Craigslist "Free" Ads

[lady_mutt]

I've been trawling Craigslist for the past weeks for a desk and bookcases. Mostly the free section, as I'm a poor motherfucker

Comments

[snogged]

I think society does place a lot of shame and guilt into us. We are supposed to be a capitalist society that only cares about the dollar after all. *eye roll*

[isarian]

I had to read your post three times to realize that the last sentence was in the post itself. Abandon hope all ye who enter here D:

[onikoneko]

I'd say it has more to do with paranoia than with guilt. We live in a rather suspicious and paranoid society, and something like Craiglist has been known to have problems in the past. When something is being offered for 'free', a lot of people are going to first ask, "Alright, what's wrong with it, then?"

That second, defensive statement isn't necessarily about guilt. It's more a case of preemptively addressing peoples' paranoia, showing that there's an entirely valid reason that you're getting rid of a perfectly good random item.