If we've said it once, we've said it a hundred times.
Don't believe everything you read on Facebook, and think carefully before sharing it with your friends.
Take this Facebook post, for instance, which calls on people to boycott McDonald's.
PLEASE NOTE:
As an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies, African-American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transaction.
Thanks for your cooperation,
McDonald's Corporation
The phone number at the bottom of that "McDonald's" notice?
A quick internet search reveals that it's actually the customer satisfaction number for KFC.
Regardless, almost 40,000 people have already shared the picture across Facebook. If only common sense were more common, maybe chain letters and hoaxes like this wouldn't spread so far and wide.
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1) 4chan comes up with prank to generate drama in real life
2) Prank is only executed in a few places, pictures are posted, it is forgotten
3) Ancient 4chan images found by some mom and a panic begins, -years- later
4) ????
5) The cycle of life continues.
Somethings I see never cease to amaze me. Are we really so lazy that we cannot verify something before posting it?
There are people who truly believe if something is on the Internet it is valid information. They seem to lack the capacity to recognize absurdity.
There is no such thing as common sense anymore. Shoot most people don't have any sense at all. SMH
Jeez...only 40,000 out of the hundreds of millions of Facebag users shared it? I must be getting cynical. I'm surprised that the number is so low.
google google google before posting
There's also a lack of standards at play. Some people post stuff because they still think there's a positive lesson to be gained from the chain-letter. They refuse to be held responsible because you know you're not supposed to believe everything you read on the Internet.
Nice amount of friend requests you have there
Quite horsing around ;-p
Do I detect a wily marketing campaign at work here? (undercover marketing?)
I am not American so I do not know how the Guerrilla marketing PR will work out for McDonalds in the long run. However it is certainly getting them noticed for something they haven't done and at no $ cost using Buzz/Viral techniques.
I receive a lot of "chain emails". Most are humorous, and some are politically incorrect but still funny and obviously far-fetched. They are from friends of mine who enjoy receiving them too.
I always check any with serious political or racial implications, or containing health or security scares, and refer incorrect ones back to the sender, with copies to other recipients if they are available.
"If only common sense were more common, maybe chain letters and hoaxes like this wouldn't spread so far and wide."
We have a significant portion of the worlds population violently attempting to force medicine, food production, and science back into the dark ages. If only common sense were more common...
Somehow I don't think they're my friends..