What Is The "Proper" Etiquette For...
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
June 13, 2008 11:34pm CST
Sending those forwards?? You know the ones I mean. You get these things that tell you to forward some message, and it instructs maybe that you also send it back to the person that sent it to you....okay..then they again send it to you..again...are you supposed to send it AGAIN???
And I really don't like those whammy ones that say if you don't send it you'll have x-amount of months or years bad luck...
Sheesh
And raise your hands...how many like those forwards? Be honest. I don't mind some of them...but like I said, hate the ones that say if you don't forward you'll have bad luck.
And I really don't like those whammy ones that say if you don't send it you'll have x-amount of months or years bad luck... Sheesh
And raise your hands...how many like those forwards? Be honest. I don't mind some of them...but like I said, hate the ones that say if you don't forward you'll have bad luck.10 people like this
34 responses
@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I really don't know the "proper" etiquette for those. If it comes from someone I like or if it is one that I can go along with it, I will send it on. Most of the time, I just delete them since half the time, they are junk. when I see the ones that talk about bad luck, I am really tempted to just delete them. In fact, most of the time, I do. I don't buy into that nonsense.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Jun 08
LOL...I always have that lurking fear that if I do delete those bad luck ones, I will have bad luck..hehe...that's why I hate them the most...I suppose some think they're funny..I don't 
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
16 Jun 08
Why do you think you don't get alot of email from me unless I write it myself? lol My mailbox gets flooded with all these types of forwards and I just delete them. If it says to send it back to the sender, I will just hit reply and send it back but not forward it unless it's something I think certain people will like. I very seldom send the forwards I get to everyone on my contact list. I choose the ones I think will like it instead.
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@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
20 Jun 08
I get mine from my dad, LOL. I even snopes some of them, tell him what I find, and he says, "Yes, but they are so much fun." He knows I often just delete them.
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
20 Jun 08
A couple you have sent my way but nothing compared to my sis-in-law. When she starts in on her email, I know when she's online. They hit me left and right for a solid 1/2 hr. 
When she starts in on her email, I know when she's online. They hit me left and right for a solid 1/2 hr. 2 people like this
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
I really appreciate that fact ....I think I've been guilty of sending some of those darn forwards to you though..just want to get rid of them....too bad one can't block forwards period--I get a lot of them from others and they mean well I guess, but still could do without all of them
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
16 Jun 08
That's a great question, Pye. I'm afraid I usually just delete these forwards even if they're from a personal friend, especially the ones saying if I don't pass it along I'll have bad luck. These are just like those old chain letters, or maybe they're still around. We used to get quite a few of them turned in at the post office. For the record, I LOVE the jokes so keep them coming and I hope you don't mind when I send them to you. If you do, let me know and I'll stop sending them!
Annie
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
I do love funny ones or jokes..that I don't mind...just wish people would stop sending the bad luck ones..really hate those and maybe I'm just plain superstitious and don't want to tempt fate and I send them back out.
@hezoid (2144)
•
16 Jun 08
I know the ones you mean, bascially they are chain letter done via e-mail, and unless they contain something funny in them they really amount to little more than spam. If they are jsut spam i would delete them, if they actually had somethng funny in them as well i might forward them just for the funny bit. I don't think i ever get them back, and i never send them back to the person who sent me it.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
Oh..chain letters....yes, I remember those too...that used to be a nuisance as well to get...at least with these dumb forwards one isn;t spending a fortune on stamps to forward them
@4mymak (1793)
• Malaysia
16 Jun 08
normally... when i recieve such 'poison' chainletter (the ones that promise bad luck), i delete it and i would write back to the sender - telling them i dont appreciate such chainletter and ask them to exclude me in their mailing list if they wish to send me 'bad luck'...
as for the happy ones and ask that you also send a copy back to the sender.. that one.. i would forward and send back...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
I kind of think it's horrid that people would send such forwards that say bad luck if you don't send...I just plain don't think they're funny to get at all...I wonder whose idea it was in the first place to start them anyway?
