I'm a librarian too, so perhaps I have a lower tolerance level. I get the rare FWDed idiocy from one particular family member of mine who is gullible as hell, and just never seems to learn. I notice that (never learning) is an aspect of all this too.

And actually, I wasn't thinking so much of the plane at the pentagon thread or Nigerian spam, but the threads on the election in general (a lot of FWDed stuff), and the voting conspiracies in particular.

When we want to believe something happened, we tend to believe anything I guess.