There are often stories circulating on the web that make you think "that can't be real'. The story below is one of those stories that is still making its rounds! What did you think when you initially saw similar headlines? What are some other stories similar to this that have trended on social media? Find a story (real or hoax) that seems too far fetched to be true. Paste the link and describe the story!
http://www.business2community.com/social-buzz/iphone-6-contaminated-with-ebola-virus-hoax-goes-viral-on-facebook-01016045
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-stagnant-despite-huge-iphone-sales--sears-slumps--tekmira-pops-163144093.html
I recently came across an article link on Facebook that stated that the drinking age in the United States would be raised to 25 instead of 21. The article said that 21 was too young in the eyes of most people. This article was fake and came from a website in which you can fake an ABC news article. I think that 21 is too old and personally I think the drinking age should be 18 or 19. 25 would be way too unreasonable.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/drinkingage.asp
There are many websites out there just like this and are completely uncalled for. I don't get why people have to make up stuff like this just to get people going and worrying about everything.
ReplyDeletehttp://mashable.com/2013/12/17/social-media-hoaxes-2013/#gallery/9-hoaxes-you-fell-for-in-2013/52b16e0897b2f81a96002e5f
Manti Teo of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish told the media that his girlfriend was killed in a car accident in 2013. After everyone believed him, it turned out to be a lie the whole time. After all of this happened, people began to make fun of him and his "dead" girlfriend. He did end up making it to the NFL and is now playing for the San Diego Chargers.
I hadn't seen any other headlines that said that the iPhone had Ebola. My first thought is how could a piece of technology have the Ebola virus?
ReplyDeleteI found a website that has six different hoaxes but I'm only going to talk about a few. The first says that selfies are the cause of a massive lice outbreak. The first news story was saying that teenagers putting their heads next to each other was passing on lice. But when the website asked a real doctor, the doctor said there was no increase in head lice. The last one was about many new stories that said Lebron James is making a "Space Jam 2", but there is not actually going to be one.
(There is profanitiy on the website)
http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/6-clearly-fake-news-stories-that-fooled-media-part-16/
I think this is weirdly outrageous. Thousands of people are signing their names to leave their families, friends, jobs to go on a one way ticket to mars. There isn't even a guarentee that they'll make it there and survive. Some people are such dare devils that they would love to die on a expedition like this and feel remembered. I on the other hand, am very content with my family and friends back in Canada. I just don't understand why theyre making it a one way trip, if you can do it once, can't you do it again?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.space.com/22616-mars-one-martian-colony-volunteers.html
I initially thought that this article was ridiculous. There is another story that comes to my mind when I hear about this one. There was a widespread rumor going around, about the of April of this year, stating that putting Burt's Beeswax lip balm on your eye lids would get you high.People reportedly stated that it enhanced their feeling of being drunk or high. Although, stupid in every way, I think that this is believable to a certain point, simply because this is happening with other common, everyday, items. For example, nutmeg, and or, cough syrup.
ReplyDeletehttp://gawker.com/teens-supposedly-get-high-by-putting-burts-bees-on-thei-1567027933
DeleteWhile I was scrolling through my facebook feed I stumbled over a survey that indicated I could receive free make-up. The survey wanted you to give your personal information to them. Everyone has filled theses out, but has anyone ever got anything? The advertisement for this survey is fake because even if you do fill out the survey you'll never know if they are actually going to be sending your free make-up that you deserve for taking five-ten minutes out of your day.
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When I was searching Hoaxes online I came across one that was pretty comical. When the new ios8 was launched for apple iPhones, the hoax hit twitter. People stated that with the new download you can charge your phone by placing it in the microwave. How people actually believed this is absolutely crazy. This is not the first time a wave hoax like this has happened. When the ios7 came out, they word on twitter was that it was water proof, and yes people actually tried and ruined the phone. These hoaxes are crazy to think possible and blows my mind how anyone could fall for one, but the link below proves I am speaking the truth.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-wave-microwave-charge-hoax-hits-twitter-after-ios8-launch/story-e6frfrnr-1227066810582
http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/11/19/space-jam-2-lebron-james-sequel-michael-jordan/
ReplyDeleteApparently there is a hoax going around that LeBron James is going to be starring in a new space jam. This is so not true! He has no recollection of starring in any movie, I am sure he'd like to but what everyone keeps saying is false. There will be no Space Jam 2, but I do think it would be funny to see what Michael Jordan thinks about it!
