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The 'Movie on the Beach' planned for Dublin tonight is definitely not real
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IF YOU WERE on Facebook in recent months, you likely saw an event entitled Movie on the Beach Dublin pop up on your newsfeed.
The event was scheduled to take place tonight on an undisclosed beach in Dublin and over 60,000 people had clicked attending on the event.
While details like price or location were never announced, the organisers of the event did invite people to fill out a Google Form “to get priority on tickets once they go on sale”.
All interested parties were required to provide their name, date of birth, home address, mobile number and e-mail adddress.
Hmm.
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As October 14th approached, however, no official information about the event seemed to be forthcoming.
Many people began to ask whether or not it was actually going ahead or not.
And this morning, the event was quietly deleted from Facebook, dashing the dreams of 60,000 Dubliners in the process.
So, was the event ever going ahead?
Dublin City Council confirmed to DailyEdge.ie that they had not granted permission for any such event to take place.
Couple that with the complete lack of information regarding the event and we would say that it was nothing more than a Facebook hoax.
As for that slightly dodgy Google Form?
The Data Protection Commission told DailyEdge.ie that people should always be wary of giving personal information to organisations that may or may not be legit.
Noted.
We’ll watch films on the beach another day, Dublin.
But until then — don’t trust everything you see on Facebook.
Additional reporting by David Elkin
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