Evil, Kindness & Facebook

 

Today it seems that the ultimate adventure is simply living day-to-day life. 

My last 24 hours have brought me in touch with a dear friend who was scammed out of $700 on facebook – and I found myself realizing that I’ve been concerned about the elderly folks in my life "falling for" a scam but did not realistically see the risk for others my own age and younger.  We all chuckle at the emails promising us our long-lost inheritance far across the sea but I’ve never considered what my response would be to a plea from a known friend, sent from within a social networking site.  These folks are really good, once they have hacked into a person’s page they can study a language subtext and recreate it in an email, they can identify where the person is traveling and could be stranded to make such a plea.  All the pieces exist to "suspend disbelief" as if they were great movie directors.  And the best of us can be taken in. 

Perhaps it is the best of us most at risk, those with the biggest hearts, those always first in line to help the other.

As I fell asleep last night I returned to one of the many, many wise words of my maternal grandmother, who would have asked me:  Would you rather be the person scammed out of this money or be the person who perpetrated the scam? 

Money can be replaced, character cannot. 

 

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