Chain Letters…STOP THE MADNESS!
Everyone has experienced these annoying chain letters in their e-mail box. Some threaten harm in some way and others out and out tell you that you will DIE if you don’t forward them to a certain amount of people. There are chain letters that will ensure you have great sex for the rest of your life. Ones that tell you you’ll be getting money in the mail within 5 days, meet the love of your life in a week, and certain letters that guarantee you’ll have lots of friends forever, BUT ONLY if you forward it to 10 people within 72 hours. To date I should be receiving in the mail a life time supply of M&M’s and a free Gift Certificate to “The Gap” just for forwarding a letter on to 10 of my closest friends. The funny thing is that I sent those on about a year ago and NEVER received anything! Chain letters can also save children who are dying from some disease or another. They must have very good connections because someone tracks all the e-mails forwarded and then gives the ill person 5 cents for each letter towards their medical care. Last but not least is my personal favorite, THE WARNING E-MAILS. I have received e-mail that states gang members are putting poison on public payphones. When you touch it you will die! LSD is being placed on envelopes, so when you lick them it goes on your tongue. And just today I received one that says that hypodermic needles infected with the AIDS virus are being placed on the underside of nozzles at the gas pumps. When you pick up the nozzle and squeeze the gasoline into your car, the needle goes right into your hand!
When I first got my computer I received these types of e-mail all the time. The ones that threatened death really freaked me out. I never liked getting the ones that used to come in regular mail either. I would be the idiot that would go make my 20 copies of the letter and mail it out to everyone I knew and PRAY they did not send it back to me. Now on the computer I send them out and they still come right back to me. At first I would follow the instructions and send them all out. Then all of my family members would write me back threatening to block all of my e-mail to them, so I stopped sending them to family. I actually have a problems with deleting them without sending them to someone, anyone! I figure that I have enough bad luck and I’d rather not tempt fate. What I do now is whoever sends the chain letter to me, I just forward it back to them! This can cause an actual on-line war though, so be prepared for that if you decide to do this!
Who starts these chain letter e-mails? I wish I could find a way to find that out. Maybe someone is just bored one day and says, ’’Hey let me try to freak so people out today!”
I don’t know! All I know is that I don’t like getting them and no matter how many times I’ve asked my friends to stop sending them, they still do. I guess no one wants to irritate these unknown forces!
©2001 KAC