Who's Dead?!?

In recent months there has been a new trend within the Facebook community. Fake celebrity deaths. I have seen fake news articles telling of the deaths of Tiger Woods, Lil Wayne, and Betty White all within the last six months. People generate these article to likes and page views, but their impact is far greater than their Facebook popularity. Facebook is a perfect avenue for news and for spreading the word of an event with significance. However with these new fake headlines, it has become harder and harder to dicern what is real and what is not. And Facebook is the one who is getting the short end of the stick. The more these fake headlines pop up the less credible Facebook becomes as a news site, and a place that people can post breaking news. This also hinders their ability to compete with social media counterparts such as Twitter or Google+. Especially Twitter, since it has been shown time and again that Twitter can be used for everything from rallying protesters to spreading word of political figures death. Fcaebook is definately loosing ground and needs to find a to correct they damage done by  fake headlines.