That’s a really weird reason to think it’s fake. There are plenty of reasons, not least that it’s on the internet at all, but this describes a very normal human thought error. I understand it’s not the type of mistake any individual person would necessarily make, but if you don’t understand that some people definitely would, I think you could use more insight into the variety of personalities and thought processes which exist.
I was suspicious it was fake already because it’s written like an attention-seeking LinkedIn post. Then the followup reads like a “oops, I didn’t mean to post that picture…but since you all liked it…” post everyone sees through on Myspace. Who writes like that to their friends?
Ok, but the tone of her post wasn’t the tone of a private message to someone, or to a private group that knows her.
There’s too much effort in establishing the full context about her being a widow and exactly how long and just the tone of the post screams public post not private message to friends.
I’m always suspicious of tweets where the author defeats a strawman but this followup post has me pretty convinced of its inauthenticity
No, I have literally never done that. I have never once in my life confused the two lol
That’s a really weird reason to think it’s fake. There are plenty of reasons, not least that it’s on the internet at all, but this describes a very normal human thought error. I understand it’s not the type of mistake any individual person would necessarily make, but if you don’t understand that some people definitely would, I think you could use more insight into the variety of personalities and thought processes which exist.
I was suspicious it was fake already because it’s written like an attention-seeking LinkedIn post. Then the followup reads like a “oops, I didn’t mean to post that picture…but since you all liked it…” post everyone sees through on Myspace. Who writes like that to their friends?
you are a lemmy user… a rare breed. She is on twitter and all these other platforms chirpin. I could believe. Yet it might be bogus but it still hits.
Ok, but the tone of her post wasn’t the tone of a private message to someone, or to a private group that knows her.
There’s too much effort in establishing the full context about her being a widow and exactly how long and just the tone of the post screams public post not private message to friends.
I have. Sometimes the brain isn’t paying attention.
I have sent a whatsapp message to someone when I intended to send a teams message to someone else, but this one seems unlikely
I’ve send screenshots of a conversation to the person who sent the message. It happens