Facebook makes me hate

[Leonid Brozhnev]

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/430541_10151355492395346_814665345_22665097_478639 253_n.jpg

How much of this is bullshit? Given the lack of sources likely all of it, but I couldn't really care as my goals stem a little farther than benefit reform.

This was forwarded to me on Facebook by my own mother expecting me to be 'horrified'. Now, she's disabled and doped up on painkillers most of the time so she's susceptible to believing all kinds of crap, but what annoys so much is Facebooks ability to make me hate all those I know and have known for a long time.
It's funny how people will quickly pick up any garbage (e.g Kony) and just forward absent mindedly with an 'OMG this is terrible!' fucking pointless piece of overemotional text accompanying it without scrutinising it first for any ounce of credibility.

I especially like it when they come with cute comments like the one above...


Fuckin immigrant bastards, they all want shootin! Government is completley fucked up!


if we brought our troops home from these 'OIL wars we are fighting......... they could always defend our borders and no illegal immigrants would get in!!

Etc.

Since the riots last summer I've been avoiding Facebook like the fucking plague after my Facebook was spammed almost endlessly with 'Hang the chav scum' sort of comments, but I've been using it more regularly now due to Uni and I increasingly find myself getting pissed off at close friends over their general shitty attitudes towards the lower working-class and especially the unemployed (and to a smaller extent, students).

Question is, if I want to stop hating my own mother, how can I ask her to step away from the internet and cut off her own hands so she can never use it again... without cause offence?

Rhetorical question, I just needed to rant :bored:

[Libertador]

Facebook is a waste of time and it turns you into a product.

Two years post-deletion and going strong.

[bcbm]

started out as a hoax email in australia, eventually was adapted to other countries but is still bullshit (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uk-pensioners-asylum-seekers-protest.shtml)

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Thanks for that bcbm :lol:

@Libertador
I'll be getting rid of it as soon as I leave Uni or seeing how much group work there is next year. I need it currently for organising work groups and shit, if it wasn't for Uni I wouldn't even have a Facebook account, it was literary an requirement that I signed up to it to pass on of my modules in first year.

[Red Commissar]

started out as a hoax email in australia, eventually was adapted to other countries but is still bullshit (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uk-pensioners-asylum-seekers-protest.shtml)

Yup, it ended up in the States too using similar mentality (ie freeloading) claiming that 'tax-paying' rightful citizens were receiving less from the government in pensions than asylum seekers, who don't pay taxes and are freeloaders. Overlaps with the 'welfare' condemnations.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/refugees.asp

Even before the days of facebook, it was still possible to get this shit piled through your email inbox.

[ColonelCossack]

Facebook's almost as bad as youtube for right wing nutters. :cursing:

[brigadista]

all kind of wrong - here are the current asylum support rates

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylum/support/cashsupport/currentsupportamounts/
Qualifying couple (married or in a civil partnership): £72.52
Lone parent aged 18 or over: £43.94
Single person aged 18 or over, excluding lone parent: £36.62
Person aged at least 16, but under 18 (except a member of a qualifying couple): £39.80
Person aged under 16: £52.96.
The rate for a single person aged 25 or over (excluding lone parents), where the decision to grant support was made prior to 5 October 2009 and the person reached age 25 prior to that date, is £42.62. However, this rate will not be be offered to any new applicant applying for support after 5 October 2009.


f you are a woman who is pregnant or with children under three, you can receive extra money to help you buy healthy food.

A baby under the age of 12 months receives an extra £5 a week. Pregnant women and children aged between one and three years receive an extra £3 a week.


http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylum/support/cashsupport/extra/
If you are pregnant, you may be able to receive a £300 maternity payment, if you meet certain requirements. This money is to help you with the costs of having the baby. You can receive it only once.

You must apply for the maternity payment very close to the time when the baby is born. This must be 8 weeks (or less) before the baby is due to be born, or within 6 weeks after the birth. :

[Agent Ducky]

:blink: and I thought America was the only one freaking out about illegal immigrants...

[bcbm]

no its a big 'problem' in europe, australia as well as in many south american countries. probably others as well, basically places like america, europe, us are (or were, before the recession) places where people wanted to get and every country along the route to those countries saw increased immigration as well as people decided to just stay there, or were just headed there because it was slightly better than their own country. humans following capital's dictates while being fought tooth and nail by its enforcers.