Chain letter e-mails
By ChaJudLeoBit
@ChaJudLeoBit (1656)
United States
September 30, 2007 12:33am CST
I don't forward them. I don't have the time, or the motivation to dig into my address book to forward any of the MANY e-mails I get. Most of the people on my list are on my family's list, so they get a copy anyway. I check one of my my e-mail accounts once a week, and the other maybe once every few months. So I read them, but I don't forward.
What get's to me are the one's that threaten something if I DON'T forward them. They try to say I don't believe in God, or that I laugh at soldiers and don't give a crap what they are going through. Just because I don't forward some stupid e-mail, all of a sudden this person thinks that they know me? They feel they are given the devine right of judgement over my life because I deleated their message?!?!? Or they say I'll have years of bad luck? Well my bad luck has nothing to do with not playing their game.
I keep a lot of the ones that have good messages, even though I don't forward them. But if they threaten me in any way, they are immediatly deleated!! Sometimes I won't even read them.
How do you feel about this??
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4 responses
@ChaJudLeoBit (1656)
• United States
7 Oct 07
I hadn't even thought about that, but you're right. Each person who gets a copy, all the way down the line, has your e-mail address. But even if you don't forward it, everyone who got it with their e-mail listed along with yours can perpetuate the line. So by your friend who sent it you putting your address in it to forward, it will continue to travel around the world, as long as just one person forwards it.
@AmbiePam (120630)
• United States
30 Sep 07
Chain letters will not decide my fate. And when they try to play on our emotions, that just makes me more inclined to not pass them on. If it is something really cool, I'll pass it on to only a few people I know would enjoy it. But if they question my faith or patriotism at the bottom, no way. I'm not passing that garabage on for anything. I don't have time for that kind of emotional blackmail, and I won't subject it on anyone else either. I just wish people would return the favor of not passing them on when they have those stupid 'conditions' on the bottom. They always think, 'just in case....'
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@ChaJudLeoBit (1656)
• United States
7 Oct 07
Yeah. I don't mind reading them, and enjoy them most of the time. But the ones who claim to judge you for your actions should never be passed along.
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@ertzinas (239)
• Finland
1 Oct 07
Well, in my opinion chain letters are just waste of time and usually they have some kind of story behind it. Like 9 year old girl dieing in hospital in a month and her last wish is that all people would send the letter as many people as possible. Once some man called to that hospital stated in the chain letter and the woman there answered that they never even had a patient named that which was on chain letter. I think the main idea of makers of chain letter is to get it to spread all over the world and see how many have sent it and finally sooner or later it gets back to you and i think the makers of chain letter gets some pleasure from it. I never really answer those chain letters. It just gives your email to everyone and then the trash messages going to flood in.
@ChaJudLeoBit (1656)
• United States
20 Oct 07
So maybe some are started by spammers wanting to get a list of active e-mail addresses. That's a good way to do it.
