To not like public shaming on the likes of FB

[Bambambini]

had a few posts shared on FB fairly recently. Of the kind where some random persons photo is posted with a description of them transgressing in public and encouraging everyone to share so that they can be publicly shamed.

One the other day was a pic of a woman sitting on a train. The sharer said she was really rude and nasty to a large lady sitting next to her and wants it to go viral.

I just don't like this mindless sharing, so much potential to cause harm and be misused. Do people not think this through or do folk think it's ok to shame like this?

I hate it and would never share. I've seen similar ones where people are sharing pictures and claiming the people are pedophiles. There is no way to validate any of it, it's so wrong.

It is totally horrible, sharing and shaming a member of the public just for being fat / in the wrong place etc etc

The worst ones are the "this man is a paedophile" or "this woman is Maxine Carr" / one of the boys from the James bulger case

How are people so fucking stupid to think that the person they're sharing a photo of is definitely that person? How do they not understand that thousands and thousands of pounds are spent on new identities and by exposing that person at best, it will take many more hours and hundreds of thousands of pounds to reassign the offender with a new identity, and at worst, the possible murder of an innocent person through vigilante justice

Makes me so damn angry!

it is mindless, especially as you have no idea whether it is true or not. If people share this stuff, I usually block them after the first or second offence. I don't like to see anything unkind or upsetting and am quite harsh about it.

I don't get a lot of it as only have a smallish friend group and there is no nastiness or usual FB dramas you hear about. Just been a few that have made me raise my eyebrows,

The "please help me find my adopted teen neice" etc ones make me fume.
A few people have shared one trying to track down an 18 yr old girl who has Down Syndrome who was relinquished aged 1. Luckily someone else has ripped into them about how inappropriate it is and the correct path to follow

I also hate the 'lost phone found' ones with a photo of the picture on it. I always worry its some violent husband or removed parents or something trying to track pwople down

i use stuff like that as a filter
you know to bin them

I bin them too though did share a funny video a while back and hope the person in the video wasn't offended if it got back to them. Just thought talking abouts the possible downfalls of it might make people think about these kind of posts in a different way so they don't go on to mindlessly share them, me included.

I hate it! A while back a 'friend' shared one of the Jamie Bulger killers ones. When I pointed out it could be someone entirely innocent and it was totally inappropriate I was told that if the person is innocent then they have nothing to worry about. I mean, seriously?!

There was also one doing the rounds during the referendum of a photo of a Job Centre worker who apparently told someone if they voted Yes then they wouldn't get their benefits. It was from a random Facebook page that was disgusting about No Voters. A woman could have lost her job because some person decided to lie to try and put people off voting No! It was subsequently removed (probably because it was false) but it could have potentially ruined someone's career!

if anyone was sharing that kind of shite on my FB I would delete them.
But then I do not really use it socially , more for work, plus a few old friends I like to keep in touch with,
fucking losers sharing that kind of shite

Unfortunately it's my lovely sister who shared it. She's new to FB and going through a learning curve. I so want to hide her but can't!

I hate stranger shaming on Facebook and Twitter. It makes me really angry.

If she shares stuff like that she doesn't sound lovely to me. Tell her that normally you unfriend those who do this and tell her why.

There's a FB group in my area which exists solely for members to slag off local businesses and residents, with photos if possible. I thought I lived in quite a friendly community, turns out there are a couple of hundred people who prefer to spy, judge and gossip about the people they see out and about. I think it is repulsive but haven't worked out how to deal with it without attracting the wrath of the bullies (and I've had enough of that to last a lifetime).

YANBU and I generally assume they are bullshit unless it's shared via a link to a proper news site. I unfriended someone for constantly sharing these and also scaremongering bollocks like "you can catch diseases by drinking straight from the coke can if it's dirty always use a glass". Funnily enough in 33 years I've never known anyone suffer death by coke can and we all used to drink from them every lunchtime at high school.