A Socialist society's dream come true: Duped Drones

by Angela K. Durden

From this introspective pose
(I'm looking up into the light)
you can clearly see I know my
humbleness is serious business.

Let me first say that I am not ungrateful (and am actually quite humbled; see picture at right) for the fact so many people care about my words. I am very well aware that all of my readers, followers, and friends cannot get their day started nor can they make it through lunch and dinner and into bed without first checking to see what brilliant — and might I add, wholly original — insights, thoughts, and witticisms I have provided. [Did I mention how humble I am? If not, see picture at right.]

I do not take this responsibility lightly. It is serious business as the lives of tens of people — maybe even 100! — are directly affected by my words. [I won't mention the true and massive count of my readers which Nielsen, using their mysterious one-eyed-one-horned flying purple People Meter, have determined to be A HELLUVA LOT. See how humble I am?]

Anyway, folks care so much about my words they will warn me about threats to stopping them. 

But...

This article is not about my awesome contribution to the welfare of society at large. Instead, today we shall focus on the hacker that is wreaking havoc on that ubiquitous social media platform called Facebook and their freakishly brilliant technique at attracting folks to work for them. This special class of unpaid worker is called Duped Drones.

Some hackers work for companies to find the weakness in a system. Others are disgruntled code monkeys looking to settle a score. It is my personal, and might I add humble but probably correct, opinion that the hackers attacking Facebook are employees of that very company. This is simple conjecture on my part, but I'm 98% sure I'm correct. 

In any case, recruiters should find out how in the hell these hackers can get so many people to diligently work for free. Here's what I mean.

You hear your phone blow up with incoming from your Messenger FB app. What the hey is going on, you ask yourself? You quickly take a peek and you see this: 

Please tell all the contacts in your messenger list not to accept [Insert Name du Jour here] friendship request. He is a hacker and has the system connected to your Facebook account. If one of your contacts accepts it, you will also be hacked, so make sure that all your friends know it. Thanks. Forwarded as received. Hold your finger down on the message. At the bottom in the middle it will say forward. Hit that then click on the names of those in your list and it will send to them.

As part of my humble outreach to my peeps,
I post warning messages against the messaged warning. 

Now, most folks would see that message coming from folks who don't normally communicate in such a fashion and they would see how everybody's message is the same and they would say, "Hold up there, Nellie. Methinks this is a hack! I shall not spread it any further. I shall fight it by ignoring it."

If you are one of those "most folks", you are to be commended. That you have not bragged about it on social media shows that you too are so very humble. [Group hug?]

However...

There is another segment of people who see that message and are like the Doomsday Preachers of old (Chicken Little is among them) who say, "OH MY GOD LET ME SHARE THIS RIGHT NOW WITH EVERYBODY I KNOW BECAUSE IF I DON'T BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO THEM RIGHT THIS MINUTE AND I CARE SO VERY MUCH!"

And poof! Shared with everybody they know on Facebook. 

See? Duped Drones? No pay? You would think that stockholders would be fainting in the streets at the possibility of their ROI.

Duped Drones are a Socialist society's dream come true.