Ok, this is getting worse and I'm getting really frustrated!
I spend a bit of time on facebook and have a lot of connections to many different people with very different opinions.
Usually I skip over anything political, but I keep seeing stuff posted and re-posted / shared that makes me think, "Hmmm... I wonder if that's accurate?" Well, I've decided to look up a few things from time to time on www.Snopes.com and so far, everything I've checked has been fake. It's amazing and actually kinda sad that people will not only believe anything they read, but then share / propagate it to everyone they know without spending just 2 minutes checking to see if it is fake.
People are going to hate me on FB, but I haven't been able to stop myself from replying to their stuff with a link to snopes saying, "Sorry, I'm not sure this info is correct."
Here is the one that is currently circulating all over the web... has over 550,000 shares... meaning that many people probably believe it!
Aside from the fact that NOBODY on the web ever has or will give out money like that for just sharing something is ridiculous, it isn't hard to search the web to find out if it is legit before sharing it with people: see here
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft.asp
SO... this has happened enough times that I'm thinking of starting a fun blog to showcase the worst of the worse of these, but I need help naming it.
What would you call a website / domain for a blog that shows off these things? Something short, sweet, snazzy, fun!
<I apologize in advance if you're one of those people that has been believing this stuff and propagating it over and over... I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about that other person.>
I spend a bit of time on facebook and have a lot of connections to many different people with very different opinions.
Usually I skip over anything political, but I keep seeing stuff posted and re-posted / shared that makes me think, "Hmmm... I wonder if that's accurate?" Well, I've decided to look up a few things from time to time on www.Snopes.com and so far, everything I've checked has been fake. It's amazing and actually kinda sad that people will not only believe anything they read, but then share / propagate it to everyone they know without spending just 2 minutes checking to see if it is fake.
People are going to hate me on FB, but I haven't been able to stop myself from replying to their stuff with a link to snopes saying, "Sorry, I'm not sure this info is correct."
Here is the one that is currently circulating all over the web... has over 550,000 shares... meaning that many people probably believe it!
Aside from the fact that NOBODY on the web ever has or will give out money like that for just sharing something is ridiculous, it isn't hard to search the web to find out if it is legit before sharing it with people: see here
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft.asp
SO... this has happened enough times that I'm thinking of starting a fun blog to showcase the worst of the worse of these, but I need help naming it.
What would you call a website / domain for a blog that shows off these things? Something short, sweet, snazzy, fun!
<I apologize in advance if you're one of those people that has been believing this stuff and propagating it over and over... I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about that other person.>
