"Repost if you are against child abuse"

[WyldChyld]

You know what, I'm not reporting and nope, I think today I'm gonna be pro-child abuse! Fabulous.

I mean, ffs, what is wrong with stupid people?? Anyone else get incredible amounts of rage from stuff like this?

And yes, I could leave Facebook / block. Except 90% of my friends aren't like this and the 10% who are I can't realistically delete for political reasons...

Also Jane "Proud Mummy" Doe. Particularly if she works "full time at being a mummy ". I forgot that you cease to be a parent whilst at work...

I just unfollow and hide the posts of twits like that. Every once in a while, I think 'Oh I haven't seen anything from Twitny' then remember why.

I too get very ragey too! The worst one has to be 'I know no one reads my posts spew spew spew.' No, I don't want to join your pity party. I unfollow them after the 5th post like that.
I get you're feeling low/depressed - no one ever has the market on wonderful lifeness, everyone is just ticking along working their way through the crap that's thrown up at us. Everyone. You aren't alone mate.

They're the modern day equivalent of chain letters. All that "if you don't pass it on you're a peado/animal abuser/will die a horrible death" nonsense.

The other ones that get my goat are the one purporting to be a message from your local police force. They usually involve a woman being assaulted by a random stranger who climbed into the back of her car at the local supermarket petrol station. A quick Google tells you no such thing has happened - it would be in the news after all!

To be fair this one made me yesterday.

The Police ones are funny, they are invariably badly photographed letters. You'd think that would be the first inkling really wouldn't you?

YANBU

I reported a post with picture of a dead baby being shared. Facebook didn't deem it to be innappropriate. I'm seriously thinking of closing my account down. Even family members post horrid things like this.

Yesterday my news feed was full of pictures of mountains of Easter eggs - literately piled high. No pictures of children in them. Just to let every one know how much they had spent on fucking hollow chocolate eggs.

I signed off for the day when my friend posted a video of her daughter on a 'easter present hunt. A present then a clue and repeat and repeat.

My father posts "if your daughter means the world to you - share" . I barely speak to him and he forgot one of my childen the last time I spoke to him.

Yep. I think deactivation is close

Anyone remember a couple of years back there was that ridiculous FB craze where you were supposed to change your profile picture to your favourite children's TV/film character to "stop child abuse" I'm sure so many paedophiles logged onto social media and thought "well, I was going to go to the local park and groom some children today but since all these people have taken the time to post pictures of Disney characters I've rather gone off the idea".

SistersOfPercy

Glad I wasn't drinking my tea when I saw that - it's a new keyboard!

On twitter it's "donate a tweet if you are against child abuse". WTF? What is tweeting "I'm against child abuse" going to do? It doesn't even raise awareness of what constitutes child abuse! Child abusers could say "I'm against child abuse" and think they were telling the truth!

And calling it donation? Are they trying to force donations of actual money to charity to go down?

The calling selfies of women without make up brave gave me the rage
WTF how is it brave and many if the ones I saw gave no mention of a donation to charity

I was nominated for a no make up selfie i said to the nominator i dont wear make up do i just post a selfie then ? I know i was sarky but it just pissed me off.

YANBU at all.

'Depression isn't a sign of weakness'; 'All children with special needs want is to be understood'... Of course I'm against depression, I'm on ADs again. And, actually, some children with special needs require rather more than just 'understanding'.

And don't get me started on Likes for 'hero dogs' in an unspecified warzone...

Drives me mad too! Hate hate hate all the corny shit on Facebook.

Tbh i think im just exceptionally grumpy people mean no harm i suppose but most of those post ifs are just ridiculous

'Share if you're proud to be mummy and love your kids' - like anyone will say 'no, I hate the little sods and I'd rather they moved out.'

I left Facebook for this very reason a year ago. I've never looked back. That and the stealth posts about Christmas/Easter/any holiday that requires millions of presents.

Wow! Nipped out for some breakfast and came back to find so many posts.

Can we maybe make our own meme and send it round the internet? "I am pro and anti cancer, pro and anti child abuse, pro and anti abortion, pro and anti immigration, pro kitten-face-punching, pro and anti fat people... STOP ASKING ME TO SHARE SHIT BECAUSE I AUTOMATICALLY DISAGREE WITH YOUR VIEWS ON PRINCIPLE FOR ASKING!!!"

I normally say at this point that it isn't Facebook's problem but your friends list - except I can't, because my otherwise exemplary non-racist, non-sexist, non-disablist (etc) non-bragging or passive aggressive or like/sympathy hunting friends post this kind of shit too!
YANBU. At all. I occasionally post a rant as a comment, but it does no good. It's a pretty minor rage inducing idiocy in the grand scheme of things, though. Wouldn't make me leave fb.

I'm spared all this nonsense by the simple expediency of not being on the dreaded Facebook. (I do cheat though, getting other family members to check DIL's page for the latest cute pictures of DGS.)

It does go to show that technology may march on, but large swathes of humanity are as daft as they ever were. Just give 'em a worldwide medium and they'll talk the same rubbish, just to a wider audience.

One of my Facebook friends has been sucked in to the JuicePlus nonsense and is constantly promoting it. I don't particularly want to befriend her as occasionally she posts something interesting, but I may have to. It appears that the Mail has posted a couple of articles in favour of it and she keeps posting messages exhorting everyone to read them. I so want to send her a message saying that the mere fact that the Mail is endorsing this pile of crap means I won't be touching it with a bargepole.

Oh I hate all this shit. H's niece is fond of the "share if you're against child abuse" type bollocks (she's now hidden) and my SiL gives me the rage with her "share if you have a beautiful daughter" ones... I feel like responding "what if you've got an ugly one? Can you still share?"

My problem is I'm too nosy to hide too many people or just stop using it at all

I tend to take the piss and watch the fur fly. I have quite a lot of FB 'friends' who are people I either knew 20 years ago and have barely seen since, or people I have met at various writing events (on and offline). A lot of the latter group are appallingly dimwitted/naive/bigoted and how harsh I am to them depends if they are nice-but-dim or not.
(One, who advertises herself as a copywriter, does tend to apologise and take down anything really dubious she's shared. So when she put up her new advert with two honking great spelling errors in the headline I informed her by PM rather than laughing at her publicly.)

I would simply LOVE to be a fb friend of yours SGB, watching fur fly would be a wonderful and guilty pleasure

Repost this if you want to cover the world in happy thoughts and not blow your brains out.

I hate the nonsense posts that are supposed to raise awareness of breast cancer. The ones that say things like I keep it behind the sofa (where you keep your handbag) or just a colour (what colour your bra is) I think the idea is that it's some big private joke amongst women so how the fuck this raises awareness I do not know.

These posts are a sort of scam.

Have a read of this.

Also, the 'shocking video ones, have a look at this. Quite damaging to your computer, should you click on them!

Hoax slayer is fab for checking things before reposting. So many of the missing person ones are a hoax, thank goodness.