So far this month, it seems that my lack of forwarding could result in my losing all my money, getting cancer, letting children starve and being totally responsible for global warming! Then there are the emails from complete strangers that want to give me millions of dollars if I could just let them clear funds through my bank…yeah right! Sorry Bub, I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck!
Not to sound like a total grump, I do get some really nice emails that say please forward… and once in a while I will send them along, but for the most part, I don’t. Hey, I’m being totally honest here. It’s nothing personal, I just hate chain letters.
Now some friends send me jokes, and I don’t mind, I enjoy a good joke, as long as I don’t have to send it on to everyone I’ve ever known!
After a while, these emails start to make me paranoid, if something goes wrong I think maybe it’s because I broke Cousin Betty’s chain…then I feel guilty, everyone missed the million dollars because Sunny copped out!
Does anyone else dislike these pesky emails? Or am I really the crabby old bat that most friends and family now think I am?
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I hate them too and I usually delete most of them without even reading them!
If YOU, Sunny, qualify as a crabby old bat, then I guess I should just consider myself completely worthless. I also really really dislike those chain emails, for the same reason. If something bad happens to me, it must be because I failed somehow. That's how these things get ahold of us, they buy into our sense of unworthiness. I don't forward them. I sent one I thought was wonderful to my sister, and I got a single line answer: "I don't do these. Sorry."
So now, when I get one, that's exactly what I do with it, send it back to the sender with a short note. One particularly intense persons who sends me these is now blocked on my email; I never see them, so I figure I'm safe!
Yes, I do, and if it's a nice message and I want to send it on, I delete anything that says it HAS TO BE FORWARDED OR HORRIBLE THINGS WILL BEFALL THE PERSON NOT SENDING IT ON. I also delete the part that says to return it, who has the time. And then sometimes, I look at my e-mail and if it's been forwarded at least one time all ready, I don't even bother to open it. My daughters do that to me all the time, I don't mind, since I also do it. Can get through the mail quickly that way. LOL But sending on a lot of the crap that comes through the e-mail DOES NOTHING FOR ANYONE. Just something to take up spare time, and if I have spare time, I would rather be playing a computer game or reading someone's blog. Well it's time to think of something for supper/dinner. Tonight I'm lazy, it's going to be Manwichs, oven french fries, salad and left over cake and ice cream. Might not be the healthiest, but it's fast. Want to be ready to watch Dancing With The Stars at 8. Have a good evening.
You are preaching to the choir here. I open no attachments, forward no chain letters, and verify every lost child and even prayer lists through Truth or Fiction. 98% of these things are pure fiction. There are some really cruel hoaxes out there also.
The rare good joke I haven't seen 100 times before gets passed on to those I like.
Guess I am a crabby old bat also. Should we start a COB club?
I "sometimes" read them but never forward them.....delete, delete, delete!
I read them but never do I send them to others. If they are good I put them in my journal to use in presentations. "If you don't send this to eight people - who gives a darn." Thanks.
I don't like chain e-mails either Sunny, although I do read the beautifully expressed ones I might receive from a friend, but I'm not big on passing them on, just like blogging awards, I will kindly accept if given so as not to offend, but I acknowledge that I choose not to pass them along. So does this mean I'm crabby? Hope not!
I never forward them either. So who does? I'm afraid I have a similar approach to blog "awards" which are not awards at all but sophisticated chain letters.
I HATE, HATE, HATE them. I have two friends who keep sending them and it got to the point where I deleted anything from their address before I even read it.
As regards awards though, (Alan), I rather like getting them, as they sometimes provide a fun post to write about and a chance to share my bloggy friends, but my list of bloggers I feel close enough with to pass them on to is limited and I've already included them before, so then it does feel a little like a sophisticated chain letter.
I agree Sunny, I don't bother with them either ....
LOL... can you hear me now :D You go girl and tell it like it is.
I too can get annoyed with these emails but then I stop and think... 'watch what you wish for Pam', its better to hear from the people in your life than NOT to hear from them at all...
