I am so sick and tired of getting ridiculous email hoaxes. Why do people refuse to check these things out before they send them? There are tons of websites out there that you can visit to debunk all of the "horrifying stories" that you receive in your email box. But do people use these resources? NO. They're so damn email-happy, they just click on the fucking forward button and send away. God it is so annoying...
The worst is the same people who do it repeatedly despite my continuous responses citing resources for debunking: friends of mine who I have told succinctly that I do not need to receive unsubstantiated email "scares" and to please investigate by visiting a website like snopes.com before sending them to me. But do they listen? NO. They send me more emails. Emails that say "I don't know if this is true or not, but it's better to be safe than sorry..." and then goes on to warn of whatever is the latest bullshit scare, perfume samples that are coming in the mail that contain deadly biological substances, kittens that are killed for the purpose of creating "bonsai kittens" (kittens stuffed into a cute little jar. PLEASE!), men slipping women Progesterex as a date rape drug which causes them to be infertile FOREVER... the list goes on and on. Better to be safe than sorry? How about "it's better to make sure that the warnings you are sending to all your friends about various horrors (that the news is supposedly not reporting on) are validated before cluttering up email inboxes with bullshit." Do we not get enough bullshit in our email? Is anyone here lacking in the spam/bullshit email department? Anyone wishing they were getting more cheesy inspirational emails and chain letters and urban legends? That's what I thought.
Do we not have enough things to worry about? Are there not enough bad things happening FOR REAL in this world that morons sit around making up stupid chain hoaxes to circulate on the internet, getting simple minded folks worked up into a sweat about some fabricated story? Does the term "get a fucking life" mean anything to these people? There are so many horrendous things going on...crazy personal nightmares that people experience daily. And that's not enough to satiate a person's morbid appetite? We've got to cry wolf every ten minutes on top of that?
And wouldn't it be nice if my friends would not perpetuate this horseshit by sending it on to everyone they know including me, the person who investigates every baseless email I get by taking two and a half seconds to punch a couple of key words into google before having a heart attack and sending it on to the next sucker? It makes me want to disown people. Like "you know, you're stupider than I thought, let's not be friends anymore, okay?"
Of course, I can't do that. I can only politely send back an email stating "sounds scary, but fortunately, this story is not true. You can investigate such hoaxes yourself by visiting www...." But they just keep coming. And I'm losing my fucking patience. Pretty soon. I'm going to stop being nice about it. Wise up people! Stop being such gullible zombies who will believe and forward on every single dumb thing you read in your email box. Get a mind of your own. And use it for god fucking sakes and spare the rest of us the aggravation!
oh my gawd, I just had this conversation w/my hubby last week. I get at least 15 emails from my mum in law on this kind of stuff every other couple days, cousin sends me warnings, chicken soup for the soul shit, etc. I don't mind the occassional jokes (if they're funny) but pleazze...i've even told my cousin with a phone call, so she could hear it from the horses' mouth to STOP, but she hasn't so now I delete anything and everything from her. I like to send some bday greetings, cards and shit to people..I figure if you're a computer owner you can find out anything you WANT TO KNOW. It is so very annoying....
Posted by: sandy at November 4, 2003 04:46 PM