Can a Re-post on Fb Actually be OFFENSIVE?

If you read my blog from last week, you will recall that I was talking about the Zimmerman case in Sanford, FL in which a young teenager was shot and killed - name Trayvon Martin.  I happen to be on Fb and Twitter the whole week reading all these reports and comments on my news feed.  One of the links I re-tweeted or "share" on Fb was from an unreliable news source.  As a current student in an online college, I should have known better to have checked the validity of the news source.  And the link came from an educated colleague of mine therefore I did not hesitate to re-tweet or "share."

Luckily I checked on my Fb page and realized that one of the links or news report was a hoax.  So I thanked the person on my page for letting me know.  It never occurred to me to delete the link.  Lo & Behold  I receive two comments from two different people on both links - who are acquaintances of mine - that the stories I posted were "both disgusting and a hoax and that I was no better than the unreliable news sources who posted this offensive garbage" ! Of course, I myself was offended and embarrassed that both these individuals had the NERVE to talk to me in that manner and of all things to post their discontent on MY page. I really wanted to give both these individuals a piece of my mind and publicly humiliate them!  I even thought about apologizing to both individuals and then removing them from my Fb page.  But I just decided to delete both links...

I really could not understand what was the Big Deal?  I did not post something offensive about neither one of them?  I did not even COMMENT on the links I re-posted.  All I know is that this happened last week sometime and I am still pissed about the situation. How should I have handled that anyway?  What would you have done?

I am just going to keep "sharing"/ re-tweeting messages of Christianity, Light & Peace, and Information that might actually help individuals - like I been doing for the past year...

(Below are the links I had inadvertently re-posted) :

    http://nationalreport.net/george-zimmerman-files-civil-suit-against-trayvon-martins-parents-for-being-brutally-attacked-by-their-juvenile-son/

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/07/witness-alleges-george-zimmerman-sexually-abused-her-as-child/1#.Ue9ZKNJwp8M