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Including this link on HN and a few friends on facebook linking to the same article, I've seen five people talking about this hoax. And zero people actually sp

by IvyMike 12y ago

Including this link on HN and a few friends on facebook linking to the same article, I've seen five people talking about this hoax. And zero people actually spreading the hoax. Is this a hoax hoax?

JamyDev 12y ago
It passed Belgium a few weeks ago, it's actually pretty interesting how it moves through the network :P
- Fuzzwah 12y ago
  Saw it this week from an Australian friend. It went through a few of the same circle a year or so back too.
Falling3 12y ago
I see people being taken by the actual hoax weekly. Maybe your friends just have better critical thinking skills than mine.
aroberge 12y ago
I see variations of this, in French and English, every 3 or 4 months or so appearing on some friends posts. Every time, I point out that it is a hoax ... and it doesn't prevent some people from reposting it again some months later. I guess it depends to some extent on how tech-savyy your friends are.
msisk6 12y ago
My Facebook feed is mostly non-technical friends and family and I see someone seriously posting the hoax disclaimer weekly.
mikeash 12y ago
I wish. I have a fair number of Facebook friends who fall for chemtrails, anti-vaccine propaganda, various wacky alternative medicine, etc. (they have good qualities too!) and this shows up with some regularity among them.
jonlucc 12y ago
I saw it posted today. Another friend commented, "you know this isn't real, right?". He responded "Meh. It doesn't hurt anything".
- bradleysmith 12y ago
  I am reminded of Slavoj Zizek's story about Niels Bohr having a horseshoe above his door: "surprised at seeing a horseshoe above the door of Bohr's country house, the fellow scientist visiting him exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief regarding horseshoes keeping evil spirits out of the house, to which Bohr snapped back: "I don't believe in it either. I have it there because I was told that it works even when one doesn't believe in it at all." This is indeed how ideology functions today: nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in them."[0] [0]-http://brooklynbooktalk.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-ideology-stupid.html http://brooklynbooktalk.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-ideology-st...

by IvyMike 12y ago

Including this link on HN and a few friends on facebook linking to the same article, I've seen five people talking about this hoax. And zero people actually spreading the hoax. Is this a hoax hoax?

JamyDev 12y ago

It passed Belgium a few weeks ago, it's actually pretty interesting how it moves through the network :P

Fuzzwah 12y ago
Saw it this week from an Australian friend. It went through a few of the same circle a year or so back too.

Falling3 12y ago

I see people being taken by the actual hoax weekly. Maybe your friends just have better critical thinking skills than mine.

aroberge 12y ago

I see variations of this, in French and English, every 3 or 4 months or so appearing on some friends posts. Every time, I point out that it is a hoax ... and it doesn't prevent some people from reposting it again some months later. I guess it depends to some extent on how tech-savyy your friends are.

msisk6 12y ago

My Facebook feed is mostly non-technical friends and family and I see someone seriously posting the hoax disclaimer weekly.

mikeash 12y ago

I wish. I have a fair number of Facebook friends who fall for chemtrails, anti-vaccine propaganda, various wacky alternative medicine, etc. (they have good qualities too!) and this shows up with some regularity among them.

jonlucc 12y ago

I saw it posted today. Another friend commented, "you know this isn't real, right?". He responded "Meh. It doesn't hurt anything".

bradleysmith 12y ago
I am reminded of Slavoj Zizek's story about Niels Bohr having a horseshoe above his door: "surprised at seeing a horseshoe above the door of Bohr's country house, the fellow scientist visiting him exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief regarding horseshoes keeping evil spirits out of the house, to which Bohr snapped back: "I don't believe in it either. I have it there because I was told that it works even when one doesn't believe in it at all." This is indeed how ideology functions today: nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in them."[0] [0]-http://brooklynbooktalk.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-ideology-stupid.html http://brooklynbooktalk.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-ideology-st...