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| From radio station Hot 104.5 |
Yet, people send them on.
To this day.
Now, I haven’t received one in the regular mail, a paper
letter in an envelope with no return address, since I was a kid.
I do still receive them by email, though, usually in the
form of some weird horror story – someone pretending to be the police pulled a
young girl over in the middle of the night, call this secret-code phone number
and the police will tell you if they are the ones pulling you over or, holy shit, there’s
this new computer virus going around, quick! panic!
My husband once got one by email that said if he didn’t
forward it to 10 people, something bad was going to happen to him. He
replied to the immediate sender, telling that person off, and then he replied
to the original sender, telling that person off. And THAT person had the balls
and the stupidity to get mad at my husband for daring to contact HER.
And like a pernicious virus, chain
letters have evolved to survive in the environment called Facebook.
Chain letters ARE virus-like and they ARE gross. The
worst are the ones that threaten you if you don’t send them on but any of them,
including the ones that just insult you for not sending them on (like the ones
on Facebook: “I know most people don’t care about cancer patients, but if you
do, you will share this Facebook post”), and even the supposedly
positive ones, which promise that God will love you if only you send them on (and send you to hell if you don't),
are creepy and twisted.
Chain letters are little pieces of useless stupidity and
ugliness that you perpetuate when you forward or share them.
Don’t do it.
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| Incidentally, every one of these Facebook chain letters came to me from a single person. |
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