to find these types of Facebook posts really offensive?

[80sMum]

I see this sort of thing all the time and what's really surprising is that they are posted and shared by people who should know better. One of my FB friends is a nurse - and she's shared this rubbish today!

Why do people do this? Do they really think that the rest of us (the 97% who don't share) think that cancer is great or that we don't care about our friends and family (or total strangers) who have, or have had, or have died from cancer? It really irritates me!

And another thing! A cancer sufferer is not in a "battle", they are just trying to get the best treatment they can and hoping for a good outcome. To call it a battle implies that if you don't fight hard enough, you lose.

I find these posts appallingly insensitive and terribly childish.

Does anyone else agree, or am I just a grumpy old woman who's BU?

I really hate these posts, where they ask you to share, and try to make you feel guilty if you don't! I always scroll on by and ignore them, I suggest you do the same!

People who pass on hoaxes are more annoying. I just put on my own status once in a while that people shouldn't post anything that doesn't look true. You could do the same with these things if replying directly to the person is going to hurt them.

I don share them but I think people do when they see them to show that they are one of the 3% or something
YANBU though

Thanks for that link, Alistair. I shall keep it to post next time I get one of these message.

I thought the point of these and specifically why you are asked to share rather than like etc is becasue if you share then your post uses the eeaxct same wording and that can be searched for providing the scammer with loads of lovey contacts to spread their crap to. If people all use slightly different wording in support then that doesn't allow for easy data gathering. Which is why you should never copy and paste or share. If you want to support something then write your own post. (or just make a donation through a legitimate source)

I hate the term “battling cancer”. I’m a cancer survivor. You don’t battle, you rely on the wonderful doctors and nurses to look after you.

I honestly wonder if some people (if not a lot of people) have ANY critical thinking skills. It’s the shame with sharing ‘share if u agree that animal abuse is wrong’ type posts - which usually involve a photo of a practise that is outlawed in the U.K. but is designed to be incredibly emotive.

People on my Facebook have shared a petition for some woman to have her child (removed by social services) returned to her recently. Nowhere is there any proper information about why the child was removed ffs! And yet people seem happy enough to go along with this insane mob mentality!

Found that song user

m.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSA7kKNu2Y

If you don’t all listen to this song then I’ll know you don’t really care. 😜

It's like reposting any old crap from anywhere without stopping to think first or making a few quick background checks. I'm disappointed when my otherwise lovely and fairly intelligent friends do it. I've also got a few friends who communicate mainly via inspirational quotes or chain posts like these and tbh I think it is a sign of their current mental health situation.

Yanbu. I've quit Facebook. It's downright depressing. Haven't scrolled since last year, similarly, I've stopped watching the news.

I'm very relieved to see that I'm not the only one!

Just scroll on by

YANBU. These things always make ne roll my eyes.

Thank you for the link Postively PERF. I was hoping that someone knowledgeable would be able to add the link!

That last line though! “I’m in the 3%”, they might have well have said “Nah, nah, nah nahnah!”

It's such a load of crap anyway, that sentiment. It's not like if you're suffering from cancer all your other wants and worries magically disappear - far from it!
And I also loathe the sentiment that a cancer sufferer becomes some sort of saintly being that isn't allowed a bit of vanity or trivial wants.

Like-farming parasites. It’s just data phishing. Why do people fall for it?

YANBU

I think we all know what cancer is and most of us do care. It is quite judgemental and patronising to assume that if you don't post it again yourself that you don't. I think anyone who has endured cancer themselves or lost a loved one through it would be quite angry at these posts, as it is designed to make people feel guilty and repost a message, rather than actually help someone.

YANBU, these cancer memes are the worst. Especially those that ask you to titillatingly reveal the colour of your bra or where you put your handbag (but don't tell "the boys") to "raise awareness" of breast cancer. Is anyone actually unaware of it?

People will share any old shite on Facebook without checking facts. A fb friend recently posted a news report about a celebrity who'd died...the news story was 3 years old. She thought she was breaking the news.

These things remind me of chain letters that used to be passed around when I was young. I never passed them on and I won't be forwarding every little thing someone on Facebook tells me too. Just don't share anything like that and people will take the hint

YANBU. Such posts are crass and usually posted by gullible people who are not terribly bright.

I have cancer and hate those posts. Can also confirm that the people who post them do not offer to do shopping/make the bed for their friends having cancer treatment, or give them a lift to the hospital or send a little card to wish them well.

I am twice a cancer survivor. I didn't battle. I had a bloody good surgeon, a fantastic nursing team and really great care from the NHS.

I'd rather no-one got cancer but I don't feel the need to shout that fact from the rooftops. I kind of take it as a given that we'd all prefer to die of old age in our sleep, healthy to the end, with all our marbles and the various other deaths can be truly awful. We all know that. Why babble it on FB?