Do you believe in the pity stories that are found on social media?

[Stardom22]

For instance l find so many pity stories that some people undergo different types of torture, hard life, critical healthy conditions and that they ask for assistance in either financially, pieces of advices among other favours. Do you really believe in this kind of stories?

 

[Starmix]

I won't believe stories like that. There was one Facebook user messaging me through private message portal asking for monetary help because ofva very sick family me. But I didn't know the person ,so instead of replying, blocking him.

 

[freelancermaria]

Some are true, while others are not. In any case, trusting people has become difficult lately. They use various social media channels to seek financial assistance, which is sickening if they are fabricating their present situation. They pretend to be ill or someone in the family. I suppose it is best to help those who are clearly in need. We can just donate to charitable institutions.

 

[Webster]

For instance l find so many pity stories that some people undergo different types of torture, hard life, critical healthy conditions and that they ask for assistance in either financially, pieces of advices among other favours. Do you really believe in this kind of stories?

Enough said.

 

[Stardom22]

Some are true, while others are not. In any case, trusting people has become difficult lately. They use various social media channels to seek financial assistance, which is sickening if they are fabricating their present situation. They pretend to be ill or someone in the family. I suppose it is best to help those who are clearly in need. We can just donate to charitable institutions.

You are very right on that. Trusting the people you don't know is very difficult thing to do nowadays. Most people do try to be fake for the truth of the matter.

 

[deucher]

I used to be able to believe in such stories, but now they seem more and more fake to me, and because of this, real people who need real help will not get it, because everyone thinks that it is fake

 

[eLdavis]

No I don't believe majority of them, I don't even trust them cause these days humans can do anything just to get what they want. Like a friend from my school days messaged me on Whatsapp some weeks back, this is someone that was quit close to me back then in school, then we lost contacts, only to get it back recently and since then we don't really chat much. She messaged me asking for help of at Lest one thousand in our local currency naira. According to her she would pay me back in the evening. I agreed to help, in my mind I was like even if she is not able to pay back, I would just ignore the issue. It's not like I had so much, the money was even from a customer's money. In the evening I didn't hear from her, only for me to find out days later that she blocked me. This was someone who begged me for the help.