Why you should 'share' the post, and stop copy & pasting posts:
Many viral hoaxes explicitly tell you NOT to share the message, but specifically instruct you to copy and paste it to your status.
The answer is that by copying and pasting a message, you are creating another instance of the message that is not dependant on the original.
So, for example, if 5000 people share a message by clicking Share, and for some reason that original message was removed (for example, deleted by Facebook for being fake!) then all those 5000 “shares” will vanish, at the click of a mouse. To surmise, if the original post being shared is removed, so does all of its shares.
The same doesn’t apply if you copy and paste a message, then post it. If 5000 people copy and paste a message to their own timeline, and the original gets removed, you still have 4999 instances of the message remaining on Facebook, since they are all separate posts, independent of each other.
Do everyone a favor- help cut down on spam, hoaxes, fake news, etc simply by SHARING the post, instead of copy/paste - that way, when a post is marked/reported as spam/hoax/etc and gets deleted, they ALL get deleted.
Info courtesy of:
http://www.thatsnonsense.com/hoax-posts-ask-copy-paste/
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