Another Facebook Hoax – “Becoming a Father or Mother was the greatest gift of my life”

eddie — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:58:13 +0000

When will these Facebook users learn?

Pretty much anything you see or hear along the lines of “Don’t do this / don’t do that / this person is trying to get you” is NOT true.

The latest is a warning about a Facebook group of pedophiles purportedly trying to see photos of your kids.

Snopes has the rundown, but here’s the message I’m seeing in my News Feed.

ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!Do not join the group currently on Facebook with the title”Becoming a Father or Mother was the greatest gift of my life”. It is a group of pedophiles trying to access your photos. This was on Fox news@5. Please take time to copy and paste. Keep our children safe!!!!!

This one doesn’t even make any sense. Why would a group of pedophiles create a group to “gain access” to photos of your kids? Its not like it’s hard to find photos of kids on the internet. It’s not like children aren’t out in public everywhere, every day. It’s not like joining a group will give anyone access to your private photos. This is just dumb, all around.

Despite what the message may say about some news station reporting the story, it’s not true. No news station ever reported this. And if they did, they should probably lose their newsey-station license for being complete buffoons.

If you’re out there reposting this on the Facebook, or warning your friends about joining child-centered groups on Facebook, then I’m sorry, but you’re an idiot.

Searching your Facebook page for “Automation Log” does not show you people who have “Hacked’ your account

eddie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:53:59 +0000

A recent Facebook hoax reads like this:

IMPORTANT No joke! Apparently multiple people have had a hacker. I tried this and yes he was listed on mine too. The way to find them is to go into your settings, privacy settings, block list, and in the “person” box, type “automation log.” If someone pops up, block them because it seems they’re the hacker. I had 3 names in my block list show up!!!!

The problem is, this is entirely false.

Here’s what’s happening: When you search for “automation log” you are searching for all people with the words “automation log” listed as their employer. It’s as if you were searching for the term “Microsoft,” or “Comcast.” What you are seeing is a list of people who have written that word in their profile, not a list of people who have hacked your account.

As an experiment, I changed my Facebook page to contain the magic words “Automation lab.” Within 10 minutes I had received a couple dozen hate emails. A sampling:

“get a life dude. stop hacking my sh*t”

How the F*CK did you get into my friend’s list?
“I just reported you – LOSER”

“you fu*in freak get a job you fat fu**er specky tw*t!!!!!!!!”

FU* YOU AR** HOLE

“u bin tryin 2 hack me pu**yole?”

“okay so I have to ask you … there is this going aroung on fb. it’s saying there’s hackers…are you a hacker automation log. is what I was told on how to find you?”

You just pissed off the wrong people…

Wow, harsh! Hey guys (and gals), I’m only trying to help!

To be fair, I did receive a number of thoughtful inquiries as well. So the world isn’t all bad. :) One person even wanted to save my soul!

“They say y’all are hackers, and I don’t care what you are doing Eddie even if you are stealing information. I am worried about your eternal soul. did you know that you are on your way to hell unless you have asked Jesus Christ to save you? Eddie you should stop whatever you are doing right now and get on your knees and ask and beg the LORD Jesus to forgive you through His Blood. I am going to report you to Facebook and block you from my profile, but you can still contact God. I am truly concerned for you and where you will spend eternity. Please ask him to forgive you!”

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