"Send this to N friends"

[kyrielle]

Okay, why is it nice to send your friends a chain email that says if they delete it (or don't send it on) it will give them a year of bad luck? It is either absurd, or nasty, depending on whether you believe that stuff. It is sure not very friendly, even if sending it on includes good luck, to send someone something that under any circumstances wishes them bad luck.

I can't stand chain letters like that, though at least these days few people send them on, most delete them or just read and file them, I guess. I used to get more. Perhaps people have (mostly) realized I don't care for them. This is not to say I don't share the occasional one if it is funny enough, but, VERY seldom.

But the ones that have any negative "consequence" stated for not sending them on are just rude to send, IMO.

Comments

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. That is how I handle my email, too.

I always want my friends to have the option to do what they want.

[joyoflj.livejournal.com]

I feel the same and get them now and then. Any chain letter with pics or artworks with CATS I do read though. I googled "in response to chain letters" and oh the links!

[kyrielle]

Hehe. Yeah, I'll usually read stories and messages and look at the images and such. But I won't send them on, and something that says I get ill luck if I don't irritates me more than average.

Of course, I'm likelier to be happy with such beasts if it is a forward I haven't seen a gazillion times, as well, but obviously people can't be completely sure before sending whether I've seen it before.

[phoenixscribe.livejournal.com]

While I am known to send these silly things on, I tend to delete the part at the end that says "Send this to 8,000 people or have bad luck for the rest of your life!!!" -- I tend to get the ones that are I love you, you're a good friend, etc. The ones that irritate me even more than the "Send or something bad will happen" are the ones that end with "God loves you" or "Follow Jesus" or the like. Unless there's something I really want to send on in those, I simply delete them.

Now that I think about it, my tendency with "good friend" memes of late is to simply reply to the person who sent it to me, unless I really like the images in the email.

[kyrielle]

Hee. Yes, and those (the kind you send on) don't bug me. Well, unless someone sends me gazillions of them in a short period of time, but. ;) The bad luck ones irritate me more than the religious ones only because I can conceive of how someone who is Christian would mean those as a good wish, whereas how can bad luck be anything but ill-wishing in any paradigm? But yes, the Christian-religious ones are uncomfortable.