Why send a Chain Letter to a true Friend? ( A rant)

I was annoyed by chain letters too it's because they threatened you in someway, that if you don't follow what they said like sending it to many friends you'll be jinx or something like that, usually when I received chain messages I just ignored it and delete.

I get them from alot of Christians saying God will bless me with good fortune. I never answer them. I usually send an e-mail back to the friend who sent it to me asking if I fall short and only send to 9 people will God condemn me. Or maybe if I double the amount sent I will receive much good fortune...hmmm I could use about a million dollars, maybe I'll send to 100 people. Oh wait, what if the people that I send to don't re-send...if they die does that mean my letters never made it to the spam god. Oh crap sarahruthbeth now I'm confused. Yes...I Hate Them Also. They insult my intelligence. I can not believe that people actually believe this crap and continue the letters.

THey are spam...and they have trailers on them...that means some spammer is picking up the email addresses of everyone you send it to...I dispise them....I don't pass any on either....

I think chain letters are so 1980's! Even the upgraded versions flying around on emails, and even Facebook. I think it's all a waste ink, computer memory, and effort for all the ones that receive them. It should go by ways of the dinosaur.

I receive such letters too. The last time fewer. I find them bored and, when I open them, I don't go on to end by reading and, finally, I delete them. It's a waste of time if you send them towards to other people.

I just ignore them and delete them. I don't think it's as complicated as you're trying to make it sound, with friends trying to "wish you harm" or anything. People tend to send them if they like the message that goes along with it, or they think its funny. I say just let it go and delete them, don't even bothering opening it because you can normally tell from the subject line what it is. I don't think I'd ever stop being friends with someone, or even be a b*tch to them over something like that. It's a little thing that can easily be ignored in my opinion.

Believe me, those things drive me absolutely nuts too!!! I hate them. The other day a very religious lady I know sent me one about putting God back in the public schools, etc. When I responded (nicely, but honestly) about how God is where people take Him individually, not in the communal prayers people are forced to pray, she made up some silly excuse about how she just sent the pictures! (like there's nothing religious about a beautiful picture of Jesus, and a glowing cross?) AARRGGHH!!! I don't know about some people... I have no time for those, even from my best friends. Some of them have a really right-wing message too, and I'm as liberal as they come. I just delete them, and move on.

hi Sarahruthbeth ug I get them, daily from mychildhood best friend she is back in south Dakota and I am in California. I cherish our friendship but she does not know that for every one or two I read I delete the other 25 she sends. If I respond to one that goes through that bad luck its deleted.I told her no chain letters and mostly she has quit doing that. But my lord she sends me twenty or thirty of these articles every day and my box is full. some are not chain letters and are interesting but so many? I would rather she tell me about herself more.And anyone else sending me a chain letter I tell them I do not do chain letters so please do not send them as I will not pass them on.And I have again reminded my best friend do not send me chain letters please.

I never open a chain letter and even if i do i just delete it without a thought.I know that it can`t kill me as i will go when my time comes and gladly so.In the olden days we used to get them by post and we would just throw them in the dustbin.Now its by email.So that too goes in trash.

These days, I don't have anyone in my life who would do that (except, maybe, my boyfriend's mother). So, I haven't had to deal with email forwards, chain letters, and other stupid stuff like that. I've pretty much weeded out the people who would do stuff like that. The people that I keep closest to me are educated individuals who don't "get" the point of stuff like that either. If I did receive something like that these days, I'd probably offer to buy the person some contraceptives.

One of my friends send me chain letters sometimes. I just delete them, I don't even read them and I would never pass them on to my other friends. My friend doesn't send them to me because she wants bad things to happen to me. She does it because she is superstitious and because she believes that something bad will happen to her if she doesn't send the letters to her friends. She believes that we both safe as long as I pass them on as well. I never do that because I don't believe in them.

I hate them too. Especially the ones that say you'll go broke or die if you don't send it to 150 people To be honest..I usually just delete them and fuss under my breathe. The worst are those darn texts...I remember threatening my daughter a long time ago..before we had unlimted...that if she sent them I was going to throw her phone off the Cherokee bridge. She said..but I'm going to have a hundred years of bad luck...I told her she hadn't seen bad luck until she chained that text..lol.

I have gotten chain letters in the past. I ended up throwing them away! They would say all you just mentioned! They are spam and a waste of time! People who send them just seem to want to cause trouble!

hi sarah, i dont mind it. i just shrug and leave it at that or delete it. i dont send it either to other friends. guess it is embarrassing. anyways, it is no big deal for me. ann

I exactly feel the same way. I don't understand why some people believe in chain letters. It doesn't make any good but a waste of time. I hate it when my friends send those tons of chain letters. I just don't reply on it. I ignore them all. I don't want to have a bad day just because i worry too much not sending these messages for at least 10 people because i do not have enough load on my cell phone. I use the prepaid. It is silly and next time i will tell them not to send those anymore.

I cannot stand those rotten chain letters either. I used to get some of those as spam, I never opened them and I always deleted them. Now, I am not one of those people that believe in all that mumbo jumbo about chain letters and bad luck. But to me it's just annoying.