Gullibility

So my news feed was flooded with all these Better safe than sorry. Attorney advised me blah blah blah posts.

So many oh-so-smart people then started posting and telling their "friends" to fact-check before sharing these kinds of posts, even saying their friends are too stupid to believe this hoax.

And then they begin sharing this article http://thephnews.blogspot.com/2016/10/facebook-privacy-test-by-harvard.html saying "Oh yan! Mga tanga!" "Di nga totoo diba? IQ Test lang!"

WOW! If these people really believed this article is true, then they're just as gullible. :D

Hahahahha! I don't know if I'd tag this as a rant cause I'm really amused right now. XD

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Facebook Hero

It's so easy to fabricate stories nowadays. You just post a photo of a tortured animal, start dropping names of who knows who, add a heart-wrenching caption, boast of your attempt to save or give justice to the poor animal and VOILA!! Instant Facebook Hero!

And everyone wants to join the bandwagon so badly, too! With comments such as "send that man to me and I'll hang him myself". Oh wow! It's so incredible how one can be so strong with just a keyboard.

"You b*tch! That wasn't a fabricated story!! It was real! May ID nga diba? Tanga!"

Oh, I'm pretty sure half of that is truth and the other half is sh*t.
So there's an ID? Oh, then maybe just an ID is proof that he did it without reason, right?
Just how stupid could someone be and leaves his ID beside of the just tortured animal?

"Whatever! This is real because a case has already been filed!"

Oh, then that's good. Then why do you have to put it on Facebook? For everyone to see? So that you'd be showered with compliments for such a heroic act? Buh-ruh-vo!

To make this short, I'm not taking sides. I'm simply giving the benefit of the doubt that not everything we see on Facebook is EVERYTHING.

There are always two sides of the coin and there are people who would choose to show only one of them. I'm not saying that everything on facebook is fake, but at least try to know the whole story first before coming up to a conclusion, especially that posts nowadays are so one-sided.

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Capturing Moments Can Destroy the Moment for Others

I appreciate how photographers really do their best to capture the perfect moment in every celebrant's lives. Trust me, I really do.

Mag-hapa-hapa na gani ang uban diha, mag-unsa pa na sila, just to make sure that every moment makuha jd since after sa event, only memories and photographs will serve as a reminder of those moments.

However, in their goal to capture every moment, they ruin the moment for others who are presently in the event.

What do I mean?

Well, here's a simple scenario.

We attended a wedding of  a friend not so long ago. We wanted to celebrate with our friend, of course, as a support to the next chapter of their lives as a couple. But what happened was, we can't even see our friend!! Photographers are blocking our view.

As in, puros buko-buko na lang jd among makita.

Though, I know they're just doing their job, sometimes it becomes a pain for those who wanted to celebrate it, too.

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Of People Who Don't Read But Reacts Immediately

So I saw this video on facebook where they caught a couple stealing a cellular phone from one of the customers.

The video stopped there but when you read the caption, it was actually a job well done since there was a solid evidence against these people. The thieves were handed over to the mall's security guards afterwards.

What annoys me are commenters who clearly didn't read the caption and just automatically says "Sinita na lang sana, tanga!" "Ang pangutana, gi-badlong ba kaha ni?"

Mga ate, kuya. basa-basa ng caption bago mag-ingay ha?

Then someone commented :

 Baka gusto nyo naman tagalugin...para maintindihan, hindi naman siguro bisaya ang national language natin, at hindi naman tayo puro bisaya lahat.

 Ayy, sorry ma'am ha?

Sorry if naka-bisaya. Bisaya man gud ang nag-post. Sorry kaayo ha? Basin sunod ganahan mo magtuon na lang ug bisaya. Sheesh.

If naka-tagalog pud unya bakikaw, sawayon pud ug "Wag trying hard!!!" My gosh!

People. -_-"

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