Hack.

People deal with life in many different ways.
One person creates a Facebook page that attempts to find humor in Cancer as a way of dealing with the loss of a loved one.  ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cancer-is-funny-cause-people-die/174140266010061 )
Another person deals with that same Facebook page with anger, because he finds absolutely no humor in Cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people respond in kind, likely without reading anything on the actual page in question.
Threats are made. Cops are called. The page is Facebook "reported" and "investigated." Media gets told about it.

And all this amounts to what?

A HACK.

Whether or not there is a real person coping with Cancer or the loss of a loved one, hundreds of thousands of people have clogged up Facebook with their comments.

For what purpose?

Wikipedia: Hacking means finding out weaknesses in a computer or computer network, though the term can also refer to someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks.[1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, or challenge.[2]

There can be no doubt that someone is protesting the Facebook Page, or protesting the User, or protesting Cancer, or maybe any combination thereof.

And if there's a Hack behind it all, surely it's a means to to place stress on Facebook servers, in an attempt to get them to fail?  To cause bad publicity for Facebook?  To overwork some intermediary server or internet infrastructure?


Or maybe it's more sinister than that.  Maybe the Hack is trying to dissuade Facebook users from using the service?  Or maybe it's an elaborate ruse to elevate text-notifications to increase per-text revenues from cell-phone carriers.

Whatever.

The bottom line is, when you add your comment to a thread on Facebook with 200,000 comments, the joke is on you, because your notifications will cause you to throw your cell phone across the room.  Your Facebook Notifications will climb to at least hundreds, if not thousands.

And you still haven't cured Cancer; the Facebook Page in question is still alive and well; as is the person who created it.

No, I didn't create the Facebook Page. Not guilty. I'm just someone who happened to notice the phenomenon.

Why don't we have a cure for Cancer? Is there too many people drawing salaries off research efforts?  Too many people who get paid to be cancer patient caregivers and medical personnel? Too much money being made off medical equipment and pharmaceuticals? There's a whole economy centered around Cancer - a huge economy.