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Post by hop2 on Dec 20, 2015 13:11:54 GMT
One of my sister's dearest friends ( my sister who was killed ) is a post sharer without checking facts. I usually ignore it but I'm on the fence this time. So now she's sharing this www.snopes.com/politics/religion/flight297.aspBut obviously not the snopes correct info version. Do we not have enough to be aware of and cautious of without dragging out old inaccurate crap to drum up hatred? So do I respond? Just post snopes link? Actually say something with the snopes link? Shut up, hit hide and move on its a hopeless cause to try to respond? |
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Post by melissa on Dec 20, 2015 13:17:35 GMT
I will usually post the snopes link.
I have a friend who constantly shares things from Dr. Mercola's site. I'd say that the majority of what is on that site is nonsense, but there is a small amount of good information. It's just easier to go to snopes to quickly set the record straight.
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Post by librarylady on Dec 20, 2015 13:17:52 GMT
I have posted snopes or other corrections so many times you'd think people would start doing their own investigation.
I'd post the snopes link and then back away...not engage in a dispute with her.
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Post by freecharlie on Dec 20, 2015 13:20:17 GMT
My fil posted that last week. I also usually ignore it, but this time I told him he needed to start checki ng facts before sharing hate mongoring posts.
He didn't respond
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Post by littlemama on Dec 20, 2015 13:32:34 GMT
I would and have posted the snopes link.
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Post by mikklynn on Dec 20, 2015 14:32:31 GMT
I have posted snopes or other corrections so many times you'd think people would start doing their own investigation. I'd post the snopes link and then back away...not engage in a dispute with her. This is what I do, too. The funny thing, to me, is the person in DH's family that forever emails garbage gets mad when I send her the snopes info. I don't reply all, just to her. I don't care if she gets mad, just stop sending me garbage! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 14:52:43 GMT
Whenever someone shares something that is full of wrong information, I will share the snopes link and tell them they need to double check before spreading rumors.
One cousin apologized. Another usually ignores me but did delete one post.
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Post by disneypal on Dec 20, 2015 14:57:45 GMT
When I see something like that, I always post the snopes link. If I posted mis-information, I would want someone to tell me.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Dec 20, 2015 15:19:18 GMT
I almost always just drop the snopes link and then back away. Even if it doesn't change their mind at least others will see it and hopefully not pass it on.
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Post by rainangel on Dec 20, 2015 15:27:31 GMT
I have done this a friend. She asked me what she had done to ridicule her in such a way. Haha! If you put out straight up FALSE information, don't get all hurt when someone corrects you! And be mindful of the sources you use. I think she is hiding her conspiracy theory posts from me now, because I haven't seen her post any up in a while.
But DEAR GOD! When you post 'articles' and 'facts' from pages like Stormfront, how do you expect people to react?
And yes, I do believe that you have to agree with everything you post on Facebook. Why the hell would you post it on FB otherwise?
I would probably just link the Snopes article. Hopefully she is smart enough to see she didn't have the full story.
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Post by GiantsFan on Dec 20, 2015 16:02:53 GMT
My DH's aunt forwards chain emails or the touting some "new" cancer cure. I started replying with the Snopes links that disproves her "scientific medical breakthroughs". It didn't stop. I finally replied via email and asked her to take me off her send to list. But they still keep coming. I don't even know this woman. I have never met or spoken to her. She has my e-mail address from some genealogical information she asked for.  To answer your question - reply with the Snopes link! |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 20, 2015 16:56:14 GMT
I have one friend that would constantly forward emails to me filled with inaccurate info to the point that it was driving me nuts. It didn't take long before I started sending her the links to Snopes debunking the emails every time. I wouldn't even engage, I would just hit reply and include the link. Eventually she got the message and stopped sending me that junk!
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Post by brina on Dec 20, 2015 19:07:25 GMT
I have one friend that would constantly forward emails to me filled with inaccurate info to the point that it was driving me nuts. It didn't take long before I started sending her the links to Snopes debunking the emails every time. I wouldn't even engage, I would just hit reply and include the link. Eventually she got the message and stopped sending me that junk! I used to get all those emails from my mil. I did the same thing - email the Snopes link with no other comment. And then she stopped sending them. I thought she had learned to check before forwarding. nope, she just took me off her distribution list. Works for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2015 19:14:06 GMT
I did the snopes thing on every post that my cousin's husband posted.
I finally unfriended him. You can only take so much stupid.
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Post by mrssmith on Dec 20, 2015 19:20:44 GMT
I usually post the Snopes link as well, but often my FB friends post things like the one about sending cards to "Any Soldier" to a defunct address. So, well meaning, but misguided. The couple of people that post links more along the lines of the one in the OP, I have hidden. I don't think I'll change their minds.
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Post by JustTricia on Dec 20, 2015 19:38:35 GMT
My father is the king of this, on both sides. He send mass emails and get PISSED when someone sends the Snopes link back to him. However, he will send a Snopes link to someone who emails him and then ridicule the person to us for being so stupid.
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Post by cycworker on Dec 20, 2015 19:48:39 GMT
I would be snarky & post a comment along with the Snopes like. Something like. "Your facts are wrong. Here's the real story."
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Dec 20, 2015 20:12:47 GMT
I post the Snopes link with a gentle idea that they should remove the post so other people don't mistakenly post false information.
Some people thank me.. others probably hate me.
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Post by corinne11 on Dec 20, 2015 21:55:30 GMT
I've replied with "Just so you know, this story is not true" and posted the link to Snopes. One of my colleagues now goes to Snopes first and the other person, a relative, said "Thanks, I will leave it up though with your link so people will know it wasn't true"
Each time it was one of those internet hoaxes - Bill Cosby at 83, a little 8 yr old girl running in the Boston Marathon in memory of Sandy Hook killed by the bomb. I think they posted them without actually thinking about them.
I do have a F/B friend (wife of one of my husband's lifelong friends) and she posts some very questionable links/stories but as they are religious related I usually choose not to respond. Once I gently responded that the story was not true but one of her friend AND her replied with" Well it should be said!" Fine, say it as your opinion then, not as some racist, anti muslim rant. (I didn't say that to her!!)
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Post by JustTricia on Dec 20, 2015 22:09:02 GMT
That's the other thing that drives me insane, and again my dad is guilty of it along with my BIL. If you post a link to something with no other commentary, people are going to think it is something you believe in. When someone responds "wow, I never knew you felt that way" don't get all shitty with them and say "I didn't say I agreed with it, I just posted it". If you don't agree, then SAY THAT IN THE POST. The most recent example with my BIL, I'm 99% he DID agree with it until the first responder called it out for being horribly racist so he was trying to backtrack. Idiot.
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