Watch out for the Decepticons!

Where is Optimus Prime when we need him?

Well, his real name is Mark Zuckerburg, the leader of the largest FAKE news organization on the planet!

Only he is not Optimus, he IS a Decepticon! He allows FaceBook to act like the Wild Wild West! No rules, no editorial board and no interest in maintaining law and order.

What FaceBook needs is a NEW marshal in town, someone to clean up the streets and run the cattle rustlers and bank robbers out of town for good.

FAKE news on FACEBOOK has been happening since the 2nd day it was around. It probably started out with guys lying to their friends about who they slept with and as it moved into the mainstream, the lies got bolder and bolder!

And with the invention of the MEME...the perfect way for the uneducated and ill informed to post misinformation with just a mouse click, you have the same crowd believing its true and re-posting it.

If the Associated Press or Reuters made even a minor mistake in a story line it would immediately send out a correction or in some cases retract the story.  But with the internet, everything is permanent. Nothing ever goes away or stays deleted.

Just ask Hillary!  

And that's not the worst of it.....once it has been shared, its is now forever spinning around on the inter-webs for eternity.

Sadly,  when self proclaimed local sheriffs, (like myself), try and research the issue and make a local correction,  thinking that the towns people would appreciate the fact, many people have decided that if it FEELS true than that's all that matters!

Then when you think things couldn't get any worse, we elect the biggest Decepticon of all time as President and now he puts a voice to the FAKE news of the day and an entire generation of the uninformed say I told you so!

Conspiracy theories run rampant, LIES become truth, Up is down and black is white and people just stop caring.....as long as my friend sees my pictures of food and grandchildren, its all good.

The saddest part of all of this is, FaceBook thinks it has had nothing to do with electing Trump as President.

In reality, its role was giving a voice to those who otherwise would have remained in the shadows. And as each lie was touted as NEWS and left unchecked,  it compounded itself as it spun around the inter-webs until no one can distinguish fact from fiction.

Between Hillary being a crook and Obama is taking away our guns, to children dying in ambulances being blocked by protestors, if you want to believe it can happen then just Create a MEME that says it and share it with your friends.

I remember reading Animal Farm by George Orwell back in 8th grade. It told this story almost to a tee, but instead of FaceBook, the animals only had a barn wall and a can of whitewash. 

There is no whitewash for FaceBook.

So Mark, here is a simple solution:  every-time you log onto FaceBook it should have a warning page....

ATTENTION,

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ... The FaceBook Zone.