Are you my friend?
So I get these email forwards all the time. You know the kind… First you have about ten pages of email addresses of the people who’ve gotten it before you and felt the need to pass it on followed by twenty pages of 28-point red-lettered font and animated gifs that attempts to blind you as quickly as it can.
You’re slammed with a friendship chain letter:
I like you because of who you are to me…A true friend. And if I don’t get this back I’ll take the hint.
Tonight at midnight your true love will realize they like you.
Something good will happen to you at 1:00-4:00 PM tomorrow.
It could be anywhere — AOL, Yahoo, outside of school, anywhere.
Get ready for the biggest shock of your life.
Please send to 5 people in 5 minutes.
Ack!!
So you sit there and stare at the screen (blinded, of course) and wonder if this person is serious. Does he or she really expect me to email this back? If I don’t send this back is that person really going to “take a hint”? If I email this back, are we going to end up in an emailing back war? Because technically, that is the ultimate scheme of the email - to get two people to keep sending it back and forth to one another until one of them goes insane. It’s the email version of Chicken.
But then you realize, no! If you were really my friend, you wouldn’t send me this crap in the first place!
Of course, I could stand to have something good happen to me between 1 and 4 pm tomorrow. That would be nice. Is someone going to give me a million dollars if I forward this email on? If so, that “anywhere” had better apply, since, you know, I don’t go to school and I detest AOL…
But then again, that line about my true love realizing they like me is kinda scary. After all, I’m already married. And I don’t really need another stalker…
Oh, but we must press on. Next we’re given a little joke… mildly funny. Then a warning not to skip to the last line but to read it all! That is followed by more corny gifs and lines about friendship being like toilet paper or some crap like that and then we’re told:
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND,
Even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you.If it comes back to you, then you’ll know you have a circle of friends.
So I guess that answers my question. I’m now supposed to engage in that Email Game of Chicken or risk the people I love hating my guts. :P
Of course, usually when I get these things, I delete by subject line, I don’t even read them. I’m not picking on anyone, I’m not even sure who sent me this one, I didn’t notice. Heck, I get these things from people I don’t even know. People who seem to have a family member or friend or online acquaintance in common with me and then add me to their address book. That is why I say death to the forwards. As if I don’t get enough email as it is.
Yes, today is a wasted day so I feel like I can rant about stupid stuff like this. Happy Saturday :)
Die email forwards, die!
