I hate email forwards!
I got the "Who is Barak Hussein Obama" forward again today. I think I let whoever sent me this the first time around slide, but this one annoyed me more since it included an extra paragraph stating you can go to snopes.com to verify the email is true. However, go to snopes and find out for yourself that the email is indeed false. This prompted the following email from me to the unlucky person who happened to keep me on his forwards email list and everyone on that list:
I normally would not respond to one of these annoying forwards, much less hit reply all to spam the email boxes of people that I don't know, but before you send this email to someone else take the time to actually go to snopes.com so you can read for yourself that this email is false (unlike the email below that claims it is factual).
Seriously, take the time to educate yourself about candidates and the issues rather than buy into the mindless forwards sent around.
Unlike the people who send the annoying forwards I signed my name to the email. I sent it about an hour ago and already have my first response of "Get a Life!!!"
I've made my point and have decided that I won't be responding to that email or any other thoughtless emails, even if my first thought is "get a brain, make informed decisions." The funny part is I didn't even say vote for Obama or anyone else for that matter. Ignorant people take themselves way too seriously.
I normally would not respond to one of these annoying forwards, much less hit reply all to spam the email boxes of people that I don't know, but before you send this email to someone else take the time to actually go to snopes.com so you can read for yourself that this email is false (unlike the email below that claims it is factual).
Seriously, take the time to educate yourself about candidates and the issues rather than buy into the mindless forwards sent around.
Unlike the people who send the annoying forwards I signed my name to the email. I sent it about an hour ago and already have my first response of "Get a Life!!!"
I've made my point and have decided that I won't be responding to that email or any other thoughtless emails, even if my first thought is "get a brain, make informed decisions." The funny part is I didn't even say vote for Obama or anyone else for that matter. Ignorant people take themselves way too seriously.
posted by Heather at 4:16 PM
2 Comments:
Oh, argh, I know how that feels. It's so annoying that chain letters point to Snopes and claim that makes them true. Did you get the 2007 version of the Olympic/Merry Christmas virus chain letter hoax? It does the same thing, the text is of the old hoax that shrieks how it's "the worst virus ever!" and how it will fry your hard drive etc. blah blah blah. And how it's better to get 25 copies of the blasted chain letter than to open a "Merry Christmas" message.
But - the snopes link included in that one was to an article about a virus from 2004! So if it was true then, it's way out of date now.
The reason chain letters reference Snopes is so people won't bother to check it for themselves, believing that it's gotta be true if there is a Snopes link included in the chain. Gah!
And what's even worse than hoaxes and people falling for them are the voluntarily stupid who get mad at us for setting the record straight! If they want to yell at anybody, they should yell at the fool who sent them - and you or me the freaking chain letter in the first place.
Some people are hopeless idiots.
i got an ass-reaming from strangers when i suggested they look closer at the "facts" they were sending in that email. i also directed them to politifact.com. it's helpful ammo in the endless battle against dumb.
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