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Yesterday, while strolling on Facebook to get sports updates, I came across a post of a tree bearing money as leaves, and the ground was flooded with fallen dollar notes. The caption read:
"Unlimited financial fortune for everyone that will like this post."
When I checked the LIKE count, I saw 207k likes. OMG! The next thing that came out of my mouth was, "Which people liked this post to this high volume? It must be the handiwork of an auto-liker."
To clear my doubt, I clicked on the names of the people who liked the post, and I checked through their profiles. I saw that these people were real humans (I checked up to 20).
"Okay, maybe the page that posted it is a religious organization that has many religious followers." This was another conclusion that settled in my mind, but when I checked the page, I saw that it's very far from any religious organization... it's just a random page.
I don't know about other neighborhoods, but for my hood, it's almost impossible for anyone to believe in such prayer from an unknown source and give it a LIKE to attract financial fortune as declared in the post. In fact, when we come across this, we laugh out loud and continue scrolling.
There was a time when this kind of thing trended so rapidly in Nigeria, and the most common would be like: "Forward this message to two other people to receive good luck today, and if you fail to forward, bad luck will hit you today."
The curious me, anytime I see this, will ignore the message/post, screenshot it and watch out if anything like bad luck will come, but no way, nothing like that ever happened.
I received one recently earlier last month (January) from a friend I never thought could send that kind of message. I was instructed to forward it to 8 people if I want to receive good news, and if I fail to forward the message, then bad news will be my portion . At first, I wanted to hearken to the message due to the person that sent it to me because I consider him very learned, but hey, my hardened mind, stared at the message and boldly ignored.
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On other note,
Maybe these things are really working, and I'm missing out.
A deep thought on this has made me start thinking otherwise. Maybe such posts/messages are really working, that's why people don't joke with them when it comes to forwarding, giving them LIKES, or commenting "Amen."
Because if it's not working, why are people so to put their faith on play?🥹
But on another thought, is this how people are easily persuaded by things like that? Is that really a demonstration of faith? Of course, I know faith works wherever you put your belief, but come on, these things are too funny.
In another deeper view:
I think the owners of those pages are posting that to grow their channels. I'm considering giving it a shot and let me see what the outcome would be...after all, I have a lot of churchy people on my Facebook page.
You've seen posts like that recently? Share your thoughts
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