E-mail chain letters

With all the ones I have deleted, I will have bad luck and/or cursed for the next 100+ years.

I enjoy some of the funny or shocking email forwards but I wish people would learn to hit the delete button when it comes to the seriously annoying email-chain-letters. Ok, I'll admit I HAVE TO send the money angel on (I can't risk losing out on that financial windfall can I?) .... or the chocolate angel (If I don't forward her I may gain 10lbs and I certainly don't want that!) ............ *rolls eyes* If the urge strikes you to forward some amazing or shocking tale of woe...... can you please verify it with www.snopes.com first to see if it's true or not? Or better yet.......... take a chance......delete the email. Now you must forward this to at least 200 people within the next 2 minutes or your computer will explode. Really, it will. :)

No big deal. Easy to delete and ignore. Besides, they have the advantage of helping to identify which of your "friends" are complete morons.....

Yes...they are quite annoying. However, it isn't so hard to click Delete or Erase on your email provider.

I get them quite a bit. It usually starts out with Good luck will come to you if you send this back and to Xamount of friends. Of course if you do not, then bad luck will happen usually with examples of awful things that happened to the person who did not participate in this Email. NO THANK YOU ! some are just those "you are my friend letters" they are pretty harmless and maybe nice on a bad day. I usually delete the annoying letters.

I hate them with a passion. ESPECIALLY when they come (and they always do) forwarded 7483947 times. If you send these...you know who you are...CUT IT OUT. It's ridiculous.

Luckily, I don't get too many email chain letters myself. I do know people that get them constantly. The emails do often have nice photos as part of the email, but they just go on and on. I will sometimes look at the photos and save the ones I like (puppies) and then delete the email. I have seen so many that say something like "if you forward this email to five friends, you will have something great happen to you in nine minutes." They usually say to send it back to the person that sent it to you, otherwise, I guess they are not your friend. I have never believed in having bad luck if I don't follow the instructions in a chain email.

I just mail them back or just block them using the spam filter

i feel sory for the people that are kep up all night by this. i once believed them heers my storry: i made a youtube account but my email screwed up and i loved reading comments and saw a dozen chan letters that just kept me up for days! to tell you the trth they still creep me out a little but i dont send them.

An annoyance. . .but not too serious. . .

I've been threatened with some of the oddest things if I break the chain.

What I find the most irritating about this is people who base these on friendships. These e-mail's say "If you don't send this back, I get the hint". How many of these same people will pick up the good old fashioned telephone, or send a PERSONAL E-mail, to find out how you're doing?

It's not that harmful, but anybody who forwards one should have their computer operator's liscense revoked. In case you are curious, there are no e-mail trackers, little things won't run across your screen if you forward a message 50 times, and Chili's, Applebees or anyone else is offering free food to cyber-idiots. The sad thing is the biggest purveyor of chain e-mails is my sister-in-law. My favorite story was when a dude I knew sent a mass e-mail to about 2/3 of the people in the Department of Defense telling them that the file Jdbgmgr.exe (the one with the Teddy Bear icon) was a very dangerous computer virus and directed them to immediately delete this file (he had everything in CAPS and !!!!!!!). I checked the Microsoft Web site and forwarded him some text that if you delete Jdbgmgr.exe, you will disable your Java. A minute later, he sent another mass e-mail to about 2/3 of the people in the Department of Defense telling them not to delete the file Jdbgmgr.exe and disregard h... Read more

This e-mail has been going since 1997, and if you send it to 50 friends in the next fifteen minutes, this poor little girl with leukemia won't die. COME ON.

Created by people with too much time on their hands.

Not the most irritating thing online, but I don't care who it is, friend or not..they get auto deleted in my email inbox everytime...I don't have time for that junk.....

I hate these, when I don't send them to at least seven people a crazy leprechaun jumps out and pokes me in the eye Oi, to be sure, to be sure!. Never could catch the little fella either

I've actually had to block a couple of addresses from people that wanted mine just so they could send me these little treasures. I would always get the messages that claimed that I'd get a special treat if I send it to a certain amount of people within ten minutes and that my balls will fall off if I fail to do so.

I hate chain letters, especially the ones sent to you where the sender has left in every email address the bloody thing was ever sent to. I bet these are the same people who can never figure out how their and their friends addresses get to those solicitation companies who send out spam in huge quantities.

These are really irratating. I want to lash out at people who send my addy around in these things. It propagates spam. They are usually really corny as well. Can`t people think of things of their own to write about? After all, they call themselves your friends...

Send to ten people including the one who sent it to you; you will have misfortune for (fill in a number) years if you don't..... sheesh, that gets so old after awhile! These are almost as annoying as popups. E-mail chain letters are nothing short of absurd, ludicrous superstition. Besides, they're a waste of precious time.

I fail to see how sending an e-mail to twenty or so people can earn money for some quadrapeligic kid in some third-world country . . . Some chain e-mails, like the survey-type kinds where you fill out your info and send it to your friends, I can handle (to some extent--I mean, after the first 150 questions, I get a little tired); most others are just irritating. At least it's just a click away from being deleted.