Spot on! I was only in the "Facebook" club for about 20 minutes after my daughter opened an account for me.I got a message from some mug from 40 years ago saying hi are you the same guy I knew all that time ago? I said yes and I didn't like you then cos you were a wrong un then and prob still are???? He messaged me back " you punched me in the face at a village disco!" I replied " yeah - I remember - are you ready for another one?" My daughter said its not for opening up old grievances- I said what's the point of it then???
Valid point - trouble is they have all become the same!Anyone a bit different is treated like a social leper and ostracised
Again, we seem to have drifted off topic... The relative merits of social media was not the point, really. It was more about why people believe utter drivel just because it's on the internet. It's a modern variation of the "it must be true, it's in colour" idea... I have heard people say "they wouldn't be allowed to put it on TV if it wasn't true" before now, and thought how naive they must be. The same goes for newspapers... Who do these people think actually regulates these things? Weird...
Classic example this morning... Saw a post from a friend on Facebook - it's a warning about how "internet pirates" can steal your Facebook identity and use it for nefarious activity. It is, as least partially, true and is something that has been known about for several years. Yes, it always pays to be careful who you accept friends requests from, and healthy suspicion is a good thing. Don't give out your details to anyone you are unsure about... All good advice. Ironically, their very next post was a request to sign a petition about animal cruelty. Ten seconds of research showed the site to be a fraudulent one that is basically an identity information harvester... There are some unscrupulous people out there... :-(
It's one of the shittier aspects of being human that if you are trusting and naive then someone is going to abuse you. I just hope karma works and what goes around comes around.
In my view, the answer to the original question is this: Life is essentially random with no meaning and no significance. Humans don't like that, so continually invent narratives to explain things and give life a pseudo significance and meaning. Some of these things are religion, some are conspiracy theories, some are internet shite. It comforts people to think they are living in a web of meaning - better still if it is hidden meaning - rather than to think that there is no meaning and that their lives are pointless. Sorry folks, but that's just how it is.
Here is a good one, read it with a Scottish accent. No sanction for BBC’s Carol Kirkwood over ‘cold as f*ck’ weather forecast
