Facebook hate pages why???

lukesmom

Wondering why people make these. What do they get out of it only attention. Have been asked to report a hate page set up a few weeks ago and when I clicked on it there were over 3,000 'likes' for it. Don't know if I'm allowed post the link but maybe the more that report it might help to remove it. Its absolutely disgusting. Facebook are at the moment refusing to remove it even though the police have asked them to. I hope they track down whoever created it.

http://www.facebook.com/JillMeagherHQ?ref=ts&fref=ts

Guy:Incognito

That just seems like a page for a collection of really bad (not the subject matter, just ****) attemts at humorous memes.


Each to their own I suppose. It's not impacting on my life so they can have at it.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the question is why not

they're all ****e jokes anyway. they seem more like the products of people with axes to grind rather than actually liking black humour

squod

Dafuq is going on there? Ban that page.

Fight_Night

It's just to get a reaction. Which you're giving it by posting this thread. Why do they want a reaction? I couldn't answer.

lukesmom

It's her family I'm thinking about and it's so disrespectful. I can hardly put into words how bad it is. The pictures they have made are awful. Sickening I think. I love a joke but not at the expense of a girl who was brutally raped and murdered

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

speaking as a mother I think whoever made that page should be thrown in jail

Aoifey!

The person who made it wanted attention and they got it. People are going mad on the page, which is exactly what they wanted. I'm all for laughing at everything and letting everything be a joke, but nothing on that page is even remotely funny.

HeyThereDeliah

lukesmom wrote: »

Wondering why people make these. What do they get out of it only attention. Have been asked to report a hate page set up a few weeks ago and when I clicked on it there were over 3,000 'likes' for it. Don't know if I'm allowed post the link but maybe the more that report it might help to remove it. Its absolutely disgusting. Facebook are at the moment refusing to remove it even though the police have asked them to. I hope they track down whoever created it.

http://www.facebook.com/JillMeagherHQ?ref=ts&fref=ts

Why are you posting it ? It's giving it more attention.

NegativeCreep

I laughed at one thing on that page. The rest was just bad. Not because of the subject matter, just because the jokes were shit. If it offends you, don't look at it.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The whole concept of Trollism is getting a reaction. The best thing is just to ignore it.

lukesmom

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

lukesmom wrote: »

Wondering why people make these. What do they get out of it only attention. Have been asked to report a hate page set up a few weeks ago and when I clicked on it there were over 3,000 'likes' for it. Don't know if I'm allowed post the link but maybe the more that report it might help to remove it. Its absolutely disgusting. Facebook are at the moment refusing to remove it even though the police have asked them to. I hope they track down whoever created it.

http://www.facebook.com/JillMeagherHQ?ref=ts&fref=ts

Why are you posting it ? It's giving it more attention.

Because I am curious as to why people make them do they get off on it or something. It's a discussion forum and I want to discuss it. I didn't post on the Facebook page so they aren't getting my attention there.

Rayne Wooney

lukesmom wrote: »

Wondering why people make these. What do they get out of it only attention. Have been asked to report a hate page set up a few weeks ago and when I clicked on it there were over 3,000 'likes' for it. Don't know if I'm allowed post the link but maybe the more that report it might help to remove it. Its absolutely disgusting. Facebook are at the moment refusing to remove it even though the police have asked them to. I hope they track down whoever created it.

http://www.facebook.com/JillMeagherHQ?ref=ts&fref=ts

Although I don't agree with the pages, reporting them is doing nothing. These pages arn't breaking any law and by talking about them and getting people to report them is just giving the page creators what they want. Attention and publicity

The best thing to do is just forget about them.

lukesmom

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The whole concept of Trollism is getting a reaction. The best thing is just to ignore it.

What makes some need this reaction though surely this need is not normal

K-9

That's very strange, I doubt even a Boards troll with a certain level of anonymity would start a thread like that, never mind posting on Facebook, most with identifiable details.

I suppose it generates discussion on Facebook and they've to make up revenues from their failed share launch.

HeyThereDeliah

lukesmom wrote: »

Because I am curious as to why people make them do they get off on it or something. It's a discussion forum and I want to discuss it. I didn't post on the Facebook page so they aren't getting my attention there.

But by posting it you are giving it a wider audience and more attention than it deserves.

lukesmom

So a lad tells a joke about April jones, 1 joke and gets locked up. Yet this prick has a whole page of nasty jokes about another high profile girl abducted and murdered. How do they pick and choose who to lock up? I'm sure they could easily track him by his ip address. I know he's not breaking any law, either was the other lad who joked about April jones.

Rayne Wooney

lukesmom wrote: »

So a lad tells a joke about April jones, 1 joke and gets locked up. Yet this prick has a whole page of nasty jokes about another high profile girl abducted and murdered. How do they pick and choose who to lock up? I'm sure they could easily track him by his ip address. I know he's not breaking any law, either was the other lad who joked about April jones.

The guy who wrote about April Jones wrote on his own Facebook page and also made the comments public for everyone to see. The creators of the page you have linked use fake emails for fake Facebook accounts, and I'm sure they also use proxy servers as well to have the 'courage' to put a page as sick as that up. Which would make them almost untraceable, how do you bring an anonymous Internet user before a court?

KKkitty

lukesmom wrote: »

So a lad tells a joke about April jones, 1 joke and gets locked up. Yet this prick has a whole page of nasty jokes about another high profile girl abducted and murdered. How do they pick and choose who to lock up? I'm sure they could easily track him by his ip address. I know he's not breaking any law, either was the other lad who joked about April jones.

+1 There should be the same consequences for both. Jill Meagher had a horrible death and sick fcukers like this should be jailed. Her husband and family are going through more than enough without this too.

