...Because it's bothering me and I want to vent, sorry. Ignore it if you want.

So, I have 2 friends who keep sending me chain letters (because they apparently have nothing better to do with their lives). A lot of the time they're just "Send this to twenty people in the next five minutes and the boy you like will love you," or some other garbage.

Sometimes however, the letters try to appeal to the reciever's better nature. Of course this tends to involve some sort of "But it's for the children!" guilt trip. Usually I just ignore them. But today I recieved one about a missing boy, an Evan Tremblay. I was actually concerned for a moment, so I opened the email. And A TEN SECOND FREAKING GOOGLE SEARCH revealed that it was (surprise, surprise!) a hoax.

Why do people do this? How could you be such a terrible person as to waste the time of others over this when there are REAL missing persons out there? How do they get any satisfaction over that (it's a waste of their time too, I might add)? How could people be so stupid as to forward it without even checking?

Sorry that I'm now wasting your time, but sometimes you just need to yell about something y'know?

Ugh my friend texts me these really corny love ones all the time! >.<

I've seen the same E-mail and did the same search, infact my Msn name at the moment is as follows

Luke...Let.It.Be.Known.That.I.Have.A.Zero.Tolerance.Block.Policy.On.Chain.Letters.

This isn't spam ;)

that's what I thought, I really hate those ones that say about finding you're 'True love' I generally delete anything that starts with " this totally works "

HOLY CRAP I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

Ahh, chain letters, truly a particularly irritating specimen of human idiocy. www.snopes.com is the place to check for the validity of urban legends of all varieties.

If you don't forward this message to 42 people before the next full moon, all your hair will fall out.

I guess we all get them =D. The ones I get are like-if you don't forward them to 10 people by today, you will suffer from bad luck for the rest of your life. And they usually show examples of what allegedly happened to people who don't forward them & the good luck some people get on forwarding them.

Y'know which ones really suck. The ones that say "Send this to such and such number of people or you'll die an early death." Those are nice. And then you realize one of your friends actually sent this to you, knows you won't pass it on, and presumably believes what the letter says. Yeah...

I kind of freaked out with this one, only because it's such a cruel thing to do, especially when there are real missing kids out there. What's the point?

Also, I kind of screamed at the friend who sent me the letter, and now I feel bad.

Chain letters used to be most of my unopened e-mails. Now it's spam ads. :/

I don't mind the interactive type of chain though such as "type your name with your toes" or "If you saw me in a police car what would you assume I had done."

Mwamba wrote:I don't mind the interactive type of chain though such as "type your name with your toes" or "If you saw me in a police car what would you assume I had done."

Those sound nice =D

Just delete them Fuzzy. I used to delete all chain mails, even the ones which had emotionally touching stories of children who were suffering from terrible diseases & had the words, 'Please forward this mail to as many as people as possible. Because for every mail forwarded, 50 cents are collected & they will go towards the treatment of the child'. I never believed them to be true (well, my friend told me not to believe in them because she, like you, had googled & checked). It used to affect me too. But I never bothered about the people who forwarded them to me because I know they sincerely trusted whatever the mail said.

If an email has more than two re: or fwd: then my filter gets it.