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<\/p>\nToday some of my friends started to send around this picture:<\/p>\n
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Yes, my first reaction was this has go to be a joke as there is no way a company that big would do something that ignorant. Sure enough it is a hoax and apparently last year this picture went extremely viral and the company had to react fast to confirm it as a hoax as there were a lot of people who thought it was real.<\/p>\n
It was so interesting reading how this little hoax can create so much havoc to a company and how so many people don’t even try to think twice on its legitimacy. I was trying to see how with this example where I got it and why people would think it’s real. The main thing I thought of was that the person that sent it did so through their mobile device and like many of those devices it usually leaves a footer message such as those \u201cSent through my Blackberry\u201dnotes. Therefore, the assumption is the person took a picture of it while they were walking around at that moment. There actually were people commenting on it as if they believed it was real.<\/p>\n
Guess the lesson is if you are the business you have to act fast to respond to things like that as it can get out of control fairly quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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