i saw a article that was talking about water on Mars. So NASA think that there was living life on Mars because think that they found water on Mars.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.space.com/17048-water-on-mars.html
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/drinkingage.asp
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was how could a phone have Ebola? Seeing this headline I felt confused because I never seen a headline including a phone and Ebola in the same sentence. Back at home my father always was telling me that the new drinking age would be changed to being 25 years old. My brother and brother always spoke about 25 is too old of an age to be able to start drinking. I feel once you hit college you should be able to make your own decisions on being able to drink and not having to worry about being a certain age. My father claims 21 is to young to be drinking.
When I saw the similar heading, I looked a lot like the real one but I could see how people could believe it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/6-clearly-fake-news-stories-that-fooled-media-part-16
In the article, there was a hoax on how the United States Armed Forces will return to Pre World War II build up. It was all due to the tax cuts proposed by the Obama administration would result in the smallest army since just before the world war II buildup. Fox news and some other news broadcaster relayed the hoax from the New York Times.
i had never heard about the hoax before. some of these links that the people posted is on facebook. these headlines say some crazy things.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.business2community.com/social-buzz/iphone-6-contaminated-with-ebola-virus-hoax-goes-viral-on-facebook-01016045
what this article is saying this that the people who had bought iphone who came down with Ebola.
I know I have witnessed a lot of hoax' but the only one I can really remember was when lil wayne was supposedly dead.
ReplyDeletehttp://chronicle.su/2011/12/lil-wayne-dead-at-29/
A myth that has been around some time, is that humans use 10% of their brain. More than ever the myth become real for many viewers, after the movie “Lucy” being released on July 2014. The fictional idea that we don’t use ~100% has been quite entertaining, as I observed the mythical belief spread in such a manner, even after much has been released to prove the belief a hoax.
ReplyDeleteScience speaks quite loud today, through the technical resources we have, to analyze and observe the brain's activity with a PET scan (positron emission tomography) and the FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), just to name the main ones. Thus, little is needed to see the brain activity when studying, calculating, talking, and even sleeping. However, it is understandable to have the myth mixed based on such a complex matter like the brain and its functions.
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_ten-percent_myth/
https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html
When I initially saw the headlines about Ebola in IPhone 6's, I thought that to myself, in a scientifically perspective that a virus needs a live host to survive so straight away I knew this was a hoax. In the IPhone, there is no live host, just a lot of electrical wires and glass. A similar headline is Giant Camel Spiders in Iraq 2004. I initially thought that this type of animal was real because it certainly looks real from the American soldier holding it. This story was floating around through emails and I even received this email in Australia. I remember this hoax because it scared me a little bit.
ReplyDeletehttp://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dogs/ss/Worlds-Biggest-Dog.htm
This article is about a dog that is as big as a horse. Obviously my thoughts were this was fake because it would not be physically possible for this dog to live.
I haven't heard about the ebola virus hoax, that is so crazy how people believe that. I found an article about a young girl that is a ghost who supposedly got caught on a picture with a deer. It says how scared the owner is now. The image is from an app where you can take a picture and put a ghost in it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hoax-slayer.com/little-girl-ghost-deer-cam.shtml
When I saw the ebola iphone story I thought it was the biggest joke I had ever heard. I found an article about Michael phelps on the onion about how he died by drowning doing laps in a pool. I instantly knew this was not real. Hes an Olympian.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theonion.com/articles/phelps-drowns,29059/
When I read headlines like this I feel embarrassed. When I see these stupid hoaxy headlines I feel embarrassed for the news group who made it and the dumb people who actually believe it. Sadly most of the stories that trend on social media that are straight hoaxes are just pranks people are trying to play on each other like, 'the lead actor of the Walking dead has died'. BUt the dumbest one I ever saw was this: http://www.newsweek.com/ebola-zombie-comes-back-life-minues-cremation-275149.
ReplyDeleteThey thought he was dead but he wasnt so when he moved that means he was dead but came back as a zombie.