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To be a hmm about Boston victims

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Gossipmonster · 15/04/2013 22:56

Photos and Memes (sp?) already appearing on FB Hmm.

It's only been a couple of hours - the man with his legs blown off us particularly offensive - he is prob still fighting for his life - his family might not know he is hurt yet?

Yet SIL just posted a picture of him with the caption "he was running for charity yet lost both his legs in the bombings" Hmm .

FFS what is wrong with people? :(

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countrykitten · 16/04/2013 17:56

Shelly FB is loved by MNetters on the whole so you may have wandered in to a place you didn't want to go....

countrykitten · 16/04/2013 17:57

There is, as they say, no accounting for taste....

ShellyBoobs · 16/04/2013 17:59

country - I'm not the type to be cowed by the masses.

People used to think smoking was harmless and very cool, too.

K8Middleton · 16/04/2013 18:04

Do you object to the telephone and talking over the garden wall Shelley or just Facebook? Just out of interest.

CelticPixie · 16/04/2013 18:06

I saw the photo of the man with his legs blown off completely by chance on Twitter last night and its completely gruesome and shocking. I'm very squeamish and it makes me feel ill and light headed just thinking about it. Why would anyone even take a photo of something like that? I've not seen if on my FB but if anyone did post it I'd not think twice about airing my displeasure. There's another unpleasant one doing the rounds of a blonde girl who is quite clearly dead, I assume she is the female in her 20's who died. Sickening to even photograph things like that.

Sparklingbrook · 16/04/2013 18:07

I don't like FB but I don't think it can be compared with smoking can it?

K8Middleton · 16/04/2013 18:07

Interesting analogy with smoking. I can't see it myself - Facebook isn't carcinogenic, it's just another method of communication. The only people who object to communication are those who would seek to curtail the voice of others. A few 20th C examples: Mao, Hitler, Franco, Stalin.

Make of that what you will.

GibberTheMonkey · 16/04/2013 18:10

I might have the mental age of a ten year old but I know my parents don't.

ShellyBoobs · 16/04/2013 18:11

K8 - Just Facebook.

People tend not to pass offensive photos and casual racism over the garden walls of all their 'friends' in one fell swoop, incessantly and relentlessly.

MamaBear17 · 16/04/2013 18:11

Many of the photos are fake - Sky News have reported it. Sick. Sick and wrong. I too have had people post them on my timeline and have posted the link to Sky News instead.

K8Middleton · 16/04/2013 18:12

You don't use pubs then Shelley Grin

skippedtheripeoldmango · 16/04/2013 18:14

People don't pass offensive photos and casual racism incessantly and relentlessly? I'm guessing those who are offensive and racist do. FB doesn't make people idiots, people make people idiots; the medium of communication has little to do with it.

GibberTheMonkey · 16/04/2013 18:15

You don't have those particular neighbours then. Just like I don't have that type of friend on fb. In fact intend not to have that type of friend at all. Maybe if that's how you've experienced fb then you need to get some nicer friends.

GibberTheMonkey · 16/04/2013 18:16

intend I tend

pansyflimflam · 16/04/2013 18:18

Facebook is what is wrong, the whole fucking thing.

HesterShaw · 16/04/2013 18:18

Shelly is generalizing to an absurd degree. FB is great for keeping in contact with friends and relatives. I'm not friends with wankers so I miss out on its excesses.

ShellyBoobs · 16/04/2013 18:18

I'm not comparing it with smoking, per se, but I do think it's harmful. Think about the prevalence of bullying; once upon a time a bullied child at least had some respite when they were safely at home.

I just think that one day soon people will realise that Facebook causes more issues than it solves. In reality, it solved a problem that didn't exist in the first place.

It could only have originated in the US where it's commonplace to openly boast about anything and everything, ask eachother 'how much do you make?' and to show off social calendars like some sort of 'worthiness' badge.

Sparklingbrook · 16/04/2013 18:20

I know that schools hate FB. One headmaster said it was the cause and source of most of the bullying.

K8Middleton · 16/04/2013 18:24

I think some of you if you'd been around 130 years ago would have been the kind to cry witchcraft at electric light. Hysterical.

ShellyBoobs · 16/04/2013 18:29

Would you really compare the discovery of electricty with invention of Facebook?

I think that says a lot about the type of people who find FB so fantastic, to be honest.

Tee2072 · 16/04/2013 18:58

So many Luddites considering we're on a website on the internet!

Why is MN okay and FB is the devil?

navada · 16/04/2013 19:06

Tee:

Twitter ( & to a slightly lesser degree Facebook ) is all about self promotion. You want to attract 'followers', you want to 'noticed' - Mumsnet is completely different as it's predominantly a support network.

Sparklingbrook · 16/04/2013 19:07

I only know about FB and 13 year old boys Tee, I don't have it myself.

Sparklingbrook · 16/04/2013 19:07

MN is largely anonymous and FB is all LOOK AT ME though.

Tee2072 · 16/04/2013 19:36

Well, FB and Twitter are here to stay (well, maybe not FB, but I don't think Twitter is going anywhere and I know of which I speak) and if you have or someday will have teenagers? You need to start learning how it works and how to help them protect themselves.

Like said above, FB and Twitter are No1 for bullying these days. And you can't keep you children off of them. So you'd better stop hating them and start learning how to use them.

Burying your head in the sand is only going to get you damaged children.

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