Another FB gem

[gummybear]

This is making the rounds on my feed right now


 *insert pic of Jon Benet looking 5-year old*

A guy sends you a friend request. You don’t know him, but he’s got a cute profile picture, so you accept his friend request.
It’s your baby girl’s first day of school. She looks SO cute in her new outfit you just have to take a picture and put it on Facebook so all your friends and family can see.
You’re so excited dropping her off that you ‘Check in’ to her school on FB saying
‘I can’t believe how big she’s gotten. Time sure flies. One proud momma/daddy right here’.
Meanwhile, the mystery guy whose friend request you hurriedly accepted earlier this morning is saving that picture you posted of your daughter in her cute new outfit to his phone and texting it to 60 other grown men across the world with the caption –

‘American Female. Age 5.
Brown Hair. Black Eyes.
$5,000-‘.
Not only did you provide a picture of your little girl to a child trafficker, you’ve handed him the name and exact location of her school on a silver cyber platter.
You go to pick her up at 3:00 this afternoon, but she’s nowhere to be found.
Little do you know, your precious baby girl was sold to a 43 years old pedophile before you even stepped foot off campus this morning, and now she’s on her way to South Africa with a bag over her head, confused, terrified and crying because a man she’s never seen before picked her up from school, and now she doesn’t know where her parents are, where she’s going, or what’s gonna happen to her.
STOP ADDING STRANGERS ON FACEBOOK
and
STOP
posting everything about your life on Facebook.
Avoid keeping children’s pictures as profile picture.
Please SHARE it for the sake of all kids and parents.

[gummybear]

I especially like the detail about the bag over my kid's head. Very dramatic.

[wambam]

This is disgusting

[spk926]

So don't friend people you don't know. Is that really that hard??

[Deleted]

Who adds strangers on Facebook?

Well, besides Nesties.

LOL.

Uh oh.

[intentionalsnarkshark]

I... Whut?

[zoomzoom]

[Deleted]

What? Who comes up with this and decides to post this of FB?

[Dagny]

Let me guess. The friend who posted this also posts every detail about their kid's life and has the kid's pic as their profile pic?
That's the way it goes with my friends, anyway. "Stop posting selfies!" Then 2 hours later, they post a selfie.

Also, who approves total strangers as friends on facebook, anyway?

[BaliHai]

FFS. I'm pretty sure the people who accept all friend requests they receive are the same people whose profiles are public anyway.

The message is valid but gets lost in the absolutely ridiculous, hysterical manner in which it's conveyed.

[gummybear]

Jun 2, 2015 12:11:43 GMT -5 @chocolove said:

What? Who comes up with this and decides to post this of FB?

It has 102,000+ shares!!! 

[bex1973]

Uggg, it's showing up on my feed too. I actually said "what?" out loud when I saw it. Do people really add strangers?!?!

[gummybear]

Also I am almost 40 as are most of my friends (including the ones who shared this). Who the fuck accepts random men as friends bc they look hot in their profile pic? We are not 17!

[bohemianmango]

I'm pretty sure my MIL is going to find some way to share this with DH and me.

[Deleted]

Wait, child traffickers previously didn't know there were children at schools?

[Deleted]

Jun 2, 2015 12:21:11 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

Wait, child traffickers previously didn't know there were children at schools?

Pedophiles were in the dark, too.  Thank goodness they've been imparted a FB education in abduction.

[cookietime]

Jun 2, 2015 12:11:50 GMT -5 Dagny said:

Let me guess. The friend who posted this also posts every detail about their kid's life and has the kid's pic as their profile pic?
That's the way it goes with my friends, anyway. "Stop posting selfies!" Then 2 hours later, they post a selfie.

Also, who approves total strangers as friends on facebook, anyway?

I was guessing the opposite, and that it's someone without kids who REALLY hates all the kid pics showing up on their feed.

[lilac05]

Jun 2, 2015 12:14:53 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Also how many schools let just anybody drive away with their kindergarten students?

