This past week while on vacation there was a man who barricaded himself in his house with a rifle. The town cops were there, cops from other towns were there, the army, and the SWAT were there. Reason for all of this was because they did not exactly who was in the house. If it was just him or if he had taken anyone hostage in the house with him. In the end, it was only himself and he ended up killing himself with a rifle but the cops were there for about 3 hours after that because they were not sure what exactly was going on until they went into the house and saw him on the ground dead.
Reason for sharing this you, it is because of what social media was saying about it. I have realized that social media can share the correct info with people but as well, once someone says something that is incorrect it spreads like wild fire. Then before I know it, there is like 10 different stories of what happened. For example, during this incident last week, my friend lives across the street from the house and saw exactly what was going on and was texting me with the details on what was going on and what happened. Then my other friend was texting me and said, "I was reading on Facebook and it said that the guy killed his daughter, his ex-wife, and then went to his girlfriends house and killed her and then himself". That is almost 100% incorrect and it came from social media of course. I just laughed because once someone posts something on social media it changes it story constantly until its almost completely wrong. It is just the way it works and we have to realize that and not completely believe what is wrote by several people because then that means that it is most likely a hot story in the town. As well, an incorrect one like in my case.
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