One of the things that gets me about the internets is the ability to send a large number of hoaxes and false stories around and around ad infinitum.

In the olden days they were the mass emails to an address book full of people. Messages of Gap sending free clothes, Bill Gates and Walt Disney Jr (?!?) donating money on your behalf, things like that. Generally one had to send the message to a dozen or so people to reap the rewards.

Of course, technology these days has advanced beyond mere email, so it makes sense that the hoaxes have expanded their purview.

Apparently these days the fakery goes down on Facebook and Twitter: "Twitter hoax spreads rumors of airlines' free flights to Haiti".

The signal-to-noise ratio in the social networks is reportedly unbearable today.

But hey, at least my inbox is clear.

Labels: Haiti, hoax, Twitter