The power of seeing words on a screen is astounding. If I were to walk up to a person, and tell them "Hey, don't use the tomato sauce at Wimpy. They caught a guy injecting his HIV+ blood into it, so you don't know if they're safe or not"; I can guarantee you that I would get a funny look and slowly backed away from.
But send it to them in a mail, and all hell breaks loose! They forward it to everyone they know, exclaiming that they're going to stop going to all Wimpy restaurants until they make their tomato sauce bottles tamper proof rabble rabble rabble.
It's not that hard to tell a hoax from a real story, people. The lack of defining details such as location, branch, date, time, police spokesperson, description of the suspect is a very big indicator that it's a fairy tale.
As for the missing kids hoaxes - no matter how cute the kid is in the picture, all real missing kids bulletins will have information about what they were wearing, where they were last seen, who you can contact etc etc. Also the whole "Facebook will pay for this kid's operation" thing? Never going to happen. It's like those emails you used to get saying that Bill Gates would give you $5 for every forward of that email. It's logistically impossible. Furthermore, the pictures of those poor babies are used without the permission of their families. It's disgusting to use a picture of their child to dupe people.
I'll even make this easy for you:
www.snopes.com
www.hoax-slayer.com
Those sites will help you figure out what is a hoax and what is not, until your common sense muscle has developed enough to flex by itself.
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