Tired of Email Chain Letters ?
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YOU BETCHA I'M TIRED OF CHAIN LETTERS!!
Are you constantly getting junk chain letters in email from your pals? Me, too.
Some of my friends are not acting responsibly when sending me forwards. I just might link this lens to all my emails in the future so they will be better email-pals.
Sure, some of the emails are sweet. Some can be really funny. Some might have what you believe is life saving information. But do you really have time to forward them to your buddies? And do your buddies really have time to read them? E-zine writer, Bob Stovall, has an opinion you might be interested in reading.
To all my friends, please THINK before you hit the "forward". Just stop and think and use proper email etiquette. I am saying this with affection - not malice.
Do yourself a favor: Do Some Research. Find out if the emails are for real or a hoax. I recommend some sites in this article.
For those of you who thrive on chain letter email, I have given you a "fix" by including some examples that might make you laugh.
Oh, by the way, did you receive the email warning about The Bad Bananas?
Thank you. And I hope you have taken no offense. None was intended. Honest.
Chain email image from Microsoft
What is a "Chain" Letter?
Written text which advocates its own reproduction. For example, "Please copy and send it to 10 other people," a typical chain email urges; or "Forward this to everyone you know!" demands another.
About.com
I Did NOT Forward a Chain Email, So I Will Have Three Years of BAD LUCK!
Hiding in a corner won't save me from it.
I am so tired of being afraid that my friends will neglect me because I do not forward their chain emails.
You know what? I bet they won't even know know I broke the chain!
A Solution to Stop Chain Emails -- send the offender an etiquette book!
Here are a few books on email etiquette. If you send one to a friend, it might serve as a hint to STOP SENDING ME JUNK EMAIL!!!
Add another book to this list if you find one.
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Bob Stovall Has an Opinion About forwarding Emails!
To quote Bob Stovall in his internet e-zine article, Before You Forward Me That Cute Chain Email...:"How do you recognize an Internet hoax? Any email that asks to be forwarded is an immediate suspect. Any email containing a promise of good fortune, or a threat of bad fortune is a suspect. Any story that seems too good to be true is a suspect. And unfortunately, any email that tugs at our heartstrings with tales of sickness and misfortune (especially involving children) has to be suspect."
I agree with him, check out any email letter that meets the above criteria BEFORE you send it on.
Another internet site recommends that you delete any email chain letter--no questions asked! There are days when I do this! Sorry.
Oh. If you do decide that an email is worth forwarding, remember to delete all the addresses of people who forwarded it before it got to you.
Where to go to find out if something is true or a hoax:
Urban legend?
Two sources are recommended here:Truth-o-meter - Hoaxes in Politics!
With the upcoming Presidential election, lots of rumors are circulating out there. We all need to be cautious about what we are hearing and saying.
Top 25 Urban Legends for the Week:
David Emery on About.com
TOP 25 URBAN LEGENDS FOR THE WEEKImage of the man searching for an answer is from Microsoft Clip Art
ALWAYS BEWARE THE "SEND A CARD TO A DYING CHILD" EMAIL
OR EVEN THE "CHARITY" EMAILS
- Child Dying of Cancer
- Sometimes the people are real, but the letter is a hoax and causes families a lot of trouble.
Reading This Chain Email Might Kill You
NOT REALLY--It is a JOKE
Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy's life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund. Remember, we have no way of counting letters sent and this is all bull. So go on, reach out. Sendthis to 5 people in the next 47seconds.
Oh, and a reminder - if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly. Thanks again!!
To read more like this one, go to Email Junkyard.
4 Skulls Image from Microsoft Clip Art
Blogs about Junk Email:
See what others are saying about Chain and Junk Email.
- Junk the chain mail
- HYDERABAD: Apart from insurance companies and hospitals, one more thing that works on human emotions - chain mails. And why? Because they threaten you to forward the mail to 12 people, to avoid bad luck. There is so much junk flowing around emails ...
- Scott Kara: Reflections of an 'old fart'
- These musical relics - hundreds upon hundreds that I never thought I would listen to again - now live in our rickety old one-car garage alongside garden tools, noxious sprays and other junk we really should get rid of. Don't get me wrong, ...
- The Fixer: Rock fight between Toronto Water and residents at Gainsborough ravine
- When debris is caught by the rocks, high water rushing around it eventually carries the junk toward a box-shaped screen made of chain-link fencing that surrounds the drain, said Vogel. Instead of piling up around the grate at the entrance to the drain, ...
However preposterous their claims,
chain letters always attempt to play on the irrational wishes or fears of their recipients - and often succeed.
David Emery on About.com
Do You Fear Bad Bananas?
LINKS TO JUNK EMAILS THAT WERE ACTUALLY SENT!
- Flesh eating Bananas
- I will never eat a banana again! NOT!
- Car jacking scheme!
- More junk!
- Antiperspirants Cause Breast Cancer!
- This might explain why some of my friends began to smell bad a while ago. Ban BO!
How Do You Handle Your Junk Email or Chain Letters?
Is there a nice way to tell your pal to STOP?
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vallain Apr 21, 2012 @ 2:03 am | delete
- I'm afraid the cute puppies, the political smears, the alert that might save your life and all those kinds of emails die in my deleted mail folder. Can't believe what people will forward (and how much extra time they must have to be reading all this stuff).
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Funny_Beekeeper
Mar 9, 2012 @ 11:06 am | delete
- Chain letters - no thank you!
I hate these letters and too bad they are just an e-mail, otherwise I would burn them immediately ;)
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Mia-Mia
Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:18 pm | delete
- If I could, I would "like" this lens 10 times over.
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WildFacesGallery
Feb 18, 2010 @ 10:00 am | delete
- I had to look this over since a friend of mine and I were just talking about this very thing. Her mailbox is always loaded with this "stuff" I set a rule early on, NO SPAM to my friends. Mostly for paranoia with sending on viruses.
At any rate will send on link to this lens as well as Hoax Busteers. Thanks for this lens. :)
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JaguarJulie Jan 24, 2010 @ 11:28 am | delete
- Oh my yes and you know what, I need to call my mom the next time she sends me one of them. ;) No, really!
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