Recently a hoax post was rapidly being shared by Facebook users with regard to “protecting their privacy rights” and this has not happened for the first time as in past too, millions of ignorant people have copied and pasted a long declaration with regard to the protection of private content on their timeline.
Needless to say, this all proves just one thing that they have fallen prey to an annual viral hoax and nothing else. For avoiding it from spreading this year as well, John Oliver of Last Week Tonight has shared a video especially for Facebook users for dismissing the hoax and disclosing how they can actually save their photos, posts and other contents.
John Oliver observed that such hoax posts are not very accurate as far as English grammar is concerned and have spelling mistakes too but despite that, people do share them without contemplating or making a research.
Naturally they grab the attention of users for sentences which sound lawful such as “I do declare the following” but Oliver has warned users not to become a victim of these, “Let me stop you right there, and this is important. Just because you say something in the voice of a Southern debutante does not make it legally binding.”
And a big mistake in the latest hoax is “Rome Statue” instead of “Rome Statute” which established International Criminal Court but users are simply great as they didn’t even care to read it correctly before copying and pasting on their feed.
As per John Oliver, “Posting that message will accomplish nothing, and that’s not because wall postings override terms of service agreements. Or that Facebook doesn’t own your content in the first place in the way the mainstream media would have you believe.” He further takes dig at users’ ridiculous tendency of copy and paste, “It’s because the only true way to protect your content on Facebook is to post this video. Yes, the one you are currently watching starring me John Oliver, as it is clearly stated in the Social Media Profile Copyright Act of 1934.”
Quite interestingly, Last Week Tonight video was liked by even Mark Zuckerberg himself.
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