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In reply to the discussion: Ok, You Probably know that our President is pretty good with Babies.. but WOW! This Facebook Post!!! [View all]tblue37
(65,340 posts)quite clear in the OP that you were quoting what someone else wrote on Facebook.
I guess it wouldn't get to me so much, except it happens over and over and over again--and it never seems to sink in that an OP is not necessarily posting his/her own story, or that when he/she specifically says he/she found it somewhere else, that's a sign that it probably is not his/her own story.
I also think it wouldn't get to me so much except that I teach college English, and by this point in the semester, I am getting a bit frustrated by the careless reading habits of my students. I put instructions into writing and make them available online, and I do everything possible to make sure that the instructions are clear and easy to follow--but half of my students still get the most basic things wrong.
I want to bang my head on the desk sometimes.