Saturday, 17 May 2014

The Whole World And You

This world is full of amazing events, even the strangest things can happen from a cat saving a boy from a dog to a 'baby' t-rex throwing a pitch at a baseball game.

So yes strange and sometimes wonderful things can happen in this wacky ol' world of ours but it also goes to stand that alot that is out there is complete and total bunk, out to mislead or even potentially take money away from you or damage your computer, as a user of the book of face I see all too often these stories which I call 'clickbait', stories which read like "first I was saddened but then I was shocked!", who the frig has that as a headline or link title, oh wait, people who just want other people to go to their website, people get money from people visiting websites, it's a easy enough thing to set up. there was one particular instance which i've seen in which a man falls down and asks for help, someone walks by (saddened) then someone helps him (shocked!), what more concerns me that what about the person FILMING the entire thing, they saw it why don't they help?, because it's a set up.

Not to say that genuine acts of kindness don't happen or that selfishness doesn't exist, but you have to take a lot of these supposed articles at face value, yes it was filmed but you have to think, who shot the video, why did they keep recording, I mean who records a video at a distance of a man in distress?

I'm a avid reader of this lovely site called snopes.com they look into a lot of hoaxes and 'clickbait' articles, as well as covering urban legends, 99% of the time you can find something that someone has shared on facebook of dubious intent on there already busted, whats that? Flight MH370 was found in the Bermuda triangle? busted, that is just -one- thing I can bust instantly, there is a story about a 'cancer killing fruit' which they are looking into.

Don't believe everything you click, use your brains people and if you seriously believe some of the more 'out there' stories, "They're spraying chemicals in the air after airplanes, it's geogengineering, it's poisioning us!!!!1", I have a couple rolls of lovely tin-foil you can make a hat out of!

(also, those 'trails' are caused by hot exhaust from the engines being put out in a -cold- sky, it's colder the higher you go!)

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