re: #227 Timothy Watson

I have a Facebook account but haven’t logged into in probably six months. I have one family member who wonders why none of her friends can’t figure out to Google snopes.com and find out if the crap they’re posting constantly has a shred of truth in it.

I supplied snopes links a few times to FB friends posting crap that was easily rebutted as being fake or massively exaggerated.

A few removed their original links - one even with a comment about being wrong and acting more carefully in the future. Others just kept it up and were eventually ignored or de-friend-ed.

One dug deeper and tried to claim that snopes was some sort of liberal smear site - or crap along those lines. He got “point and laugh” treatment from enough of us that he de-friend-ed us. No loss there since it saved me the effort.

This was mainly acquaintances from college - fraternity brothers from the most part and a lot of them engineers. The derp seems to take hold there quickly and grows well.