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To have really wanted to share this photo

43 replies

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 20:29

So up pops a photo of a recently released child killer on my Facebook newsfeed. I sooo wanted to share it . I'm annoyed I havnt got the balls to do it.

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Doobiedoobedoobie · 11/12/2013 20:30

Why did you want to share it?

WaffilyVersatile · 11/12/2013 20:31

What would have been the point in sharing it and why don't you have balls and why are you telling us about something you didn't do? why?

chocolatesolveseverything · 11/12/2013 20:33

yabu. What good would sharing it do? And how do you know that the person in the picture definitely is a murderer? It could be an innocent person being set up.

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 20:36

I wanted to share it because I'm sickend by the release.

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Trills · 11/12/2013 20:36

You haven't given us enough information to know whether you are being unreasonable or not.

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 20:37

Chocolates that's prob 1of the reasons I didn't share it . I wish I'd never bloody seen it .

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HoFuckingHoFuckingHoneydragon · 11/12/2013 20:39

Doesn't matter if it is or isn't. Absolutely no good what so ever would come of sharing it. None.

Lots of potential devastating harm but nothing good.

sutekidane · 11/12/2013 20:41

YABU. How do you even know its real? This kind of numpty behaviour leads to vigilante attacks and suicides.

usualsuspect · 11/12/2013 20:41

Sharing those sort of photos on FB does no good.

usualsuspect · 11/12/2013 20:42

Hide the photo and defriend the person who posted it.

bluecheeseforbreakfast · 11/12/2013 20:44

YABU how do you know that it is not just a random photo of some poor inocent person? What good will sharing the photo do? We live in a country where the justice system deals with punishing criminals not hysterical people on facebook.

I reported a simalar photo and facebook took it off, you may be in trouble for sharing such images if you are stupid enough to do so.

nilbyname · 11/12/2013 20:45

Stop behaving like an ass.

What do you know about the situation?

Block the post on fb.

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 20:46

I've hidden it. I won't de friend the person because I wanted to share the thing myself x

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FortyDoorsToNowhere · 11/12/2013 20:49

don't share it, you don't know where it source has come from and the picture could be of an innocent person.

nilbyname · 11/12/2013 20:52

You are going to share it????!

ShoeWhore · 11/12/2013 20:54

We live in a country where the justice system deals with punishing criminals not hysterical people on facebook.

Absolutely this.

And if you feel that the justice system has failings then maybe think of more proactive ways to challenge and change that.

Spaulding · 11/12/2013 20:56

I had something similar the other day. Thought the person who shared it was a bloody idiot for doing so. It could have been photos of completely innocent people. What's the point in sharing such a photo? So we can keep a safe distance if we spot them in the street. Or is it so some thug can dish out his own version of justice?

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 20:56

No I haven't shared it.

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NoArmaniNoPunani · 11/12/2013 20:57

People can and have been prosecuted for sharing things like that on social media, rightly so.

nilbyname · 11/12/2013 21:08

Op

"I want to share the thing myself"

Please clarify because at the moment I have you pegged as a vigilante loon.

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 21:11

It's the Baby P case

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sutekidane · 11/12/2013 21:14

So?

WaffilyVersatile · 11/12/2013 21:16

but that photo has been in the national media. What would you sharing it add to the situation? YES what she did was sickening but either you have faith in our judicial system OR you don't. Sharing a fb pic won't make a difference

Bedsheets4knickers · 11/12/2013 21:19

Oh I have absolutely no faith.

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WaffilyVersatile · 11/12/2013 21:23

Ok so get off your arse and do something to change it.