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Internet and it's problems

 
 
Seed
 
Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 02:09 pm
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CNN) -- Twitter and Facebook were buzzing Thursday morning with news that several airlines are flying doctors and nurses to Haiti free of charge to help with relief efforts there in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake. The only problem: The rumors are false, an American Airlines spokesman says "Last night's Twitter about American and JetBlue flying doctors and nurses to Haiti for free was-- a hoax. We don't know who is responsible, but it's a very low thing to do," airline spokesman Tim Smith said in e-mails sent Thursday. Twitter users also circulated a rumor...... See MoreUPS would ship for free any package under 50 lbs. to Haiti. In a blog post Wednesday on UPS's Web site, a spokeswoman debunked the rumor and said that destruction of Haiti's roads and communications networks "means our own shipping services to Haiti are on hold."
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djjd62
 
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Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 02:13 pm
i read that bush was the anti christ and that obama was a marxist, just like hitler?

you read all kinds of stuff when you use the googles on the internets
dyslexia
 
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Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 02:19 pm
@djjd62,
thanks for the info seed, and yeah djjd the internent is just like the bible.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 02:28 pm
@dyslexia,
The difference between the Bible and the interweb is you can get some nasty papercuts with a hardcopy of the Bible.
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 04:11 pm
@Seed,
The problem isn't the internet, it's gullible people who react to and spread rumors without validating them first.

Some of the "reports" on Glenn Beck's show are an example of the of the same phenomenon occurring off the internet.
Seed
 
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Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 04:19 pm
@Butrflynet,
Very true. Though it probably started out as a good thing. The person who started it probably thought that if enough people showed up asking about it, that the company would feel they needed to honor the fake postings.
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JTT
 
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Reply Fri 15 Jan, 2010 05:21 pm
@Seed,
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We don't know who is responsible, but it's a very low thing to do," airline spokesman Tim Smith said


Tim added, "We would never let ourselves get involved in a venture as despicable as that."
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