Recently there have been multiple cases where celebrities said they're going to move from L.A. or Hollywood to your hometown. There have been articles like these posted all over Facebook News Feeds, and it baffles me how gullible some people can be.

If you click into it, you'll read the most generic, fake blanket statements about how these celebrities like McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and recently Morgan Freeman, want to "get away from the L.A. lifestyle" and live in a place with genuine people. Sure it sounds great and feels good for all the people in that area, but the truth is they have no idea the town you live in exists. So keeping these phony stories off my News Feed would be fantastic! Even if you know it's fake and share it just to say that you wish it was true, that's still not cool. Spam your group chats or GroupMes with this nonsense. Let me see what's going on in my friends' lives, or an instructional video on how to make cool food art that never actually turns out the way it looks online.

Part of the blame falls on the readers who aren't smart enough to realize how ridiculously false stories can be on Facebook, but the other part falls on the site itself. If there was a way to verify stories when they're posted, that'd be ideal. I shouldn't have to google questionable stories to see whether they're accurate or not.

So, Mr. Zuckerberg, there's your million dollar idea. Get rid of the spam by not only verifying stories before they take the public by storm, but get rid of the accounts spreading these fake stories. Either let Facebook become a news source or leave it to the journalists who actually know what they're doing.

Kind of ironic that I'm posting this on Facebook.

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