Current rumours and other baseless tosh on facebook

[nomoney]

the wife said her friend had phoned her up about going out for meal then my seventeen year old grandson said he had 10,000 friends or more,how i said on facebook he replied.

[Cyclone]

How perfectly generous of you. It's a lot more than we gave you (LOL ).

 

Sure, sure, I often mistake people's signatures for the content of their post.

 

And having worked in IT development for my entire career, all this IT stuff seems pretty complicated.

[RootsBooster]

More current cobblers doing the rounds..

Health and nutrition nonsense to do with 'alkalising' your body. Plenty of people seem to be buying into this

 

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Also been noticing that a lot of people can't help but exclaim "stunning!" in response to quite mundane and often just terrible photos (mostly selfies).

[RootsBooster]

Just seen someone sharing a "Video the French don't want you to see!", which I assume was meant to show French police brutality at the footy thing. It was actually older footage of Ukrainian police brutality from years ago.

[Tomjames]

I joined Facebook recently, mainly to keep in touch with family abroad. Some things I've noticed before (wifey is a long time user of FB) but never realised were so rife until I joined...

 

1. What on earth is with all the selfie people? So many photos, mostly all pulling the same ridiculous face (grossly overextended pouts and either hyper-raised eyebrows or sultry squint). Fair enough, a couple of these shots might be a bit of fun but it seems many peoples' pages are full of tens or hundreds of what is essentially the same photo.

 

2. 'Inspirational' quotes/pictures/posts, often complete cobblers. I find the worst ones to be those recommending people not to worry about tomorrow or think about the past, just live for today.

 

3. Chain letters/reposts, the ones that begin or end with "if you really love (insert person or cause here) then you'll share this on your page". Practically emotionally blackmailing you into sharing them. Some of these also fall into the next category...

 

4. There's so many rumours, gossip and bullshoe stories/articles. It saddens me a little, how so many people are ready to accept and perpetuate these things without a rational thought crossing their minds.

 

Examples I've noticed over the last few days include

- a lot of people outraged that we have to call Christmas things like "Winterval/winter festival/holiday season/etc.", which is obviously cobblers.

- anecdotes/urban myths (including a dog slain by it's owners after mistakenly thinking it attacked their baby when it had saved the baby instead) that have been told and retold in many variations over the years

- in light of several recent, verysad and tragic deaths, some people have somehow linked this with the notion that "Sheffield streets aren't safe/there's some sick people about/I'm scared to leave the house these days", when there's evidence of any such foul play.

 

 

 

I realise this will be nothing new to many of you. I also invite you to share any bullshoe-sized gossip or rumours doing the rounds on Facebook, in this thread for it to be thoroughly ridiculed and dismissed.

 

You said it all.

Selfies. fake outrage. annoying motivational quotes.

 

Facebook is a graveyard which serves no purpose but to pass time.

[ECCOnoob]

Only to the braindead who choose to use it that way.

 

Personally I find facebook to be an extremely useful communication tool. My "friends list" only contains people who I actually know and speak to (a handful of whom are now living or temporary working abroad). My "wall" is filled with collections of photographs or information relating to activities we participate in. My feeds are specifcally for events or announcements we wish to quickly get out to our own circle.

 

Messenger is a brilliant way of quickly arranging meet ups or other events to multiple people and even use the "events" to create a diary entry and attendee list.

 

Sometimes the blame lies with the users not the tool.

[JFKvsNixon]

Just seen someone sharing a "Video the French don't want you to see!", which I assume was meant to show French police brutality at the footy thing. It was actually older footage of Ukrainian police brutality from years ago.

 

I've seen the video a few times, it's pathetic. Why do some people very happy to believe that everything is one huge conspiracy to attack the English?

[Tomjames]

Only to the braindead who choose to use it that way.

 

Personally I find facebook to be an extremely useful communication tool. My "friends list" only contains people who I actually know and speak to (a handful of whom are now living or temporary working abroad). My "wall" is filled with collections of photographs or information relating to activities we participate in. My feeds are specifcally for events or announcements we wish to quickly get out to our own circle.

 

Messenger is a brilliant way of quickly arranging meet ups or other events to multiple people and even use the "events" to create a diary entry and attendee list.

 

Sometimes the blame lies with the users not the tool.

 

Do away with the feed and just have groups and pages then. The feed is complete and utter garbage.

[ECCOnoob]

Do away with the feed and just have groups and pages then. The feed is complete and utter garbage.

 

I think you are missing my point. My feed has been set up to contain the things I want to see.

 

The posts I see are from my friends contain things I have some interest in.

 

I have set it up that way, blocked any spam/advertising/generally unrelated stories and put friends on my facebook have a similar mindset to me i.e. dont fill their pages with cat pictures and clickbait.

 

Its all possible if people can be bothered to go to the effort.

 

Like I said. You choose to use it how you want.

 

Nobody has to follow the heard.

[*_ash_*]

I think you are missing my point. My feed has been set up to contain the things I want to see.

 

The posts I see are from my friends contain things I have some interest in.

 

I have set it up that way, blocked any spam/advertising/generally unrelated stories and put friends on my facebook have a similar mindset to me i.e. dont fill their pages with cat pictures and clickbait.

 

Its all possible if people can be bothered to go to the effort.

 

Like I said. You choose to use it how you want.

 

Nobody has to follow the heard.

 

Ecco, you seem to know your stuff, how do you de-select 'trending'?

 

Most of the time it is about someone I don't know, or a Kardashian arse expansion type nonsense, but occasionally ruins a sport result that I had recorded and was looking forward to watching later - hence I want to remove it.