Let’s Pray, Type Amen, and Please Share

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04/28/2015 – Manila | These words are always popping-up in our Facebook news feeds and walls with accompanying horrific images of accidents, deaths, disabilities, illness, and the like.

The first impression when you see any of these words with a celebrity picture on it is that, you think something happened to that person.

This is not the case in here. Maja Salvador just went through a hard break-up with boyfriend Gerald Anderson but it does not mean she needs any sympathy from casual facebook users like she had been hit by a truck.

Facebook has repeatedly said before that posts like “Type Amen” with a picture of someone suffering or someone who just died is unethical, yet most people are still doing so. How annoying is that?

In recent news from Mail.ru, one of Facebook’s shareholders, the latter is suffering from steady decline due to useless posts like “type amen, please share and wait for god’s blessings, let’s pray for him/her, etc).

According to the source, people who posts words like these are mostly students with age from as younger as 10 to 20. “People of this age are not spenders so Facebook can’t benefit from them”, Jules Frost said. Frost is the director of Proweb Solutions, an Rhode Island company specializing on online business monitoring.

Regardless of religion, this is an example of post that makes no sense according to Frost

According to Mr. Frost, if Facebook will not step-up to stop these posts that eats a lot of bandwidth without beneficial results, Facebook will continue to lose the trust of business people.

Even the Philippine Government has recently voice-out its disappointment after a Taguig girl posted a horrific image of her neighbour who was fatally hit by a truck. The girl was arrested and charged with unspecified case.

“We can make Facebook a better place for conversation is nonsense posts and images like this is prohibited”, Frost concluded.

See Also: Harvard Study Finds 80.13% of Filipino Facebook Users Lacks Intelligence; 4.36% Lacks Etiquette

/Fanny Jalacjac/ Assisted Press Manila

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