Are my FB friends really this stupid? (Vent alert!)

I haven't seen any of these types of posts on FB, but yes, definitely eyeroll-worthy.  

Yeah...my Facebook feed has been full of the Public one all freakin' day. My step sister is sharing its ll over the place, even with my step mom!

I hate the urban legend posts. One check on Snopes will keep you from looking like an idiot.

And Facebook is going to contribute $5.00 for medical care for a little boy every time you share the post?

My mother reposts these kinds of things and it drives me crazy!

One of my friends will "share" those posts and write that while it is probably a hoax, it doesn't hurt to try anyways.

Clicking on some of those will likely end up doing damage to your computer and/or doing something nefarious. Then those people wonder WHY.

Oh man yes. And don't get me started on the "type Amen for this sick child" ones. They're just Like-farming, folks!

I had one the other day that was a picture of a young woman in a wheelchair, saying in broken English that nobody will share this photo. When I checked out the page, it was full of bikini shots, barely decent. I PMed the girl who shared it, and a few hours later she posted another photo from the same page, saying "this was the one I meant to share" GAH! It's still Like-farming! Nothing to do with disabled people, OK? smh

I liked the first post on this thread, pressed enter, and then nothing happened that "Blew my mind". What a rip off. Maybe God is mad at me because I'm one of the "99% who won't share this prayer", and haven't verified I don't like cancer by sharing a post.

I think it was last year about this time that a Publix 'coupon' for $100 of $120 or more purchase was floating around. Apparently, people were printing it out and trying to use it and getting mad when it didn't work. Publix went on Twitter and Facebook and all the print media to say it was a fake and would not be honored and people still got mad...I love Publix and think they are all kinds of amazing, but even I know they aren't so altruistic as to give away $100 worth of food per coupon. 

Crazy that people believe this kind of stuff. 

oh gosh, I hate those Facebook posts for the gullible. It's like the old e-mail scams turned up to 11. When will people use there heads?

And everyone tells me it's a bad thing to be cynical. Well at least I'm not suckered every five minutes by a stupid scammer.

On Mother's Day my cousin posted a picture of the gas chamber from the Holocaust. It was awful. I realize the Holocaust was horrific bug do you have to post pictures.

Another cousin posts all the sick kid pics and poor puppy pics to "like" or say "amen".

I'm ready to ignore them. AND don't get me started on political stuff that isn't true.

Glad I'm the sane cousin. Hahahaha

My mom fell for that. Dh called her out on it.

Here's the thing ~ most any big store, etc, is going to have a VERIFIED Facebook page. If the page saying they're giving away whatever isn't verified, 99% of the time it's bogus.