Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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It's simply amazing what people will believe. Today, I saw the following Facebook status.
There are many complaints that Facebook has become unacceptably slow. The report shows that Facebook has a number of nonactive members. They want us to re-post this message to see who are active and who are not. If you don't post this message within 2 weeks you will be removed in order to get more space. Post this on y...our wall to show that you are active in the facebook.
I immediate replied (the 1st) with "Fb wouldn't do that". They replied "I saw it as a status." This is paramount to "It's on FB. It must be true." All this person friends stuggled to post the blurb on their FB wall. One person on mobile, didn't know how to cut and paste. The solution? Write it down on paper and retype it on your wall.
I remember the 1st Internet HOAXes more than 20 years ago. We all fell for them. That's because they didn't exist prior and we didn't know what HOAXes were. On today's Internet HOAXes are common place. I get dozens via email, fb, IM, TXT daily. Yet some people are prone to continue to fall for them over and over and over. I have to wonder how much of their day is spent dealing with HOAXes. But then, maybe I'd be a happier person, if I believed a HOAX once in awhile.
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