This is so passe

[eee1313]

An open letter to the less net-savvy members of my family.

Dear family:

Please stop sending me e-mail chain letters. Despite what you, your coworkers, your mother-in-law's second cousin, or your local zoo's giraffe handler might tell you, sending me a forwarded e-mail will not grant you wisdom, wealth, wellness, love, or a one-way fast track ticket into Heaven. All it will grant you is my annoyance. Cut it the fuck out already.

No love,
eep

PS - Tell your annoying coworkers to stop sending them right back at me. Y'all are pissing me off like you wouldn't believe.

Comments

[sunbrae.livejournal.com]

But! If you pass the email to 10 people, you'll get a $50 gift certificate to ________. Why would you deny anyone the chance at $50 worth of free ______? Bill Gates is watching you, and he has a list!

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

*GASP!* If Bill Gates is watching me, does that mean he's Santa Claus? ;)

Those annoying chain letters

[(Anonymous)]

I usually either delete them without comment or send a message to the person along these lines: "Please do not send me any more chain letters. However, if you are superstitious and worry about the negative effects of breaking the chain, please feel free to forward me as many copies of each chain letter as you need to. I will delete them all and take whatever bad luck comes my way."

I have yet to encounter anyone who admits being worried about bad luck from breaking the chain. But I've gotten dozens of chain letters with comments such as, "I'm not superstitious, but you never know!!!!!1!1 :-) :-) :-)"

By the way, my company has a wonderfully strict--downright scary, in fact--policy about never ever sending chain-letter e-mails to coworkers. You might ask your bosses to develop a similar rule. It really does help.

Mean Kirsti