How about those love and angel and best friend forwards we seem to get every day via email?
Don’t they make you feel special—“You are an angel; to me you are one of the finest, warmest, sweetest people I know”—me and 500 others up in the Send-to section.
What the hell?
Stop filling up my inbox with that crap!
I no longer open them because 1) I don’t feel great because you sent it to me and 2) I sure am not forwarding it to everybody in my contact list to keep myself from having a plague of locusts descend or whatever else it is these emails sweetly threaten.
It’s crap and it’s not even fun crap. Doesn’t put a smile on my face. Doesn’t stretch my imagination or make me use my brain in any productive way. Probably puts malware and, at the very least, tracking cookies onto my computer.
Stop sending it to me.
If you can’t write a decent note once in a while, something a person can look forward to opening and actually respond to, take me off your list. Think of it this way, if you wouldn’t write it on paper, stick it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and send it to me via snail mail, don’t send it through cyberspace!
As if any of those people are going to read this.
The rest of you – thanks for reading this rant and, hopefully, adding a rant of your own below.
I am thoroughly with you on this one! I know I have better things to do with my energy than to waste it getting pissed off every time I get one of those little gems, but I just can't seem to help it. It genuinely aggrivates the fire out of me, and especially when they keep coming from a friend that I don't have the nerve (yet) to tell her to STOP IT!! I am particularly put off by "love and angel" stuff that is loaded with "god and jesus" references that seem designed to challenge my dedication to, as well as my belief in god in the first place. And then there's always that veiled threat about what might happen to me if I don't forward it to a prescribed number of people, and even worse if I don't do it in a certain number of minutes! I've just decided-from now on, I'll take my chances.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I DID read that somewhere in cyberspace, every time you open and respond to one of those chain-type messages, a list is compiled and forwarded to spammers everywhere. That's how so much crap ends up in your email everyday. There should be a law against tracking cookies! I need to calm down now...
I'm surprised at how many people actually think, "Better safe than sorry," when they forward these things on. Cyberthreats seem to have power because they are "written." It's all a bit worse than silly. Breathe, OC, breathe!
ReplyDeleteNot for nothing I don't have enough people in my mailbox to forward to! How bad does that make one feel? "forward this to 10 friends make a wish and it will come true in a year", forward to 15 and it's 6 months, 50 and viola by the time you hit send...your wish will come true! Can't even imagine how many wishes have past me by as I am lucky if I can aggravate 5 people with these stupid forwards and maintain a friendship too! I prefer to keep the few friends that I have, then piss them off with useless forwards. How many weeks a year can be "National Friend and Sister week"????
ReplyDeleteBoston Baby: You got that right -- how many weeks a year can it be! Thank you for commenting and come back.
ReplyDeleteThere is a web site that tells what the odd holidays are each month; I don't think National Friend and Sister week ever appears but I use these when I need a reason to celebrate. Here's the link for November's holidays:
ReplyDeletehttp://library.thinkquest.org/2886/nov.htm