Does copying message remove Facebook “sales ads and trash stuff”? Fact Check
A “copy and paste” Facebook message is doing the social media rounds that claims you can remove or reduce the “volume of ads and trash stuff” by copying a message to your own Facebook profile.
The message – as is often the case with nonsensical ‘copy and paste’ rumors – is written in broken English and claims Facebook users can somehow obtain seemingly magical cyber-powers simply by copying a message. Some examples of this latest batch of nonsense is below.
If you are thinking of getting off FB because of the volume of sales ads and trash stuff. I receive a lot more of these post than posts from friends’. So I had to change my algorithm. So hold your finger anywhere in this post and click ′copy’. Go to your page where it says ‘What’s on your mind?’ Tap your finger anywhere in the blank field. Click paste. This upgrades the system.
Collected Jan 2023
Hello new and old friends!
If you are thinking of getting off FB because of the volume of sales ads and trash stuff. So hold your finger anywhere in this post and click ′copy’. Go to your page where it says ‘What’s on your mind?’ Tap your finger anywhere in the blank field. Click paste. This upgrades the system.
Collected Jan 2023
Hello new and old friends!
IT ACTUALLY WORKED!!!!
These rumors seem to be some later amalgamation of the “see more friends by copying this message” hoax that has previously blighted Facebook with its mere existence, and claims Facebook users could see more friends on their newsfeed by copying and pasting a message (hint: they couldn’t.)
Needless to say, every single one of our regular readers will know that you can’t simply remove ads and other “trash stuff” (whatever this means) by just copying a message to your profile, nor would there be any rational reason for Facebook to program some sort of arbitrary and absurd loophole into their platform.
Facebook relies on advertisements for its primary method of advertising revenue, and while there are a number of third party software browser extensions that purport to remove adverts from Facebook, there is no earthly reason why Facebook themselves would allow users to remove adverts just by copying a message.
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These types of hoaxes survive because they request users copy them in order to receive some desired consequence, and the creators of these social pranks are relying on the notion that most Facebook users will simply not delete the ill-advised messages once they realise that it didn’t work – much like the nonsensical “legal privacy notice” hoax that previously requested users copy a legal sounding notice on their Facebook profile to protect their personal information.
This is another viral Facebook hoax and we don’t recommend spreading it. It isn’t particularly dangerous, but it does tell your social communities that you’re a potentially ripe target for some more serious scams!
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