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"There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." I think that pretty much sums it up. I've sent an untold number of email replies to such nonsense begging people to refer to Snopes.com BEFORE passing along such messages. Fortunately the worst offenders apparently have removed me from their email list of gullibles. |
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I, too, wish people would check things out before blindly forward some of this junk, However, having said that, I really don't think an ISP or an email server should be doing any filtering on emails. Example: I receive an email supposedly from a bank wanting information from me, and I determine this is not from them. I try to forward it to them (per their request), and my mail server quietly drops it without even any notice back to me. |
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How about if the social media site placed a little feedback checkbox at the foot of each post: "Do you believe this story?" check box YES and check box NO. That might be enlightening, at least to the media site operators! |
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These "Scams, Hoaxes, Urban Legends" demonstrate the awesome power of belief: a believer will ignore genuine facts and incontrovertible proof in order to sustain their belief, whether it be religous, scientific or whatever. Almost impossible to change their minds once made up - they are totally closed. This is what lies behind so much of our planet's current problems. Sad but true. |
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I rarely get emails from friends these days - Due to Facebook. In many ways I am thankful. I got so tired of trying to inform the senders of their stupidity. Oh, I always was nice and polite when responding to them, but it was so annoying. The worst of it was the smartest of my friends were the ones falling for all of the Hoaxes or False News. However - Smart does not make one have Common Sense. Common Sense is one of those things that you are born with. Those born with Common Sense will sit back and begin to research what is going on. Basically, something is either too good to be true or it just doesn't sound right or add up. Now, I get some on Facebook, not like I did when email was the thing, though. I also rarely get on FB. I just do not like what FB is doing these days. I personally think FB is nothing more than BS. However, I do not close my account because of the ease of notifying the family of what is going on. |
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I am so thankful I didn't think my very first "Ask Bob" e-mail was a SpamScam! Now, any e-mail from Bob Rankin gets viewFirst treatment, including this one. It is so true, Bob. I mean, there's still people who believe Leland Stanford actually drove a Golden Spike at Promontory Point on May 8, 1869! Hint: Promontory Point is 37 miles South of Promontory Summit where the Golden Spike Ceremony took place on May 10, 1869, and nobody ever tried to drive a 17.6 karat solid gold spike. The newspaper articles which gave birth to the misinformation was written by reporters Stanford brought with him to Promontory. They wrote their "eyewitness" accounts days before the event when all they had to go on was that Stanford was bringing golden spikes from California and the only map they had showed Promontory Point, but not Promontory Summit. Try clarifying 148-year-old myth-conceptions, much less last week's nonsense! |
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Bob, |
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Hello Bob |
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Great topic, as always, Mr. Rankin, |
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Just FYI regarding Snopes; Barbara & David Mikkelson, who run the site, are far-left politically and you can't really trust any of the political "debunkings" that they do. They've proclaimed as false a lot of genuinely-idiotic statements by Democrats, and true statements made by some Republicans. |
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I find it astonishing that on the right side of many websites. MLB, MSN and on Facebook itself, there are headlines You wont believe say good bye to This or that star implying that they have died even has their year of birth and current day of death, clicking on that link takes you to long winded sites to purchase wonder drugs etc. Even on this page a big headline About Obamas Last Felony. So many people still forward the lies on Facebook that often were discounted 25 years earlier as fact |
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But Bob, I thought that you couldn't lie on the Internet. After all, Al Gore set it up that way. |
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PETLEXA is a primary source of information for a certain newcomer to D.C.(Not Direct Current). |
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Sadly, Snopes long ago ceased to be a reliable arbiter of what is true and false. They have a clear political agenda. |
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Great article. So many people believe everything they read on the internet. I'll be posting a link to this on my facebook page in hopes that they will believe your article. |
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Why don't you post a share link to facebook. Maybe people will listen to you. I sure would have shared this one if there were a link. Thanks for the informative articles. |
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Rick (Hoax Busters) wrote: To read "THIS" you have to go to hoaxbusters.org and find the link for "THIS". |
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When people die, the dead person does not care and is not bothered by the aftermath. But other people around him or her have a hard time and share concern. Sort of just like the way it is with a stupid person. |
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