1939

Apparently the kidnappers don’t have Facebook, because you’d think they’d wise up and use other color vans now that the white thing is burned.

EDIT: there must be something about the white van, because it’s a weird fetish in the UK too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_man

1940

Hah! Well that explains the white van posts I’ve been seeing on my Nextdoor for the past few weeks.

1941

Now that I start searching, the white van thing is worldwide.

Philippines:
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/12/02/no-men-in-white-van-snatching-children-pnp/

France:

Apparently middle-class panics know no borders.

1942

The white vans make for nice, sharp contrast to the black helicopters.

1943

If you flash your headlights at a car driving with theirs off, they’ll kill you as part of a gang initiation.

1944

I actually remember hearing that one growing up

1945

And never flash your lights at a black helicopter.

1946

That’s hugely racist.

1947

The white kidnapper van has been a thing since I was a kid.

1948

You all have more exotic social media urban legends than I do. I thought White Vans were just where you go to get scammed buying name brand grey market audio speakers.

1949

That’s how they lure you in for the human trafficking. Kappapapapapapa

1950

whitevans

Wait, what?

1951

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1953



Don’t fuck with artists, they’ll find a way to sick Disney on you.

1954

haha, next up, Nintendo.

1955

Not specific to social media but we’ve discussed privacy issues here before, and this is a big one.

Someone steals your password, you can change it. Someone steals your fingerprints or facial data, you’re kinda stuck.

1956

This is hilarious and sad. The original post starts it, but if you scroll through the replies, there are a dozen or more examples of people losing their shit because somebody liked somebody else’s public social media post. We truly are in the age of insecure narcissists, I guess.

1957

Honestly, I don’t think this is a SocMed thing, so much as a symptom of a deeply fucked up culture of relationships and general personal interactions. Watch like, one episode of Vanderpump Rules and you’ll see how this extends to the real world too (actually, definitely don’t, but like, you could).

1958

We don’t talk about it much, but I’ve always there was a pretty brutal downside to turning business communication into socialized platforms.

A bad boss is a bad boss, but 24/7 communications tools turn bad bosses into never-ending nightmares.