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Hi All,
If I could write a running news tag, I would warn others not to believe everything that they read online. Despite who is writing it, you just cannot 100% trust them. Make sure to vet everything yourself. For example, I myself have read two things online about me in the last year that totally floored me. Let's look closely at these two times so you can see what I mean.
- The first story was very funny. One day I was Googling some friends from my past. You know how you look up folks that you went to high school with, right? Just wanted to see how they are doing now. Surely, I am not the only one who has done this. Well anyway, I put in one of my best friend's name and was so saddened to find out that her father had past away. I clicked on his obituary and started reading the family statement. As I read thru, floods of memories came to me. I really love that family. I continued reading of my friend's siblings and their spouses. Until I got to her brother. And much to my surprise; I was listed as her brother's wife. "What?!?" Well, let me say, I was never married to David. We were engaged in 1980-something, but broke up. And now I am listed as his wife. How confusing. Where did that get information? It had to come from the family.😕
- The second story was shocking. Once day while flipping thru Facebook, I saw one of my relatives had posted on his wall that I had died of Covid19 in 2020. "WTF!" How stunned I was to see this written about me. Obviously, this is not true. Then, I guess he had to reiterate his point and he posted it again. "Good grief!" 😒
So, the moral of this story is don't believe everything you read online. I am not David's wife and I did not die during the pandemic. I mean if you cannot trust your best friend, or family members, who can you trust?