Chain Letters and You!

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Today, I recieved a chain letter. There's nothing truly different about it (send this to 30 people in 5 minutes, if you do you get nothing YOUR TRUE LOVE!, if you don't you get nothing DEATH!). Annoying, right? Well, today I got a new one. I don't know what it was about it, but it angered me. Really, angered me!. Take a look at this...

k guys, this truly is freaky, the Phone literally rang as soon as I read The last word of this email!!!!!

Nice! Because a lack of grammar clearly means that there's paranormal activity afoot!

I am taking the bait - What do I have to lose right?

My sentiments exactly! I love it when emails pre-empt my every thought and move!

Hope it works!

So, you're sending out an email that supposedly grants wishes without any idea if it works or not? Maybe you should, I don't know, try it? Hope doesn't get you much these days.

Supposedly The Phone Will Ring Right After You Do This

Again, I'm Sure Capitalization Of Every Word Will Result In More Effect, Right? And, 'Supposedly'? Again With Uncertainty...

-Le Snip-

Drivel about how it supposedly works... I seriously doubt you're interested in this.

No attachment on this one.

And here I was thinking this was phony!

!

Golly.

Stories

Aha! Testemonials! Of course, that's why you didn't try it, you chain letter writer, you! You had full confidence in the following stories! Well, good on you, trust is hard to give these days.

I'm 13 years old, and I wished That my dad would come home from The army, because he'd been having Problems with his heart and right Leg. It was 2:53 p .m.. When I made My wish. At 3: 07 PM. (14 minutes Later), the doorbell rang, and There my Dad was, luggage and all!!

I'm Katie and I'm 20 and I've been Having trouble in my job and on the Verge of quitting. I made a simple Wish that my boss would get a new Job. That was at 1:35 and at 2:55 There was an announcement that he Was promoted and was leaving for Another city. Believe me...this
Really works!!!

My name is Ann and I am 45 years Of age. I had always been single And had been hoping to get into a Nice, loving relationship for many Years. While kind of daydreaming(and right after receiving this email)I wished that a quality person would Finally come into my life. That was at 9:10 AM on a Tuesday. At 9:55 AM A FedEx delivery man came into my Office.He was cute, polite and Could not stop smiling at me. He Started coming back almost everyday (even without packages) and asked me Out a week later . We married 6 Months later and now have been Happily married for 2 years. What a great email it was!!

This is the bit that annoyed me most. The implication is that by reading an email, you life will be fixed. It isn't. You won't get everything by magic, no matter how hard you want to. If you want a boyfriend or whatever, get up and find one. I realise the story is fake, but there have been people that I know that believe in this. Just ask the person that sent it to me. Plus, the email's a bit of a douche - it kicked a guy out of the city (against his will, may I add?), for God's sake!

So yeah, that's it. I was wondering what you thought about chain letters, weird emails, and perhaps just people that believe in stupid things like horoscopes and thse chain letters.

In case you hadn't wondered, things like this annoy the hell out of me. Not least of all was the fact that this had been sent to about 50 people. Imagine if they sent it to fifty people? That's why I try not to give people I don't like my email address...

 

[Gabanuka]

Ignore it, its just utter bull shit.

 

[Saul B]

These things annoy me but I do my best to ignore them.

 

[similar.squirrel]

A truly annoying phenomenon. I wonder who starts these?Manipulative trolls or genuinely naive idiots?

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I hate these things. Ignore them if you can. Half are filled with viruses, and the other half are just bullcrap.

 

[Kollega]

Just send it to trash. It's pure,distilled stupidity. Don't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

 

[EeveeElectro]

There's a few going round PS3... I've told them to stop it.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Where is my poll?

Like chain letters, I dislike polls a lot too... stops people talking, I find.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

if people send me chain letters, i find their email address and then sign them up for daily porn mailing lists and it's usually the most vile stuff that i can find

it's really annoying that people send them along, even worse when they know they are crap

 

[KeyMaster45]

Your spoiler boxes seem to be on the fritz, but yes the matter hand!

Chain letters, something relatives in my family send me on a regular basis, something that has landed many of them on my ignore list. I'll never understand the purpose of them and find them to be a waste of data space.