To think people need to engage their brains before posting?

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Ok, so it’s not a huge deal in itself but it really irritates me.

2 examples from the Facebook group for our local area just today but countless other examples.

Our local police force posted about a teenager who seems to have gone missing. Someone commented ‘try looking at her Facebook, Instagram etc ‘ . If the police hadn’t already thought of doing that then the country is in a worse place than I thought.

Someone posted that they’ve lost their keys between shop A and shop B. It was suggested that they contact shop A, B and those inbetween to see if they had been handed in.

These are only a couple of examples, so many similar.

I know people are just trying to be helpful but for some reason these ‘stating the bleeding obvious’ posts really irritate me. Maybe I am being unreasonable but feel better for getting it off my chest (and another one ‘contact her mates and see if any of them have heard from her’. I mean really - and these are suggestions to the police!

This is where the phrase "no shit, sherlock" should be used.

@Allthegoodhorsesexactly the thought that what went through my mind.
i wouldn’t publcially humiliate anyone by posting that, they have just publically humiliated themselves enough

The one I read today was an interview with a bloke in Clacton “why would Farage have any reason to be anything other than honest”.

I mean I fucking despair and the lack of brain cells some people have.

We've got someone in our village who only ever posts "bleeding obvious" posts on our village Facebook pages. Never contributes positively to anything. A few people have posted the "No shit sherlock" answer but they then get called out for bullying.

I think a classic was when someone posted about losing their keys, and she replied "they probably fell out of your pocket" Duh!!!

A teenager went missing locally a while ago, about 3 weeks into them being missing someone commented on an update post by the police on FB saying “has anyone checked the CCTV around where they were last seen? Just a thought”.

I think some people genuinely are just quite stupid.

Response before thoughts are surely part of what social media is about?

It’s kind of the written form of people liking the sound of their own voice. They just HAVE to contribute.

Have I just done that? 😂 🤷🏼‍♀️

This
Oh people with no comprehension skills
Like someone could put up on face book

Freshly baked pies avaliable at 2 West street
Flavours apple or cherry
Price 8 quid
And stupid people in the comments will ask
What flavour?
How much ?
Where ?
Like read properly please

The second example you’d think would be absolutely obvious. However lots of people don’t actually do the obvious thing from my experience and MN posts - my neighbour is doing X that annoys me, otherwise really good neighbours- should prevent X by doing Y? For some reason just talking to the neighbours passes the poster by as an idea.

Hmmm not sure about that

This is my ds football groups chat.

"Be at the home ground 10am Saturday, red kit please. Spectators welcome.Only reply if unable to make it."

Quickly followed by:
"Jack can make it"
"What time?"
"Is it blue kits?"
"John can play"
"Home or away?"
"Can we parents and watch"
"Dave can come"
"Saturday or Sunday?"

Poor coach must be tearing his hair out .

Yes I’ve seen that too, I just don’t understand why people think the police wouldn’t have thought to do that

YABU for expecting people on the internet to have brains.

Fair comment

That’s why I no longer look at the local FB page.

I have recently and reluctantly become the default organiser of work social events. I inevitably send a Teams message asking for a “thumbs up if you’re coming” so I can clearly see numbers. Yet I still get messages back instead or as well. Just an emoji that’s all I want!!

This is why I never start threads on any of my local social media pages. I think the bleeding obvious responses are a mixture of people being genuinely dense and that's just their level, and people wanting to be involved in the post/drama but unable to think of anything useful to say.

When I was at school, admittedly some time ago, we used to have a lesson each week with our English teacher called “Reading & Comprehension” where we’d be given a passage from a book or newspaper and would be asked questions about what had been written, for instance “what is the name of the main character” or “was Jane inside the house when it started raining”. I never saw the point in it myself as the information was right in front of us, but now I realise it was teaching us to extract information from what we read rather than just scanning it. As I too see the same pointless questions on FB too, maybe it’s time it was put back on the curriculum.

Someone on our local Facebook group drafted a whole leaflet complaining about an industrial condenser being installed on a rural road close by. She asked everyone to read it and contact the council to complain. Apparently it was going to destroy the wildlife, cause more traffic, be a noise nuisance etc etc. ‘IT DOESN’T BELONG HERE’ apparently. But she hadn’t done her research. It is being placed within the grounds of an existing electricity substation. No extra traffic. No extra noise. No wildlife affected. It will, however, improve the efficiency of our electricity supply, which cuts out if somebody so much as breathes in its general direction. There were a few very blunt and not overly tactful comments putting her straight and it has now been taken down. I know it’s not quite the same as the stupid comments, but it didn’t half give me second hand embarrassment😬

To be fair I also think this when I read some of the threads in the TV section about police/detective/murder programs. People really don’t pay attention to anything, and comprehension of what they’re reading/seeing is pretty poor.

Yes, they are. And I don't necessarily mean they have low IQs etc.

I think the modern world, where we read less, watch utter rubbish on telly etc, are glued to our devices, not usually in intellectual pursuit but playing some crappy game or watching Tik Tok has made us all thicker.

When I were a lass there were just 2, then 3 TV channels. We children had to watch the news, and my family watched Panorama and Horizon (science documentary, and not dumbed down like today), Arts progs, new plays and old, including Shakespeare, and operas.

I came from a working class family - both my parents had to leave school before they were 14 and did manual jobs. But we all watched what would now be considered elite, intellectual TV, because in those days a) that's all there was (no Netflix) and b) families did tend to watch together.

I am eternally grateful to the BBC for the cultural education I received in the 70s. Nowadays, even if they made programmes of this kind, who would watch them?

I’m a big fan of people who think it’s ‘helpful’ to share posts miles away from the incident (eg ‘missing cat Darlington ‘ and lots of responses saying ‘shared Maidstone/Taunton’ etc). I love them.

My village Facebook group has an admin called Jean. Jean is always the first to answer any question and she has always completely misunderstood the question and/or posted completely out of date or irrelevant responses. She always signs off her responses ADMIN. It always cracks me up!

I roll my eyes at ‘when does the post office on the high street close’ type questions. Just google it!

I’m in a few groups for identifying objects or asking obscure questions. I come close to losing my mind when somebody copies and pastes the Google AI summary into the comments, especially when it’s often explicitly stated in the post that the search is wrong!