Snopes Review

Snopes.com is a great resource for debunking urban legends and hoaxes and scams.  I wish everyone would take a second and check Snopes before they forwarded an email or reposted a myspace bulletin. 

Snopes is quick and easy to use.  You can just type in a keyword and hit search and find whether your story in question is fact or fiction.  You'll be surprised how much of it is fiction (more than is fact most of the time).  Then you'll know the truth before you share the falsehood with everyone else in your address book or on your friends list.

If you've got time to kill, it can be fun to read in general.  There's a lot of cool info on the site.  There were a few things that even I had believed to be truth that turned out to be lies.  The site goes beyond just the quick fact or fiction aspect,too.  If you have a minute to spare, you can read how and why the myth got started, and other variations on it. 

Anyone with an inbox should be using Snopes.  It's like the old Dial soap slogan "Aren't you glad you used Snopes?  Don't you wish everyone did?".