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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPeople Are Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search
FB's glistening new search engine makes finding interesting things about yourself, your past, and all of your friends excitingly easy. It also makes it a cinch to find strangers who are openly racist, sexist, and generally embarrassing. This is fun!
http://gizmodo.com/5976328/these-people-are-now-sharing-horrible-things-about-themselves-thanks-to-facebook-search
mzteris
(16,232 posts)I think that first group just can't spell.. I think they meant rapping. Most of them anyway. At least, I hope that's all it is.
The other ones, well, we know who to avoid at least.
Not sure about the sexism one, either, tho.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)but the FB search doesn't seem to provide any context.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I'm glad that when I was a teenager, there was no such thing as Facebook or these other social media because I have no doubt that someone would have made a "joke" page with my name, picture, and bogus information on it.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)for just plain ol' "sex"
tblue
(16,350 posts)Oy! Who would say they like Raping???
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)SEMOVoter
(202 posts)A lot of people will court controversy for attention. If we ignore them, only the true believers will remain. I suspect they will be a smaller group.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)I know that my teenagers and their friends put all sorts of ridiculous and outrageous stuff in their profiles. It causes parents to eye-roll, but that's about it.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Is that it is an immediate like for any article even relating to that subject.
So if they liked something negative said about the KKK, it could make it look like they like the subject.
So glad I don't have FB.