https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 28 May 2026 10:13:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849412 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:08:12 +0000 mamimami 1849412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoyfulKiwi: yep , that's her! Her outrage because PSLs may not be vegan even if made with soy milk! Oh, the humanity!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849403 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:58:40 +0000 meganmp 1849403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My SIL's fiancé (then BF) posted a picture of a soldier in a turban driving a Humvee outside of their town, with the caption, "How ironic". I verbally punched him in the face and then blocked him... and now he's going to by my LOs' uncle. Sigh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849278 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:35:29 +0000 JoJoGirl 1849278@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: The funny thing is I was trying to be open-minded about their posts, links to studies, personal accounts, etc until this mess, and now i'm back to nope. You're all crazy. Thanks for confirming that because before I wasn't sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849265 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:28:58 +0000 Pirouette 1849265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: every internet site EXCEPT the one where they get their radical, unverifiable information, of course! that one is totally legit! :grin: sorry, i refuse to read any further into your vaccine conspiracy once i see Wakefield's name mentioned. I just shake my head and move on with my life...ain't nobody got time for that nonsense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849247 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:12:20 +0000 mrs. wagon 1849247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't even read this thread guys... the facebook misinformation makes me too angry!! I very freely hide posts from people who do this too often and it's probably the only reason why I still check facebook at all.</p> <p>@namaste: I friggin love The Onion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849238 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:08:23 +0000 namaste 1849238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always love reading this site:<br /> <a href="http://literallyunbelievable.org/" rel="nofollow">http://literallyunbelievable.org/</a></p> <p>It's all about posts people share on their FB from The Onion which is clearly satire. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation/page/2#post-1849232 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:03:21 +0000 JoJoGirl 1849232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pirouette: Uuuuggghh yes i see this in my feed too. Except they have a long string of reasons why the people who run Snopes are controlled by "big pHARMA" - yes, every internet site and every government agency (in the world) is run by a pharma company. I get it Snopes is not the be-all end-all of what is truth, but I'm pretty sure they aren't in on the conspiracy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849229 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:02:01 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1849229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamimami: @mrs. wagon: Is she the one who posted about Starbucks Pumpkin Spice coffee? Because yes! She is what made me cross my FB commenting line with a cousin. I had my cousin hidden for a long time (but un-hid her because she may be pregnant soon and it'll be hell if I miss "liking" that, gag me). Anyway my cousin posted the link about whats "really" in Starbucks, which my cousin said she doesn't even drink when she posted it, and I couldn't help it. That foodbabe is nuts - who actually thinks Starbucks drinks are good for you?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849151 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:56:54 +0000 Pirouette 1849151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i almost posted a snopes link last week in response to someone posting a link to that CDC/vaccine/autism story and then decided it was best not to get involved at all. The person tagged everyone he knew that vaccinated their kids saying "you were duped! it was all a cover up - vaccines cause autism!" sigh...</p> <p>off to google Food Babe! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849148 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:54:26 +0000 MediaNaranja 1849148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Emsmems: @loki: Yup, that's pretty much exactly how it went! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849143 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:51:38 +0000 loki 1849143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Emsmems: i kinda got into it with a lady at work. and i said "i felt THE EXACT SAME WAY... until i read this article. it's a must read". i doubt she ever read it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849135 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:48:28 +0000 Emsmems 1849135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: ugh, I unintentionally started stuff with that article too! It started with a "I can't imagine how anyone could ever FORGET THEIR OWN CHILD" so I posted that article as a "it really can happen to anyone, read this very well done article" and it created more "I would never do that, you must be stupid to do that" comments. And I just want to say "did you even READ the article?!?" But most didn't. And I didn't want to go around in circles. So annoying. But such a good article! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849125 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:44:14 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1849125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: ha ha, really? I was fooled. I switched from burgers to old, sick nuggets at Mikey Ds.</p> <p>@.twist.: ham is what's for dinner :happy: </p> <p>@mamimami: she's investigating so you won't have too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849095 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:28:07 +0000 My Only Sunshine 1849095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loki: Exactly! Just a totally clueless dude. His only defense is that he isn't married and has no children. I pity his poor future wife when she's having morning sickness and he's trying to shove 6 cups of spinach down her throat every day instead of one of those scandalous prenatal vitamins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849087 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:25:49 +0000 fairy 1849087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That photo that always floats around of a supposed "12 month old fetus" that is not at all 12 weeks old it is a fully developed baby, that one pisses me off because it is so misleading. And all the ones where people are spreading misinformation about BS things curing/causing cancer like eating blueberries or whatever. SO annoying because so many people don't bother to check whether or not things are true and just keep spreading the nonsense. I like to post "if it sounds unbelievable, that is because it probably isn't true" so sick of the political lies or conspiracy theories too.. I usually end up removing them or unsubscribing unless it is someone who I am close to that I KNOW is too smart to be posting nonsense.