Is It Just Me?

[ILUVDXL]

I have a friend who left the Boston area about 2 years ago for Pheonix so she could be near her son. Ever since she left I get at least 3 e-chain mail letters from her a month. Even when I was a kid I wasn't into chain letters. I've tried, as diplomatically as possible, to tell her this is not my thing and to please not include me in the chain because I'll be the one to break it. Lo and behold, what do I get 10 minutes ago? Another e-chain letter from her. So here are 2 questions.

1. How many of you believe in chain letters?

2. If you don't, how do get a friend to stop without making a huge issue out of it?

 

[Blondie]

I get several a month too...I simply ignore them! No matter how many times you tell someone you don't want to participte, they'll send it anyway!

 

[Deb in IA]

Well, Kathy, I've never been into the chain letter scheme either. I get them occasionally (thankfully, no more than 1 or 2 times a year), but I never send them on.

And guess what? I haven't been struck dead, or suddenly developed some mysterious illness, or lost all of my fortune, or had any of the bad things that they claim will happen yet . . .

 

[Bichon Barb]

I don't like them either -- especially when they bring religion into the factor, i.e. send this to three friends and your prayer will be answered .

I just ignore them.

 

[SuiteDisney]

I wouldn't put a damper on the friendship, just delete them.

 

[BethR]

I just ignore them as well. I don't believe that anyone will ever know that you "broke the chain."

 

[minniecarousel]

I get them occasionally from a couple of different friends. Usually they are something sweet - like "pass along to another great woman". I don't - but I also have not told them NOt to E-mail them to me - I just let it stop with me. I don't consider it a problem though.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I get them every so often, as well as forwarded email jokes, and I just delete them.

 

[tater bug]

They fill up my inbox and it's annoying, but I just delete them without opening. There are some people on my list that sends nothing but chain letters. It's rare a personal note comes in from them.

 

[Disney845]

The only person I get these from is my mother I find them very annoying, but even if I asked her to stop she would still send them...I just delete all of them. Never have believed in all that chain mail crap. Nothing bad will happen to me if I don't do it, and nothing good will come of doing it.

 

[Liz]

I don't believe in them and would just delete it. I get a lot of e-mails with attachments and some take a huge amount of time to download (just the e-mail - I don't open the attachments). When I see an e-mail taking forever I know its either going to be from my neighbor, my cousin or sometimes a friend. It bugs me but I haven't said anything to them, I just delete it.

 

[ltldeb]

I don't believe in them either. I just delete them if I get them. Saves the aggravation of trying to explain why you don't like them.

 

[katerkat]

I also just delete them. My sister actually trained a friend who would keep sending "warning" type forwards. Jen would check snopes.com and send everyone who got the forward an email stating that what was just sent was a hoax. (It was a hoax 99% of the time.) Her friend stopped sending them -- at least to Jen!

 

[FOJMO]

Don't REPEAT, just DELETE!!!

 

[nkjzmom]

DH enjoys crushing people's hopes and dreams by proving their forwards untrue too.

For family and good friends, i.e. Great Gpa, he does it very politely.....for others he just sends them the link and tells them to check things out before filling people's mail with junk.

 

[SideshowBob]

Too funny... ack!!!

SSB just lumps them into the great big world of SPAM, and lops them into that can.

If not too close a friend, could just put on your "ignore" list... haha!!!!

 

[Ilove8Trax]

I do not mind the mass e-mails that are cute stories or acts of kindness...whatever they may be. But i hate when they say, "Now you must send this to at least 5 people or your wish won't come true" or how about the ones that say "This cute little animal will pop up and sing and dance if you send this to at least 10 people"??

They don't work!!!!

Chain letters are just weird. They don't really mean much, they just like to keep a "tradition" going forever or something, so it can be in a World's Record book.

 

[KimRaye]

send it back to her. send them all back to her.

 

[CynJ]

I delete'em! And I hate the dishtowel one too!

Ugh!

And most recently althought not a chain letter - someone put my name in for the MDA Lockup - not for nothing but I work for a small non profit, and I have been heavily involved with another non-profit for 15yrs - if I am going to sit anywhere and raise $4000 it will be for either of MY two charities - they won't tell me who put my name in. UGH UGH UGH!!!!

Sometimes our friends are worse then telemarketers!

 

[bumcat]

When it says send this to 5, 10 or however many friends, I send it back to the person that sends it to me and I tell them that I dont have 5 friends.
At work I get the same ones over and over. I always delete them.