@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I rarely forward any of those. And when I do I delete the part about 'commanding' them to forward it or send it back, and bad luck if you don't, and all that crap.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Jun 08
I can't help thinking what a rotten thing for some of those forwards to say that one will have bad luck if you don't forward...like WTF...people want to wish bad luck??
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@zigzagbuddha (4601)
• United States
15 Jun 08
This morning I was wanting to take advantage of the rain we had and get some Thistle dug up from the yard, and some Chicory dug out of the post office's flower bed (much easier to get the roots out of moist soil than baked adobe!) Anyway I was trucking along pulling my noisy a$$ed wagon along behind me, deep in thought, but moving fast to get it all done before the sun burned through the clouds.
As I walked by my mother's back patio on my way to the post office I heard my mother's back door, and I have to confess I started walking a little faster because I didn't want to be delayed. I heard a little 'chirp' that was probably her calling out to me, but I ignored it, but stopped to dig up a couple of huge weeds on my way. My mother came around the corner, and for like the 1000th time said to me "You're going deaf!"
I blew up. First of all, it would hurt her feelings for me to say "No, I'm not going deaf, it's called 'selective hearing, as I really do not want to hear most of what you ever say, and right now I am in a hurry", so I basically suppress that kind of communication, and it had built up.
Secondly, her repeatedly saying that to me, in my mind, is the same energy as those emails that 'threaten' you with bad luck if you don't participate in their stupid game, and it just really pi$$ed me off. I started yelling at her and she went storming into the house to avoid a scene in the front yard since god forbid the neighbors hear us "acting like heathens". I'm pretty sure she called my sister up to whine about what an a$$hole I am.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
15 Jun 08
I am not sure about the etiquette is but I delete them I never forward them to my friends and actually I do not think it is very nice of my friends to send them to me. So many of them are liked to a very mild type of spyware where they accumulate email addresses
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
Most of the time, I just plain don't have time to read so many of those forwards..
@carrotcake14 (361)
• Philippines
15 Jun 08
ot depends on mymood. if i think i have lots of time to still read those craps then i'll forward it anyways just to please them,hehe
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
That's the thing I just don't like..reading all those things!
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
15 Jun 08
I don't think there is an Etiquette for this. I do think we should not keep sending the same ones back and forth to our friends. I don't always like the forwards, but then again I don't want to see if I get any bad luck from not sending it on to others. I would rather send it on and keep my life in tact, rather than get bad luck, not that I think that it brings us good luck, but bad luck comes quicker to us than good luck, so I pass it on. If however it has nothing to do with any type of luck, then I pass it on if I think it will interest other people, otherwise I read and delete it.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
Yes, I hate those "bad" luck ones..call me superstitious but it's like I don't want to tempt fate or something....so that's why I forward them myself
@Amberina (1541)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I hate the forwards and the bad luck ones I never do what they tell me to in the mail sometimes I will read them and if I think they are funny I will copy up to the part where it says you have to mail it to 8 friends otherwise a little girl in Rowanda will lose her legs an her cousin's hair will fall out, then I send the funny part to my good friend Apache....lol. I rarely send the one back to the person who sent it to me to "prove I love them, am their best friend, pray for them every night, and so on" I don't need to prove anything they know I'm their friend even though they send me those stupid emails!!! 
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
Mmmmm...gee I never got a forward that said..you have to mail it to 8 friends otherwise a little girl in Rowanda will lose her legs an her cousin's hair will fall out that's certainly inventive 
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jun 08
pyewacket those are chain letters,and I hate them, allI
ever do is delete them, specially the ones telling you
you will have bad lick, they get axed first by me.I do
not give a damn about any so called etiquette here as I
did not ask for these and I will not send them on. so all
thats left is to delete,delete and delete some more. lol.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
Oh how I remember the days of chain letters one got by snail mail...at least by emailing one doesn't have to spend a small fortune on stamps..LOL
@wickedangel (1636)
• Dominican Republic
14 Jun 08
Hi there pyewacket. Yes, I get quite a few of these regularly and I must admit that I don't forward them on unless I think they are really good.
