Facebook Hoaxes ... Are You Sick of them?

When I come across those hoaxes, I just ignore it. But the latest one saying that FB is going to charge for the membership, I thought woooh!! It's very obvious that the owner of the site got rich without charging its members any fee. So why charge now? Some really took it seriously and followed the instruction of the post by reposting it. LOL!!! Really I wanted to post something like "Hey cheer up! If that thing is really true we have a lot to turn to, there is myLot and a whole lot more site waiting for us! So the next time we see hoaxes like that, just laugh it off and never repost.

Oh I most certainly am!! I just can't see the point in them at all! Only this morning I have logged onto my Facebook account to find that I have seemingly posted a video from an ap called 'FEEL the HEAT; now I have not posted (or was ever likely to) this video and I don't doubt that there is a virus housed in it for anyone who opens it! I have put a warning on my status ( despite the fact that 'I posted' the video I am still not able to remove it! As you say these idiots are just plain MORONIC and RETARDED, I don't copy and paste any of these links, apart from charity ones that I know are true like one my daughter posted for a charity she's running for an expedition to Borneo that my granddaughter is going on!

owlwings ask PPE that, the ball is in his court Now. I think he was just fascinated by how very gullible even mylotters can be. Look any knowing person with half a brain would reason face-book would not charge for accounts,as their zillion, me along with them, accounts would all pull out.why do I think what PpE did was funny, because it made it almost too obvious he was kidding everyone and a little humor around here might liven and wake everyone up.Also PPE admitted it was a hoax so why blame him if are being warned people are moronic enough to fall for it.A little humor around here cannot hurt. I am smart enough not to fall for stupidity myself so I did not get angry at Ppe at all.

I would not pass it on, but I probably wouldn't research it, either. In fact, I would probably just ignore it and continue on with whatever I was doing unless I knew the person that was repeating the hoax. I don't really think that it is funny when people perpetuate hoaxes, especially when they know that they are hoaxes. My dad has done this a few times, but he did not realize that they were hoaxes. My brother and I keep telling him to look it up on "snopes" before he passes it on, and he has gotten better about doing this. Fortunately, most of us that he passes them on to realize that they are hoaxes and let him know right away.

These days we get spams from our friends and known people but in fact they are not the ones who actually send them but the spammers who use them. They perhaps have access to address books. I straight away delete them and that I have started doing only after blundering a couple of times.

i just think people have nothing better to do with their time. they are sad individuals who think it is really funy to copy and paste something stupid and then see it spread like wildfire.. completely stupid like.

I have a friend who is perpetuating a hoax to entertain himself. I almost never go to facebook at all, I can see this friend's point of view because he is trying to get people to think.

I was not/ still not an experienced facebook user. My 18 year old daughter has to explain things to me. A few weeks back I saw this message about changes to facebook. I thought it was for real and copied and posted it to my friends and implemented the changes. Later my daughter told me it was crap and I should ignore all messages like that. Blow me down.. 2 weeks later, facebook did make changes. Apparently I was less affected by the new changes due to the changes I had made previously. I did see that stupid message you have shown us in the link, and even I recognised it as a hoax. I honestly dont know why people produce such rubbish. Is it to create as much havoc as possible on the internet?

I have seen enough on Facebook! Usually the hoax is reposted by freinds who think it is real! I Try to ignore it! There have been cases of troll on Mylot who have done this in the past! People,some do,just like to course trouble because they have nothing else better to do!

