I know that 97% of you won't broadcast this, but my friends will be the 3% that do. In honor of someone who died, or is fighting cancer, or even had cancer, copy and paste. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.π"On and off you see spams like the above being posted on FB. A friend of my friend posted the above and I felt strongly that I should respond. That message was deleted later. But when I search FB for the first four words of the message, there are plenty of people ignorantly posted it in their profile the exact same message as above.
What make such spams work? It started with "I deleted some so called friends". It then followed by "I am watching the one..." then "my friends will be the 3% that do". It is a typical threat built on fear. The message threatened the 97% who are not "friends'.because they don't. 3% of them naturally just do it with out thinking which is contrary to the message.
Most friends will then be obliged to "do". It has nothing to do whether they "read" or not. The instruction is "Like" then "copy and paste."
The message ended with "in honor of ... Cancer Awareness Month". in between "copy and paste" appears again. Just ask yourself. Do you threaten to remove your friends to promote Cancer Awareness?
By "copy and paste", it promotes the same idea to others thus forming a sort of chain mail scam. Look carefully, what is the instruction for "copy and paste". The first mention says "this text". The second mention simply says "copy and paste". Again the "reading" is meaningless as it does not specifically mention which sentence is important and should be "copied and paste". It end up people just copy the whole thing thereby continuing the chain mail spam. The Cancer Awareness Month is a real event but is used to validate the spam.
There are plenty of FB spams and plenty of ignorant people who just follow even though the message is as confusing as the above.
It is ironic that the message actually says "who read and who shares without reading'.
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