10-25T03:01:30Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I have personally stopped being friends with several people who did not forward the important, and often life saving, messages that I sent them. I don’t need those heartless bastards in my life. They probably feel the same way about you. Yes, you were joking and I was joking in kind. I don’t share/repost those emotional blackmail type FB posts. I’m not aware of being “unfriended” for failing to do so. If someone wants to unfriend me because of this, go for it. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/26 "2014-10-25T03:18:38Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Friends don’t let friends re-post bullshit. _creates a meme BubbaDog’s words_ MOST of you won’t have the guts to re-post this… ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/27 "2014-10-25T03:32:58Z")
What bugs me the most about them is they’re written in first person singular like the person sharing it took the time to write down their own thoughts. Attribute that shit or fuck right off. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/28 "2014-10-25T05:42:30Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > This. > > I have personally stopped being friends with several people who did not forward the important, and often life saving, messages that I sent them. I don’t need those heartless bastards in my life. I hope you are joking. Please tell us you’re joking. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/29 "2014-10-27T11:11:31Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Of course, a _true_ Monty Python fan would know (and a true Doper would tell you) that the Four Yorkshiremen sketch actually comes from [At Last the 1948 Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch). 😛 Splitters! ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/30 "2014-10-27T12:36:30Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I hope you are joking. > > Please tell us you’re joking. When is\*\* Drunky Smurf\*\* NOT joking? ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/31 "2014-10-28T11:54:26Z")
When it calls somebody an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/32 "2014-10-28T15:14:04Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I hope you are joking. > > Please tell us you’re joking. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/33 "2014-10-28T15:43:12Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Friends don’t let friends re-post bullshit. I’m going to use that for the comment section of next bit o’ FB glurge I get. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/34 "2014-10-28T21:00:32Z")
I got so pissed off seeing FB repost glurge that I made a series of my own text-images and posted them on the walls of glurge offenders amongst my friends. Here’s a selection of them: [http://1drv.ms/1xBtLWJ](http://1drv.ms/1xBtLWJ) ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/35 "2014-10-28T22:28:44Z")
I love glurge! I love taking glurge and subtly changing the wording to significantly change the meaning and re-posting it. I really love it when someone’s grandma posts a story about a guardian angel protecting a child from drowning, and something something heartwarming, and that child grew up to be… David Berkowitz. For some reason nobody posts glurge to my facebook any more. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/36 "2014-10-28T22:47:52Z")
I’ve interacted with some of you over the years, but now I wonder if all you care about is yourself. If you have one shred of humanity in your soul, you’ll repost with one word about something or other. Any other response is absolutely unacceptable. I have an idea which of you will respect my wishes, and which of you are irredeemable donkey scrotums. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/37 "2014-10-28T23:27:06Z")
Clever parody. Wish I’d thought of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/38 "2014-10-29T01:22:07Z")
My cousin “shared” the recent thing going around about a screed from an 83 year old Bill Cosby. I replied with a link to the snopes article cited the screed and declaring it to be false. I think I hurt her feelings a bit, but she hasn’t unfriended me. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/39 "2014-10-29T01:32:39Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I got so pissed off seeing FB repost glurge that I made a series of my own text-images and posted them on the walls of glurge offenders amongst my friends. > > Here’s a selection of them: [http://1drv.ms/1xBtLWJ](http://1drv.ms/1xBtLWJ) OMG, I can’t even decide which one I love most. I think it’s the “hand glued to a window” one, just because I can’t stand pictures that are supposed to be “evocative” (I’m looking at _you_, picture of a man’s arms around his wife’s pregnant belly, with his hands curled to make a heart shape…and _you, too_, picture of multiple pairs of rainboots, all lined up from bitty-kid boots to big grown-up boots…) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258/40 "2014-10-29T01:34:58Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > My cousin “shared” the recent thing going around about a screed from an 83 year old Bill Cosby. I replied with a link to the snopes article cited the screed and declaring it to be false. I think I hurt her feelings a bit, but she hasn’t unfriended me. ^^^Keep trying, though.^^^ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-particular-form-of-facebook-crap-mild/702258.md?page=3)