I am not a fan of those memes on FaceBook that are of cats mispronouncing English while utilizing poor grammar.

You know, the cats who has cheeseburger.

Also not a fan of the ones with the rose that want you to repost if you love a dead relation, want to cure a disease, or have love for that animal that is all mangled in the picture.

And I am definitely not enamored of the ones that claim that the death of a person or the destruction of a city or country rests solely on whether or not I pass that meme on and give that responsibility to someone else.

But of all the ones I get, the ones I most dislike are those that are obviously re-posted because they bolster someone’s opinion, but, with a little research, can be shown to be based on no data whatsoever.

They lend substance to a person’s ill founded opinion just as a visible cloud has enough substance to support a heavy object. Oh, you can see it, it might be big, and it looks pretty solid and strong, but even a feather can pass through it.

I have many friends who are veterans working for veterans’ benefits, and I do what I can to help their cause with my blog and political activity, but every now and then I get what is supposed to be a pro-veteran post, but falls real short because what is in the meme is just not the truth. And while its purpose might be to rile veterans and those who support them to get us angry enough to work harder, their only real purpose is to get people all hot and bothered about a distraction so no one pays attention to the fact that those who should be are not addressing what actually needs to be done.
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The same goes with political memes, or those who want me to accept that I am not as patriotic as the poster because I do not subscribe to the false quote attributed to some historic figure, especially a Founding Father, who never said what the meme claims he said.

I was once informed by someone, when I pointed out a George Washington quote in a meme was totally fictitious, that it is permissible to misquote someone as long as the sentiment is correct. He did not like my pointing out that the best way to represent someone’s sentiment is to quote them exactly especially when the misquote is completely opposite to what the actual quote had to say.

Then there are those who, after it being pointed out to them that the content of the meme they re-posted had not only been previously debunked, but is provably not what a person said or the details of the event it referred to, defend themselves by stating that they do not agree with the meme, but thought it worthy to pass on. They just don’t see that by passing it on, it adds legitimacy to something clearly illegitimate.

Every morning I read through FaceBook, emails, and various web news sites looking for stories that catch my attention, and some are really informative while others are just wild. Before I even consider an idea for a cartoon, I do some research to make sure that what I read was fact as opposed an article from a satire site, and occasionally I also read the “about” page on a web site to see if what is posted is influenced by a severe bias.

Rather than find yourself having to defend a meme until you recognize how much dancing you end up doing to defend the meme and your re-posting it, research the meme first.

I have seen too many people, who are otherwise reasonable people, reveal a very unattractive stupid side because they have put their faith in a meme they have passed on that they had received from a friend. They assumed their friend had not lied, and perhaps they didn’t, intentionally. But they relied on the faith borne of friendship to have what they posted accepted without question, and this betrayal of friendship has otherwise good and intelligent people adding to the ever growing level of stupidity we can certainly do without these days.

Not everything posted on the internet is true or things are and are not at the same time, and people have and have not done things.