Crazies on Facebook

[vito]

Maybe I'm the crazy one for still using Facebook, but I am part of several groups where Facebook is the only way that notifications are sent out for group events or just sharing in a common interest. But on one of those "group" pages, someone posted a photo from 9/11/01 of the World Trade Center on fire, before its collapse, with text saying "never forget". Most of the subsequent comments supported that sentiment, but there were a few asserting that the entire 9/11 attack was "an inside job" by "the government", etc, etc. Responding to these crazies and asking for their evidence of this, or why the "government" would want to do this, or how the thousands supposedly involved in this conspiracy have been able to keep it secret for 20 years, and similar comments go unanswered other than to elicit statements such as "You must be a fool to think that this was other than an inside job". I guess there have always been a lot of crazy people around, but the internet makes it more apparent to the rest of us.

 

[LDM]

I looked at Facebook once. The amount of stupidity I saw was mind-boggling. Nincompoops posting messages anytime they take a dump and getting thousands of "likes" for example. No way I'm going to waste any time on that silliness.

 

[Uncle Howie]

Welcome to political “discussion” in modern times.

Facts don’t seem to matter, only your information source.

Our own “Gun Control and Political Issues” subforum typically demonstrates this phenomenon several times daily…

 

[eveled]

I’ve learned to question the narrative that the Government and the media spoon feed the masses. I also don’t believe what the nut jobs think either. The truth is somewhere in between usually.

It’s always interesting when you find out someone you’ve known for a long time really believes we never went to the moon, or that the world is flat. Lol.

I’ve also learned not to talk to anyone wearing a tin foil hat. It is a waste of time to engage fruitcakes.

 

[hittman]

Maybe I'm the crazy one for still using Facebook,

Seems like you’re onto something …..

 

[blackhawknj]

The crazies, the conspiracy theorists have long antedated Facebook. In the 1980s there were those who claimed that AIDS was a government attempt to humiliate, if not eliminate, a part of the population seen as troublesome.

 

[WendyZXZ]

I see why I don't use Fakebook!

 

[redhawker]

Doesn't matter where you go or what group you're a part of if there are more than a handful of people involved there will be a few crazies, the more people involved, the more crazies involved. I know someone who has a coworker that keeps insisting that Trump will be inaugurated "next month" and all jet vapor trails are "chemtrails"...It's not just FaceBook.

 

[bobski]

sometimes I wish MORE people WOULD stay in their homes and not be sociable. I don't want to see whats going on behind their pulled shades! computers ruined that idea.
I had my share come to my range that were of questionable nature...with guns no less.

 

[Mike J]

I’ve learned to question the narrative that the Government and the media spoon feed the masses. I also don’t believe what the nut jobs think either. The truth is somewhere in between usually.

It’s always interesting when you find out someone you’ve known for a long time really believes we never went to the moon, or that the world is flat. Lol.

I’ve also learned not to talk to anyone wearing a tin foil hat. It is a waste of time to engage fruitcakes.

For the most part I agree with this. The truth is it is very difficult to get accurate & true information about anything these days due to the amount of disinformation & the politicizing of everything these days.

I still use facebook. It lets keep track of a lot of people that I have known for years that I wouldn't have any contact with otherwise. Sometimes it is entertaining, sometimes not. I can filter what I choose to respond to or participate in.

The way I figure it most everyone is crazy in one way or another. And so it goes.....

 

[kmoore]

Well Vito, we have about 2 types of people that say whacko stuff.
#1 the true believers, with them nothing anyone says or what evidence shows their claims are false. They will still believe. No point to engage them.
#2 Those that have nothing better to do, but counter ideas and opinions to upset others and argue. Knowing full well their wrong. It could be as a joke or to sway others their direction. Again why engage them playing their silly game.

I have give credit to EVELED on his post. As I was going to say about the same thing.
As a long time interviewer. In most cases people give some truth and some lies. Than it's up to you to search further.
Myself, I joined facebook several months ago and enjoy saying hello to many co workers over my life that I have not seen or heard from in years. I only friend people I know, no one else and will not engage with anyone I do not know. It's not worth my time.

 

[toysoldier]

The internet has given everyone the opportunity to be minimally informed about anything. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." People who believe the WTC collapse was a deliberate demolition job are as ignorant about that as an inner-city welfare mama talking about what it takes to be a successful wheat farmer.

 

[smoke-eater]

My sister is one of those crazies of which you speak.
And she drives me nuts with it, texting me links to farcebook stuff at all hours of the day, even at 2AM!
I have explained to her repeatedly that I wouldn't touch anything farcebook-related with a ten foot pole, and why, and that she should stop wasting her time sending me that garbage because I immediately delete it. She told me, "You don't have to worry about that any more, because I'll never speak to you again!"

Unfortunately, 'never' turned out to only be four days! :roll: