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hi hatley, I have a college friend who always send me a chain messages on mobile phone it's annoying actually so I pissed off and tell her frankly how bad I feel every time she send me a message like that then she stop sending me a chain messages but we are still friend till today happy mylotting

I think better to receive a chain letter from someone you know, you call friend because it means she exist. I have a friend, even single message or SMS he cannot send me even he has load balance on his mobile. He only send message if he need something. It's difficult to forgot something specially when it is related to your friend. Try to send her a message explaining what is the best for her not just sending only a chain message to you.

delete, delete, delete...

What are chain letters. :) I do get forwards. And I quite enjoy them. Though nowadays I dont send them to others. :) I think her memory is failing. I also think she is enjoying using computers now and it is making her excited may be. :) She possibly wants to impress you that she can do something like that. :) You can report it all as spam..may be in your email. Her mails can get classified as spam, and when you want to contact her, you always have the compose facility. I would be scared of hurting her at this stage. She must be lonely too.

Hi, Hatley! I have a niece who use to send me lots of urban legend stuff and I snoped it, too, like you do. In Snopes there is an option to mail the article. So every time she sent me something stupid I went to Snopes, looked it up, found it to be false and emailed it to her. She never said anything to me but I know she hated it and she stopped sending me stupid urban legend crap. People like that stuff. They prefer to believe it so they can "ooh" and "ahh" and "did you read this or that what he did?" So getting a message showing that it's absolutely not true is something they don't want to hear. And I think the suggestion somebody else made about sending a handwritten card snail mail is a good idea. But I really think she is being vindictive because of politics. People, now matter how nice or how good a friend they might be, will turn on you in a minute over politics. They are called rabid democrats or rabid republicans. I'm sure you've heard the term before. Money and politics are 2 of the most quarreled over subjects in the world. I've seen people hate someone they used to like over political differences. It's bad, but some people are like that. Hope you find a solution to your problem soon.

Hatley, sad to hear about this, some persons believe this kind of chain messages and send it to their friends, i don't believe this kind of messages, simply delete them without reading it. Hope she is still in touch with you, don't consider he chain mails and delete without reading it, if you are interested in continuing her friendship for a long time

Some people send those things because they want others to know they're thinking of them, even if they themselves have nothing to say. In your emails to her, do you tell her about what's happening in your life and ask her questions about hers?

I had a cousin, who is about 12 years older than I, and when we finally connected up after so many years of no contact, we did so by phone because I didn't have a computer. Then she tells me I need to get out of the "ice age" and get a computer, because she prefers to stay in contact with e-mails, even though I told her we had no money for one. When we finally did get a computer, we e-mailed a few times about what was going on, but then she started sending all this junk mail. When I finally asked her about why she doesn't just e-mail me about what is going on with her, know what she told me? I prefer to call you to talk.. Talk about being difficult..Needless to say, she kept sending me until, but instead of reading it, I would just delete it until I think she realized I wasn't going to respond and now she never e-mails me..

I know what you mean!! I have told all my friends and family that I don't like "forwards" or chain letters and if they think something is just so funny they have to send it, go ahead but I might just trash it without reading it. One person sent me a forwarded thing that pointed out that people send these to say they are thinking of you. I responded by saying just a one line "hi, thinking of you!" is much more appreciated. I used trash a most of these without reading them but everyone realized I meant what I said. Now I only have about 4 per day and they are hilarious and appreciated or important things I want to act upon. Just tell her how you feel, like I did. Send her a snail mail card and write inside it, "isn't this much better than an impersonal forwarded email? I really appreciate you!" So that's what I have done. Hope something works for you. If not, just hit delete when those things come!

I have had that problem with a couple of my friends. One of them sends me the cutest pictures and sayings that are of course the introduction to some kind of chain letter. I don't like them either and will not send them on. Some of them are really cute though. I told my friend that I did not participate in chain letters and asked her not to be offended if I did not respond to them but that I did love to hear from her and I did appreciate the information that some of the chain letters were trying to pass along. That worked out pretty well. She gets to keep enjoying her hobby and sometimes she adds personal notes that keep me up to date with what is going on where she is. And I just delete the chain letters and let it go.

hello friend, Maam, look at it this way, people change in the course of time, well she might not be the same person you knew at a younger age. Now at your age (how old is she?), it you look at it at a perspective, she might have health or financial troubles cause these are what chain letters are all about anyway, getting well and making some sort of instant wealth or both, just a suggestion, perhaps you should dig deeper at her state right now

It is unconceivable that She sends you chain letters rather than writing to you,just because you hold different political views.She seems to be an out-and-out republican.In her eyes,the political views come before everything including your friendship.

I get this garbage fairly regularly myself. I get them via email on Facebook. I'm not thrilled to see them. If it gets annoying I tell the friend in question that I'd rather they not send that sort of thing. It isn't that I don't care as some of them seem to imply. I just have better things to do with myself then sort through this stuff. I think maybe they think sending this stuff helps them to maintain connection with their friends.

I used to have friends whom did this to me also. I used to be agrravated by it also but at first I thought it was cute. Now I just wish they would stop. I'm sorry you've got different views of politics that get in the way also. I think its the silliest thing for friends or family to discuss politics at length and eventually argue over it all. I would suggest trying to send her real letters in hopes she will do the same. If you have tried this then I guess just ask her to stop or keep throwing them away. Try not to let it affect your friendship too much. If nothing else just call her on the phone and talk!

Personally I prefer keeping up with people via here, or on Facebook, etc than via personal email. I do not even usually check my email much except to see what I might be missing in way of friends discussions when I might be running out of ideas here in what to respond back too. Personally I would email or contact her again and let her know you are only wanting personal emails etc from her, and she can leave the other information for someone else. If she wants to share how she believes politically etc direct her to being a member here where she can come talk about it. Just my thoughts.

I really don't take those 'chain letters' seriously and unless I really agree with some subject matter in one I don't bother with them much. And I also get alittle hurt and irritated that people don't take the time to write to me instead of sinding me one of these. I do, however, enjoy the 'poke' on facebook. I use it daily almost. Nice way to let others know you are thinking of them. It's just a lazy way to say 'hi' in this busy world we live in. Not enough time to do all we want to do in this life.

Oh wow. I am not crazy about chain letters either. You are probably on her mailing list so everytime she sends one you are automatically attached. I guess I would just delete them as I got them if she continued to send them after you told her that.

So are these chain letters that she is sending to you the only correpondance that you are able to have with her? If that is the only way that you are in touch with her, then I really don't know if there is a way that you can maintain your relationship with her. However, if she does send you letter about her life and her family from time to time along with these chain letters, then my suggestion would be to ignore these chain letters and just respond to the personal emails that she sends to you.

There are a few people in my friends list that I sort of 'forgive' for sending me chain letters. I don't read it, I just put it in the trash right away. I guess their friendship means more to me than telling them off. But I know what you mean. There are a few out there where you'd wish you'd never accepted their friend request in the first place.

There are types of chain letters that are worth making like a solicitation for someone in need but letters asking you to send to ten friends or so then promising a spiritual reward then a warning if you don't comply is nonsense. No human have been given authority to invent such and it's rubbish.