Chain E-Mail

I'm not sure if this practice has fallen by the wayside or if I have just gotten rid of all my acquaintances who partake in it, but I rarely get these anymore.

I get these on occasion. I do not send them on just delete them. Same old tune about if you send this to X amount of friends you will get good luck. If you do not bad luck will happen. they even give examples of awful things that happen to those that do not participate. Yeah, right! there all kinds of them too.they have been around forever,even those snail mail days.  I just bet that when something bad happens to someone the first thing they think is"I should have sent that chain email out oh the regrets"

Now that you’ve opened this message bad things will happen to you if you don't immediately send this out to 1,000,000 people in the next 10 seconds. If you fail to do so, you will be mauled by a rabid Pit Bull, trampled by a tick infested dear, raped by a cow with mad cow disease, dragged through the streets by construction workers, and thrown off a high rise building into a pile of broken glass.

I can't stand these at all! Even when they come from people I care about. There are several websites I discovered which expose some of the popular E-mail hoaxes that have been sent millions of times from mailbox to mailbox, and some of these are in the form of chain letters. I have tried recommending a couple of these websites to some of the people in my address book, but most of them don't seem to get the message. I don't know why people waste their time on this supertitious (or should I say stupid-stitious) garbage -- I don't believe in any of it! Unfortunately, nothing is going to stop chain E-mail from circulating, and I'm afraid it's here to stay. The best I can do is shrug my shoulders and delete them.

There is a simple solution. Don't forward any of these moronic appeals.

Annoying, but the most unintentionally funny ones I get appear to emanate from Nigeria or Ghana or some such place and read something like this: Dear oscargamblesfro: Recently it was discovered that your distant relative The Marquis deGamblesfro passed away in a car accident leaving you ten trillion francs. We came across this information while reading about baseball players who died in 1897 and a Blue Cheer review and knew you must be the closest relative because basically no one else who is alive even gives a flying ( expletive deleted) about such nonsense except you... Kindly notify us of your bank account number and we will send you the money...

What's really bad about these is people claiming to be your friends send this tripe to you, and then have the nerve to say that if it is not passed on to at least so many people, that something bad is going to happen. That is NOT FRIENDSHIP!

Yikes!!! Make them stop; I have tried spam blockers and other tools to try to stop this. I forward many of them to the Federal Trade Commission and let the sender know I've done it by CCing them. FTC:  [email protected]

Remember to send it to ten other people or dingoes will steal your baby...

Its best when you get chain e-mails talking about a psychic hotline.

WHEN U R READING THIS DONT STOP OR SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN MY NAME IS SUMMER I AM 15 YEARS OLD i have BLONDE HAIR , SCARS no NOSE OR EARS I AM DEAD IF U DONT COPY THIS JUS LIKE FROM THE RING COPY N POST THIS ON 5 MORE SITES OR I WILL APPEAR ONE? CREEPY NIGHT WEN UR NOT ExPECTING IT BY YOUR BED WITH A NIFE AND KILL U THIS IS NO JOKE SUMMET ING GOOD WILL HAPPEN TO U IF YOU POST THIS ON 5 MORE FLASH BOXESthis is a true thing that happens! it's not a chain letter! it's kinda scary at first but it really works!! paste this message into 3 comments and press ALT F4 and? your crushes name will appear on the screen!!! its soo weird!It's gets old after a while.

My name is Timmy, and I have no arms or legs, and I am typing this entire message with my nose. For every person you send this to, Microsoft will donate 1 penny to buy me arms and legs made out of 100% recycled aluminum cans, so you can help me and the environment.  In addition, if you reply to [email protected] with your full name and bank account number, my uncle who is an African prince will credit your account with $5,000,000 for your generosity. I have no idea why he can't buy the new arms and legs for me himself, he says it's complicated, but if you don't you will have bad luck for seven years.TimmyP.S. Microsoft is running out of email storage space, and if you don't send this to at least 10 people, they will assume your account is inactive and your hotmail account will be deleted.

Not Good,but oh so easy to delete...

Absolutely annoying and supplies others with your email address.

They are wasting precious computer energy!!! They take forever to load, you have to scroll through EVERYONE that was dumb enough to spread it, just to read you smell like poo-poo. And then your computer is infected with a virus.

Now honestly, what's the point of them? They aren't cute and they aren't fun, not even remotely. They just take up all my e-mail account space (especially if you are a hotmail user, with just 2 MBs of space)!

If you don't give me five helpful votes after reading this comment, your mailbox will fill up with spam tomorrow, and your mayonnaise will have expired.

Forward this e-mail to 20 of your friends to help earn money for a quadrapeligic kid in [insert name of 3rd world country here] . . . . Forward this to seven of your friends or you will have bad luck . . . Though entertaining to read sometimes, they are so annoying! I don't mind some of the survey ones that go around (the ones that ask you to fill out your name, favorite color, favorite this, that, the other, whatever), as long as they're under 30 questions long (I took about 2 hours filling one out, I don't know what possessed me to go through with it all). Well, at least it's not one where you have to write the whole thing out, as traditional chain letters are.

I don't mind getting the occasional dopey email from family or friends. But this is apparently the only use some people can find for their email because that's the ONLY kind you ever get from them. Really stupid when you consider that 99.9% of it is nothing but lies and half truths. A big waste of time.

Why do people do this? I just end up blocking their address.