Chain letter in the internet age...

I remember opening my mailbox and being tickled that I received a letter that wasn't a bill. There of course was no return address and it peaked my curiosity to know who wrote me a letter. Quickly, but carefully I would tear open the envelope only to find the prize within to be a chain letter. Panic, do I have enough stamps to send this out. Of course I would have to copy 10 letters by hand because I didn't have a typewriter, nor did I have access to a copy machine. Now I get the email version. They make me laugh.

I have a few friends that send me these and I ignore them, the emails, not the friends. Most of them are the "send this to ten people and you will find your true love". Honey, if it were that easy I'd be a professional spammer LOL. There is a website that you can send the 'bed ones' to ... Curse Remover or something like that. It was set up by people who wanted to put an end to these types of emails. PinStruck used to have an email address where you could send them but they stopped that about a year ago.

I have honestly never sent a chain letter, message, IM, or anything. I think they are really stupid and I hated it when anyone sent me any. They aren't true, they're just annoying.

Chain letters? I really don't believe in them so most of the time I just delete them. I really don't think it would help much if yo send it to as many people as you can. I don't see the reason why. It just adds up to your inbox.

I DONT believe in them, but I have posted them before on myspace bulletins or in emails. Now a days they even do them by text messages. Every once in a while, this girl I knew from my last job, she will text me a message I'm a great friend now send this on to others so you can get good luck or whatever. *L* I'm like huh? Yes even on text messages. Still dont believe, still dont work. Enough said!

Under no circumstances do I participate in those "send this to XX people or ______________" deals. I hit delete and I don't care whose chain is broken. They are ridiculous and a waste of my time. I also do not "forward this to XX people, including the one who sent it to you." I hate those e-mails even more. I know who my friends are and they don't need me to return some insipid e-mail to them in order to confirm or deny that fact. I have now trained most of my friends not to send me this junk. A few are slower learners, but they will eventually get it. Also, don't send me any warnings about needles taped to gas pump handles, people waking up without kidneys, etc. I am so sick of getting those long rambling e-mails and then checking www.snopes.com to find that it is a hoax that has been floating around in one form or another since 1999. I check www.snopes.com, get all the relevant information and then hit "reply to all." I past the Snopes explanation with "FALSE" in big red letters and add a very tasteful request that the sender check Snopes before forwarding any more such e-mails to me. Then I hit "Send" to assure that the sender is embarrassed in front of all the other people they cc:'d when they sent me that nonsense. That cures 'em!

chain letters were fun as children when u would write them down and pass them to ur friends. i never passed them to all 12 friends it insisted i passed it on to but just to my closest pals to torture them into doing it too. Now though with the advent of celular phones and computer emials, those sort of people who started such chain letters are now using sms and emails to do their trade. greetings. : )

Since most of these chain letters are not true I tend to judt delet them. If they have something interesting I may send them on the friends that might appreciate them. Iv'e gotten some withsome good pictures in tehm and i'll send them on. But those that have stories like sloome one hiding under the car and attacking later those I just delete. because they are just silly and most often not true. Some I check out at snoops like the one about the telephone rebate on taxes because it checked out as true. I sent it on as a remender to some friends.

same here. even i dont like ppl fwding such msgs. also i delete most of them. but if the mail is really good i delete the thing at the end so that other are not troubled by that.

Actually, since you can usually tell what they are, just by the tone of the message, I often don't get through reading them before they get deleted ;) I don't send them on because I definitely don't want to make other people feel the way I feel when I getreceive them. I'm still here, after all those deletes--so I guess they aren't so threatening LOL :)

I never forward internet chain letters. The only ones I ever see are on Myspace bulletins anyways and I almost never post any bulletins myself. I remember when I would get chain letters in the mail when I was younger and my mom would never let me send any out.

I generally just delete those emails all together. I get so many of the same ones over and over that they just junk up my inbox. Once in a while they'll have sweet pictures and I'll pass them on for that but I take out the part at the end about the bad luck stuff.

i usually only forward stuff that interests me. like just today i got an email from my aunt about a girl who gor pulled over for honking and cussing at a guy for stoping at a yellow light. the cop thought she had a stolen car because the had "what would jesus do" liscense plates. i was like OMFG LLOLOLOLOLOL)OLOLOLOL so yea i forwarded it. but other things that dont interest me like corny slide shows that ive gotten i dont forward.

i hate chain letters and really wish no one would send them to me. i have even asked people not to send them to me and they still do. i just erase them. of course they aren't true. chain letters were fun as children when u would write them down and pass them to ur friends. i never passed them to all 12 friends it insisted i passed it on to but just to my closest pals to torture them into doing it too.

I do the same thing. I don't mind someone sending me a really funny or inspirational email on occasion, but why would someone want to threaten my life with it? That is the way I feel about the ones that tell me about forwarding the emails or I will die. Often when I get emails, I will scroll to the bottom before reading them. If it has such a message at the bottom, I will delete them without reading them. I don't like them, and usually don't even bother with them. If I do happen to read one though and send it on, that part is always deleted first.