For Two Reasons

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.