Skip to content Just recently, word about your private photos, videos, and even messages will come out as a public post has spread all across Facebook in almost all regions of our planet. Many people believed it and so, they clung on to the chain where they posted a status that would save them and their profiles for this information and privacy leakage. Just a few days ago, we learned that this story is a hoax and that it shouldn’t be followed. But how do we identify if a certain story is a hoax? How do we tell if something is fake?
More than half of the youth first learn about something in Facebook. It has become their source where they know what’s happening in and around the globe. They choose this rather than to know current events from the television, the radio, and the newspaper according to a recent study.
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This popularity made people joyous that they can relay beneficial information to people without having the fear that they might get rejected or that they have an open pool of readers and listeners. It did attract cybercriminals and not-so-good people as well. Facebook Hoaxes had its boom last year and it is not showing signs of slowing down until now. Here are a few ways on identifying a post in Facebook if it is true or not.
Their goal is to get shares
If a Facebook post is telling you to share something in particular before you even read it, back off and consider it a hoax. No real news wants to get popular before informing the people; no website wants this. If what they want are clicks, shares, likes, and even reactions – you can definitely conclude that this is not the real deal.