Can Like or Share on Facebook save someone's life?

Not even Mark Zuckerberg thought that his revolutionary creation, universally known as Facebook will go beyond socializing. Way beyond. So much, that these days Facebook has become an important tool for saving lives and donating a dollar to the needy!

Bitch please, if doing good was as easy as clicking like/share or if saving life was as comfortable as sitting on your butt and pushing buttons then we wouldn't need politicians or government bodies, would we? Researchers of Cambridge University say that if you prefix 'researchers say...' at any sentence people will blindly believe you most of the time. Like you just did. Sadly we have become so addicted to comfort and spoon feeding that we don't mind eating sugar coated bullshit as long as it satisfies our appetite. Making things worse the tool called Facebook is so popularly used to defame/harass/bother someone that people these days trust any source which might be bogus, but hey who cares!? Well I do, and there are many people like me who actually do. 

Let's look at the types of hoaxes you come across your social media on daily basis, and you choose to ignore or bypass it with a click of like or share. Beware that such hoaxes can be found in your mail inbox too which you're asked to forward to your contacts. But here we will concentrate only on the Facebook hoaxes.


1. Baby affected with cancer or tumor:

These are the most common kind of hoaxes we come across on Facebook. A disturbing image of a suffering baby is put up to gain sympathy. The actual story is however completely different. These kind of posts are created for no reasons but to collect as many likes and shares as they can. Such people are labeled as likewhores, which is totally appropriate if you ask me. This vile activity is carried forward, without actual knowledge of situation and idiocracy of several community pages on Facebook. 

The picture on the left is of baby Isabel, who suffered from rare sarcoma tumor which was removed on April 2012. I have been also told by some people, what is the harm for liking or sharing even if it is fake. Well imagine your own baby suffering from such condition which, after long and ever haunting procedure is finally treated. And after months you come across your baby's image on your Facebook wall. It causes trauma and mental stress to the family members, and since liking or sharing such images doesn't do any help whatsoever with the treatment or recovery of the affected, helping the likewhores doesn't do any help.

2. Birds die from eating discarded gum:

Someone wisely said, Google before you Tweet is the new Think before you Speak. Apply the same principle here. Can birds really die from eating gums? Do birds really directly swallow a bread directly, just like that? Well they don't.

As an expert from Lake Tobias Wildlife Park said "It is unlikely that they would even try to eat it, they might peck at it once or twice but realize it is not something they don't want to eat. We've never had a bird die from eating gum." Another expert at ZooAmerica from Hershey said "Chewing gum, in and of itself, is not and would not be a fatal substance for a bird to ingest and may draw some birds interest. However, there are many variables, and we know better than to say anything could never happen. It is conceivable that a very small bird could attempt to eat a very large piece of gum. Obviously anything that might be large enough to lodge in an airway, be it bird or human, can be a problem."

Also, the image of the dead tiny bird (from another source) is said to be died by getting hit by a car. So from now on I think you would just use a bit of your brain and more of the technology, rather than spreading rumors. 

3. Little girl with huge belly (Facebook will donate $1 for each like/share)

For obvious reasons I chose not to attach the picture here. But the fact again remains the same. If Facebook wanted to donate or do charity, it won't chose such alternatives. Moreover it is highly unlikely that  certain picture or status is tracked for likes/shares with intention to calculate the amount for donation. 

The photograph used in this hoax is of a young girl from china named Hu Yunxing. She was suffering from Budd-Chiari Syndrome which caused the condition. Reports state that Hu Yunxing had gone through surgery  on February 2011, and her belly's circumference was reduced from 108 cm to 40 cm. The image of the child was used by like-whores for vile intention of getting like/share on their post, without the permission of the child's parents. Beware that, circulating or entertaining such posts will not do any good but instead add success to such sickopaths who use such means to get attention. 

I rest my case here. 

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