One Mom Begs: Please Google

One Mom Begs: Please Google

Monday, January 28, 2008

Jackie's Mom•Logic: Before you send me a mass email, check your sources.

Amber Alerts are very important. They are crucial to finding children before time slips away. So when you send me a mass email about a "missing child" who's not only not actually missing but has been a hoax circulating the Internet for years, you're doing the real missing children a huge disservice. Did you know that before you click that forward button, you can actually Google the info in the email and, more times than not, Snopes or one of those "urban legend" sites will tell you if it's a hoax?

This also goes for the emails that you so helpfully send alerting me to the latest great government conspiracy or little gems from Andy Rooney. It would take you 10 extra seconds to check it out and find out if it's real before jamming my inbox. Just sayin'.

Let's use the Internet for good and not evil, shall we?

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wow, i always believe those too!

- Anonymous

Posted 01/28/08 03:21 PM

Yes how sad is that, I have actually been fooled by this sick hoaxes. Another tip would be to log onto the ICMEC website and search for the alledged missing child, as whilst these idiots are circulating these hoax mails, a genuine endangered child is then in jepardy becasue people will dis believe. please always check them out first, as in the article Google is great for finding information too :)

- foreversearching

Posted 01/28/08 06:26 PM

Hi there Jackie. Amber Alert is fantastic. If everyone would start a site for missing children and link with Amber Alert we can start a global network of sites dedicated to find the missing children. Thank You for your good advice I am going to post it on my site. Regards TrudyVan

- TrudyVan

Posted 01/29/08 12:17 AM