One Small Annoyance: Friendship Chain Email Threats
Posted by: Tara on: Tuesday, September 4, 2007
I don’t mind sending on one or two chain emails talking about how important friendship is and how much friends mean to me and all that. What I have noticed in the past is that some of the subject lines are a bit threatening. Stuff like “If you don’t send this back, I’ll know why” or “I’ll know you don’t care if you don’t send this back to me”. The people who send those emails to me have been friends for years. It’s almost offensive when I see those subject lines. As if sending that email back to my good friends is a threat that if they don’t send it back, I should assume they aren’t friends anymore. Pure nonsense. The thing is, some of the substance in the friendship email chains do have substance, so I feel like the friends I send chain emails to will appreciate the basic message. But I also try to change the subject line too, so that it isn’t threatening.
What are your thoughts on those friendship chain emails? Do you get them? If not, what’s your secret? Hehe. No seriously, what do you do about them? Do you pass them on or ignore them?
8 Responses to "One Small Annoyance: Friendship Chain Email Threats"
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 6:02 am
I get those from a distant cousin. She’s really nice, but I think that she sends them on out of fear. A lot of them are “God loves all his little angels” type, and being a cynical curmudgeon, I am unmoved (irritated even). I send them back to her though, with a note thanking her for thinking of me. Then she sends it back to me, and I ignore it. Then I send her some trippy art link, and she doesn’t threaten me for a while.
Laugh!
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I never answer a threatening chain email. I haven’t come into a bunch of money or met the love of my life, but I’m also still alive, so I’m not too worried about the repurcussions.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 6:20 pm
I have to say that I always just ignore and/or delete that sort of thing.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 12:36 am
I rarely forward stuff, but sending a copy back to the person who sent it seems especially dumb.
People are lame.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I really don’t mind them as long as they aren’t spammed, but what is the likelihood that one of them IS spammed? Probably pretty good.
Also, I can’t STAND getting them to my work email. Personal email is fine, but when a coworker starts filling my inbox with stupid prayers, “friends are” poems and nasty “funny” pictures, I start to get angry.
Also, truth is, people are unaware that when you forward an email you should delete all previous email addresses and include your recipients’ emails only on the BCC line so that the list of addies is PRIVATE!!! (pet peeve, sorry)
*sigh*
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 1:12 pm
(side note: Tara, are you aware that your comments are date and time stamped four hours ahead of your time zone?)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I find myself ignoring lots of those chain emails now. They get so tiring.
I have to remind myself to use the BCC option. I sometimes have a habit of sending things too automatically.
Oh and nope, had no idea that the comments were four hours head of our time zone! Very strange, I’ll have to see if I can change that.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 2:51 am
I do not reciprocate chain e-mails, I delete them. I don’t like being threatened. My true friends are just that, true friends. They know me well enough not to send them.