I don't like forwards either and I've told all my friends and family not to send them to me because I won't read them. I just hit the delete button and don't even look at them.
I absolutely HATE the chain letters. And even worse, are the religious ones. Hey, I'm a good Catholic girl, I know, snort, hard to believe if you read my blog, LOL, but, growing up Catholic means I KNOW WHAT GUILT IS. By golly, if I don't PASS THIS ONE THIS MEANS THAT I DON'T LOVE JESUS or I'M EMBARRASSED TO DO SO! Grrrrr! That just irritates me to no end! I just hit delete and try not to think about it again. :)
I wanna be in COB too..I think the company would be great there. I edit all my email..it takes a long time, and I don't do those nasty..send to ten friends in ten minutes or you will die a painful death or bust a fingernail.. IF it is one worth sending along, I delete the send on and return info. I don't do blog awards either..just gets to be too much..and what do they really mean anyway:(
I rarely if ever, ever forward them, but every once in a while I'll get one that gives me a tickle or chuckle and I don't mind sharing it with a friend or two that I know feels the same way that I do. And I do tend to feel the same way about blog awards, I've gotten several that I was willing to respond to, but mostly I just thank whoever sent it and let them know that I rarely participate and not to take it personally. I have a lot of things that I truly enjoy doing online, but most are related to my blog and that's it.
Great post! Sunny, give em' hell, I'm with you.
Enjoy your evening!
Sylvia
I'm with you! I've been breaking chains for years. Perhaps you didn't cost that person the million dollars -- I did!
Those things annoy the hell outta me :) I can't stand them! Never read them, always delete them.
I don't open those emails and certainly don't forward them. I could care less if I break the cycle.
Yha know, I don't like the darn things either. Some of them are just a pain in the ***! I get rid of most of them, but the Wife has a habit of FWDing them to different people. I don't see doing this, unless it's really good and worth the view. Good Post, Sunny!
Les
I must be a crabby youngish bat, because I hate them too. I hated the snail mail versions (copying them by hand...) and hate the e-mail versions as well. Fortunately I have good friends and family who will not send me all that nonsense!
No, you're not a "crabby old bat". I hate them too and delete them no matter who they are from. I guess I will loose all my mone, have cancer, etc, etc, etc too.
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Me too. I don't read them just hit the delete button and I don't worry about consequences either because i've been deleting them for ages and nothing bad has happened.I can't be bothered with many jokes either. They usually end up in the bin too.
I have a couple of older friends who send these out constantly. I marked them as spam so they get filtered out and I never see them. If that makes me 'crabby' so be it.
I hate them too so call me a crabby old bat. I don't think it's right in any sense of the word to threaten people with harmful energy. If it is something I think worth forwarding, I take off the threats. Unfortunately bulk emails worth forwarding are few and far between!
Sunny
Well said, I'm with you. This kind of mail goes straight to the trash can.
I get these too, and mostly ignore them
(at my peril?) I just press the delete button without passing them on... I should be dead by now, or at least be suffering all the bad luck in the world!
Love Granny
I couldn't agree more: they are insulting to say the least ... almost as bad as the Nigerian bank account scam. (Well maybe not that bad.)
I'm one hundred percent with you on this one. Such proliferating emails just clog up the internet and slow everthing down, as far as I can see. Perhaps you could write one polite, 'declining to participate' message, and email everyone in your addressbook?! You never know, they might take the hint...
I get plenty of these, and some of them are worth reading and relatively innocent...I've told myself the key is to read only to the point of where your fate is about to be revealed, and then stop. I've convinced myself that this will help keep me safe and prevent the world from falling off its axis. By the way, did you get the one I sent you about the...
ooops, just kidding.
I used to send them on but now forget it!! I am sick of them too. and now "THEY" have started sending them at work! Sorry, I don't show my love of God or if I believe in Him by how many emails I forward on to other people that also hate getting them.........
I am not really crabby........ :-)
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