You know he just printed that FB picture and said, "here's my granddaughter's picture.  My daughter must have forgotten to add me to the list." And the teacher said, "Okey Dokey!" and the little girl agreed & left.  Duh!

[gummybear]

Jun 2, 2015 12:27:51 GMT -5 lilac05 said:

Jun 2, 2015 12:14:53 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Also how many schools let just anybody drive away with their kindergarten students?

You know he just printed that FB picture and said, "here's my granddaughter's picture.  My daughter must have forgotten to add me to the list." And the teacher said, "Okey Dokey!" and the little girl agreed & left.  Duh!

No no no. He went to the office and said, "I am looking for a 5-year-old, dark hair, dark eyes, about yay big"
And they said, "We have one just like that in room 105. Let me go get her for you!"

[Grimmy]

[Alyssa]

I wonder which airline allows someone to take a child to South Africa with no passport....oh and a bag over her head, can't forget that detail.

[CurlyQ284]

I have seen a lot of odd facebook posts about sex trafficking. There was one about they are using women to spot targets for kidnapping since they are less threatening and the person who posted it said "I helped three women I didn't know in the last 6 months at Target! Omg!!!!"

Constant vigilance folks. Do not reach for something on the top shelf at Target for others.

[jeaniebueller]

[gummybear]

Jun 2, 2015 12:48:12 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

I have seen a lot of odd facebook posts about sex trafficking. There was one about they are using women to spot targets for kidnapping since they are less threatening and the person who posted it said "I helped three women I didn't know in the last 6 months at Target! Omg!!!!"

Constant vigilance folks. Do not reach for something on the top shelf at Target for others.

I saw one of these too. A woman claims she was being followed/chased in the aisles of Michaels/AC Moore whatever by a woman. She used her "gift of fear" and reported it and the police supposedly told her what you said -- women are the new spotters/lurers and it's an epidemic! 

[CurlyQ284]

Jun 2, 2015 12:51:33 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Jun 2, 2015 12:48:12 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

I have seen a lot of odd facebook posts about sex trafficking. There was one about they are using women to spot targets for kidnapping since they are less threatening and the person who posted it said "I helped three women I didn't know in the last 6 months at Target! Omg!!!!"

Constant vigilance folks. Do not reach for something on the top shelf at Target for others.

I saw one of these too. A woman claims she was being followed/chased in the aisles of Michaels/AC Moore whatever by a woman. She used her "gift of fear" and reported it and the police supposedly told her what you said -- women are the new spotters/lurers and it's an epidemic! 

That's it!

[Deleted]

Jun 2, 2015 12:51:33 GMT -5 gummybear said:

Jun 2, 2015 12:48:12 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

I have seen a lot of odd facebook posts about sex trafficking. There was one about they are using women to spot targets for kidnapping since they are less threatening and the person who posted it said "I helped three women I didn't know in the last 6 months at Target! Omg!!!!"

Constant vigilance folks. Do not reach for something on the top shelf at Target for others.

I saw one of these too. A woman claims she was being followed/chased in the aisles of Michaels/AC Moore whatever by a woman. She used her "gift of fear" and reported it and the police supposedly told her what you said -- women are the new spotters/lurers and it's an epidemic! 

What.

[gummybear]

Jun 2, 2015 12:57:22 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

OMG some old lady asked me about gladiolas in Michael's the other day!!!!11

Did she say she had some in the parking lot she wanted to show you? If so, BEWARE

[CrazyLucky]

Jun 2, 2015 12:05:10 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

Who adds strangers on Facebook?

Well, besides Nesties.

LOL.

Uh oh.

Only if we have a cute pic though, right?

[janetplanet20]

A friend of mine posted this on FB too and I just rolled my eyes. Especially, as pp said, who is adding random strange guys because they're hot?

[CurlyQ284]

Here is the [craft store of your choice] women are spotters for sex trafficking