chain messages: how do you feel about it?

@jane9147 (252)
Philippines
March 16, 2009 6:37am CST
i Super duper hate chain letters.. like "if you don't send this to 20 people in 5 minutes you will suffer..." my aunt always sends me those chain messages.. grrr! they are so annoying.. esp. when you thought it's something of importance or substance.. ugh, really hate chain messages!
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14 responses
• Saint Lucia
18 Mar 09
I do keep the chain going somtimes if the content is of a fun based nature. Not hate it don't like it
@raclie (1732)
• Singapore
17 Mar 09
actually, i really enjoy reading chain messages, i know, i know, i am the odd one out, but honestly, i feel that some of the stories or facts that they add in are really interesting. as in, wow, the person who created this mail has lots of creativity! its really interesting to see how do people think, and what comes out of their thinking and free time. just make the chain end with you, dont forward and you will be fine.
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
17 Mar 09
Yup, I detest being threatened like this - that something bad would happen to me, my family and so forth if I don't forward ..blah,blah,blah!. I usually tell my friends who sent these, to stop sending. If not, I will just block them from my emails. It's indeed very annoying!
@ladynetz (968)
• Canada
17 Mar 09
I really don't like them. And because of this, I don't open anymore the emails I get from a particular friend. He has a big list of friends that he emails out .So everyone of us, receives the same email. And most of them are chain letters. I told him to take me off his big email list, because I don't want even to see these letters. But he said that's too much a trouble for him.So, I just don't open his emails anymore, and I don't have to see the letters.It's still annoying that he continues to email me and I have to continue and keep deleting them, but that's the only way I know how to deal with this.
• Netherlands
17 Mar 09
Ask you're aunt friendly not to that and don't read them.
• India
17 Mar 09
I hate chain messages for our domestic mails. But lincked and chain mails are very necessary for industry related mails.
@jillbeth (2705)
• United States
16 Mar 09
I despise those things. The ones I really don't care for are the nice religious messages that end "If you're not ashamed of Jesus, pass this on" or "If you love Jesus, pass this on." Well, I'm not, and I do, but I don't have to mail annoying chain letters to my friends to prove it.
@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
16 Mar 09
I don't find chain letters or emails as annoying as say spam messages that are out to cheat you of your money or to phish for your confidential information. Mostly chain letters are sent by people who likely know you and have you in their contact list. Some of these chain letters can also contain pleasant quotations or powerpoint shows with nice graphics and messages. Luckily for me, the people I usually communicate with are very grown adults and they seldom dabble in chain emails, so I seldom get chain emails in my inbox. The occasional ones I usually just read and throw away, thus breaking the chain.
@lalapuff (290)
• Philippines
16 Mar 09
i hate them. that's a real underestimation. but sometimes it also depends on where it's coming from. but for those i barely know and then gonna bombard me with a chain of life threatening mails like those with curses and stuff that if you don't forward this to a number of people you'll have bad luck for x years and i think that's just stupid! and here's another thing, it's like, when you've opened your mail there's no turning back and the curse is on you. i mean, c'mon guys some sense of good will and compassion..
@iamsolucky (1241)
• Philippines
16 Mar 09
chain letters are ok if only they are funny, with inspirational quotes and other "good laugh" emails. But when it contains sentences like " you will get bad luck once you dont forward this message, one of your family will die if you didnt send it to at least 15 people, oh no i really hate chain messages like that. Although i am not believer of the curses in that chain letters, it will really also ruin a minute of your day upon reading it. Its not nice, but its like its a "trend" in email now. happy mylotting!
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
16 Mar 09
I happened to know about it but till now I did not receive any such email. If I receive, I will never maid about their threatening and just I just forward to the sender and delete everything.
@mikhatri (120)
• India
16 Mar 09
chain messages........they just look awesome in the trash box, i really hate this chain msg's, this all are very frustrating, i alwayz break this chain as i never fwd it to anybody i just delete them.
• United States
16 Mar 09
I hate them. I love my friends but I always get those things. I get them in my email. I get them on myspace. After a while they just get old. I perfer actual emails and messages from my friends and family telling me how things are to those things. Reading them just seems to take up so much time and space. I just don't have the patience for them.
• India
16 Mar 09
i also hate those chain messages but its all about faith in something. some people do this because they have some kind of faith in all that things. I don't have faith in all those so i just neglect those kind of mails.