To think people should check what they share on Facebook before they post it

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I'm getting very frustrated with people who share those hoax warnings on Facebook without checking the facts. I can't delete the people who share as they are family but grrr. Two seconds checking stops you looking like a moron!

Examples of recent shares:
www.snopes.com/photos/medical/12weekfetus.asp
www.snopes.com/photos/medical/breastrash.asp
www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Err, and you posting them on here is different because.....

I'm giving examples to show people what I mean by hoax warnings - not sharing them thinking they are true to worry others.

Do you really think anyone is going to click on them???

Er... I clicked on one and regretted it. Just goes to show that there ARE people thick enough to click.

Lol!

Never click on shit like that

Let me guess - the breast one?

It's Snopes so designed to clarify that is a hoax, not perpetrate them. OP may have not been very clear to people who aren't familiar with Snopes.

I'm fed up with seeing stuff like birth announcements, posted by well-meaning friends, before the parents have a chance to share it themselves.

I'm fed up with the endless selfies & also the boasting "my dh is so fantastic look at this handbag". I would leave but then I couldn't play scrabble

Thanks for explaining MrsTerry. I'd assumed many people knew that Snopes lists and proves/denies urban legends as if seen it on MN before.

I hate when ppl share pics of missing pets etc when a simple click would tell them it was found three days ago. Waste of my bloody time having to read them! And causes unnecessary worry to some.

My friends teenage child died of cancer a few years ago.

His Aunty (her ex SIL) posted it on FB 36 minutes later before my friend had a chance to let anyone know

That's horrid weathergames. I'm always very careful not to mention recent deaths/illnesses etc. on Facebook incase some people don't know after being scared whitless when a cousin posted that our grandfather was on deaths door and had only 24 hours to live on Facebook. Turns out this was a massive exaggeration but really upset me when I saw it late one night and couldn't get through to anyone to find out.

Not quite the same, but I was logged into my company FB page (which I look after) when DS was playing along with The Voice app.
I was horrified to discover on Monday about 20
'Im voting for TeamWill' type posts. On our company FB page! We're quite a serious corporate type of place.

I hate Facebook in general but feel compelled to use it as it seems to be the only place I manage to keep up to date with some people.

My friend's list comprises 90% of normal chit chat, occasional sharing of (usually) interesting articles and journals (uni friends). The rest, well, I just scroll or hide. In the last month my friend (god love her, but get off Facebook) has shared at least 20 of those saccharine "If you love him let him go, if he loves you he'll come back" tripe quotation type things we used to write on our homework diaries in 1998, except they are now equipped with pictures and frilly fonts. My DP's auntie who added me a while ago kept posting stuff about "reclaiming our country" without specifically alluding to a political party, yet simultaneously coming across as passively racist. I remember one time last year someone on my friend's FB posted a "Catch the Boston Bombers" post that had the digitally aged photo of Madeline McCann as one of the victims.

Don't get me started on the selfie trend. Most of my friends are too old to find it worthwhile but there are a couple of strays who find it vitally important to share each day a picture of their face, accompanied with "Ugh, bad hair day/look so ugly today/who would want me?" - they are only young.

I had just linked to snopes one on breast rash to a fb friend who had shared the scaremonger version. Do I know you?

Just a heads up to say - apparently (too chicken to click here) - avoid the second link if you're at all squeamish...

intheenddotcom - you're putting people off their dinner!

I don't usually get frothy about Facebook but someone has posted a picture of a bag they found at a one direction concert trying to find the owner. Why they didn't just hand it in at the stadium is beyond me.

Someone I know on Facebook, very happily married, has liked an sti trying page.

Now sensible as these pages are, do you need your auntie to see them. Er no.

BornOfFrustration my guess would be that they figured the owner would be more likely to get it back that way. I found a wallet on the train and went to quite a lot of effort to get the owner's contact details on social media, simply because I thought if I handed it in he would probably never get it back. The lost property people just don't have the time or energy to do that kind of thing.

My MIL posts at least three of these a week. I patiently repon with the Snopes links. She does not get the hint.

And Ye Gods - why did I click on that breast link?

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Sorry Ellen! Yes it is a bit graphic, I was shocked when I first saw it then spent 10 mins trying to figure out it it was real or not. Turns out it is seeds photoshopped on.

I know its fake...I've linked its fake...yet I can't get it out my head!!!

I had the birth of one of my children announced on FB before her cord had even been cut. Thought that was a bit rude