I have yet to date to re-post absolutely anything anyone posts on Facebook. Although I do not frequent Facebook as much as I did before, I merely keep it as there are some distant family and friends that perhaps someday I may need/want to communicate with. When I see absolutely anything to this effect on Facebook, I rarely see any type of validity with it. I merely read and or at half best half read it and usually my first thought is that someone, somewhere with lots of time on their hands decided that they would play a gag. I can certainly enjoy a good laugh and understand when some do pass on the gag, as they would know their friends best and hopefully do clear the air at some point filling them in on the gag. Sadly many jump to the conclusion that since it is on Facebook it must be real and the vicious cycle continues Quite unfortunate really as Facebook could actually be used to spread some real helpful and or important information. I personally do not "think it is funny to perpetuate hoaxes" on my behalf on Facebook as I do know each and every one of my listed FB friends directly, as lots of them are past colleagues/employers and would not want to be known for giving wrongful and or hoaxing them. When I first saw the post my initial reaction like anything in life is that if Facebook was to start charging they certainly would contact us directly with their New Terms of Service. Though Facebook is merely a fun site for many, it is actually a serious business that stands to lose millions/billions(?), so I don't believe they would would contract members to spread such "so called" information via the members and not from them directly via an important type of announcement.

Personally I just completely ignore them, I don't pay attention to any of that non-sense because like you said it does get ridiculus. Also, lately I don't even log on to FB like I used to, if I log on once a day for a few minutes its to much. I have heard however from a few people that they might actually start charging to have an account open. Do you know if that is true, or is that also a hoax?

When I read it, I was thinking how can it be posted since there was only the like and comment button and the share button was not there. Since I am too innocent in pasting, I just got the second thought of not believing in it because how can it be,giving a shock to millions of its members. But come to think of it, it is a huge sum amount of money for that membership sign up. Is it not an approach of just conditioning our mind that it may really happen and that they are just having a survey.

It is interesting that you should make this post. Right now there is a new hoax post on FB stating that they are being to charge people to use the site. As soon as I saw it, I researched it and it turned out to be untrue. Some of my friends on fb were reposting this rumor and I would comment that upon research this was a hoax. Can you believe some of them thought I was lying???!!! I agree owlwings, research before you repost.

I don’t use face book but can comment on hoaxes. Sometimes I think there can be troublemakers of course but also hoaxes might act like rumors. You know in real life social circles if a rumor gets started they are often difficult to shut down. One reason I think is people get feeling like there might actually be truth in it if they feel someone is trying to control the rumor or even get paranoid if you tell them to cease with it. I hope you understand this only as human nature. This discussoin actually makes me think of something that has happened to me recently here in mylot. I wish you would get back to me on it, please. I’ve always enjoyed your discussions and comments and watch in anticipation for new ones because I think you are a really good interesting member here in mylot. Yesterday, I saw one of your comments in a discussion where you stated “I challenge this debate” a topic on evolution I believe it was. Do you remember that one? You supplied a link to explain a rational on science. It was a very good comment I thought but I did think it was time to challenge your comment as well. I did so hoping to have some very good friendly but strong debate on our different viewpoints which is always good I think for a more educational discussion. I can not find this discussion anywhere which is a pity because I spent a fair amount of time composing my comment. If it can not be found I will be extremely disappointed and might decide to stop contributing to discussions in the manner I have been and resort back to one or two shallow sentences in comments? I do hate to consider this because I think it is really a tendency that is moving backwards. Can you help me with finding that discussion again, thanks in advance? Sorry, that I could not send you a PM on this.

One of the many reasons I try and avoid Facebook!

I have become pretty adept at spotting those hoaxes. The old saying that if something is too good to be true it probably isn't applies. In fact it should probably be amended that if something is too stupid to be true it probably isn't. At any rate I just delete them without looking at them so I don't waste any time on them. In fact this is probably more time spent on them than any I have spent this year.

Hoax postings drive me insane as well as... "Do me a favor and post this as your status for just an hour if you know someone that has ..."

Yes, I am sick and tired of hoaxes posted on facebook. Whenever I read something fishy about facebook, like re-posts of the same message by different people on my friends list, I usually comment underneath their messages that what they're passing on is just a hoax and should stop misleading other people. Sometimes, they do apologize and say that they didn't know it was a hoax.

I think that isn't funny at all. But I think we'll be going to have more of these hoaxes on the web. We must to be able to identify accurately these lies.

I almost never repost something that has already been posted by someone else. It seems redundant to me in the first place. Here's how you know...if it ends with a you better repost this or else then it's definitely something not to be taken seriously.