Chain Email

I’m getting an increasing amount of forwarded chain email that threatens my wellbeing in some way or tries to guilt me into sending it on. The threats are things like “16 years bad luck” from one recent one, and guilts are like “If I don’t get this back I’ll know why” hinting that it’s because I don’t like the sender from another recent one.

I’m sorry if you believe those things. The fact is that I don’t ever send on chain emails. I find that chain emails often make people feel scared or bad in other ways, and are not in line with the good will I try to spread. I don’t believe a chain email of any sort has the power to give me either good or bad luck, but if I’m mistaken I’ll take on that bad luck if need be, but I won’t pass it on to anyone else. And the fact that I don’t return or send on a chain email that purports that the reason why is because I don’t like them is incorrect. I don’t spread chain emails to friends, family, or even people I may dislike. I simply don’t do it.
Before sending any chain email, consider these things.

  • Chain emails that can potentially frighten people of getting bad luck can make people feel bad.
  • Chain emails that purport to know anything about why a person sends or doesn’t send them can make people feel bad, guilty, and are probably inaccurate.
  • Chain emails clog email servers and slow more important emails down sometimes.
  • Chain emails can make your own email address sent to spam catchers so that your other emails may get caught by black holes or other spam catching devices.

I do not believe that chain emails are useful or kind. I simply won’t send them, and now you know why.

2 comments

  1. ML Mar 23

    I am exactly the same way. No matter how much I like the person sending the chain email, I don’t / won’t respond. It stops with me.
    Right now, according to the chain emails I’ve stopped, I won’t be getting into Heaven, will never see an “amazing graphics display” on my monitor, will not be having a surprise at 9:12 AM, and have been accuring untold years of bad luck.
    Having been a network engineer, my reasoning has always been practical, that chain emails slow servers down for real communication. And personally, I detest the “guilt” they use for motivation.
    Just my two-cents.

  2. astrid Mar 24

    Oh I see I am in good company with not sending these chain emails :)
    Your reasons are basically the same than mine.

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