what do you do with chain e-mails?

@cefaz_21 (2596)
Philippines
July 3, 2007 1:13am CST
Almost everyday I received forwarded e-mails that said in the end "please send this to at least 5 of your friends including the one who sent this to you" or something like that. I really never send them back..Is that being rude? Do you also have these kind of e-mails? Does the sender really expect to have that e-mailed back to him/her?What do you think?
8 people like this
32 responses
@Sherry12 (2472)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I don't like those kind of emails. I just delete them. I don't like to bother my friends with them. So I never forward them on or send them back to the person that sent them. But, actually, maybe I should start sending them back to the person who sent it, perhaps if they got their email filled up with them, they'd quit sending them.
2 people like this
• Australia
4 Jul 07
Hi there cefaz_21 and other myLotters I personally HATE those chain mails saying "mail to at least X people or you will be cursed, or, the one you love will hate you" etc...... as soon as the title suggests that the mail is a chain mail, i delete it straight away, even if it was sent by my friend. All my friends know that i hate chain mails and i have already told then that i will not read a single chain mail and tell them not to bother sending it to me. So that was it! now i dont ever receive any chain mails, but now i receive a lot of "join hi5, or join bebo, or you have been invited to _____" mails which i usually delete as well because i do not join those online friendship books kind of thing. If you dont like the chain mails, you can mail that person back saying you dont want chain mails or easily enough, just block their mail Hope what i wrote helped you =D mini
2 people like this
@MGjhaud (23171)
• Philippines
4 Jul 07
i usually received this chain emails from my classmates. sometimes i took time to read or scroll down to the bottom. but after that i delete them. i organized my email regularly actually so i dont keep those kind of emails. i dont pass them cause it sounds non sense to me.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
4 Jul 07
It really depends on the content and time I have available. I will usually do my best to at least return them to the friend who sent it but most of my friends don't appreciate things like chain e-mails so I won't send them more.
1 person likes this
@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
3 Jul 07
i have been receiving such emails from friends usually even in text messages. i found them quite funny but others seem to be true. honestly, i do not subscribe to this kind of activity, i am not sold to the idea that 'you wishes would come true' if you forward the emails to your other friends. i believe that we can only have our dreams come true through our own efforts and with God's help and because of the chain letters we forward to other people. normally, i read them first and delete them later.
1 person likes this
@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
4 Jul 07
I so agree with you sir, dreams becoming true doesn't depend on chain letters..I just hope people will realized this so tehy wont waste time subscribing to that notion anymore.
@sandwedge (1339)
• Malaysia
4 Jul 07
chain e-mail? i usually delete it and reply to the person sending it, with the same standard reply "KEEP YOUR JUNK TO YOURSELF".
1 person likes this
• Philippines
4 Jul 07
honestly i hate chain mails. if i accept chain emails i just keep it on my folders, but i never send it back to so many people or send it back to the sender. i do not believe in such stupid chain mails.it's a waste of time. well as a respect to the sender i just keep it in a folder, i do not trash it.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
4 Jul 07
Unsolicited email are no priority and you are under no obligation to do anything with them. If I feel strongly about them I might sent it back to the one that sent it to me and tell them to please do not send me anymore. If they are good then they will not. I think some people are superstitious about them. I am not. Good luck in the future with these.
1 person likes this
@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
4 Jul 07
well i have mostly came from my friends and relatives..i just read it..sometimes i send it back if ive got time..but mostly i just deleted it..
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I hardly get chain emails but when I do I just forget about them there so stupid and not worth wasting my time with I know on myspace I get them all the time I use to send them out to people there but now I just compltley ignore them they dont even work well at least for me they never did when I did them.
1 person likes this
@misshoney (973)
• Philippines
4 Jul 07
i only forward chain e-mails which i think is interesting and would also be beneficial for other people (e.g. it is inspiring or uplifting). however ido not forward e-mails that says if you do not forward this something bad will happen to you. i don't want to scare people.
1 person likes this
• Atlantic City, New Jersey
4 Jul 07
DELETE, DELETE, DELETE!! I hate chain e-mails!! I never comply- never send it on-and never send it back.
1 person likes this
@kuchiyose (163)
• Singapore
4 Jul 07
Not sending it back is not being rude. Rather, it is the right thing to do. Why waste your time with these mails when you could spend it wisely on things that you enjoy doing.
1 person likes this
@AKKRUMP (18)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I get emails like that all of the time. Just don't waste your time you know. The person who sent it to you was most likely just bored and had nothing else to do. My friends and sometimes random people send them to me alot and i just leave them sitting there..The only time i actually send it bak is if it was my girlfriend that sent it to me or something, but yea.Just don't waste your time with it
1 person likes this
@Calais (10893)
• Australia
3 Jul 07
I really dont care for these, they are so unpersonal and uninvited, I delete them straight away, they are just rubbish and no good to me.
1 person likes this
@kitkat1 (1227)
• Canada
4 Jul 07
Most of the time i do the same with chain emails as i do with regular chain letters to the garbage they go. If it is something fun or informative i will do it most times if i have the time but if it is ones send it to so many people or something bad will happen i delete it i dont have time for that foolishness and neither do the other people that they want me to send it too.
1 person likes this
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
3 Jul 07
There are several delete buttons on my computer. I use them often. If your computer has them, I'd suggest you use them everytime you get a chain email. "Delete," is there for a purpose and One very important reason is to delete chain emails. Only those who have nothing better to do would send such a letter! Personally I'm of the opinion that the authors of these simplistic cyber messages should have something better to do with their time.
3 Jul 07
I simply delete those fwds that specifically say "send to a number of people including the person that sent it to you."
1 person likes this
• Brazil
3 Jul 07
LoL?! When I open an email of these not control for the other people, I lose of time =P Who finds that functions, they ordens directs =P
1 person likes this
@gsehhh (3)
• Brazil
3 Jul 07
this is one of the bad things on the internet, orkut,email, msn all the time i receive this spam msgs... but if the people stops send to your friends it will end!
1 person likes this