Please share Snopes.com with people you know

[pRICE cUBE]

In case you didn't know, http://snopes.com/ is a site devoted to busting internet hoaxes that have existed in urban legend form transferred to email and now on social media. Friends don't let friends repost hoaxes and look silly.

[cbelt3]

Every time I get a FWD: FWD: email

[pRICE cUBE]

For some reason there has been an uptick on the college educated portion of people on my Facebook feed reposting these hoaxes.

[Black]

FWD:FWD:Re:Check out Snopes.com

[GGD]

I don't give my email address out to relatives, especially PC users.

[Uncle Wig]

Did you know that Robert Blake was born with a large tentacle between his shoulder blades? True fact. Look it up on Snopes!

[lazydays]

My extended family used to send these crazy stories out to huge numbers of people at the same time. I would look it up on snopes and reply back to all of them letting them know the story was false. Funny thing, they took me off their mailing lists. Poor me. Every once in awhile they forget and send another stupid story to me and I do it again. One guy almost got violently angry with me for letting him know he was spreading crapola.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I stopped trying to set people straight on Internet hoaxes sometime in 2005.

[hal]

lazydays wrote:
My extended family used to send these crazy stories out to huge numbers of people at the same time. I would look it up on snopes and reply back to all of them letting them know the story was false. Funny thing, they took me off their mailing lists. Poor me. Every once in awhile they forget and send another stupid story to me and I do it again. One guy almost got violently angry with me for letting him know he was spreading crapola.

Me too - EXACTLY the same story...

No one sends me crap anymore...

[GGD]

hal wrote:
[quote=lazydays]
My extended family used to send these crazy stories out to huge numbers of people at the same time. I would look it up on snopes and reply back to all of them letting them know the story was false. Funny thing, they took me off their mailing lists. Poor me. Every once in awhile they forget and send another stupid story to me and I do it again. One guy almost got violently angry with me for letting him know he was spreading crapola.

Me too - EXACTLY the same story...

No one sends me crap anymore...
I got taken off one for suggesting that using BCC: for the distribution list would be better, so that you don't share every email address that you know (which includes mine) with every person that you know, and they then forwards it (including the distribution list) to every one that they know.