A family member posted this little piece of Halloween info the other day. I about died.
I tried to be as kind as possible with my correction in the comments. I didn't want to be mean, although other people certainly were very mean in their response. But seriously! Forget zombies, witches, and ghosts! I'm afraid of having to be around people who read this and believe it.
As I said in the other thread on this, these are likely the same sort of people who believe the world is 2015 years old...ya'know, 'cause it's 2015...right?
As I said in the other thread, I don't know what's scarier or more stupid, the actual post, the people that believe it or that the person that originated it posted it knowing people would believe it.
Things like this make me glad I don't do Facebook, Twitter, etc. They wouldn't do me any good because I'd just block 'em all or unfriend them or whatever you do.
I saw this going around, and literally just stared at how asinine and ridiculous the 'logic' was. I can't even begin to describe or think of how this would make sense to anyone.
I saw this posted 3 times yesterday. One of them was a share on my wall! Apparently I was a little snarky in my reply because they have not said anything since.
Hmm... Like who here doesn't know that Halloween is always on the 31st! Actually anyone here who didn't know that would never admit it for fear of being covered with hot glue and glitter and put on display to teach any other Friday the 13th Halloween believers a lesson.
This is why I don't like to be sarcastic online, without adding a winky face or "haha", etc.
I'm a very sarcastic person, and the real point of sarcasm, is not pointing out the sarcasm. I would venture to guess that the majority of people who posted it know better, and they are being sarcastic. I would also venture to guess that some of the responses are also sarcastic. Certainly not all, there are some people out there...I don't know how they manage to even turn their computers on, let alone get to a website to post.
I personally posted a sarcastic comment on the Steven Speilberg dinosaur trophy hunter meme that was going around...not realizing that people would take my comment seriously, and think that I really believed that the man killed a dinosaur. I mean come on, really? So now my name is probably out there on a shamer's site somewhere "this person was outraged that he killed a fake dinosaur, how stupid!"
The point of the meme is that 'look how ridiculous all these things are getting, people will believe anything written on a picture on the internet' ... I don't think most of the people on facebook are posting it to be serious... they're posting it to be a joke.
The person who posted it actually admitted to believing it, so no, they were not trying to be sarcastic. That may have been the original purpose of the person who created it, but the sarcasm was not effective enough to carry through.
So IF that is fake, when will Halloween be this YEAR.??
Oh.....the 31st AGAIN?
So then, what day of the week is Thanksgiving this year and how will that affect Black Friday?
What's wrong with everyone? Wouldn't you all love to have Halloween twice a year,sounds like the 13th is "Open".
(Said by someone who has been celebrating "Halloween" every night for these past 28 years! )
Ravens Grin Inn--Mount Carroll,Ill.
(Insert evil laugh ~here! )
Gym,
That's fine for you, you're setup 365/366 days a year, just sitting there waiting for your guests to appear, the rest of us are working up until the last moment to finish, YOU can't move Halloween earlier!!!
(still using sarcasm)
I thought it was hilarious! Pretty certain this was made as a joke to poke fun at those other types of posts....maybe some of you folks thinking people posting this are dumb maybe need to get a sense of humor instead lol
I'm sure a lot of people who are sharing it get the joke. But I'm also sure there's a lot of people who are sharing it who didn't read it (I'm guilty of this sometimes with longer articles..."I don't like Elvis, but my friend does so I'll share it with them in case they find it interesting." ...often only after reading the first paragraph or so.
I read an article a while back that went on about how shares are no guarantee that the article was ever read by the sharer. A huge proportion of shares are just shared blindly.
The other thing is the general attention span has dropped SO far that people aren't even reading full headlines. They see something like this, recognize the format and then bail halfway through making assumptions about the rest.
There was a bit on Mystery Science Theatre years ago that I alway remember where Joel said, "If you're like me, and I know I am..." And it SOUNDED like it made sense because it was just said in a way that sounded familiar.
I saw this one the other day. Probably my favourite so far. (From the Star Wars: Episode 7 Facebook page)
Personally, I thought it was funny as heck. What really wants to make me laugh is the thought of somebody standing around a water cooler/coffee room in some office somewhere telling his shocked and pie-eyed co-workers that the world is about to end because Halloween is on Friday the 13th for the first time in 666 years!!! Six six six! The sign of the beast!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
And you know that is happening somewhere right now.
I tried to be as kind as possible with my correction in the comments. I didn't want to be mean, although other people certainly were very mean in their response. But seriously!