I doubt anyone here believed it. The rest of the Internet? All bets are off. Look at how many Buzzfeedy hoaxes get passed around like wildfire on Facebook, wee

I doubt anyone here believed it. The rest of the Internet? All bets are off. Look at how many Buzzfeedy hoaxes get passed around like wildfire on Facebook, week after week, often by the same people in your circle. Some people -- and by "some," I mean a disappointingly large proportion of people -- don't think critically about what they encounter on the web. For them, it's not about the article. It's about the headline, and how the headline makes them feel about themselves, about the world, or about their friends. By the time they see a catchy or feel-good headline, they're already racing out to share it with everybody. If they actually get around to reading the article attached to the headline, the reading is incidental.