How many
times did you receive messages from social media networks: Facebook, Twitter,
MySpace, offering to share shocking pictures and videos involving VIPs,
unbelievable prizes or unique features?
Most of
them can be easily classified as hoaxes or scams, spreading viruses, spyware, rootkits
or any kind of malware. But one of the most unacceptable scams are the ones
involving photos of disabled or ill children that seek our help. Facebook is
supposed to offer a sum of money every time we share these pictures to other
people.
Few meditate about this aspect, reaching the
conclusion that nobody donates money to these poor children. More than this,
they are disturbing for the parents, relatives, friends of these children. Unfortunately,
some of these children already passed away years ago, but their pictures still
produce a lot of sufferance to their parents.
A number of
sites want to raise awareness about this matter: Hoax Slayer, Facecrooks, Thatsnosense,
Facebookprivacyandsecurity, not only educating the public about the way to
receive these hoaxes, but also pressuring Facebook to take action against these
hoaxes.
The social
media giant is well-known for his slow response in taking down the hoax pages
and pictures. Another problem a lot of people complain about Facebook is the
fact that the older storage systems owned by the social network makes impossible
for people to delete Facebook photos , the others being able to access their removed pictures just typing their old URLs.
