How....how....how are people so dumb?

"Jcarr" (jcarr)
12/08/2015 at 15:15 • Filed to: None

Anyone else getting these plastered all over your Facebook feed? I’m seeing people that I previously thought were reasonably intelligent copying and pasting this garbage. Are people that dumb?

THANK YOU, MARK ZUCKERBERG, for your forward-thinking generosity! And congrats on becoming a dad!Im honored to post this!

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he is giving away $45 billion of Facebook stock. What you may not have heard is that he plans to give 10% of it away to people like YOU and ME! All you have to do is copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY. At midnight PST, Facebook will search through the day’s posts and award 1000 people with $4.5 million EACH as a way of saying thank you for making Facebook such a powerful vehicle for connection and philanthropy.

I hope someone I know gets a piece of the pie—let me know if you do!!!

DISCUSSION (24)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:18

that’s the power of the internet for you.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:18

You have dumb friends on Facebook.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Future next gen S2000 owner
12/08/2015 at 15:20

Yeah, people who post that kind of shit get unfriended.

CKeffer > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:20

It’s too early to want to drink this heavily

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:21

I see these sort of posts all the time, generally relating to some sort of “I am not giving Facebook the right to use my... blah blah blah.”

It always reminds me of this:

wiffleballtony > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:24

The Internet was way better before it was frequented by social media aficionados.

StingrayJake > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:24

I heard they were deactivating inactive Hotmail accounts and if I don’t forward this email to at least 10 people my account will be deactivated.

deekster_caddy > StingrayJake
12/08/2015 at 15:31

Hmm, I think I might have a hotmail account. I wonder what the address was? is? Hope for their sake it’s been deactivated or being used as a honeypot.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:32

Because meh fuckit it takes 5 seconds it can't hurt me and what if it's real nothing ventured etc.

HammerheadFistpunch > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:33

Its stupid and you have to be stupid to fall for it.

Counterpoint: if you are given a choice between regular heaven and pie heaver, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick but if its not...mmmm boy!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > StingrayJake
12/08/2015 at 15:34

lol

But what if their are only 9 active hotmail accounts left?!?!?!?!

Jcarr > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
12/08/2015 at 15:35

But it’s never real. It takes less than 5 seconds of critical thinking to come to the conclusion that if Facebook were to give away $45 billion, they wouldn’t do it like this.

scoob > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:38

All my Facebook experiences have been like this.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:39

My personal favorite is the ones from a page called something like “Sony Play Station 4.” that says they have open box Playstations they’ll give away to the first 455 people to like the status, or “Walt Disney World.” (there’s always a period at the end of these) saying that they’re sending out 6000 boxes with lifetime passes to the park or some shit.

And somebody will say “what can it hurt lolololol?????1?” and what it hurts is my fucking brain to think that people I call friends are that fucking stupid.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jcarr
12/08/2015 at 15:40

1. I’m not saying it is real. I’m playing devils advocate.

2. Crazier things have happened. And if your peace of mind rests on a 5 second copy/paste, well... go ahead.

Personally I don't facebook and have no desire to, so in the end I really don't give a damn what people do on it

zeontestpilot > Future next gen S2000 owner
12/08/2015 at 16:04

You’d....you’d be surprised who posts what. One time someone shared a Onion article, with no context. I thought, “man, this is gonna mislead people.” So j commented with, “hey, isn’t this that fake news website?”.