Look what Facebook has become

By Vanessa Dante 

I don’t spend a lot of time on Facebook, but over they years I have noticed some rather silly and humorous behaviour that seems to be coming the norm there.  A lot of it has me scratching my head to be honest. I’m going to point some of these things out. I’m sure you’ve noticed them yourself.

Happy birthday dead celebrity!

I’m seeing it more and more, posts being made on feeds to wish a dead celebrity a happy birthday. Hello? Do you really think that dead celebrity is on Facebook, checking out whether anyone remembered his birthday? Come on! Really?

It’s Freddie Mercury’s Birthday. He’s 76 years old today!

Err, no. He’s NOT! He’s dead. He died over 30 years ago. You don’t keep having birthdays after you die. If anything we should be remembering the anniversary of his death day. Although we’d rather remember his life and the music he gave to us all, not his death. But that’s actually what you’re doing when you’re celebrating his so-called birthday. You’re reminding us that he’s dead and we will never here his wonderful voice singing any new songs, ever!

If you’re going to pay homage to a dead celebrity on his birthday, don’t wish him a happy birthday. Just pay homage to him!

I’m an expert on this topic!

More and more I’m seeing people claiming to be an expert on a topic and promoting something completely ludicrous about it.

“Snails have the ability to experience complex emotions!”

“Covid vaccines can cause you to turn gay!”

“Eating organic food causes autism!”

“Your gut feelings can be relied upon.”

Sure, this person may be an expert in his/her field, but that doesn’t mean what they are saying is true. There are promoting this stuff on Facebook because they can’t get their peers in the industry to take them seriously. On Facebook you can say any old crap. You don’t need it peer reviewed. You don’t need to prove it to your fellow experts.

People, pleeeeease, stop giving these idiots the time of day. If someone like that is telling you things that educated people don’t believe, then it’s probably not true! Make sure you see what other experts say about things before you believe some jackass who's trying to make a name for himself.

Magical thinking. I can do it!

Facebook is used by many people to express the trials and tribulations that are going on in their life. I’m fine with that. People need support and if they can get it through friends on Facebook then that’s great. But please people… your magical thinking and prayers aren’t going to work just because you’re typing something on Facebook! Positive thinking only works for those applying it. It doesn’t have any magical ability to affect anyone else’s life. And prayer only works in the mind of people who believe in it. But even then it requires people to take action.

Instead of being lazy and making wishes for people in need, how about getting off your butt and actually doing something constructive?

The rapture is happening really really really soon!

Sigh. Yeah, we’ve heard it all before. The bible prophecies are all lining up like never before. Of course they will when you put a spin on them to try to make them fit with current events. It’s been happening for 2000 years now.

Seriously, regularly making posts to everyone on Facebook warning them that the rapture is going to happen in the next few months isn’t going to make a difference. All it does is decrease your credibility when, once again, no rapture occurs. It makes you look stupid, not caring like you seem to think it does.