This morning this was my first posting on Facebook:
Good morning everyone...have a day free of fear, worry and relentless chain mail. May you happily delete or return every piece of BS mail that enters your mailbox claiming that some crazy thing will happen to you; someone's child sprouted and antlers, ran away & is missing; eating food will kill you...or any other BS designed to show the world how gullible you are. IF you really feel that you need to send that check to Ethiopia, send it to me instead, I will happily take care of it for you! BWWAAAHAAAHHAAAHAAA. Wake up and smell the coffee...and drink some of it while you are at it.
What happens on Facebook lately is that there is the same thread posted 20 times about the same (non existent) event. Sometimes it is a play on things that really are going on, most times it is pure fabrication. Facebook, and all other social network sites , become a list of repetitive threads. It gets beyond BORING, but I do get to see what friends I can sell the Brooklyn Bridge to.
This stuff makes me crazy because it actually upsets and scares some people ("pass this on or you will have bad luck"), wastes people's time, and makes my reading day boring as all get out. I do have to wonder though if it isn't a preemptive strike....hmmmm, maybe those folks who try to scam you out of a PIN number or get you to mail a check to them for lottery winning taxes, put these little tidbits on the net first to see who the gullible ones are.
The sad part is, as I wrote the other day, there are several sites that you can go to to find out in an instant if something is true or not before re-posting it. Here is a Snopes report on a most recent one:
Urban Legends and Truth or Fiction also have great sites designed to help you find out the truth.
Don't be gullible, not on Facebook, and not in life. It puts you in danger , literally, not by cursing you, but by making you make bad decisions and showing the world how easily you are fooled. It brings to you and puts out bad , negative, energy. It serves no purpose except to give the author a huge chuckle. It causes you to make bad decisions from planning your calendar to who you vote for.
For those of you who don't know what "gullible" means:
adjective easily deceived or cheated.
The "cheated" part is the part that should make you nervous.
Be a a THINKING human being. Be smart, resourceful, sharp, and caring.
Peshaui Weqaushimese
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