</p> <p>Also had a friend who was way into conspiracy theories who was saying that she wasn't going to feed her infant formula anymore because it is poison and was just going to give him cow's milk even though he was only 6 months old..</p> <p>And the ones who talk trash about women on welfare/WIC WHILE THEY ARE PICKING UP THEIR WIC CHECKS.. as if somehow they are superior to everyone else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849063 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:14:05 +0000 mamimami 1849063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Really hoping you are no relation, for all of our sakes! LOL! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849061 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:13:57 +0000 loki 1849061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: HA! it's a dude!?!?!?! ya i'm 8 weeks, let me go indulge in 6 cups of spinach right now... totally what i'm craving!!!!!! :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849054 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:11:55 +0000 Anagram 1849054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That whole McDonald's Pink Slime FB post that was making the rounds in 2012. Ugh. I'm not a huge McDonald's fan or anything but even 2 seconds of googling will tell you all of that Pink Slime stuff was false. Including the infamous picture. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849044 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:08:20 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1849044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shutterbug: I tried linking to Snopes after a family member shared something ridiculous. Her response was "you don't know who runs snopes. It's probably the government." Now I unfriend people who post only propaganda. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849042 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:07:01 +0000 My Only Sunshine 1849042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a FB friend who posted a rant last year about how people are too reliant on vitamins and how pregnant women wouldn't need to take prenatal vitamins if they would just eat healthier. He even said something like "Instead of taking a prenatal vitamin for folic acid, pregnant women should get their nutrients naturally by eating six cups of spinach every day."</p> <p>At that point I was so deep in first trimester nausea that I was pretty much only consuming saltines, plain bagels, and water so he was quickly unfriended. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849041 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:06:29 +0000 yoursilverlining 1849041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: Awful, right? Even if that had actually been a picture of Michael Brown; it doesn’t change the circumstances around his murder; but it’s not even him! Despicable attempt to victim-smear. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849034 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:04:08 +0000 Foodnerd81 1849034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamimami: @mrs. wagon: I've never heard of foodbabe and at first I was like, omg are they talking about ME? Lol. </p> <p>I have several people whose posts I block because it annoys me too much. And one friend who does post a lot of the fb urban legends but is quick to admit it was a hoax if some one else posts the snopes link (not that she is trying to hoax, just that she is glad she was wrong). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849026 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:00:48 +0000 mamimami 1849026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: She shares wisdom like, "Did you know when you order pizza the sauce probably comes from cans and therefore has BPA and also they use flour which we all know is DEADLY?" "I am INVESTIGATING all this for you since you probably thought pizza from Domino's was really healthy?" She irks me to no end. I just looked at her site and it shows her with a magnifying glass. Investigating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849018 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:57:58 +0000 loki 1849018@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i deleted a girl on fb recently and she is apparently furious about it... i have to see her at an upcoming baby shower and i'm dreading it.<br /> but she was posting the most obnoxious, inflammatory things... anti-epidural, anti-c section, anti-hospital births, anti-OBGyns. and it was so judgemental and awful. she would literally post things about how awful epidurals are and finish it off with the hashtag: #realwomen. UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... no. that was the final straw for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1849007 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:49:52 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 1849007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was an article going around about a "proud welfare queen" who was supposedly from my hometown who called into a radio station. Turns out it was a hoax by some ultra-conservative group trying to get evdryone riled up, but tons of people kept reposting the original article and commenting about "those people on welfare." I kept posting the link to the article that reported it was a hoax. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1848992 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:40:44 +0000 hotchildinthecity 1848992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've had to delete a couple of "friends"/family due to extreme anti-abortion posts. One in particular still annoys me to this day when I think about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1848990 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:39:17 +0000 Shutterbug 1848990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh the other thing that drives me crazy - when people post The Onion or Daily Currant articles as if they aren't satire. Come on! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1848981 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:32:25 +0000 Shutterbug 1848981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: haha snopes is great. They investigate all the urban legends, FB myths, etc and post concise summaries with all the facts. So for example, someone says "OMG don't eat cup-a-noodles, there's wax in the containers and they'll kill you!" and I google "Snopes cup-a-noodles" and get this: <a href="http://snopes.com/food/warnings/noodles.asp" rel="nofollow">http://snopes.com/food/warnings/noodles.asp</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1848978 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:31:43 +0000 sorrycharlie 1848978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shutterbug: hahaha I do the same. totally passive aggressive but it saves me the energy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/facebook-misinformation#post-1848977 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:31:34 +0000 Arden 1848977@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: what the.... I hadn't heard of this one. Ugh. </p>