So you mean to tell us that there is a website that you can go to and find out of that the clearly fake internet photo is in fact fake prior to forwarding it to all you friends? What a great idea, I thought the internet was just porn and free music.
Snopes: Because some people just don't believe it unless it's on the internet. My friend's wife forwards every stupid damn thing she gets. When I used to tell her it was fake, she didn't believe it. When I said the same thing with a link to Snopes, she believed me. It's a habit.