aaarrrrghh -- I hate "If you love me, forward this e-mail" shit

[abcdefz]

Ugh. "Forward this to all your friends and reply to me so I know that I am loved."

What bullshit. I can't believe adults actually send these things. (n)

[AceFace]

agreed! there's a lady in our VERY small office (i have 3 co-workers and 3 bosses) that sends me these daily.
i HATE them! i never send them back. why does she keep sending them to me!?!

[Waus]

Ugh. My cousin sends me those in texts on my phone. Even worse, every so often I just get a "whats up dude" text. Like I'm going to inform what I'm doing constantly through texts.

(n)

[abcdefz]

It feels kind of like emotional hostage-taking. I've never had anyone directly ask me, "Why didn't you reply?" but I figure my stock answer is
"I don't reply to 'forwards.'" Then again, the folks who usually send me this stuff tend to almost NEVER write anything personal; I almost
exclusively get 'forwards' from them.

In this case, though, it's a niece who just got back in touch after a few years. It makes me kind of sad to think that she started
communicating with me gain so that she could send about half a dozen of these things per day. I've ignored them and instead sent
her personal messages, though, and she does reply to those, so maybe I don't know what I'm bitching about.

[AceFace]

^ that's a good way to handle the situation.

[ericlee]

or those damn, "send this to 50 people or someone will die", "true" story things people do.

Or the prosperity ones. Dude, I don't even have 50 people on my email address list. And if I did, I ain't gonna send your gay shit to them and spam them.

[abcdefz]

Those are bad, too.

I guess I just particularly hate the "and make sure you send this back to me" ones because they're pretty much putting you in the position
of "rejecting them" in some way.

[camo]

I'd have died 467 times last year if those things were true.

It proper annoys me too. On what planet does forwarding an email constitute eternal love/life/luck?

Wazzocks.

[abcdefz]

You would think that after repeatedly not getting a reply to this shit, they would stop.

But no. It's easier to hit "Select all" than to consider whether or not you're spamming.

[camo]

These people really need to know what Karma is. I wouldn't go around telling people that they will die if they don't forward a message.

I'm hoping that by pressing 'select all' they incur some bad karma...maybe knocking a year of their life expectancy :D

[abcdefz]

Seems like there should be some great satirical "Don't forward me stuff any more" e-mail with instructions to forward this to ten friends for
good luck or something...

[camo]

Jackpot