If someone is my friend then they will know that I am their friend they certainly don't need me to email them back one of those emails and certainly not if it threatens me with bad luck..
One time someone sent me something like that and I did forward it on but I took out the threatening bit and just passed it on. Now I must admit I just look at them and say 'ahhh' and then delete them.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Jun 08
I also hate it if it specifies the number of people you have to send these things too as well--don't mind if it's just three or so...but some suggests you HAVE to send to ten people
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I hate those things. I wrote an article at another site, saying something like this. Imagine that your neighbors all come knocking at your door and insisting that you all go to the mall. You have to be there in 30 minutes. Once you're there, you have to turn around and around in the mall hallways, go into 3 stores, grab your friends and do a line dance. Then you all have to rush home and when you get there, you'll discover that you've all received a new big screen TV. That makes just as much sense as most email forwards.
I do often send them back to the originator so that he/she thinks I have not broken the chain or the good luck. :-)
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 Jun 08
That's funny...yup, those emails make just as much sense as that example you gave.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
14 Jun 08
All my friends and family know that if they send me those stupid things that they will be deleted unread. Does that stop them? No, of course not. So every day I get several which are promptly deleted. Why do I delete them? Because some can be inbedded with computer viruses. Several years ago my computer suddenly crashed after my sister in law sent me an email "you just have to read." Not having told me her computer had also crashed. I had so many viruses on it that my computer expert friend said he couldn't salvage any of my files and we had to start all over. All my photos, addresses, websites and favorites gone! For what - some cutsey message about best friends are for...... geeze what a waste of time.
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@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
16 Jun 08
Mostly my friends just send me what they think is cute, and add a footnote that says not to forward it, unless I just really want to do so. I will send one back, if I am feeling generous.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
The thing I hate about getting so many forwards is that I just plain don't always have the time to read them all...I rather be spending the time doing something else than that
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
14 Jun 08
You don't like those?....hey, I hate all of messages with forward. I just hate all of them.
I think that it is very rude to send it to friends.
I always send it back to person who email it to me and I say..."don't even think to do it again"
It is done for emotional damage and it is very bad psychological game.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Jun 08
Nope I don't like those bad luck ones..why do people think they're funny anyway?
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
14 Jun 08
they don't have good sense of humor....
they know how to be mean....
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@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
16 Jun 08
The ones I think are really good I will forward on. Not all of them but just a few. The ones that mention that if it is not forwarded it will bring bad luck I definitely delete those. I don't believe in that nonsense.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
I think there's kind of a cruelty involved when sending those bad luck ones...like why would anyone wish bad luck on someone?
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Jun 08
I think I may have seen that..a friend sent me a link...it was actually a video..and it was a spoof of forwards especially the bad luck ones
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@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jun 08
If it says to return to sender, I'll usually send it to that person, with a note something like, "Here. You can have it." If they send it a second time, I just delete it.
If I like the main part of one of these type of forwards, I sometimes will send it on, but delete the part about returning/sending to x-amount of people, etc. (unless it's tongue-in cheek, like a dog will piss on your computer or your boobs will fall off).
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@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Jun 08
OK, next time I get one of those, I'm sending it on to you. Be afraid... be very afraid... mwahaha...
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Jun 08
Mmm...never had one that said a dog will piss on my computer or boobs falling off.......now that would be kind of cute
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@Celestiamoon (231)
• Canada
20 Jun 08
I usually don't even read them ... sometimes I do but then I just delete them. Seems I am still alive afterall and I haven't had 10 years bad luck , or had a spooky ghost follow me around if I don't send them on LOL
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
20 Jun 08
That's the thing I don't like most of all...it takes a lot of my time just reading those darn things...time I could be using to do other things
