I loathed them as a child, at school, when you had to painstakingly hand-write 6 letters to classmates so you weren't horrendously guilty breaking a chain that prince harry is in or whatever.
If you don't do it, THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN will cry. If you don't do it, your PET WILL DIE. HOW CAN YOU BE SO SELFISH as to BREAK this WORLDWIDE chain. PRINCE HARRY HIMSELF IS PART OF THIS CHAIN.
I was about 14 before I finally had the courage to throw one away, and that was mainly because I was too lazy to write it out. I still had the cold hand of paranoia at 'breaking that chain' gnawing at me for years.
I loathe them now, when they come in the form of emails, be they apparently well intentioned (Look at this cute rabbit! awwww! Now send this to 10 of your most loved friends and you'll get a surprise! trust me! It works!!!!111eleventy) or just plain nasty (Look at this cute rabbit! awwww! Now send this to 10 of your most loved friends or you'll DIE IN A FIRE SCREAMING IN PAIN WHILE MEN WITH KNIVES FOR HANDS ANALLY RAPE YOU).
Please don't send me chain letters, emails or texts, however sweet the message is, and whatever it promises you. You are *not* going to get a million pounds hand delivered by Richard Branson/Bill Gates/The Sultan of Brunai just because you forwarded an email mainly comprised of >>>>>s. You are NOT going to meet the love of your life because you forwarded an email from Sharon from Accounting to everyone you've got in your address book. Neither technology nor love works that way.
You know, if you DID meet the love of your life after forwarding that particular email, you'd be paranoid for the rest of your life, wouldn't you? Obsessively forwarding everything, just in case.
And if you died, single and alone, would your epitaph really be 'If she hadn't broken that chain, she'd be alive and married right now...'?
The latest wave of these appears to be text messages. 'Here is a HUG!!!!!! Forward this HUG to 50 friends and you'll get a nice surprise soon!' I'm sure I will. A fucking enormous phone bill. Nice surprise for Orange, anyway.
Chain Letters. Just Say No.
now copy and paste this entry, and send it to all of your friends, or the kitten gets it.
