getting forwards-------how do you look at them?

I feel the same way as you do about forwards. I know my friends are busy and I get busy sometimes too. I have told my friends before that even though I don't write often, I still think about them. And what better way than sending them something to make them laugh or to feel special.

Yes that is partially true, but I know so many people that forward emails and they can't even remember who the email address belongs to, or how that person got to be on their list in the first place, and when that happens this is not your friends thinking about you because they sent you a picture a cat in a dress, and you have dogs, it is spam, because they don't even know how you are anymore, if they ever did in the first place.

As I have said before there are a lot of Reasons why People are not here. And sometimes these People can not let you know why. If I don't need the Forward I will just not use it. I will not complain about it.

I hate forwarded e-mails. Some have been forwarded so many times it's a mile long. I have gotten them from my brother even. I asked him a question one day about one he sent. He didn't even know what was in the e-mail. He said, I just thought you liked the jokes in it. He didn't even read it himself. So now he reads it first then copy/pastes it to me. Thanks for this discussion. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!

does that mean that they'll only send on the ones you won't? **Grammer Police!! Grammer Police!!!** The way you have phrased that last sentance means that. "Filter out the ones they know I will absolutely love" does not equal sending on the ones I love, it means taking out the ones I love.

I generally dislike forwards. Most forwards I see seem to be sent to 20 or more people. I feel that if someone really wanted to get in touch with me, they'd ask how I was doing or say something relevant. Furthermore, I think its ill-advised to send political or religious forwards to a general list. Unless you KNOW that person agrees with your viewpoint, don't do it. I actually discovered that a close friend of mine was a religious bigot that way, so in a way, it was good, but it was really dumb on his part.

Here is how I feel about them alot of times. The mesage says you are so very special You are a great individual. My world isn't complete with out you.... OK that is very sweet and all, but if you send it to 100 friends then it seems you are not an individual. I do like some of them though but most of them I just read and file in their own folder, from that person. I rarely send them on unless they are really cute. If I want to let someone know how much they mean to me, I'll let them know, not just by a bulk mailing.

I don't mind getting forwards if people think about it before they forward it to me and know that it is something I will enjoy. On the other hand I hate getting those ones were a friend just sends it out enmass with no thought about the person it is being sent to. On the other hand if you are a true friend you will take the time and send some personal messages as well as the forwards. If you're to busy to take a half minute to to say hi to a friend and keep the relationship alive then you are to busy.

In some ways I guess I am lucky,in that I do not have that many friends,so I just let those I do know,what kind of e-mails I will even look at,as for other e-mails sent to me from people I do not know,I delete them as I worry they may contain a virus.

I think along the same lines, because I forward mails to my friends too. Not every single one that comes along but the ones which I think they will enjoy too. Receiving such mails is annoying for some because they don't check their mails often and when they do they find only our forwards..lol I refrain from mailing friends who aren't regularly on the net. I know the ones who will enjoy my forwards.

Forwards are ok, but it is a pet peeve of mine to receive an email that someone has not taken the time to clean up. I always copy & paste onto a new email so that I don't put all those email addresses on there, and all the forwards that have been forwarded previously. Takes forever to scroll down all of them. It is also called email safety. I don't beleive in sharing all those email addresses so that hackers and spammers can get their hands on them. I receive enough junk mail. It doesn't take but a few seconds to do this, if you don't have time to do that, you don't need to be on there in the first place, in my opinion. If you just want to say hi and let them know you are thinking of them. A short email saying so is just as nice :)

i don't like receiving forwarded mails at all until there r some cute(animals) photos on them!!:) i have told all of my friends and siblings to not to forward them to me and they care about it.if someone wants to show that he/she is missing me but is very busy to write a mail,then he should send only a "hi" instead of a mail i don't mind that at all.

I do the same and most of my friends know what I would not appreciate but then most of my friends would not appreciate the same type of things. I am on a bit of a rampage with a few friends who forward things with a million and one email addresses included. The leads to spam spam spam as eventually someone is going to get that email and use those addresses for their own gain. I do my best to encourage - copy/paste to a new e-mail and then blind copy to send to all your friends...This keeps everyone's addresses private and not in the hands of the wrong person.

I guess I am like a kid I like getting any emails at all forwards or not that lets you know they are thinking of you anyway I get alot of forwards and I love reading them and sending them on to my friends and family..

I agree with you. There's nothing to write everyday & writing is much difficult than talking. Plus its nice & thoughtful to share some thing valuable. I am grateful for anybody who forward me such things. I usually take prinouts of good ones & save in a large file folder.

Of my friends, I can only think of one that sends me nothing but forwards. I find this tiresome at best, especially since her politics ar PH,(politically hopeless) and most of them are political in nature. If I ever got something that was not a forward or a form letter I doubt it would irritate me quite so much. I personally feel if someone is a friend, you MAKE time for them.. not just add them to a mass mailing to everyone in your address book. Which is the other thing I am irritated about.. I am not overly fond of the concatinative assemblage theory introduced in Robert Heinlien's Stranger in a Strange Land .. (for those who don't know what that is it is that if I drink water with you .. become your brother.. then all who you are brother to are brother to me.. ) some of my friends choices of friends I find.. lacking in .. discernment and would not choose to befriend all those they would. Therefore I am particularly annoyed that this friend does not even have the courtesy to use bcc (blind carbon copy) so my email addy goes out to everyone on her list as a matter of course. I once thought it might curtail her for me to email everyone listed with me on one of her forwarded emails.. but as it brought no response, I can only assume they do not have any more taste or concern over their privacy than she shows for it. When my friends hear from me, which may not be as often as they would like, they hear from me. I might send them a link to something I think they will enjoy, but there is ALWAYS a personal message and not just junk.

Getting forwards from my friends doesn't bother me. I glance at them to see if it is anything I want to save. If not I trash them. However, when they want be to forward it to ten other friends I don't usually do that.

Most of my friends are good at filtering out the ones that i would like. I agree with you,everyone is so busy,this has become a way of letting you know they are thinking of you.

At this time of world people doesn't have much time for theirselves, it htink it is okay for friends to fwd the message by doing this they just let me know that they sometimes thinks of me, I don't mind getting the fwd messages in my inbox.

lol yeah i do get alot of forwards rom my dfriends and family but i dont mind as it is keeping my email address open for me because if i dont have any emails in my account then it will automatically close