Trigger13222

Aoifey! wrote: »

The person who made it wanted attention and they got it. People are going mad on the page, which is exactly what they wanted. I'm all for laughing at everything and letting everything be a joke, but nothing on that page is even remotely funny.

All for laughing and joking over the rape and murder of a innocent girl. Well then you are a kunt.

DEFTLEFTHAND

lukesmom wrote: »

What makes some need this reaction though surely this need is not normal

You're right its not normal, these people are just losers. Their life revolves around a computer screen. Obviously un checked psychological problems are present in some.

Lima Golf

That page is disgusting. A young woman was raped and murdered. It's not a matter to make jokes about. Ever.

SicklySweet

The problem with some trolls, is that sometimes they don't know where that fine line is. Trolling mormons for ****s and giggles, fine. Making prank calls to a takeaway place. Fine. But there's a number of them, and it's increasing, where there's pages on facebook set up about missing children and deaths and such. One example from the top of my head was about that little boy who went missing in the UK and some eejit set up a facebook page and messaged the mother saying "I'm fine" or again, when Gary Barlow's new baby was stillborn.


There's a fine line between trolling and being a t*t

B.A._Baracus

That Facebook page is wrong.
The person who created the facebook page is sick.
The people who liked the Facebook page are just the same.


Reality is a woman was raped and murdered. There is black humor and then there is having no compassion.

mahamageehad

I feel physically sick after reading that page.
Do ye think it's like a random internet weirdo who gets off on getting people angry or do you think it was someone who actually knew her- an ex lover or maybe even someone she just turned down?

Basically just someone looking to get a reaction any way he/she can or someone who feels hatred to her and is trying to get it out there? Also over 3,200 likes???! What the actual fück!

stmol32

I am still in awe of the internet. I believe it is the primary force for the good of humankind since the invention of electricity.

I think that the whole power and majesty of the internet is to do with the fact that it is so vast you can find everything you can think of on it. Unfortunately this includes all the things you don't agree with as well. If you censor one very obviously offensive web presence then you have to begin the (completely impossible) task of censoring them all. There are ways of doing it of course, this board is a prime example using volunteers to moderate posts but this this a tiny corner of the web as a whole. The point is should it be done?

I'm not in any way trying to defend someone who feels they need to joke about the murder of a woman or that lad who wrote about April Jones but the point is that free speech, of which I believe the internet is the apex of this ideal, means people who are horrible trolls also have the right to get their opinion out there.

People on this thread have said that you don't have to follow these hate sites which is completely true. The beauty of the internet is that you can actually tell these people how despicable you find them and what a bunch of cretins you think they are.

As for why the feel the need to do this, well your guess is as good as mine. I suppose some people are just c***ts. If any psychologists are on this thread I would appreciate any input.

RoundyMooney

Just some antipodean adolescent trying to get his rocks off. Or even worse "make a statement".

The world would be a better place if there were less stupid people on Facebook. He is but one, the tools that respond are as bad.

The old guard used to refer to it as the AOL phenomenon, or something like that-when a deluge of net virgins got 56k modems in the US, as internet access began to become a mainstream convenience, upon which they duly shat all over cyberspace like boisterous puppies.

The latest thing is smartphones-probably consisting of more than half of FB traffic alone, these days. A userbase who share pics like this, thinking it's wonderful. Or like pictures of two headed babies, 'cos cancer is bad and Zuckerberg will pay for surgery if Ahmed in his sandpit in Islamabad, or Brad in his basement in NJ get a million "likes".

I suppose my point is, the world is full of idiots, and we're not going to solve it here, anytime soon.

finbarrk

Facebook is for kids. Once you leave school you should forget about it.

Tweedle Dumb

lukesmom wrote: »

Wondering why people make these. What do they get out of it only attention.

Answered your own question, all bout attention

lukesmom wrote: »

Have been asked to report a hate page set up a few weeks ago and when I clicked on it there were over 3,000 'likes' for it.

Got to ask, You were asked to go to a page and report it? So you hadn't came across it, and were in no way distressed by it, til you intentionally went onto a page, that you had no interest in, to complain? You do realise, if you don't like a page, it won't bother you?

Not just saying this in relation to this page but in general. Seems to be a lot of liking pages, then reporting them because you don't like the content that was obvious when one liked it. Just unlike pages!

The internet is full of dubious content, always will be, think people should be free to like whatever weird humour pages they like. Personally i wouldn't like the page because i don't find it funny, not because of the subject

lukesmom wrote: »

Don't know if I'm allowed post the link but maybe the more that report it might help to remove it. Its absolutely disgusting.

So you'll post the link, have more people get offended by pages that they would have just ignored otherwise

lukesmom wrote: »

Facebook are at the moment refusing to remove it even though the police have asked them to. I hope they track down whoever created it.

Which police force? And what gives them the right to police the world wide web.

And if it is the Austrailians, maybe if they had put more effort into keeping Rapists and Psychos IN jail instead of letting them openly tell review boards what they want to hear to be allowed early release. IF their judicial system was any way competent Jill would still be alive, he would still be locked up, this page wouldnt exist, and you wouldnt be offended!

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sunflower27

Just someone wanting attention - a sad person needing validation.

Why else would you honestly bother?

Talking about it is only fuelling their ego.

Bottom line is, there are a lot of sick, twisted people out there and they have to try and stand out somehow.

Irish Guitarist

I don't see any mystery really. They're just immature morons.

I wonder if jokes will start circulating about that other Facebook idiot that went to jail recently. Maybe if that happened all the other idiots would think twice.

Edit: Then again the other idiots would be the ones making the jokes so that didn't make much sense.