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A while back I posted about how Jack Waterhouse was causing a stir on Facebook. In case your faith in the average person has been somewhat restored since then, I thought I’d draw your attention to the latest group to spring up: “fuck praying 4 Haiti some thing needs to control the population”.

This is troubling on at least three counts (that I can see):

1. Facebook doesn’t seem to have sufficient power to deal with stuff like this cropping up. They’ve plastered links to ‘report’ posts all over the place, but there’s no indication this actually does anything.
2. There’s still no accountability here, even with this being linked to people’s online identities; it’s too easy to play the “ahh, somebody else did this using my account” card.
3. People exist who are actually this stupid.

Charisse Rosati writes:

Id like to thank the 7.0 earthquake for visiting Haiti, Thats a few less aids infected Peices of shits that will Invade our country with their filth and disease

Eloquent.

If you’d like to help people less fortunate than you, Google’s put a link to the crisis response page on their homepage.