Friday, September 23, 2005

On Chain Letters

I just received my first hokey chain e-mail of the day and thought I would share it with those of you who will NOT be receiving it from me...which is everyone.

The One U LoveDon't ever leave the one you love for the one you like, because
the oneyou like will leave you for the one they love. Tonight your true lovewill
realize how much they love you between 1 and 4 in themorning.Tomorrow the shock
of your life will occur. If you break thechain you will have bad luck for 10 yrs
if you don't pass this on to 10people in 15 minutes. If you get it back it means You're a true friend.

What I find most interesting about notes like these is that grown humans with an IQ high enough to use a computer must actually believe in these things or else I wouldn't receive them. This concerns me. When scrolling through all of the addresses of people who had fallen prey to this same email, I didn't see one person apologize for clogging their "true friends' " email accounts with garbage.

Sometimes I can kind of overlook the part of the note that says, "If you don't send this to 5000 of your closest friends within 5 minutes, you'll accidentally eat your first born." If the e-mail is otherwise a good story or funny joke, I can ignore the manipulation on the back end. But there's really nothing redeeming in the above example. The one quote isn't even profound. Why would you send this to a person that you apparently know or like well enough to have their email address?

And another thing...if you're one of the unfortunate people who still uses AOL for your email needs, don't send me forwards. I'm not going to wade through twenty attachments that show the previous recepients just so I can see a note like the above. It could be that the note you're sending is really good....but I'm not going to see it because AOL emails waste too much of one's life trying to get to the actual message. In fact, if you're not an AOL user, but you have an AOL using friend that sends you forwards that you want to send on to me, don't bother unless you've cleaned it up first. If you've suffered through it, you can at least clean it up before sending it on.

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Here's the latest version of my weightloss ticker. It seems to be going backwards. But not to worry, I have a plan!

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