e-mailing, bad news and good news stuff
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 29-07-2011
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Have you ever recieved an e-mail that tells you to send to 5, or 7, or 10 people immediately and you will recieve good news or a fortune tomorrow morning at 9 am or some such stuff. Or, how about the e-mail that if you don’t forward you gonna die or have seven years bad luck or other misfortunes. For a while I did follow though, especially on the fame and fortune bit. Then I heard from those who really got uptight when something like that was recieved by them and an extreme fear that something would happen to them or their family. When I realized that some folks had real problems with such e-mails, I decided to stop sending them on and to just stay, broke and poor, and sit on the edge of the grave waiting for the grim reaper…So, if you send them on to me folks I will delete them and just suffer the consequences myself. I returned one the other day to the sender and it has prompted me to alert the rest of you to what I will be doing…I don’t mean to sound mean spirited or anything, those type e-mails will stop here. Just wanted you all to know if it happens…..But if I should die after deleting one of these e-mails, I promise to come back and haunt you for a long time to get even……
Please don’t be hung up on emails. Communication by email is no different than the old snail mail chain letters or the good old fashion gossip sessions over the backyard fence, only faster. It takes some doing to keep up, abreast, and ahead of them. As the garbage can was sometime the best remedy for the old fashion chain letter and a stern, principled, and God-fearing husband was the best remedy for backyard gossip sessions, the electronic garbage can (the delete key) is the best remedy for electronic garbage. If your own blogs are not garbage enough, just go to the website of just about any newspaper in the country (and the world), and you will see heap upon heap of garbage. One has only to actually read about two to realize that the next million portrays the same emptiness of thought as a soap on daytime TV. The internet age represents only more of the same, only faster and essentially impersonal. So many more dispicable and bad things are said and written in blogs over the internet than would be dared said to a person’s face. Impersonality and unresponsibility are the real bad things about the internet.
Really not hung up on e-mails, nor blogs, but just letting folks know that dire messages of the sort mentioned would be deleted and not passed on to others. Appreciate your comments…