{"id":647009,"date":"2013-03-15T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=221066"},"modified":"2013-03-15T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:48:57","slug":"no-youre-not-saving-starving-children-by-sharing-that-facebook-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647009","title":{"rendered":"No, You\u2019re Not Saving Starving Children by Sharing That Facebook Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook is not, nor will they ever be in the business of donating money to causes based on sharing content on the site. This is a fact, not a theory. But some people still fail to understand this. Even people who know that it’s probably a scam will sometimes share the status or photo anyway, simply using the “what could it hurt” excuse.<\/p>\n

And this is how viral scams are spread. If people simply stopped sharing content from like and share-whores, the problem would work itself out.<\/p>\n

Sadly, this is probably not going to happen any time soon. That’s why we have to bring to your attention the latest hoax spreading across Facebook. <\/p>\n

This one purports that Facebook is donating $1 to sick, starving children if you share a photo of them. This is simply not true.<\/p>\n

“I’m not asking you to like this, but please do share because Facebook donates $1 for these sick children for every single share,” says the image (via Hoax Slaye<\/a>r).<\/p>\n

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Sharing hoaxes are some of the oldest types of hoaxes on Facebook. One recent hoax status suggested that a teenage boy needed life-saving surgery after being shot by his stepfather<\/a>. Of course, the story was complete BS and all that sharing it accomplished was polluting people’s news feed. But it was shared – a lot. <\/p>\n

Of course, sharing a status isn’t as tempting as sharing a photo. Last month, a scam spread around Facebook that featured a doctored photo of Bill Gates holding a sign that said he would give $5,000 to everyone who shared the photo<\/a>. The photo was shared hundreds of thousands of times before Facebook yanked it. <\/p>\n

Stop, think, and remember that Facebook doesn’t give out money based on shares. Nobody does. Just don’t click that share button.<\/p>\n

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Facebook is not, nor will they ever be in the business of donating money to causes based on sharing content on the site. This is a fact, not a theory. But some people still fail to understand this. Even people who know that it’s probably a scam will sometimes share the status or photo anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}